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Life size Spyro the Dragon drone that can breath fire, is flying across America towards Snoop Dogg

Joltik

Joltik

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Oct 25, 2017
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I can't believe that many of you are having a "Phoenix Down moment" with Spyro's name.
 
Jam

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It's 2018 and I just fucking realized why he's called Spyro
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Krvavi Abadas

Krvavi Abadas

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Napalm_Frank said:
That one time Sony sacrificed a goat.
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They didn't do that, they just ordered a goat carcass from a local butcher to use as a prop.
The media event for the PS2 title God of War ll took place in Athens, Greece on 1st March. Approximately 20 journalists from European countries attended the event from a variety of gaming and lifestyle media - although none were from the UK.

The event was a theatrical dramatisation with a Greek mythological theme and, as part of the set dressing, a dead goat was provided by the production company from a qualified local butcher. Following the mainstream popularity of shows such as 'I'm a Celebrity, Get me out of here' a series of challenges were set for the journalists. The 'warm entrails' referred to in the invitation and in the Mail on Sunday article was actually a meat soup, made to a traditional Greek recipe and served to attendees in china bowls direct from the caterers. There was never any question of journalists being able to touch the goat, or indeed eat the soup direct from the body of the goat, as one report has alleged. The goat was returned to the butcher at the end of the event.

The article in UK Official PlayStation Magazine (OPSM), from which the Mail on Sunday article was sourced, was written by a journalist who did not attend and done on the basis of the invitation for the event, which employed a degree of hyperbole in order to encourage attendance - the journalist chose to take it as fact!

The photograph was one of many supplied to the magazine to provide a balanced view of the event. Unfortunately, the article was sensationalised and focused on a picture that was unrepresentative of the wider event. When we saw the article for the first time on Thursday of last week we contacted the Publisher of OPSM who accepted that the article was not appropriate for their broad audience. On Friday, before we had received any contact from the media, they agreed to remove the centre page article before the magazine goes on general sale.

We recognise that the use of a dead goat was in poor taste and fell below the high standards of conduct we set ourselves. We are conducting an enquiry to establish the circumstances behind the event in order to ensure this does not happen again. We also apologise to anyone offended by the article in the OPSM (subscription copies were sent out ahead of street date)."

Dave Karraker
Sr. Director, Corporate Communications
Sony Computer Entertainment America
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Still pretty disturbing, but the goat was already dead before it reached the launch event.
 
Thorn

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I actually hope Snoop has no fucking idea what is going on or what spyro is.

One day a flying purple dragon drone just shows up and he has to figure out if hes on some bad weed or what .
 
Varth

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And the lesson here, kids, is that if you need to smuggle across state borders a flamethrower in the us you just mask it as a videogames mascotte. If somebody asks, "you're going to meet da Dogg".
 
BDubsLegend

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kadotsu said:
He's an icon of animation and gaming:

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I honestly could care less about spyro (after my generation) but this made coming into thread to find out about snoop's connection worth it. Reminds me of the time I found the lil Jon lazy town mash up and the biggie smalls Thomas the tank engine mash up.
 

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Guys... I just discovered this thread and hashtag and holy shit. The folks running Spyro's account are artists. Look at their latest tweet:

 
Aftermath

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Hmmmmmm if I could Travel back in time, first I'd steal this drone, then I'd take it back to the medieval period, and fly it about and make them think that Flying Fire Breathing Dragons were real, also Ancient China too.
 
chrominance

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reading thread title
"this basically just sounds like gibberish"
reading OP
"oh my god this is literally what is happening"
 

Cokie Bear

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I really didn't expect that thread title to be so literal but I'm so happy it is.
 
Rush_Khan

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Posting in a legendary thread.

They could've spent the money on actual tv adverts but no, they went all guns blazing on the cray for this game (probably low risk). Definitely the craziest marketing stunt I've seen.
 
Illusion

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So there is a fire breathing drone on the loose in society? I spy with my little eye a fire hazard.
 

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Little dude made it. Snoop looked pretty happy to see him, hope they have many future adventures together.

 
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