XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal
Monday, March 24th, 2008 7:04PM CDT
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Dutch mobile phones site iPhoneclub.nl has placed an article on their website, claiming that iPod Company XtremeMac has signed a deal to cross promote their hardcase edition of the iPhone 2.0 product with an action figure from the Transformers 2 movie, set to be released in June 2009.
Neil Harden, marketing director for XtremeMac, did not want to say which figures will be used in the cross promotion, but he did have the following to say in the article;
"We are excited that we will link our Xtreme iPhone hardcase with Transformers 2. Eventhough Transformers 2 won't be in theaters until june 2009, it's never to early to start the hype. We expect these to be sold out in a matter of hours. These [Transformers-fans] are completely predictable. That's why Paramount is making the sequel".
Update:
It would appear that the claims made iPhoneclub.nl have been proven to be false. The site has updated the page stating that they have been the victom of a hoax.
"Our apologies, but this message, from iPhonesavior is a fake and made up by them meant to be a satire. After some research it appears that XstreamMac doesn't exist (a variant on the name of the well known XtremeMac) and we can find no record of the aforementioned Director of Marketing, Neil Harden. We've simply been had. :( "
Neil Harden, marketing director for XtremeMac, did not want to say which figures will be used in the cross promotion, but he did have the following to say in the article;
"We are excited that we will link our Xtreme iPhone hardcase with Transformers 2. Eventhough Transformers 2 won't be in theaters until june 2009, it's never to early to start the hype. We expect these to be sold out in a matter of hours. These [Transformers-fans] are completely predictable. That's why Paramount is making the sequel".
Update:
It would appear that the claims made iPhoneclub.nl have been proven to be false. The site has updated the page stating that they have been the victom of a hoax.
"Our apologies, but this message, from iPhonesavior is a fake and made up by them meant to be a satire. After some research it appears that XstreamMac doesn't exist (a variant on the name of the well known XtremeMac) and we can find no record of the aforementioned Director of Marketing, Neil Harden. We've simply been had. :( "
Credit(s): www.iphoneclub.nl
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Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663501)
Posted by Wheelimus Prime on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:11pm CDT
Posted by Wheelimus Prime on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:11pm CDT
WOOT cant wait for someone to post pics 
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663505)
Posted by Raymond T. on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:14pm CDT
Posted by Raymond T. on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:14pm CDT
Personally, I am a little bit ticked off at being called 'Completely predictable'! 
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663509)
Posted by Wheelimus Prime on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:17pm CDT
that was really predictable 
just kidding
Posted by Wheelimus Prime on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:17pm CDT
Raymond T. wrote:Personally, I am a little bit ticked off at being called 'Completely predictable'!
that was really predictable just kidding
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663511)
Posted by Senor Hugo on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:19pm CDT
Posted by Senor Hugo on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:19pm CDT
The return of Product Placement Bots!
Hopefully transformer fans will read this and be pissed off and being called 'predictable,' and boycott Mac and their crap.
By crap I don't mean their products are terrible. Just anyone who would spend $500+ for a transformer toy, should die, in a fire.
Hopefully transformer fans will read this and be pissed off and being called 'predictable,' and boycott Mac and their crap.
By crap I don't mean their products are terrible. Just anyone who would spend $500+ for a transformer toy, should die, in a fire.
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663512)
Posted by First-Aid on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:20pm CDT
Posted by First-Aid on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:20pm CDT
Predictable!??!?! I'LL GIVE YOU PREDICTABLE!!!!!
(strips naked and runs around outside in the freshly fallen snow singing "I'm an Oscar Mayer weiner" while flinging poo at passing motorists on Interstate 90/39)
(strips naked and runs around outside in the freshly fallen snow singing "I'm an Oscar Mayer weiner" while flinging poo at passing motorists on Interstate 90/39)
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663513)
Posted by Raymond T. on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:21pm CDT
Posted by Raymond T. on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:21pm CDT
I didn't say it wasn't true, I just don't like being called that!Wheelimus Prime wrote:Raymond T. wrote:Personally, I am a little bit ticked off at being called 'Completely predictable'!
