When you go to something called Star Wars Celebration V, you expect a high level of nerdiosity, geekitude, and dorkdom. In an environment like that the Comic Book Guy part of our psyche takes over a little more than it normally could. And that’s exactly what happened to me about 10 seconds after they started letting people in.
I saw this FedEx poster, sporting The Millennium Falcon, which makes sense because, you know, FedEx, fast shipping, shipping freight, freighter, ship, fast ship, Millennium Falcon. Tah-dah! We are are so cool! It makes perfect sense.
But, wait a minute. Wasn’t there something about The Millennium Falcon, something about a shipment?
So, the words say “Please use FedEx to send the stuff you buy here home”. The picture says, “But you might not get”.
Here’s a couple of ideas:
- Instead of using this lame thrown-together means-nothing ad, why not make a banner that has us looking out through the windshield of a FedEx truck — just far enough back we can see the driver and dashboard — into hyperspace. Cheesy, maybe. But it’s a good cheese.
- But, since they did go this route, right under the part that reads “Full Service Packaging & Shipping available in W203 B/C” it should have said “Docking Bay 94″.
No big deal. Would have been some nice little touches though.
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I may be wrong, but isn’t the light speed reference wrong, too?
I sure light speed is mentioned at least a few times. But the only one I can think of right now is Han saying the ship will make point five past light speed. At least they didn’t say warp speed.
Would have been funny if the sign had said “get your package there in 12 parsecs, even though a parsec is a unit of distance, not speed.”
That would have been brilliant. The people there would remember and appreciate something clever like that.