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Janemcg
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 		Men of Metal promotion for BMW
Has anyone done any poking around the "Men of metal" promotion for BMW/mini-cooper? Given BMW's history with ARG stuff, it seems like there might be something behind the new Men of Metal campaign; besides the pretty cool (fake) "excerpt from upcoming book" insert in Rolling Stone, auto mags, National Geographic Adventure mag, etc, the following related web sites so far:

http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/

http://uk.geocities.com/colinmayhewphd

http://www.cassonpublishing.co.uk/currentfav.html

http://members.lycos.co.uk/rowlandsamuel/

And a couple of email addresses:

colinmayhewphdSPLATyahoo.co.uk

rowland_samuelSPLATlycos.co.uk

...the first of which gives a "jolly good, I'm on holiday, cheerio, write you soon" kind of autoresponse.

Can't tell yet if there's "stuff to do" or just poking around....

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StercusMaximus
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 		Which issues of Rolling Stone and national geographic were the ads in?


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Tien_Le
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 		men of metal
You gotta love the whole idea of turning a mini-cooper into a transformer-like robot. This is great! Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention.
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Tien_Le
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 		men of metal
can someone please post a .txt or .html version of the excerpt of this book. The .pdf file is huge and people on dialup have to take forever to get it. Thanks. http://www.cassonpublishing.co.uk/currentfav.html


Oh, by the way...Steve...do you still have that chess piece?
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 		BMW games
by the way, for folks who may not know about the last game BMW did, here's a walk-through:http://www.unfiction.com/~tienle/K/kguide.html
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 		Yep, still have the chess piece. Smile

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 		Re: men of metal
Tien_Le wrote:
can someone please post a .txt or .html version of the excerpt of this book. The .pdf file is huge and people on dialup have to take forever to get it. Thanks. http://www.cassonpublishing.co.uk/currentfav.html


Tien if you do a google search for "yahwem" one of the hits allows you to view the file in .htlm as well as .pdf
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 		Here's a text file.
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 		Slashdot posted about the mini-cooper humanoid project about a month ago, but as a legitimate (Read: non fiction) story... haven't gone through the whole thread yet, I am assuming eventually they caught on? Here's the link: http://slashdot.org/article.plsid=04/03/09/222227&mode=thread&tid=159&tid=186

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Tien_Le
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 		Re: men of metal
enaxor wrote:


Tien if you do a google search for "yahwem" one of the hits allows you to view the file in .htlm as well as .pdf


Thanks, luv.
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 		/me thought this topic was about Nikki Sixx.
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 		i feel like a total wangka.... i was nearly convinced my the "exerpt" from the novel. Haha then i saw the site for the DR. and was shocked. The videos tell all... the robot is completely computer generated. Like i said...wangka

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 8:11 am
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 		Why?
Anonymous wrote:
i feel like a total wangka.... i was nearly convinced my the "exerpt" from the novel. Haha then i saw the site for the DR. and was shocked. The videos tell all... the robot is completely computer generated. Like i said...wangka

Hello all. seems BMW has an excellent ad company. Why is the robot obviously computer generated? My brother sent me the "excerpt" book and I would like to be able to tell him as well as I am curious myself.

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jeschman
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 		fake?
This very well could be fake ... I learned long ago not to believe most of what you see online. But if it is a hoax, what is the point? They are not trying to sell BMW's or Mini-Coopers. Also, the video clip from the www.r50rd.co.uk ... etc website doesn't look computer generated to me. The shadows are too realistic (I know ... that can be faked, too) ... I just don't see what the point would be to creating such an elaborate hoax and not mentioning any products in it.

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StercusMaximus
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 		I got the impression that by going on about how over-engineered the Mini was we were supposed to be impressed enough to buy it. I was definitely impressed, but, unfortunately, a Mini looks to be out of my budget for quite a while! I'm pretty sure that this is definitely a BMW ad campaign.

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