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WoW Archivist: WoW's craziest TV ads

by Scott Andrews Sep 14th 2012 at 12:00PM

WoW Archivist explores the secrets of World of Warcraft's past. What did the game look like years ago? Who is etched into WoW's history? What secrets does the game still hold?

Nefarian swallows a truck.

Two women duke it out in a supermarket.

A trio of singers shouts, "No means no!"

Mr. T introduces a new race and Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicks a kodo.

Those responsible for advertising World of Warcraft have hit on some crazy ideas.

This week, Blizzard debuted its first TV ads for Mists of Pandaria. As I'm writing this, I've just watched them air live on Monday Night Football. That's a big-time slot for a commercial here in the States and runs a cool $325,000 per nationally televised spot. The ads feature clips from the official trailer. If only the Bengals had put up as much of a fight as that panda.

But not all of WoW's commercials through the years have been quite so ... straightforward. Let's take a look!

Filed under: WoW Archivist

Vork shows up in the Super Bowl

by Mike Schramm Jan 30th 2009 at 3:00PM

Is that... Vork? Quite a few tipsters have spotted this Super Bowl ad for CareerBuilder.com, and about halfway through, what appears to be The Guild's Jeff Lewis in his skivvies jumps on screen (we've preserved the image in a quick screenshot above -- you can thank us later, ladies). We actually checked in with The Guild, and they confirmed that yes, that is everyone's favorite GM. Feel free to cheer/ swoon/ shudder appropriately.

Lewis met up with us (and the rest of The Guild's cast members) back at BlizzCon, and it's good to see his star is.. rising? (we kid!) Keep an eye on the rest of the ads for the big game this Sunday night as well -- it looks like Coke has an online gaming reference coming with their "Avatar" ad, and considering how gigantic World of Warcraft is on TV lately, we may see some other sly winks towards our favorite game.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard

Another Chinese Coke/WoW Ad

by Mike Schramm Sep 6th 2006 at 8:05PM

You might remember the Chinese Coke ad that featured the band S.H.E. as World of Warcraft characters-- it showed up here on the site a while back. Apparently that ad campaign was so successful, they're doing it again, and this time the Orc that attacked in the first ad returns with friends-- a Troll and a pretty well-done Tauren. Get it? "Well-done Tauren"?

Filed under: Human, Orcs, Tauren, Trolls, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, News items

World of Warcraft and Coke Whack-a-Mole

by Mike Schramm Aug 4th 2006 at 9:26AM

First the Chinese got that great Coke commercial, and now Alice from Wonderland points us to this cool thingamajig at the digital entertainment show ChinaJoy. It's a World of Warcraft and Coke branded Whack-a-Mole machine, but, as Alice says, we can't really see what's being hit. Moles? Paladins? Is it the game the priest plays trying to heal five main tanks in a raid?

We're guessing it's nothing so complicated. Even though we can't quite read the Chinese text on top of the machine, it probably translates roughly as "When Server Goes Down, Hit It With a Mallet." So that's what they're doing with these rolling restarts!

Filed under: Events, Fan stuff, Odds and ends

Chinese WoW Advertisement

by Elizabeth Harper May 23rd 2006 at 2:30PM

While this video isn't new, I just ran across it today. It's a Chinese advertisement for World of Warcraft and Coke. And I think I'll leave the conclusions to you...

Filed under: Machinima, Odds and ends

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