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Okay, so I know the reason whybecause Ford has a new marketing deal with Marvel to promote its latest car through the medium of cosmic superheroes. But come on. If the Star-Lords ship the Milano could have feelings, it would be very hurt right now.
Announced today, Ford and Marvels partnership includes the usual things like sweepstakes to win a Ford Ecosport or tickets to the movie, a bizarre Make your own Guardian of the Galaxy character creator that I used earlier today to craft a horrifying racoon-tree-bird man with robot arms and a Drax-esque torso, and an upcoming tie-in comic book that will presumably see Star-Lord, Drax, Gamora, and Groot ogle over the majesty that is the 2018 Ford Ecosport, a car they should have zero connections with because theyre in goddamn outer space.
The most interesting thing about this bit of corporate synergyand most pertinent to usis a tidbit buried in the press release that alongside the above comic, therell be a TV spot (starring Groot) and the car itself will actually be in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2:
All-new Ford EcoSport to appear in Marvel Studios Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, in theaters May 5; EcoSport and Groot will be seen together in a TV commercial calling for customers to Be the Guardian of Your Galaxy, and in an exclusive digital comic with a limited print run of 500 copies highlighting the vehicles fun, capable and connected features.
But... how? The first Guardians of the Galaxy did establish that the crews adventures took place in our present, just far off out in space, so its perhaps reasonable to expect that the MCUs Earth also has a new Ford Ecosport coming out in 2018. But how are the Guardians going to see it? Theyre off having space adventures, far, far away from Earth.
Does the Ford float by in the background as intergalactic debris? Well use your new car as space junk doesnt sound like itd be that appealing to Ford. Are there scenes on modern-day Earth that somehow inexplicably prominently feature a Ford Ecosport? No, wait, does Ego the Living Planetwhos already been established as being able to transform and manipulate matter to be both Kurt Russell and a planetalso turn into an SUV he and Mantis can drive around (on himself, I guess) in? Is Kurt Russell actually Eco-sport, the Living Planet!?
There are actually scenes on Earth going by setphotos.
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