Whatz the weirdest OMAKE you've seen?

[Taro Toporific]

In praise of a 'brilliant idea'
Japan Times / Dec 19
Even a cursory check of convenience store shelves these days shows how the omake giveaways that makers once offered as lures to buy certain candies have now become the main selling points themselves. After all, how many people would pay 300 yen just for the two almond chocolates in a packet of "Time Slip Glico" -- without the miniature CD omake?
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See also: Candy firms jump on CD bandwagonThe Japan Times, Dec 19

[kotatsuneko]

a while back i bought some condoms and got a tube of what i later found out was hair conditioner!

most cheeky omake was a usb cable with the canon printer! wow so like id really have to pay extra for that shit? still the lil bag was cute..

[kotatsuneko]

confession time.. a few months ago i did indeed buy a bottle of pepsi i gave away just for the hacky sack omake which still remains in its bag..

worst omake was the whatever/ranger bottle top figure that came with the irresistable mitsuya cider 1.5 litre bottle it was just.. crap

[Taro Toporific]

[Charles]

[Taro Toporific]

[cliffy]

I am of the opinion that you are somewhat of a connoisseur of marketing ploys/traps , your take? And how is your collection growing.. I mean going?

[IkemenTommy]

That's not different compared to what the baseball cards used to be.

[Charles]

Don't dis the "PepsiMan"!
He was created by a 25-year British FG ("Mac" Somebody-or-other) for the Japanese market. PepsiMan was the donkiest of super heroes---a perfect hero for the Japanese.

I have no opinion about PepsiMan, merely about the amount of plastic packaging it takes to deliver him. I figure if you're giving away special bottlecaps, they should actually be capping the bottle.

[Naniwan Kid]

Amount of plastic packaging? It's just a little foil wrapper, about the same size as a fun-size Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.

I am a fan of the Star Wars caps...the ones that came out for Ep III are pretty high quality.

[FG Lurker]

Don't dis the "PepsiMan"!
He was created by a 25-year British FG ("Mac" Somebody-or-other) for the Japanese market. PepsiMan was the donkiest of super heroes---a perfect hero for the Japanese.

I have no opinion about PepsiMan, merely about the amount of plastic packaging it takes to deliver him. I figure if you're giving away special bottlecaps, they should actually be capping the bottle.

The extra centimeters that would add to the bottle would mean completely changing all the packaging materials for shipping the bottles. Likely to create far more waste (not to mention expense) than some little plastic baggies.

[Greji]

That's not different compared to what the baseball cards used to be.

What do you mean "used to be"? Have you checked the price for cards on the old super stars lately? FWIW, that's still a huge market!