[Artemisia] Wallmart longboat

[Dawn Tavares]

Papa Smurf Padruig suggested:
>>apparently they're not allowed to give it away or sell it and 
>> dumpster diving for it is illegal (and likely to be enforced).
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> For a non-profit, educational group, I'll bet management can be convinced to make an exception...

Unfortunately not. Lady Bethoc was kind enough to do some further research on this (the creative grandma in her brain runs the same way that the evil hamster in mine does).  She discovered that Walmart signs a contract with the movie tie-in marketer that requires the managers at every store to destroy and recycle the support materials whenever merchandise  sales drop to a certain point. Donating that cool cardboard dragonboat to any non-profit organization could cost a manager his/her job. In this economy I doubt few managers would take that risk.
 
Personally I think Pixar/Disney/ABC Ent. really dropped the ball on this ad campaign. They may think they're protecting their brand image from being "tarnished" by potential misuse of one marketing element, but they could have created a wealth of consumer goodwill by applying a bit more thought. I'd think lots of schools and children's musueums would be just thrilled to receive a display model so intricate -- especially given the budget cuts most are facing. The ship may not be perfectly authentic, but grade schoolers would love it.


The gracious Lady Danielle noted:
>...he did mention that it took 5 guys 5 hours to put the thing together.  

That's because they weren't SCAdians. Any Norse crew that can put up a Vidar-sized geteld in an hour could knock together that ship in minutes.   :D

Maybe, if I snuck lots of phone photos, I could entice some kingdom woodworkers to construct one in time for Uprising...?


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