Talk:Personal Interactive Desktop
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What is it?
Scott won't let me delete this, so instead I'm going to ask what category it belongs in. This isn't a video game, so I don't think it belongs in Muppet Video Games. It's basically a marketing stunt about video games.
In 1996, Dole put Muppet stickers on its bananas to promote Muppet Treasure Island. PID is basically the electronic equivalent of those banana stickers. Putting this article in Video Games is like putting an article about the banana stickers in Muppet Movies. -- Danny (talk) 23:45, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, that reminds me of my earlier question of how to categorize some of the items in companies, McDonald's etc., or for that matter Target. Maybe instead of a Fast Food category and sticking Target in toys, a "Marketing Tie-Ins" category or something, to include every company who has in some way produced Muppet stuff or just re-branded existing stuff as part of a specific promotional gimmick and not as part of a general retail line. Andrew Leal (talk) 00:05, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
- Well, now that you've told us about it, Dole and its banana stickers! More seriously, if anyone wants to include the Boeing Muppet-named planes, they'd probably fit (not sure if or what the rights deal was there if they just borrowed the names without dealing with Disney or anyone, unlikely, but with "Kermit Kruiser," "Fozzie", "Beaker" and the "Honeydew," that's certainly a Muppet marketing strategy if there ever was one). Then there's Welch's jellies: we have two seperate articles on tie-in jars, Muppets In Space Welch's Jelly Jar and Welch's The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss Jelly Jars which really aren't merchandise as much as they are tie-ins, like the Dole stickers or PDI's deal, and could be bundled into one Welch's page. We could even include Wilkins Coffee, for producing the earliest Muppet toys as tie-ins. There's probably others, but those are the most obvious ones for me. Andrew Leal (talk) 00:28, 22 July 2006 (UTC)