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Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:52 pm**

ovvldc wrote:
Come on guys, I have seem beautiful original artwork here.

I like subvertisement as much as the next guy, but this shouldn't be a contest of replacing every brandname with 'o' you can find to an 'Oo' version...

Best wishes,
Oscar

Oscar - you could always do some adverts of your own...

My very first ad to this forum - over 2 years ago (in fact my very first post) was for Oo-haul - and look what that inspired out of Dr. Nil.

I've contributed a lot of ads to the unreleased Set G - 25 in fact (my lord - half a set in fact).

They are:

Pull up, Trumble Bobble, Lave bar, Lave Roover, Teen, Oolite Anonymous, Oolympic Ring Racing, Noo Cearso Brown Ale, Oodie Stoorbart, Ookmail, Remlok, Oohay!, Thrumberry Juice, natioonal oxpress, Noormaa, Hoogo Puss, Holdlily, Asteroid, Lerelace Airforce, Oorovision, Goid away (based on Gogz original ad), Oone Acct, Coriolis Preservation Society, Blue Ooyster, Oobay.

Of the 25 - 13 involve some kind of double OO twist. However of those 13 I justify some, not all, as follows:

Lave Roover - I planned on releasing a re-textured ship based on this - decide to wait until I can texture and shade properly
Noo Cearso Brown Ale - I've seen New spelt as "Noo" in real adverts and Cearso is a "real" Oolite system.
Oodie Stoorbart - based on a reaction in the Large Haulers thread
Ookmail - is actually a dedication to the Discworld Novels and TP
Oohay! - is simply inspired even if I do say so myself - so I won't justify it after all
natioonal oxpress - another "ad to lead to oxp ship" that I have subsequently failed to produce - but I will
Noormaa - is based on a company a friend works for and I did it for him
Oorovision - based on somebody else's suggestion with my own twist
Blue Ooyster - originally a multiframe ad for the new constores and a hat-tipping exercise to the "special" bar found in the Police Academy movies.
Oobay - again was hoping to inspire an OXP alternative to "normal" trading

So that just leaves 3 where I admit I just wanted to take the urine out of the real world. Three from twenty-five is a pretty good ratio as far as I'm concerned.

The double "oo" is here to stay I'm afraid.

EDIT: To correct reason on one of the justifications

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:54 pm**

Don't you mean Ooscar...

ARG!

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:52 pm**

i have got a great i dea for Soobaro, instead of $ubaru, but i beed to make the ship first

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:51 pm**

here we go

i just thought i would be fun, and it was good fun making it, shame i cant make the real thing an OXP.

sorry that its so small, cant fix that, dont know how.

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:56 pm**

Or to go with our "unofficial theme: Soobaroo: Taking yoou too the stars...

AAAAGGG

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:05 pm**

wackyman465 wrote:
Or to go with our "unofficial theme: Soobaroo: Taking yoou too the stars...

AAAAGGG

was thinking of puting "taking Yoou to the satrs", but never though of the TOO.

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:07 pm**

Have you ever heard the addage of "less is more"?

It could be apt here with the oo's, unless you want to look like you can't spell.

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:09 pm**

That's the pooint I'm trying too make here: Oo's can get oold after a while, Thargooid. Am I boothering yoou yet?

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:21 pm**

well, i have very little imagination, and its the best idea i could scrape, so ohwell, ill try and think of soemthing else.

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:00 pm**

It's pretty good, actually. I mean, we all know who makes the CMK3; Cowell and McGrath, but what about other ships?

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:16 pm**

Who built the ships - Scroll down to the ship ID section.

While the CMk3 was made at the Cowell and McGrath Shipyards, are they the manufacturer/designer? The original CMk1 was built by Paynou, Prossett and Salem. Did PPS sell the name?

@0235 - don't be disheartened - I like the idea of your Ad - so I make the following suggestion: Treat Soobaroo as a secondary conversion company the same way AMG "pimps" Mercedes-Benz cars, or Cosworth does Ford - perhaps Soobaroo could do the same for standard ships - perhaps they specialise in improving (looks or stats or both) of, for example, Spalder and Prime ships (i.e. the Adder), or Faulcon deLacy (Krait, Sidewinder).

That way you could put the badge onto a "real" ship and it would make for a great oxp - the Soobaroo set - supercharged, underlit neon, LOUD Hyperradio pre-installed, conversion of standard ships...

Keep it up - the more ads the better - I don't have time to finish set G on my own!

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:38 pm**

PPS went under when the CMK2 failed, Cowell and McGrath bought the design, tweaked it, and created the Cobby3 as we know it today.

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:39 pm**

Looks like there is a mixed reception for the whole 'oo' thing here - I was going to create a few more, but I wouldn't want to offend anyone if they feel it's becoming annoying.
I always thought the ads were more of RL recognition than anything else.

Or have I got this completely wrong?

G.

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:45 pm**

Honestly, I don't care, but a little variance might be nice. I mean, Windoows Ship AI is a little predictable - just to suggest something...

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:11 pm**

DaddyHoggy wrote:
That way you could put the badge onto a "real" ship and it would make for a great oxp - the Soobaroo set - supercharged, underlit neon, LOUD Hyperradio pre-installed, conversion of standard ships...

You forgot the huge and superfluous rear spoiler......

Captain Hesperus

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