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Huge News! Authentic Gremlins In British IT Commercial!
This is HUGE!
Before I say anything further, check it out!
The original is here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2008/apr/30/dragons.den.gremlins.bt
Did you look? WOW!
This is a relatively new commercial, most likely from this year, so we can assume it was made in 2007.
Here is what is interesting:
- The gremlins seem to be a mix of traditional puppet/wire effects and some CGI for the full body effects.
- The music is directly from the movie, the same goes for the gremlin “voices”
- The gremlins are designed after the Chris Walas Gremlins from the first film, with the green and brown look, as opposed to the tan and brown gremlins from the second film.
- Stripe can be clearly seen while they are leaving the elevator.
- The elevator is quite adequately lit, apparently someone didn’t check their facts before writing this…we can forgive them on this one.
- The gremlins seem a bit shorter than usual, which must have been a creative decision.
Why did they choose the REAL gremlins as opposedto some nameless “gremlins” or monsters that other commercials have used? Who did the work on this? If anyone finds anything out about this, we would LOVE to know As Soon As Possible.
For those of you “across the pond”, does this commercial air regularly? Do people talk about it?
Special Thanks to Adam H. and the others that wrote in for bringing this to our attention!
Video Vault Spring Cleaning
I spent a bit of time today going through the videos in the Video Vault to make sure they are all working, but sadly a few of them are now gone, with no signs of returning. For the remaining videos that were not functioning, I found replacements, so enjoy some Videos if you get bored…or on lunch or….just want to watch some Family Guy Gremlin-y fun!
If you have any videos (not clips from the films) on youtube, google video, veoh, or wherever, just drop me a line at Jypsy27@gmail.com and I will take a peek and see if we can include them in the Gremlins Online Video Vault!
Updates on Gremlins toys and Family Guy mogwai!
One of our super Gremlin fans, Andrew, was awesome and informed me about Sunday’s episode of the cartoon Family Guy which had this beyond amazing clip……
So it looks like some of the writers/staff of Family guy are hardcore Gremlins fans.
Evidence?
1. They pronounced “Mogwai” correctly.
2. Peter feeds his Mogwai a chicken drumstick, the same thing that the Mogwai in the first Gremlins film ate.
3. The…..Gremlin…..is exterminated in the same manner as was one of the gremlins in what may be one of the most memorable moments out of the two films.
4. The rules are understood and not butchered. (i.e saying they can’t get wet after midnight)
5. Peter’s Mogwai is proportionately drawn and recognizable even while being a parody.
There were a couple updates to the site over the last week, while I have been dealing with some personal obligations.
-The Ride section updated with info and more pictures.
-Video Vault is getting cleaned up as we speak
-Video Games updated slightly
So, 2007 has the first serious rumblings of Gremlins 3 being actually made, it has an accurate parody of a Mogwai/Gremlins in a major television show, and from what a little bird told me, things are a little too quiet on the Gremlins merchandising front.
What does this all mean?
Nothing at all.
Unless you want to speculate, which is all kinds of good fun.
Then you can speculate that it is possible that the reason that there hasn’t been any Gremlins merchandise is there is interest in either
1. A new licensee taking over
2. The license for gremlins is in limbo.
or 3. They are gearing up for something.
It is not uncommon for a license to disappear for a short time before a major marketing push, while production begins on a new line of toys/shirts/dolls/books/posters. Companies like to refocus their energies all the time, to ensure that their money invested will be returned. This leads to a lull in shipping or production, as the new product is being prepared.
Then again, maybe the companies just decided to not make anything this year, and conveniently ignore requests at various official events to explain the absence of gremlins in their 2007 line-ups. Yes. That makes sense, ignore multiple people at multiple times on the same subject.
Sounds suspicious to me.
Remember this: Gizmo Furby was a big deal, and it was used to find out the market reaction to Gremlins being reintroduced to a newer market.
Folks this is a great news day, and there will be more to spawn here in the coming weeks around here, once certain tapes of the red variety get sliced through.
Remember you heard it here at Gremlins Online…
Something Will Be Hatching Soon.
Furious Fingerwork!
Doing my usual rounds of the popular video sharing sites out there, I came across another new Fan-made video that reminds us how influential everything gremlins-related has been on our artists.
cybernick666 from France shows off his skills by playing the memorable music from the first stage of Gremlins 2: The New Batch for NES. I have sent him a message, asking if he has, or will be doing any music in the future from Gremlins, so hopefully we will hear more great work from him.
This is something I wish I could do myself, play the keyboard. Well, any instrument really…but I know that the Gremlins Rag would be one of the first songs I would be butchering with my amateur abilities.
Stage 1-1 from Gremlins 2 for NES
Music performed by cybernick666
(original composition from Gremlins 2 for NES)
BIG NEWS! Video of The Great Gremlins Adventure!!!!
This is what many many of us have been looking for, actual footage of the legendary Great Gremlins Adventure (AKA Gremlins Invasion)
It has terrible sound, is grainy and the colors are off…oh and it is in german. If anyone can translate what Alf is saying…please send it in right away!
Now I wish i could get to Warner Bros Movieworld and ride the ride itself!
The plot seems to be where you go on a tour of Warner Brothers studios, guided by….ALF, and the gremlins take over, so you are trying to escape while gizmo and ALF try to stop the gremlins. Not the world’s greatest plot, but heck, most people thought this ride was a myth, but now there is even more proof that this cheesily fantastic ride exists.
Alf in german frightens me though…I am not sure why.
