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[phosfate]

This stupid Burger King ad for Lord of the Rings light-up glasses is enough to make me want to boycott the movie, and take my hardcover boxed set out on the front walk and set it on fire. I hope those of you outside the US are spared this horror.

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[finabair.livejournal.com]

Not even close to the same thing; we're talking about cheap glasses you can get at the local fast-food restaurants when you order a soda. Them pewter things sound nifty, although it still would be kinda upsetting to see someone's face morph into one.

I looked up the ringgit exchange rates at the Bank Negara Malaysia ('cuz I'm a curious person who was on hold for about ten minutes on a phone call...dangerous combo, there!) and if I'm reading the page right it's about 3.8 ringgit to the dollar, so that would be something like $40 for the glass and a bit over $90 for the goblet. (The other way 'round makes it over $1000 for the goblet, so I'm guessing I'm doing it the right way...) That was fun, and the person on the other end FINALLY picked up the phone, so all is good in my world right now. 'course, I'm not watching one of those ads on TV...

[jialing.livejournal.com]

Yup. You're right. It's US$1 to 3.8 ringgit. Ah... but I here have to take it as a dollar for dollar case. So 350 ringgit would still be expensive for poor me. Haha.. my friend said that the smeargol one freaked her out. But.. the galadriel and gandalf goblet look okay to me. The way Gandalf's beard winds round to form the narrow handle part of the goblet rather amuses me.

Feels blessed that she doesn't have to sufffer from burger king ads

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Well, Jennie answered my "Whut's a Ringit?" question.

There's always been LOTR merchandise, of varying levels of legality and quality, but the BK glasses have red light bulbs in the stems, and the TV ads are so obnoxious (obnoxious narrator, stupid puns and 'comedy' Middle Earthers) that I won't try to recount them here. It's shocking when a real trailer for the movie comes on and reminds you that it's got actual cool potential, and doesn't have anybody in the cast who sounds like The Tick.