Brother Electronics and Sony have joined forces to launch a contest, wherein a lucky family of four will get flown to New York to take part in a Ghostbusters Halloween in 2010! I’ve found references on Irish and UK websites for Brother, but other press makes it sound global. More on that in a second.
The contest is pretty simple – play their odd little, flash game (UK page), which you can play using either the top-down, Pac-Man style or 3rd person, Doom style interface. The winner will be whomever can complete the five levels the fastest – there are runner up prizes of Sony electronics, and unspecified weekly prizes. The contest will run until November of this year.
This is the UK contest page, but as mentioned, it’s not clear if the contest will soon appear on other Brother sites around the world – if anyone spots one, please post the link in the comments, so we can direct people to the right contest and rules for their country.
1st Prize: A Spooky Trip to New York during Halloween 2010!
Day One
Flights Arrive In New York Throughout Day One
Each Winner (and Guests) Will Be Greeted At The Airport By Their Driver For Their Private Airport Transfer To The Algonquin Hotel
The First Evening In New York Can Be Spent At The Winners’Leisure
Day Two
All Winners Will Meet Sony’s Representative In The Hotel Lobby (Time TBC) for a Welcome Meeting to Outline Their Trip.
Winners Depart For The New York Location Tour From The Hotel (Individual Times TBC)
Winners Will Experience A Guided Tour Of New York Film Locations
Dinner will be provided at Tavern on The Green (Individual Times TBC).
Day Three
Adult package Winners Depart For Long Island For Their Day At The Scream Park!
Family Package Winners Get Dressed in Their Ghostbusters Outfits and Join the Parade at Greenwich Village!
Day Four
Winners Check Out Of The Hotel
Transfers Back To Airport at Relevant Times For Return Flights.Full Itinerary To Be Managed By Sony’s Representatives At All Times.
Please note the trip to New York will be awarded to either a family of four (2 adults & 2 children under 16) or 2 adults only.
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That’s a pretty cool contest prize.
Interesting choice, the Algonquin, rumor has it the set of the Sedgewick Hotel guest room corridors were based on it.
On the game’s Terms & Conditions page, it says that the contest is only open to UK residents, but if you’re not a UK resident, you can select your country at http://www.brother.eu/ghostbusters
The US isn’t on the list on that page. Looking over the list of countries, I think they’re all in Europe (assuming my knowledge of geography isn’t wrong).
The neato part is that going to that page brings up a nice Flash graphic, which concludes with a high quality copy of the 25th Anniversary logo.
Here’s some wallpapers and posters
http://www.brother.co.uk/g3.cfm/s_page/195930
http://www.brother.ie/g3.cfm/s_page/195920
You’re welcome.
No applause, just throw money.
UPDATE – The wallpapers suck, but the posters are fantastic – that is if you crack them open to get at the images inside. I did just that, and you can nab those puppies from my site. Anyone who wanted a high-quality copy of the 25th Anniversary logo can now get it. Granted it’s on a slime background, but it’s better than nothing.
If anyone with good image editing skills can take one of these logo images and convert them into high-quality solid black and solid white background images, please send them to me. Thanks.
UPDATE YET AGAIN – Even with my limited image editing skills I was able to remove the slime background and place the 25th anniversary logos onto solid backgrounds. Feel free to get them from my website at the afore linked page.