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By Burbanked on Feb 20, 2008 in Movie Marketing 101, Movies, Newest | 481 views |

The weird marketing vibe that I keep getting from the upcoming Wachowski brothers live-action imagining of Speed Racer continues to get weirder. And vibe-ier. Take a look at the Mach 5 toy seen below, recently featured at the great blog Topless Robot. (click the image for a bigger version)

I realize that I’m feeding directly into the entire dork culture of this film in the exact same way that I disparaged the March of the Geekformers all last year, but I can’t seem to help it. There’s something about Speed that is just…speaking to me. I really want this toy and by the way, my birthday is rapidly approaching.

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Megan | Feb 22, 2008 | Reply

Don’t believe the hype. Robotech is the way to go. Or Starblazers, if you’re really serious…

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