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663514)
Posted by Raymond T. on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:23pm CDT
Posted by Raymond T. on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:23pm CDT
So... You're gonna wait in line when they are in stock?Senor Hugo wrote:By crap I don't mean their products are terrible. Just anyone who would spend $500+ for a transformer toy, should die, in a fire.
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663519)
Posted by Senor Hugo on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:26pm CDT
....maybe
I just think $500+ could be better spent elsewhere, to buy an iphone just to get an exclusive TF movie figure, is ridiculous. You could get a complete Fort Max for the same price, and it'd be more worthwhile.
Of course if you actually can use an iPhone, and not just to look cool, go for the iPhone/figure pack.
But, yeah $500 could be better spent than on a phone with a movie figure that'll cost you $20 otherwise.
This would be one of those figures I'd hope Ryan stays away from buying, unless someone who gets the figure sends him in photographs, but I'd rather see a bunch of new galleries of figures versus one iPhone exclusive figure.
Posted by Senor Hugo on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:26pm CDT
Raymond T. wrote:So... You're gonna wait in line when they are in stock?Senor Hugo wrote:By crap I don't mean their products are terrible. Just anyone who would spend $500+ for a transformer toy, should die, in a fire.
....maybe
I just think $500+ could be better spent elsewhere, to buy an iphone just to get an exclusive TF movie figure, is ridiculous. You could get a complete Fort Max for the same price, and it'd be more worthwhile.
Of course if you actually can use an iPhone, and not just to look cool, go for the iPhone/figure pack.
But, yeah $500 could be better spent than on a phone with a movie figure that'll cost you $20 otherwise.
This would be one of those figures I'd hope Ryan stays away from buying, unless someone who gets the figure sends him in photographs, but I'd rather see a bunch of new galleries of figures versus one iPhone exclusive figure.
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663521)
Posted by ***Galvatron*** on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:30pm CDT
That was totally predictable to me that at least one seibertronian nutjob would do something like this! hahaha
Posted by ***Galvatron*** on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:30pm CDT
First-Aid wrote:Predictable!??!?! I'LL GIVE YOU PREDICTABLE!!!!!
(strips naked and runs around outside in the freshly fallen snow singing "I'm an Oscar Mayer weiner" while flinging poo at passing motorists on Interstate 90/39)
That was totally predictable to me that at least one seibertronian nutjob would do something like this! hahaha
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663531)
Posted by MisterNewUzer on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:43pm CDT
it's not the actual Mac company, brohams, its a Mac accessory company, so they'll be promoting with a hardcover FOR iPhone, not an actual hardcover iPhone (arent they hard already?). My point being, it'll (IT being the hardcover case) probably only come out to about $40-60, not $500. Anyways, weren't ppl buying cars in Asia to get a free Transformer not too long ago?
And I'm not jumping down your throat, I just think its funny how the above sentences in red completely contradict eachother, heh
Posted by MisterNewUzer on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:43pm CDT
Senor Hugo wrote:Raymond T. wrote:So... You're gonna wait in line when they are in stock?Senor Hugo wrote:By crap I don't mean their products are terrible. Just anyone who would spend $500+ for a transformer toy, should die, in a fire.
....maybe
I just think $500+ could be better spent elsewhere, to buy an iphone just to get an exclusive TF movie figure, is ridiculous. You could get a complete Fort Max for the same price, and it'd be more worthwhile.
Of course if you actually can use an iPhone, and not just to look cool, go for the iPhone/figure pack.
But, yeah $500 could be better spent than on a phone with a movie figure that'll cost you $20 otherwise.
