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Re: Episode 1 SW add in catalog: am I missing something?
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lugnet.starwars
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Sat, 27 Mar 1999 03:21:37 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Karim Nassar writes:
> In the 1999 full catalog, there is a page that is advertising the Episode One
> movies and sets coming out in summer...
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> This add includes the phrase: "It's So Wizard!"
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> Am I missing something? I thought I was at least as up with the times as any
> mainstream marketing company... Is this a common phrase? Is it a line from • the
> movies? What? And what in the world does it mean?
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> My first thought on this is that it might be an artifact of translation... but
> 1) I would think any ads regarding SW would originate in America, and 2) I
> wouldn't think that such a horrible error could slip through...
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> Would sombody set me straight?
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> --Karim
My first thought was a mis-translation, as well, but I've heard the phrase
mentioned on one of the Star Wars toy sites, http://yakface.com/, in
reference to a new poster. So there's something there, I just have no idea
what it is. This probably isn't very helpful, but it narrows the possibility
of a mistranslation.
--Brent
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