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Robot Apartment Commercial

May 14th, 2008 by James

As this advertisement shows, there’s need to worry about earthquakes or helicopter attacks when you live in the “Grand Guardian Tokyo” apartment building:

[via Mari]



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9 Comments »

Comment by feitclub
2008-05-14 22:13:33

Fascinating. Not how it “protects” the residents, but how it happily devastates the surrounding neighborhood.

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Comment by L'Espadon
2008-05-14 22:28:56

Sorry. No gaijin, mizu shobai or pets allowed.

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Comment by canadaguy
2008-05-15 06:38:11

Did anyone notice it said “WORNING”?! (at about 1:26)

ahahahaha nice.

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Comment by YT
2008-05-15 08:21:20

Wasn’t this a toy idea in ‘Big’ with Tom Hanks?

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Comment by Luke
2008-05-15 12:08:03

I’m not sure if I’m going to be drinking champagne as the rest of Tokyo is destroyed by earthquakes. Unless I’m the evil genius who created the earthquakes and Robot Apartment.

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Comment by VonSkippy
2008-05-15 14:54:37

For a really cool video/audio mashup…

Start the song: “Godzilla” by Blue Oyster Cult and wait 3-4 seconds, then start this ad video (with it’s audio muted) – it’s weird how the music and song highlights match.

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Comment by Volbla
2008-05-16 03:03:33

I think i’m in my right to say: “What the fuck?”

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