This would be one of those figures I'd hope Ryan stays away from buying, unless someone who gets the figure sends him in photographs, but I'd rather see a bunch of new galleries of figures versus one iPhone exclusive figure.
it's not the actual Mac company, brohams, its a Mac accessory company, so they'll be promoting with a hardcover FOR iPhone, not an actual hardcover iPhone (arent they hard already?). My point being, it'll (IT being the hardcover case) probably only come out to about $40-60, not $500. Anyways, weren't ppl buying cars in Asia to get a free Transformer not too long ago?
And I'm not jumping down your throat, I just think its funny how the above sentences in red completely contradict eachother, heh
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663540)
Posted by Liege Evilmus on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:47pm CDT
Posted by Liege Evilmus on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:47pm CDT
This guy sounds like a prick, I hope him jusmping the gun over a year early helps him sell not a single phone.
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663542)
Posted by Senor Hugo on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:49pm CDT
Well, there is a difference. Spending $500 for a vintage figure = not so bad. Spending $500 for a new figure = Retarded
Posted by Senor Hugo on March 24th, 2008 @ 7:49pm CDT
MisterNewUzer wrote:And I'm not jumping down your throat, I just thought it was funny how the above sentences in red completely contradict eachother, heh
Well, there is a difference. Spending $500 for a vintage figure = not so bad. Spending $500 for a new figure = Retarded
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663554)
Posted by dragons on March 24th, 2008 @ 8:03pm CDT
Posted by dragons on March 24th, 2008 @ 8:03pm CDT
sniff sniff you smell something oh yes macintosh thinks they know us transformers for any fan that just buys the phone alone for the figure and could careless about the should be smaked in the face with the unicron figure person who doers that is an idiot an a dumbA$$.
predict this apple i dont like your products only way you can make me buy one of your products is if you give me the money yourself out of your own pocket to buy the iphone or ipod.
predict this apple i dont like your products only way you can make me buy one of your products is if you give me the money yourself out of your own pocket to buy the iphone or ipod.
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663565)
Posted by Autobot Snake Eyes on March 24th, 2008 @ 8:14pm CDT
Posted by Autobot Snake Eyes on March 24th, 2008 @ 8:14pm CDT
"Predictable"
We are so misunderstood.....
We are so misunderstood.....
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663595)
Posted by Roboto750 on March 24th, 2008 @ 9:05pm CDT
Posted by Roboto750 on March 24th, 2008 @ 9:05pm CDT
This is one TF I won't be buying! The iPhone (and Apple) suck. The only thing the company excels in is their marketing tactics (heck, just place an "i" in front of anything - very creative).
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663641)
Posted by First-Aid on March 24th, 2008 @ 10:13pm CDT
Hmmm...
iPhone!
iPod!
iCondoms!
iSoap!
iRobot!
iToilet Paper!
Spaceballs the T-shirt!
Spaceballs the coloring book!
Spaceballs the lunchbox!
SPaceballs the breakfast cereal!
Spaceballs the flame thrower....
...the kids love that one...
Anyone see any similarities?
(Betcha didn't see THAT one coming....)
Posted by First-Aid on March 24th, 2008 @ 10:13pm CDT
Roboto750 wrote:The only thing the company excels in is their marketing tactics (heck, just place an "i" in front of anything - very creative).
Hmmm...
iPhone!
iPod!
iCondoms!
iSoap!
iRobot!
iToilet Paper!
Spaceballs the T-shirt!
Spaceballs the coloring book!
Spaceballs the lunchbox!
SPaceballs the breakfast cereal!
Spaceballs the flame thrower....
...the kids love that one...
Anyone see any similarities?
(Betcha didn't see THAT one coming....)
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663690)
Posted by MisterNewUzer on March 24th, 2008 @ 11:29pm CDT
Posted by MisterNewUzer on March 24th, 2008 @ 11:29pm CDT
well since it doesn't involve anyone spending $500 on an iPhone, but solely on an accessory that shouldn't cost more than $50, I'm all in assuming that its a good figure.
