When a brand new movie or TV sequence is on the horizon there may be typically all method of products emblazoned with the brand of the manufacturing being promoted. That definitely wasn’t the case this time with the worldwide Coca Cola Star Wars marketing campaign which ran by a number of the Summer season and Autumn months with none specific promo hooked up to it.
It could have even been August once I lastly noticed some cans on sale in my native grocery store. There have been common Coca Cola 350 ml cans with the Mandalorian and Ahsoka Tano on them, and some days later I got here throughout the five hundred ml Obi-Wan and Mandalorian ones.
The Coca Cola Zero ones appeared subsequent with photos of Yoda, Anakin Skywalker, Darth Vader and C-3P0 displayed on them. Not solely do the can designs function the facial photos however there may be additionally a scene from the films too. They’re blended collectively to make for a really cool wanting can design.
The final two that I used to be capable of get had been the 250 ml ones which had been solely out there for buy from merchandising machines. To my annoyance, the primary three I purchased had been all of Emperor Palpatine!
There have been a pair extra cans out there solely at Tokyo Disney Resort (or on-line by way of bulk buy) so I used to be unable (unwilling?) to get them. Nonetheless, due to my pal Alan Gibson of JSoccer.com fame, I can now present you the Chewbacca and Han Solo 250 ml zero sugar cans.
The particular Coke On merchandising machines had some type of gives for accumulating stamps and factors by way of the app which may then be exchanged for some moderately limited-edition clothes gadgets like Star Wars Coca Cola jackets, sweaters, t-shirts. Different merchandise out there had been coaster units and drink tickets.
Ultimately my complete was ten cans in three totally different sizes with 9 characters on them. For the report, the entire cola inside them has been consumed by me! Belief me that conserving outdated cans of cola is a dangerous and probably messy concept!
Though I used to be solely actually within the cans I did nonetheless purchase (or get purchased by my spouse!) a number of the 700 ml and 350 ml bottles of assorted varieties of Coca Cola.
I used to be all the time going to get rid of the bottles themselves however did resolve to maintain the labels. I didn’t trouble with those on the 1.5 litre bottles although!
Star Wars most likely has a richer affiliation with rival firm Pepsi, notably in the course of the prequel period of 1999 to 2005 when a variety of cans, bottle caps and drinks holders had been available on the market. The 4 cans I’ve are all from ‘Revenge of the Sith‘ (2005) they usually function Darth Vader, a stormtrooper, Normal Grievous and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Additionally in my possession is a 300 ml Padme Amidala Pepsi Food plan Twist screwcap bottle.
The battle droid and R2-D2 can holders from ‘The Phantom Menace‘ (1999) are pretty ineffective however look fairly cool and could possibly be used (dangerously!) to go a drink throughout a desk as they transfer when you drag them again a little bit after which let go.
This C-3P0 bottle cap factor was made for Celebration 2000 and designed to show a Pepsi bottle (or certainly some other bottle of drink) right into a droid. Push a button on the again and it performs the primary theme from Star Wars. It’s a enjoyable factor to have collected nevertheless it actually is sort of pointless!
For Star Wars Celebration Japan in 2008 and the 3D launch of ‘The Phantom Menace‘ in 2012, the five hundred ml Pepsi NEX bottles had been regular, however they’d a variety of various (16 for the previous and 12 for the latter) strap equipment in packaging hooked across the cap, with the previous being the be@rbrick selection.
I’d utterly forgotten about this till it not too long ago appeared in my Fb recollections! Pepsi vitality cola drink appeared available on the market for a short while in October 2012 with Darth Vader that includes on the back and front of the 250 ml cans.
For Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025 and a few pop-up retailers this 12 months there have been some merchandising machines randomly meting out eight totally different cans of oolong tea at 800 yen a pop. The way it tasted I actually don’t know as my spouse drank it while I used to be out one night!
A decade in the past, Kirin Mets Cola produced darkish facet and light-weight facet bottles in Japan with 12 totally different characters on them as a part of the promotion for ‘The Power Awakens‘ (2015). Neither tasted notably good however the darkish facet one was a bit higher from my reminiscence!
Once I first considered detailing this latest assortment of Coca Cola Star Wars cans I felt another stuff was most likely wanted to fill the put up out a bit. I rummaged by the Tokyo Fox vaults looking for different cola merchandise associated to the sci-fi saga. I “can” not imagine how a lot stuff I discovered!
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