LIGHTSABERS

TitleLIGHTSABERS
BrandTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Product / ServiceSTAR WARS BLU-RAY BOX
CategoryA05. Best Use of Ambient Media: Large Scale
EntrantTUGBOAT Tokyo, JAPAN
Entrant Company:TUGBOAT Tokyo, JAPAN
Advertising Agency:TUGBOAT Tokyo, JAPAN
2nd Advertising Agency:EAST JAPAN MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name Company Position
Yasumichi Oka Tugboat Creative Director
Seijo Kawaguchi Tugboat Art Director
Toshihiro Hyodo Bridge Designer
Hiroki Tosa Bridge Copywriter

Results and Effectiveness

Targets shared in numerous local/international blogs, SNSs(Facebook 10,000+'like!') and twitter(4,000+). Became the best selling Blu-ray set ever sold in Japan on a launch week.

Creative Execution

To maximize the noise, train jack was executed in Tokyo. Handrails of trains were made into lightsabers to provoke excitement of the film. There are 10 million+ commuters per day in greater Tokyo. It's the first time handrails were used for a promotion. 3 variation and 226 sabers per train.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

Launch of new Star Wars 'The Complete Saga' Blu-ray set. The campaign needed to target broader fans, to give a shove in the back, as the core fans own everything Star wars including all the DVDs. To give fresh impact, the brief was to run a campaign in an approach that was never done before in Star wars history, very challenging task... This execution was part of media-mix campaign i.e. PR, prints, transits, in-stores and online.