MefaTilter™ — Your Favorite Fictional Brand Sucks!
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The Fictional Brands Archive's searchable index—clickable through to any entry. Some research behind it. And finally the info page: where you can/will submit those fictional brands you know are not yet represented in the archive.
Ooh, Tyrell Corporation! My favorite techno-dystopian-creepy-but-cool branding!
Also, for Acme fans, Wile E. Coyote vs. Acme - the Products, a video compilation of "virtually every single Acme product used by Wile E. Coyote in his attempts to catch the Road Runner."
(also, btw, this post has been added to the sidebar and Best Of blog!)
posted by taz at 4:12 AM on July 23 [5 favorites]
Also, for Acme fans, Wile E. Coyote vs. Acme - the Products, a video compilation of "virtually every single Acme product used by Wile E. Coyote in his attempts to catch the Road Runner."
(also, btw, this post has been added to the sidebar and Best Of blog!)
posted by taz at 4:12 AM on July 23 [5 favorites]
Far be it for me to pick a fight with Star Wars fandom, but is the Rebel Alliance really a brand, exactly?
Otherwise some really great stuff in here, and more than a few that I can see which still need to be added. Lots of nerdy fun to be had!
posted by Smedly, Butlerian jihadi at 4:31 AM on July 23
Otherwise some really great stuff in here, and more than a few that I can see which still need to be added. Lots of nerdy fun to be had!
posted by Smedly, Butlerian jihadi at 4:31 AM on July 23
[Cracks fingers, pulls out the rule 34 handbook]
No, seriously, this is cool. Thank you for posting it.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 5:02 AM on July 23 [1 favorite]
No, seriously, this is cool. Thank you for posting it.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 5:02 AM on July 23 [1 favorite]
let us stand to attention for the corporate anthem (slyt)
posted by are-coral-made at 5:24 AM on July 23 [2 favorites]
posted by are-coral-made at 5:24 AM on July 23 [2 favorites]
Hmmm…No Spacely Space Sprockets? No Cogswell Cogs?
Their suggestion form requires a Google login, so, nope.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:52 AM on July 23 [2 favorites]
Their suggestion form requires a Google login, so, nope.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:52 AM on July 23 [2 favorites]
And if you haven't seen it before, check out Nestflix, listing TV shows and movies that only exist in TV shows and movies.
posted by adamrice at 7:52 AM on July 23 [4 favorites]
posted by adamrice at 7:52 AM on July 23 [4 favorites]
One of my favorite throwaway gags in the Thursday Next series is about the Goliath megacorporation, which manufactures everything imaginable and is constantly evil. At one point a character essentially asks if Goliath exists in the real world, the readers' world, and is told, 'yes, but it has a different name.'
posted by one for the books at 8:28 AM on July 23 [3 favorites]
posted by one for the books at 8:28 AM on July 23 [3 favorites]
Yea the suggestion form has too many required fields (e.g. you have to upload the brand's logo) for this to be fun.
posted by achrise at 9:40 AM on July 23 [2 favorites]
posted by achrise at 9:40 AM on July 23 [2 favorites]
there is a real and fictitious parallax corporation.
Blue Ant.
Frohike Electronic corp.
posted by clavdivs at 10:52 AM on July 23 [4 favorites]
Blue Ant.
Frohike Electronic corp.
posted by clavdivs at 10:52 AM on July 23 [4 favorites]
No Blammo logs.
posted by Hairy Lobster at 11:49 AM on July 23
posted by Hairy Lobster at 11:49 AM on July 23
This webpage doesn't look compatible with the LCARS system I have running on my Ono-Sendai. Maybe the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation can hook me up with something better.
posted by Avelwood at 11:49 AM on July 23 [4 favorites]
posted by Avelwood at 11:49 AM on July 23 [4 favorites]
Helping Hand Acceptance Corp; I don't think I've seen a logo for them, but they are a fictional brand.
posted by ovvl at 12:29 PM on July 23
posted by ovvl at 12:29 PM on July 23
Ctrl+F Veridian Dynamics .. YAY!
posted by Faintdreams at 2:14 PM on July 23 [2 favorites]
posted by Faintdreams at 2:14 PM on July 23 [2 favorites]
^lol, first one I tried, then Yoyodyne (yup), then Hudsucker (nope)
posted by Iris Gambol at 2:34 PM on July 23 [1 favorite]
posted by Iris Gambol at 2:34 PM on July 23 [1 favorite]
My fave always the Major Good Vibes cannabis cigarettes from 1990's Hardware.
posted by Catblack at 2:43 PM on July 23
posted by Catblack at 2:43 PM on July 23
Needs Brawndo, it’s what plants crave.
posted by naoko at 5:03 PM on July 23 [2 favorites]
posted by naoko at 5:03 PM on July 23 [2 favorites]
No UAC, no Silph Co., missing a handful of others I can think of, including several defense contractors in the Front Mission JRPG series alone. Not a bad start, though.
posted by May Kasahara at 7:21 PM on July 23
posted by May Kasahara at 7:21 PM on July 23
Brawndo, and probably some of these others, does appear on the competing Fictional Companies Wiki.
posted by one for the books at 9:46 PM on July 23 [2 favorites]
posted by one for the books at 9:46 PM on July 23 [2 favorites]
Yeah I was considering adding the Everything Except Shoes Corporation (from Freaked) but the form was a bit over the top ...
posted by nickzoic at 4:20 AM on July 24
posted by nickzoic at 4:20 AM on July 24
No Nozz-A-La! And I even have a... home-brewed... bottle of it that's been sitting on my shelf since, like, 2005.
posted by cupcakeninja at 4:44 AM on July 24
posted by cupcakeninja at 4:44 AM on July 24
No Omegamart? Meow Wolf’s Las Vegas installation is nothing but fictional brands. Awesome fictional brands.
posted by Carmody'sPrize at 9:11 AM on July 24
posted by Carmody'sPrize at 9:11 AM on July 24
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