Two Tin Cans, One Marketing Stunt

[John Funk]

Alliance wins! Take that, Horde!

*stunlocks*

*is Immune to Fear*

/me kills

See the above.

You can get away from an Undead Rogue Fit for Assasination/Combat?

I'm a Nelf Druid, man. All I need is 1.5 seconds and I'm free (assuming in a place where flight form is allowed)

Read the bit about stunlocks =p

Feral. Good HP outside of bear form, and 20% less damage even while stunned via Barkskin. You can't get me 100-0 in one stunlock, and then I'm home free

 

[crazy-j]

well going by your results i think i would prefer the "Alliance Blue" to the " Horde Red" flavour, but then again i dont drink mountian dew

 

[randommaster]

I can't be the only one who laughed at the "scorch your insides like William Tecumseh Sherman on a sightseeing tour of Turner Field" quip.

In fact, I laughed out loud so much that I was forced to read that out loud to my coworkers so they knew what all the fuss was about.

I've never had to do that before. Usually, I just try to laugh quietly after disturbing everyone who can hear me.

Science, it works!

 

[Yukichin]

What you actually get though is a combination my notes describe as "SUGARRRRR!!!!!" followed by a simple equation of "80% lemon + 15% cherry + 5% pine needles = The antithesis of anything natural."

This makes me want to drink it. LOL. As does this:

Hm," I said to absolutely no one, "this almost smells like ... like ... blue? Yes! This smells like blue!"

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

Wow, that was one interestingly written and long review.

Not to mention it was about Mountain Dew, oh I mean Mtn dew.

 

[stompythebeast]

i too gave up soft drinks, because of that disgusting ingredient that is making its way into everything : "High Fructose Corn Syrup". I make my own juice and add my own damn sugar. But when pepsi released the throwback campaign and Mountain Dew with NATURAL ? sugar, i couldnt pass out. It tasted like heaven, beats the old Mountain Dew by a mile. Now they are done shipping them, and its discontinued, but it was good while it lasted.

 

[Andronicus]

Two Tin Cans, One Marketing Stunt

... Crystal Pepsi, I'm looking at you...

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Ha, reminded me of Cucumber Pepsi (google it if you don't believe me). I'm pretty sure it was only available in Japan, and only for a limited time at that. Fortunately it was released when I was on an exchange student trip with my school, so I was lucky enough to score myself a bottle. I keep the empty bottle as a sort of trophy, which I can show to anyone who doesn't believe me when I tell them (ie. everyone). Mmm, cucumber fresh...

 

[neoman10]

Earnest, bro... Don't be dissin' the Crystal Pepsi. That is not cool.

That aside, I am curious. Curious first, if these are available anywhere near me as I haven't seen them yet. Curious secondly at whether or not the red is what Canadians got five years ago called "Mountain Dew: Code Red", and if the blue is "Mountain Dew: Blue Shock". If so, load me up for $150 worth of red, and keep the blue away from me or I'll start stabbing people with a potato peeler.

I miss Code Red. Especially in slurpees.
And I miss Crystal Clear Pepsi.

do they still sell Baja Blast?

and we all loved code red

 

[cainx10a]

I can't be the only one who laughed at the "scorch your insides like William Tecumseh Sherman on a sightseeing tour of Turner Field" quip.

Alliance wins! Take that, Horde!

FOR THE HORDE! *ganks Funk*

Alliance wins! Take that, Horde!

/cast Blood Tap
/cast Plague Strike
/cast Icy Touch
/cast Blood Strike
/cast Blood Strike
/cast Deathchill
/cast Obliterate
/cast FROST STRIKE!!!
/cast FROST STRIKE!!!
/cast FROST STRIKE!!!
/cast FROST STRIKE!!!

DIIIIIIIE!!!

/cast Shadowmeld
/cast Swift Flight Form
/Ungankable Druid, away~

Swiftly report player to GMs! And post 'qq' threads about how OP druids are ...

 

[Amnestic]

Alliance wins! Take that, Horde!

/cast Blood Tap
/cast Plague Strike
/cast Icy Touch
/cast Blood Strike
/cast Blood Strike
/cast Deathchill
/cast Obliterate
/cast FROST STRIKE!!!
/cast FROST STRIKE!!!
/cast FROST STRIKE!!!
/cast FROST STRIKE!!!

DIIIIIIIE!!!

You wouldn't have enough RP for four Frost Strikes!

10 from Blood Tap
10 from PS
25 from Glyphed+Spec'd Icy Touch
20 from 2x BS
20 from OB.

=85. Glyphed FS=32 RP so at most you get 2 and a bit Frost Strikes off. You a liar ;O

If you popped EPRW and then another Obliterate after your first Obliterate, that'd let you keep Deathchill up and give you the full 130 RP you need to blow four Frost Strikes off, but you'd have to suffer through another GCD while you did so. (EPRW doesn't trigger GCD, but obviously OB does.)

/best Frost Tank on the server. Honest.
//very upset about the upcoming nerfs to tanking and is considering retiring because Blizzard have demonstrated they don't know what the hell they're doing with the Death Knight class.
///slashies.

Enjoyed the article very much by the way. Was a fun read on a saturday 'morning'.

 

[gsf1200]

I'm in the US, and have been drinking them both for months. I like both, but I've liked every flavor of Mountain Dew they have put out. Even the midnight dew, which tasted like sour grapes! They are both new, and don't taste like any others, although the alliance blue taste sorta like the voltage dew, which was one of 3 flavors that came out about a year ago. You could go online and vote for your favorite, and voltage won.

 

[MR.Spartacus]

Really? I thought the red one tasted like a mouth full of gummy worms with an after taste similar to using too much Isopropyl99 in an area with insufficient ventilation. Although it's not as bad as the alcohol. I've never found blue to be an appetizing color but you could probably blame that on Windex.

 

[Monocle Man]

Red and blue, MMORPG-related.

Are they blind?
Health Potion and Mana Potion. Helllooooo?

They half their sales with limiting their drinks to a certain faction.
Horde players will buy the red one, Alliance players will buy the blue one.

But all Horde and Alliance players need both Health and Mana potions!

Looks like I didn't lose hope in commercial-people so many years ago for nothing.
They keep doing it wrong. Whether it be just plain wrong sentences or making little kids believe tampons are candy (though that might not be entirely bad marketing).

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

When I first saw the Alliance one in stores I thought for a second they had brought back Pepsi Blue.

I miss Pepsi Blue.

 

[Aznleeman]

I love your Civil War reference over there.

But thanks for the info. You saved me 1.39 from buying one of those drinks to find out what it tasted like.

 

[frank220]

Mmm, liquid sugar mixed with artificial dyes. Yum.

 

[smithy1234]

It was a pretty good review of two distinct soft drinks however, I don't think people are going to buy the drinks based on what tastes better and more on which side they like better in WoW. Alliance or Horde.

 

[cavsfan69]

If you've tried the previous flavors of mtn dew then you will know that the horde red one is the exact same as the one that came out for halo 3 and the alliance blue is a re-color and re-naming of another limited edition, Pitch Black, which is actually more of a grape flavor than the wild berry that the can suggests.