19 Responses:

1. schoschie says:

   14 years ago at 3:33 pm

   I don't believe they made a really cool animated short like this which then turns out to be a hideous SATURN (big German electronics retailer) commercial. (While I'm wondering why I haven't seen this on TV here yet.)

2. schoschie says:

   14 years ago at 3:40 pm

   Die Auslese war hart.
   Doch jetzt ist sie da.
   Die stärkste Technik aller Zeiten.
   Gnadenlos günstig.
   Saturn.
   Wir hassen teuer.

   Selection was tough.
   But now it's here.
   The most powerful tech of all time.
   "Mercilessly low-priced."
   Saturn
   "We hate pricey." <-- stupid slogan which doesn't translate well.

   • four says:

     14 years ago at 4:38 pm

     We hate the expensive

     • schoschie says:

       14 years ago at 4:44 pm

       Fair enough, though "We hate the expensive" would be "Wir hassen Teures".
       "Wir hassen teuer" is actually semi-faulty grammar, which is obviously deliberate to make it stand out as their own slogan.
       (Don't really want to nit-pick, sorry.)

       • lohphat says:

         14 years ago at 7:39 pm

         How about "Wir hassen Arschaffen"?

         • taffer says:

           14 years ago at 6:20 am

           "Saturn ist krieg!"?

           • unlink says:

             14 years ago at 9:15 am

             "Krieg dem Teuer!"?

         • schoschie says:

           14 years ago at 7:14 am

           Ist das ein Arschaffe in Deinem Icon?

           • lohphat says:

             14 years ago at 10:17 am

             Das ist einen Art von fliegenden Arschaffe, meine Hübsche.

             Achtung: Ich werde Sie fangen und Ihr kleiner Hund auch!

             • schoschie says:

               14 years ago at 10:59 am

               Lieber Krieg dem Teuer.

       • kinkyturtle says:

         14 years ago at 8:34 pm

         Ooo! I got it:

         "Saturn: We don't do expensive."

3. flipping_hades says:

   14 years ago at 4:36 pm

   With all the cg that went into that, you'd think they could have synch'd the voice to the image a little better at the end.

   • kinkyturtle says:

     14 years ago at 6:54 pm

     Blame YouTube for that. They've always had that problem.

     • flipping_hades says:

       14 years ago at 7:14 pm

       The high definition non-YouTube versions have the same problem. Either they were all encoded from a transfer that went out of synch in the last 5 seconds, or it's a problem in the original.

4. tjic says:

   14 years ago at 6:41 pm

   So, I decide to surf less from work, and install a Firefox plugin and block a bunch of sites, so that I only catch up on things at the end of the day.

   ...and how does the web pay me back?

   By having JWZ post steampunk dinosaurs, which then disappear from the tubes before I get a chance to see them.

   Darn.

   • korgmeister says:

     14 years ago at 12:22 am

     No, plays fine. Must be that stupid thing YT does where it sorta randomly says the video isn't available when it in fact is.

     • duskwuff says:

       14 years ago at 1:33 pm

       It's specifically triggered by waiting too long to view the video after the page loads. My guess is that some sort of token ends up expiring.

5. korgmeister says:

   14 years ago at 12:50 am

   That was awesome until that nightmare fuel voiceover at the end.

6. lionsphil says:

   14 years ago at 1:28 pm

   Fuck yes. T-Rex with a smokestack pwns all.