Honest.
KFC’s Totally Fried Internet Escape Pod Will Save You From Cyber Monday For Only $10K
by Paul Lilly, Hot Hardware
Sunday, November 19, 2017
Do you hate how technology has come to rule the day? Are you looking for some peace and quiet during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday madness that is nearly upon us? Do you like…nay, LOVE fried chicken? Then boy, oh boy, does KFC have a product that is right up your alley. It is the Internet Escape Pod, essentially an adult-sized dome made of metal with Colonel Sanders perched on top. And it can be yours for just $10,000!
The only thing more obscene than the asking price is what Colonel Sanders appears to be doing to it, but we won’t go there. And before anyone cries fowl at the price tag, understand that KFC originally intended to sell this for nearly ten times that amount.
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Surely KFC is pulling our chicken legs, right? Well, yes and no. The Internet Escape Pod is actually a real product (and not its first quirky one), available through the restaurant’s online merchandise shop, KFC Ltd., which opened this past summer. Other items are much more reasonably priced and include a variety of KFC-themed swag, things like t-shirts, enamel pins, a pillow imprinted with Colonel Sanders’ face, and a few other items.The new pod is undoubtedly an attempt at a viral marketing campaign, but it’s real, and it looks like KFC is only making one. Our guess is that somebody will actually buy it, for the novelty factor. Whoever that person is, they will be able to fit four adults and a bucket of delicious fried chicken inside.
“We’ve come up with several technologically advanced, creative experiences for our customers and fans this year. But even we feel the burden of technology during the holiday season. So we decided to go in the opposite direction and create an anti-technology product, using technology, to help one lucky buyer literally escape the holiday chaos,” Felix added.
As far as I can tell it’s just an umbrella tent with a stuffed Colonel Sanders humping the roof and the silver is what passes for a high tech color scheme and offers no barrier to cellular or wireless signals at all. You can get one on Amazon for $80.
But if you need some personal space this holiday season it works both indoors and outdoors (probably want a heavy coat or sleeping bag or something for outdoors and the ground can get kind of chill so think about what you will sit on), humping Colonel and bucket of bird parts not included.
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does something have to be dated 1 April to be obviously a joke?
I’m not at all convinced that this is a “real product”, though I’m sure KFC will get it built fast if some idiot offers real 10K dollars.
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I’ll be happy to do it for $250.
Wait, you say. The tent is only $80. Well, there’s the humping Colonel doll (I actually have some experience making those and it’s not as easy and cheap as you probably think) and the bucket of chicken.
Now if you want me to blow real money on stupid ideas I can do that twice as fast and at 10% of the price of an actual consultant.