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Wouldn't he be with Bridgestone and not Nintendo?



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Chark said:
Wouldn't he be with Bridgestone and not Nintendo?

It's clear Nintendo is using a shell company, namely Bridgestone.



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Holy shit! If I were Microsoft or Nintendo, I'd have put this guy in the spot light in so many creative ways! And hell, they could have gotten that kid, Marcus PSP Rivers for the price of a McDonald's large value meal. I'd have tossed him into a 3DS commercial, too.

My commercial idea: "Have that group of racially diverse friends from the Nintendo commercials sitting around playing mult-player NSMB2 on the 3DS while a depressed Marcus Rivers peeks in from outside (where it's raining, of course). The door opens and Marcus smiles because he thinks they're going to invite him in. Instead, some chick pulls out her bloody tampon and throws it into Marcus' face, killing him."

My commercial idea #2: "Have a depressed Kevin Butler (never mentioned by name) living in a box. Reggie walks up to him, takes him to the store and says, "C'mon buddy. We're going to fix you right up." Butler walks off with Reggie. The two commence with small talk. Reggie gives him a Wii Remote. Butler says, "Oh, I've played with one of these before.....well, maybe not one of these exactly. More like a cheap knock-off. It wasn't very popular, though."



HappySqurriel said:
For years I've wondered how these actor's contracts are written ...

If it was possible, and it likely isn't, when Sony stopped using an actor for one of their campaigns (if I was Nintendo or Microsoft) I would create a series of commercials to be run on youtube using these actors. Essentially have "Marcus" or "Kevin Butler" switch sides in a humorous way.

If I had to guess, There had to be a noncompete, it was just probably poorly worded, saying he couldn't work for a rival videogame company... and not a commercial dealing with a rival company's products.



RolStoppable said:
richardhutnik said:

Apparently earlier this year:

http://www.ripten.com/2012/02/05/sonys-kevin-butler-takes-new-position-as-vp-of-bridgestone-football-technology/

Sony must of been done with the whole Kevin Butler campaign, so they let the actor go.  Then apparently, because he got let go, he landed elsewhere, and this happened.  Sony must of felt they could also keep the character, but let the actor go.  They are having a Kevin Butler Sackboy in the LBP Karting game coming out also:

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/08/30/littlebigplanet-karting-game-jam-video-pre-order-goodies-detailed/

I do wonder what his contract is.  

And I was going to try to make light of this, but it does look like there is a bit of a dramatic side, and I am a Kevin Butler fan.

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Damn it, I was wondering why Sony hadn't done an ad campaign for KB in a while, I guess they're done. Ugh, that was the best ad campaign they ever did.



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