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (663957)
Posted by ponycorn on March 25th, 2008 @ 11:58am CDT
Posted by ponycorn on March 25th, 2008 @ 11:58am CDT
So it's a hard case that will transform?
I'm thinking of getting an iPhone later on, so that's interesting to me. I just wonder how ungainly/bulky/wiggly the thing will actually be, or rapidly become. I'd be buying an iPhone for the conviniance, not wanting to negate that with chunky snap on stuff.
I'm thinking of getting an iPhone later on, so that's interesting to me. I just wonder how ungainly/bulky/wiggly the thing will actually be, or rapidly become. I'd be buying an iPhone for the conviniance, not wanting to negate that with chunky snap on stuff.
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (664254)
Posted by Raymond T. on March 25th, 2008 @ 6:32pm CDT
Posted by Raymond T. on March 25th, 2008 @ 6:32pm CDT
I guess the iPhoneclub.nl learned a lesson in news posting. Always check your item when you can and ALWAYS mention your source.Raymond T. wrote:Dutch mobile phones site iPhoneclub.nl has placed an article on their website, claiming that iPod Company XtremeMac has signed a deal to cross promote their hardcase edition of the iPhone 2.0 product with an action figure from the Transformers 2 movie, set to be released in June 2009.
Neil Harden, marketing director for XtremeMac, did not want to say which figures will be used in the cross promotion, but he did have the following to say in the article;
"We are excited that we will link our Xtreme iPhone hardcase with Transformers 2. Eventhough Transformers 2 won't be in theaters until june 2009, it's never to early to start the hype. We expect these to be sold out in a matter of hours. These [Transformers-fans] are completely predictable. That's why Paramount is making the sequel".
Update:
It would appear that the claims made iPhoneclub.nl have been proven to be false. The site has updated the page stating that they have been the victom of a hoax.
"Our apologies, but this message, from iPhonesavior is a fake and made up by them meant to be a satire. After some research it appears that XstreamMac doesn't exist (a variant on the name of the well known XtremeMac) and we can find no record of the aforementioned Director of Marketing, Neil Harden. We've simply been had.
Re: XtremeMac Signs Transformers Cross Promotion Deal (664272)
Posted by ***Galvatron*** on March 25th, 2008 @ 6:55pm CDT
Why on earth would someone need to waste their time making up phony companies and stories about products, is it just to make a dig at apple ?
chowderheads! 
Posted by ***Galvatron*** on March 25th, 2008 @ 6:55pm CDT
Raymond T. wrote:I guess the iPhoneclub.nl learned a lesson in news posting. Always check your item when you can and ALWAYS mention your source.Raymond T. wrote:Dutch mobile phones site iPhoneclub.nl has placed an article on their website, claiming that iPod Company XtremeMac has signed a deal to cross promote their hardcase edition of the iPhone 2.0 product with an action figure from the Transformers 2 movie, set to be released in June 2009.
Neil Harden, marketing director for XtremeMac, did not want to say which figures will be used in the cross promotion, but he did have the following to say in the article;
"We are excited that we will link our Xtreme iPhone hardcase with Transformers 2. Eventhough Transformers 2 won't be in theaters until june 2009, it's never to early to start the hype. We expect these to be sold out in a matter of hours. These [Transformers-fans] are completely predictable. That's why Paramount is making the sequel".
Update:
It would appear that the claims made iPhoneclub.nl have been proven to be false. The site has updated the page stating that they have been the victom of a hoax.
"Our apologies, but this message, from iPhonesavior is a fake and made up by them meant to be a satire. After some research it appears that XstreamMac doesn't exist (a variant on the name of the well known XtremeMac) and we can find no record of the aforementioned Director of Marketing, Neil Harden. We've simply been had.
Why on earth would someone need to waste their time making up phony companies and stories about products, is it just to make a dig at apple ?
chowderheads! 
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