New low rider Sprite ad is an Airwalk rip-off!!!!

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Posted by jeffreeprague on 19. March 2003 - 21:32

The new Sprite ad featuring the low-rider bicycles is a blatent rip-off of 1994 Airwalk spots by Lambesis!

Imagine my surprise when I see this complete rip-off of a TV commercial I worked on at Lambesis, in a Sprite commerical featuring low-rider bicycles...
I refer to http://www.think.cz/portfolio/airwalktvc

The Sprite commercial even uses some of the same dialog as ours, and footage, it's such a rip-off, I thought for sure that they must be sampling our dialog... If anybody knows who did this shit, have them write me, or I'm sending this to my good friend, who's an editor for Ad Age!
jbbb

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Submitted by Robblink on 20. March 2003 - 0:10.
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Adgrunts can view the Sprite spot in question here:
coca-cola.com/presscenter/

Submitted by claymore on 20. March 2003 - 2:36.
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Dude - the Sprite lowrider bikes spot has been running on and off in the US for almost eight months now - it ain't exactly new.

But some of the same footage, eh? Is it stock? Tell us more, or try and provide the Airwalk spot. Or at least more stills, the transcript or more details. We need a bit more before we can call it a Badlander. Thanks.

Submitted by dabitch on 21. March 2003 - 15:24.
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Maybe the transcripts alone would be good to compare - if the dialougue is the same it'll be pretty obvious.

Submitted by dabitch on 21. March 2003 - 15:42.
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darn... I can't get the sprite ad to play after the first few seconds. Dialouge so far:

"we're artists.."

"we build low rider bikes."

and then the films starts rebuffering.. and fails.. Grr.

Submitted by claymore on 21. March 2003 - 21:17.
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Silly - We have it here in the Commercial Archive

Submitted by dabitch on 21. March 2003 - 22:02.
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duuuh me - i'm a dolt today.

Submitted by anonymous on 10. May 2003 - 0:50.
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Submitted by dabitch on 10. May 2003 - 13:31.
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"bvmbvhngng"?

wait, lemme help you get that gag off......

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