Google Earth Death Star Virtually Blows Up Your Neighborhood

wired.com — Adidas is countering Nike's Just Do It slogan with a viral campaign that might be tagged Just Blow Yourself Up. In a bid to hype its Star Wars Collection clothing line, the sportswear company invites internet users to virtually destroy neighborhoods with a Google Earth-powered Death Star. Jun 24, 2010 View in Crawl 4

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kufurex Jun 24, 2010

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Don't give Google ideas people! Geez!

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Closed Account Jun 24, 2010

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It freaked me out enough when it pulled up the street view of my house, I didn't even know that they did street view in my area yet. I have to go change my pants now...

monkeysmasher Jun 24, 2010

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That page was retarded... but I do want every pair of the Star Wars adidas....

doctorgrim Jun 24, 2010

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My neighbors are a bunch of idiots. Thanks Adidas. :)

knowitall Jun 24, 2010

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Needs way better targeting....

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v1ruk Jun 24, 2010

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Needs to stop asking me so much personal info, they really did team up with google.

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Closed Account Jun 24, 2010

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All it asks for is your name, your friends name, and your friends email address... I wouldn't describe that as "so much" of anything...

v1ruk Jun 25, 2010

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And to angle your shot at his house in streetview.
Any personal info is too much, the point is they don't need any of that.

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God dammit. If you're not in America then it doesn't work because adidas insists that it will instead go to "your country's homepage" instead of the link. Even when you navigate to America's site, go to Originals, go to the star wars content, then click on the death star application, it opens it in a new window which then redirects to "your country's homepage".

f**king lame.