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November 04, 2008
November 02, 2008
How Did the Cardboard Candidates Standup?
In the world of pop culture merchandise things change all the time. But rarely can you pick the EXACT DAY an item will no longer be popular. This is different. All year we’ve been having great success selling our life-sized standups of the Presidential Candidates – but on Tuesday November 4th we expect to see a sudden drop in sales for either Obama or McCain.
Both the Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama standups have been incredibly popular all year – (and Hillary was too, for a while). No one expected much from the Vice Presidential candidates, but we were all impressed with the sudden interest in having life-sized likenesses of a certain Alaska Governor to send to display at your office or send to a friend. (one gift message read “Dude! Happy Birthday – from
Looking back on this nearly done fad, we asked some of our customers how they displayed their standups, and what kind of reaction they got. The responses (and pictures) were great:
Darren Garnick of the Boston Herald used Barack and Hillary standups to conduct what he calls “A one-of-a-kind cardboard cutout political poll judging the strength of Hillary vs Obama before they were at each other's throats”
See his article HERE.
“My standup was really well-used. I have a lot of photos with him. At clubs, and at a BIG rally in Washington
DC at the Lincoln Memorial. We had tons of people (supporters of Barack and non-supporters as well) taking photos with 'him'.
We had to duck tape him to a folding chair and stand him up like that to endure the abuse.” Rachele Taramona, DiversityForAmerica.org
HERE you can see Barack, Hillary and McCain attending a PayU2Blog.com office foosball competition. And Sarah Palin makes an appearance in THIS second goofball video from them.
We heard from several customers who used life-sized standups for convention appearances – as conversation starters and attention getters:
“We dressed Barack and Hillary in our Zombie Presidents t-shirts at Fangoria's Weekend Of Horrors (horror convention) and got a ton of attention. Everybody was getting their pictures taken with them. I’ve sent along a photo of two of the stars of the original ‘Night of The Living Dead’ posing with Barack and Hillary.” – Mark Tavares, Humerus
“They have endless potential... Customers can come to our booth, get their mock vote on, and talk to us about PeopleSoft and Workday consulting. The cutouts have really helped add some color to an otherwise staid and starchy business. People love them and it’s amazing how many people will see them and launch into their own political diatribe. Fantastic rapport-builders.” Jeff Ventura MiPro Consulting
“We used both of them at a booth we had at our tradeshow at our annual conference this past August to promote our political action committee… They were a big hit; everyone that came by our booth kept wanting them” Teresa Brown, Florida Health Care Association
"They did great and were a real hit at our convention. Everyone wanted to take their picture with them..." Cyndi Miller Carroll Company
At WickedCoolStuff.com we’ve had a blast spreading democracy one cardboard candidate at a time. And for those keeping score – Barack did outsell Hillary, but Obama and McCain were fairly even in sales. And Sarah Palin simply blew poor Joe Biden out of the water. (Sorry Joe!)
We know our other standups will continue to sell – for birthday parties, children’s room decorations, party décor, and to fans of Star Wars, Disney Princesses, the Simpsons or our other movie and cartoon figures. But one of the two presidential candidates will probably stop selling on Tuesday – just like the sad John Kerry standup from 2004.
October 03, 2008
Cardboard Candidates - Election 2008
With the election only a month away it's time for everyone to decide... which Cardboard Candidate do you support? Or more importantly... which one do you want in your passenger seat to cruise through the carpool lane?
CLICK TO ORDER YOUR FAVORITE(s)
Barack Obama,
Joe Biden,
John McCain
and Sarah Palin
are all available as life-sized cardboard standups!
How will you show off your life-sized Obama or McCain? Or even your Sarah Barracuda?
