Cinco De Mayo Pepto Bismol comercial that never was.

Cinco De Mayo Pepto Bismol comercial that never was.#323254

By RedVirtue - May 16th, 2011, 11:11 pm

- May 16th, 2011, 11:11 pm#323254

For Cinco De Mayo Pepto Bismol was doing a run of "Pinata Smashing" commercials. Director Greg Benson approached them with two concepts based on his favorite classic movies. One was Ghostbusters and the other was Back to the Future. They loved the ideas so he went ahead and put these commercials into production.

I got a phone call from Greg, because another director I worked with referred me. Long story short, I got Vincenzo330 and Xtrmn8r18 involved too. It was a day of filming on a Friday with a fun crew. After our filming they worked on the Back to the Future commercial too.

Both were filmed in one day followed by one day and two nights of editing before Greg sent them out to Pepto's HQ in New York. They absolutely loved them! Then the licensing department said "uh we can't use these because of the trademark images." So they never got used. But they're up in a private video on vimeo for you guys to check out for a very short time. Because they're private no one makes any money off them. They're now just for the fans to see and enjoy briefly. Really briefly.

Here are the links. The password is sailboat:
Ghostbusters:
http://vimeo.com/23300282

Back to the Future:
http://vimeo.com/23300188

Re: Cinco De Mayo Pepto Bismol comercial that never was.#323255

By AJ Quick - May 16th, 2011, 11:17 pm

- May 16th, 2011, 11:17 pm#323255

LOL.

I really liked the Back to the Future one.

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Re: Cinco De Mayo Pepto Bismol comercial that never was.#323256

By RedVirtue - May 16th, 2011, 11:26 pm

- May 16th, 2011, 11:26 pm#323256

AJ Quick wrote:LOL.

I really liked the Back to the Future one.

Yeah it came out great!

Here's a couple pics from set too.

Andy hamming it up on the set.

The three of us before we blast Stay Puft.

Vince using a leaf blower to get the marshmallow mess off me.

Re: Cinco De Mayo Pepto Bismol comercial that never was.#324629

By shodanmark - May 23rd, 2011, 5:22 pm

- May 23rd, 2011, 5:22 pm#324629

lol awesome videos!

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Re: Cinco De Mayo Pepto Bismol comercial that never was.#324710

By Ou7of7ime - May 23rd, 2011, 10:01 pm

- May 23rd, 2011, 10:01 pm#324710

Awesome

Re: Cinco De Mayo Pepto Bismol comercial that never was.#324731

By sorak - May 23rd, 2011, 11:23 pm

- May 23rd, 2011, 11:23 pm#324731

Man I would love for stuff like that to be made in Australia. I bet you guys had such a blast!
I am surprised how minimal the coverage had of you and your packs. Until they yelled "cross the streams" I thought one oh you guys was wearing a slime blower, and not a video game styled proton pack ( props to you btw on that build).

Re: Cinco De Mayo Pepto Bismol comercial that never was.#324737

By RedVirtue - May 24th, 2011, 12:24 am

- May 24th, 2011, 12:24 am#324737

sorak wrote:Man I would love for stuff like that to be made in Australia. I bet you guys had such a blast!
I am surprised how minimal the coverage had of you and your packs. Until they yelled "cross the streams" I thought one oh you guys was wearing a slime blower, and not a video game styled proton pack ( props to you btw on that build).

Thanks!

Re: Cinco De Mayo Pepto Bismol comercial that never was.#324739

By AmandaAnn - May 24th, 2011, 12:38 am

- May 24th, 2011, 12:38 am#324739

"stunts performed my professional nerds"
AWESOME.

~Amanda~

I joined for my 5 y/o Haley... Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan, but she is the HUGE fan.

Re: Cinco De Mayo Pepto Bismol comercial that never was.#324743

By sorak - May 24th, 2011, 1:12 am

- May 24th, 2011, 1:12 am#324743

You'd have thought they would have gotten approval first, before filming things like this. After all, if they have the rights to make a stay puft piñata, they should have the gb promotion rights... Or was it a novelty one off model?

Re: Cinco De Mayo Pepto Bismol comercial that never was.#324789

By Gb213 - May 24th, 2011, 8:47 am

- May 24th, 2011, 8:47 am#324789

Those were great!!

I´m glad you people celebrate the Cinco de Mayo, I´m mexican and proud of it.

VIVA EL CINCO DE MAYO!

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Re: Cinco De Mayo Pepto Bismol comercial that never was.#324878

By kevinj319 - May 24th, 2011, 3:08 pm

- May 24th, 2011, 3:08 pm#324878

Pretty obvious why they can't be used.

But funny nonetheless.

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Re: Cinco De Mayo Pepto Bismol comercial that never was.#324892

By RedVirtue - May 24th, 2011, 3:39 pm

- May 24th, 2011, 3:39 pm#324892

sorak wrote:You'd have thought they would have gotten approval first, before filming things like this. After all, if they have the rights to make a stay puft piñata, they should have the gb promotion rights... Or was it a novelty one off model?

The staypuft piñata was a prop built on site by the prop department guys. It looked great!