Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Ultrabook He-Man (Proposed/Joke) Ad

Yesterday I wrote about a new kung fu teahouse ad for Ultrabook, where two ladies are fighting over a power outlet for their laptops. While fighting each other, one of the women says to the other: "Relinquish the power to me!", or some such thing, and that brought some silly ideas to mind. Back when I was young, there was some cartoon character called "He-Man", and he used to raise his sword aloft and say: "By the power of Greyskull!" And that would transform him from his normal personage into He-Man (who looked exactly the same as he did before, but with different clothes that kind of looked like the recent incarnation of the American Gladiators or something), and he would then shout: "I have the power!!"

Well, I was thinking that another ad for this Ultrabook could have He-Man and Skeletor fighting over a power outlet in Castle Greyskull for "the power of Greyskull", and whoever won could scream: "I have the power!!" And then after this whole rigmarole, the camera would cut to She-Ra, sitting and working on her Ultrabook, and she could say: "You guys are so stupid. Why don't you just stop fighting over the power and get an Ultrabook? It's got gobs of battery life, so you'll have the power with you all the time!" Then an announcer could say something like: "With battery life that seems eternal, Ultrabook is perfect for Eternia!"

Anyway, I thought that would be a fun ad for the Ultrabook, using the same selling point and messaging strategy as the kung fu ad. Although somehow my idea seems more likely to be seen as a sketch on Robot Chicken than as an actual commercial for a real product.

Here's the Wikipedia page for He-Man, for those who are not familiar with him-man:


And here he is transforming into He-Man (sorry it looks so crappy and artifact-y):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2qAbL1dPiY

And here he is transforming along with She-Ra (She does it for the honor of Greyskull {rather than by the power of Greyskull, like He-Man does}, because she knows that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. So it won't be long before He-Man becomes horribly corrupted by all that unbridled he-man power! And that must be what happened to Skeletor!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Y-JiRUIoI

And here's that Ultrabook teahouse kung fu throwdown ad:

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