<![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://gizmodo.com Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:28:58 EDT Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:28:58 EDT http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4942939 That is pretty clever. Unfortunately the lightsabers don't seem to have any handles. This seems to limit their usability by making them difficult to grip without losing fingers.

Ben Zvan

]]> 4:372094:c4942939 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:28:58 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4898740 It's on the SE corner of 34th St. & 8th Ave. in NYC. My 6 year old son went batshit when he saw this on the way to school yesterday morning. Even he knew that the red light saber is used by the Sith.

The tubes are simply colored flourescent lights. Not really attractive for stealing.

Here's a link from the Gothamist post that shows them glowing at night:
[gothamist.com]

crackblind

]]> 4:372094:c4898740 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:04:28 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4887863 @izod: Never saw those. So this one is a re-tread? Neat anyway, just not as novel.

Sean Harrington

]]> 4:372094:c4887863 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:07:42 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4887837 @ColdAsIce: Nope. Not Me. I'd let you know if I was tooting my own... sabre.

Sean Harrington

]]> 4:372094:c4887837 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:06:25 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4882594 @ParadoxControl:

Reminds me of another starwars promotion in NYC:

seeing as those are all across the entire country... either NYC got much larger than i previously thought or you didn't realize other cities get lame advertising as well.

x23

]]> 4:372094:c4882594 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:03:57 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4880155 @1stage: you sound like the designer...?

ColdAsIce

]]> 4:372094:c4880155 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:40:29 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4878513 Then there was this promotion from almost a year ago...

and @1stage: the tubes WERE used:

[www.cherryflava.com]

izod

]]> 4:372094:c4878513 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:47:42 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4877218 @N@tedog: But don't those tubes go over the fluorescent tubes in the marquee?

Sean Harrington

]]> 4:372094:c4877218 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:02:07 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4876022 @N@tedog: Didn't you just get sued for punching a guy?

Istrutnice

]]> 4:372094:c4876022 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:15:54 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4874007 @Gordon_Shumway:
@taoprophet420:
@mattbrown:
@Amiash:

I work with the ad agency who handles Spike TV's ads here in NYC, Asphalt Media. The bars are hollow translucent plastic colored PVC and nothing more... lame.




N@tedog

]]> 4:372094:c4874007 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:37:40 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4873429 Not pictured are the prerequisite syringes filled with Midichlorians. Force in a tube, baby!

Way

]]> 4:372094:c4873429 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:50:08 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4872228 Hmmm the Shitastic Episode 1 on April 4th or the season premiere of the final season of Battlestar Galactica? Such a hard choice, I think I'll go for the Battlestar.

CFStang

]]> 4:372094:c4872228 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:39:27 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4871770 @tyskkvinna: Dude, it's NYC. You almost don't NEED to advertise anywhere else.

multimoog

]]> 4:372094:c4871770 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:51:28 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4871673 Reminds me of another starwars promotion in NYC:
[img156.imageshack.us]

ParadoxControl

]]> 4:372094:c4871673 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:36:32 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4871386 I see 1 penn plaza in the background, cool, nerdy 'ol me will have to stop by and take a picture.

spaceman37

]]> 4:372094:c4871386 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:57:37 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4869513 @1stage:

If you're right, that would actually be pretty cool.

Gordon_Shumway

]]> 4:372094:c4869513 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:55:08 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4868713 I agree, this is a neat design idea. Also pretty mission specific - I don't recall seeing any bus stops around here (Eastern Michigan) that actually light up at night.

tyskkvinna

]]> 4:372094:c4868713 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:49:04 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4868650 Why "only in case of Sith?" What about a Storm Trooper, or a Sand Person? Or some gross looking thing that doesn't like the look of you in a odd bar with strange creatures playing messed up oboes? What THEN?

geekinky

]]> 4:372094:c4868650 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:44:49 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4868598 @warhol10: Yes, you could still steal the poster, but all you'd get is a flourescent tube with colored plastic around the outside... and maybe a handful of phosphor-coated glass shards...

Sean Harrington

]]> 4:372094:c4868598 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:40:25 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4868578 Do they light up at night? Otherwise, Broomhandle!

TunaCan

]]> 4:372094:c4868578 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:38:36 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4868575 Can someone take a picture of this after dark, please. I think it will have more of an impact...

Sean Harrington

]]> 4:372094:c4868575 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:38:13 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4868530 Actually, the design of this is pretty ingenious, as it doesn't require any special retrofitting of the existing bus marquees...

The designer took into account that there are four flourescent tubes already in these cases for back-lighting of standard bus ads, then he designed the poster to have a clear middle section, and then he had the installers temporarily take out each of the floury tubes and slide the colored sheath over them, probably taping them at the top so that the bottom can still illuminate the text at the bottom of the poster.

Very cool and innovative design, if not necessarily as cool as having "real" sabres inside. Give the designer some props on this...

- Sean

Sean Harrington

]]> 4:372094:c4868530 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:34:59 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4868322 wonder how long these will last. reminds me of my stupid youth when we used to crack these bus stop ads to steal the giant movie poster.

warhol10

]]> 4:372094:c4868322 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:22:12 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4868225 I saw this on the way to work...
It didn't hit me until now they were supposed to be lightsabers.

Hiphopopotamus

]]> 4:372094:c4868225 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:16:20 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4868209 broom handles, plungers, whatever it takes man

s017jrs

]]> 4:372094:c4868209 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:15:27 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4868147 @Gordon_Shumway: agreed.

Amiash is not allowed

]]> 4:372094:c4868147 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:10:57 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4868127 @Gordon_Shumway: Yes. NYC. Famous for our broom handles.

mattbrown

]]> 4:372094:c4868127 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:09:16 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4868108 Im sure there isn't even a handle, just coloured bars.

prix

]]> 4:372094:c4868108 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:08:16 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4868090 @Gordon_Shumway: looks like clear tubes with liquid inside to me.

taoprophet420

]]> 4:372094:c4868090 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:07:06 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4868008 They look like painted broom handles.

Gordon_Shumway

]]> 4:372094:c4868008 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:01:33 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4867910 Wow, I'm getting old. I don't actually find this cool. Just sad. Very, very sad.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> 4:372094:c4867910 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:55:23 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4867580 No Mace Windu purple?!?!

Illusive

]]> 4:372094:c4867580 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:36:23 EDT <![CDATA[New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers]]> http://gizmodo.com/372094/new-york-bus-stops-now-stocked-with-lightsabers#c4867574 Yep, we'll be seeing one of these on ebay pretty soon.

Wubbytoes

]]> 4:372094:c4867574 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:36:05 EDT