Gundams and DDR in Marketing Class
MWF are annoying days since, although waking up late in the morning, I must still force myself out bed and head down to my Marketing class. Its pretty boring, dull, and depending on the state of my "oh my god life sucks I don't know what to do for a job!!" issue at the moment, kind of depressing.
Anyway. So I made it to this class (after a 12 minute walk into direct sunlight without sunglasses. Bah!) and I'm sitting there, pretending to be attentive when ten minutes into the class the professor puts on a video. She says its an example of "experience marketing" which is the way themeparks and Barns and Nobles etc work to sell you services, food and products all at the same time... anyway the Japaneseness is coming up so hold on.
The video was of a Sony Metreon store in San Francisco that is basically an amusement mall showcasing tons of products and cool gadgets along with the stock fare of Best Buy (though minus refridgerators i assume).
K So Gundams and stuff: Some people were interviewed durring this video and one of them was in front of a huge model of what I swore was the Sandrock Gundam from Gundam-W :-P and i'm like WTF! 10 minutes later the narator goes into this speal about Sony partnering with Bandai and other Japanese manufacturers to bring their products to everyone etc whater... and they show the bandai exhibit at this weird store-mall thing which is full of Mobile Suit Gundam stuff including giant-ass sculptures and other unecessary feats of marketing manufacturing (though its obviously from like when i was in HighSchool and the origional was just being released and rejected in the US :-P).
Later they talked about the Metreon store also having "virtual games" and they showed these two dorky kids hopping around on a DDR machine! lol The narator then went into an explanation about how "players hit the flashing arrow tiles to mimic dance moves" or some other antesceptic description...
anyway gotta run to class. I just thought that I'd share that with everyone.
At least that hour of my life wasn't a complete waste today.
Anyway. So I made it to this class (after a 12 minute walk into direct sunlight without sunglasses. Bah!) and I'm sitting there, pretending to be attentive when ten minutes into the class the professor puts on a video. She says its an example of "experience marketing" which is the way themeparks and Barns and Nobles etc work to sell you services, food and products all at the same time... anyway the Japaneseness is coming up so hold on.
The video was of a Sony Metreon store in San Francisco that is basically an amusement mall showcasing tons of products and cool gadgets along with the stock fare of Best Buy (though minus refridgerators i assume).
K So Gundams and stuff: Some people were interviewed durring this video and one of them was in front of a huge model of what I swore was the Sandrock Gundam from Gundam-W :-P and i'm like WTF! 10 minutes later the narator goes into this speal about Sony partnering with Bandai and other Japanese manufacturers to bring their products to everyone etc whater... and they show the bandai exhibit at this weird store-mall thing which is full of Mobile Suit Gundam stuff including giant-ass sculptures and other unecessary feats of marketing manufacturing (though its obviously from like when i was in HighSchool and the origional was just being released and rejected in the US :-P).
Later they talked about the Metreon store also having "virtual games" and they showed these two dorky kids hopping around on a DDR machine! lol The narator then went into an explanation about how "players hit the flashing arrow tiles to mimic dance moves" or some other antesceptic description...
anyway gotta run to class. I just thought that I'd share that with everyone.
At least that hour of my life wasn't a complete waste today.