I couldn’t find the rumored Bridgestone commercial with the skateboard loop, but I did find this one from 2007 that is a retread (Get it? Ha ha! I’m killing it!) of the car as skateboard theme that I’m going to have to start calling an archetype if they keep making these. This one is pretty weak. Although I might have thought otherwise if I hadn’t seen the exact same concept several times already.
Has anyone actually seen the Bridgestone commercial with a skateboard in it?
12 comments
Todd Morrow
That commercial aired during NFL games for most of the season.
Mac
Geez, sorry dude. I think I’ve seen it on ESPN or ESPN2 during college basketball.
kilwag
Stop talking about the Bridgestone commercial. Save it for the “official post”.
Someone please tell me what network/show they’ve seen this on.
nweyesk8
they flipped the bottom to the top, too many matching concrete patches as teh seem area and teh upper back edge of teh pipe has a fuzzy adge where they edited teh image to remove the rest of teh inverted park
kc
That looks like the newer Upland skatepark full pipe. If it is they must have edited out the light boxes at the top.
john e
the messed up thing about the ad is that there’s all these “sticky” things, like pizza cheese and gum, but a skater doing a loop is doing it with speed, not “stickiness”
Mac
Yeah, that’s the one. I agree that it looks good, but I guess what was throwing me off is that it looks like a big pipe, 15′ to 20′ (judging from the person standing in it watching. Huh?), with no doorway or run-in to get speed with the correct angle, his body position doesn’t change during the loop, and there’s a reflection on the top of the pipe that looks like it’s from the sun. It looks flipped over, upside down for some reason. That’s what was messing it up for me when I’ve seen it on TV as well. The physics, body position, and lighting don’t work.
Todd Morrow
Here is a link to the current commercials (the title is “Sticky”): http://www.bridgestonetire.com/Index_BS_EN.aspx?src=Current_TV_Commercials
Looks real to me…
Todd Morrow
The ad. is for Blizzak snow tires and shows anaologies for their “grip” on snow/ice covered roads.
The skater looping small full pipe runs by in about a second, and looked real to me.
Mac
Kilwag, yes, there’s a Bridgestone ad airing now that has someone doing a loop in a pipe, but it goes by very fast, and it’s amongst all kinds of other stuff. Not surprisingly, it doesn’t look real, but it’s hard to tell.
SCphotog
it’s a great concept even if it has been done before, but it looks too fake to work really.
I bet it an air could be done for real if there was a ramp that could take it.
Talentlessquitter
You can totally see it’s fake but,yeah,funny shit.