[HN Gopher] Fictional Brands Archive
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Fictional Brands Archive
Author : wallflower
Score : 145 points
Date : 2023-04-19 22:14 UTC (2 days ago)
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| benj111 wrote:
| Morley cigarettes?
| JStanton617 wrote:
| The America First Party was most definitely NOT a fictional brand
| - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Party_(1943)
| jjulius wrote:
| Seems there is nuance involved.
|
| >The fictional movement resemble some real associations that in
| the same period had similar intents.
|
| https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/item.php?id=98
| tokai wrote:
| The Plot Against America is alternative history and build on
| real people, organizations, and events. They are the same
| organization. But I guess that means that I can add the
| Catholic Church from Hyperion as a fictional brand too.
| Brendinooo wrote:
| No love for Let's Potato Chips?
| leotravis10 wrote:
| No love for IBN?
|
| It's the fictional IBM from the Steins;Gate series of visual
| novels, anime, and games which uses the IBM (IBN in this case)
| 5100 Portable Computer.
| neilv wrote:
| It's a good start. One might populate a lot more database from
| Wikipedia. For example:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brawndo&redirect=...
| ZeroGravitas wrote:
| And
|
| https://fictionalcompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Brawndo
|
| And
|
| https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Q1462364...
| 404mm wrote:
| Submitted Veridian Dynamics. Hopefully it will be added :D
| Ishmaeli wrote:
| I submitted Initech over a week ago and still don't see it.
| AlbertCory wrote:
| Hey, I have one of those as a T-shirt:
|
| https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/item.php?id=110
| [deleted]
| genericacct wrote:
| needs more ono-sendai
| teh_klev wrote:
| If you think they're missing a brand they have a form here to ask
| them to add new brands:
|
| https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdt2aXH-AnZkjTaqJKH...
|
| There's also an email address where I suppose you could send
| correction requests:
|
| hello@fictionalbrandsarchive.com
| rendall wrote:
| I looked immediately for the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. A
| definite oversight.
| teh_klev wrote:
| You should "Share and Enjoy" with them this oversight :)
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| Boy, E Corp sure does look familiar...
|
| https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron
| gaius_baltar wrote:
| The show goes a bit deeper in the references to it. Second
| season shows some widespread blackouts/burnouts due to events
| from the first one.
|
| This entire show is a jewel of good storytelling (and technical
| accuracy that should already have captured the attention of HN
| folks)
| UncleSlacky wrote:
| No Zik-Zak or Network 23?
|
| https://www.maxheadroom.com/index.php?title=File:Mh-zik-zak-...
| aaron695 wrote:
| [dead]
| sizzzzlerz wrote:
| Kruger Industrial Smoothing, Seinfeld, season 9.
| itcrowd wrote:
| Vandelay Industries (!)
| samplenoise wrote:
| This made me check if there is a similar thing for fictional
| bands. Not really; but there's a few articles, like:
| https://variety.com/lists/best-fictional-bands-movies-tv-sho...
| codazoda wrote:
| Hurry, build it and add Driveshaft to the list.
| adrian_mrd wrote:
| A companion of sorts is Nestflix [0]: "Fictional movies within
| movies... Fake shows within shows... Browse our selection of over
| 700 stories within stories."
|
| [0] https://nestflix.fun/
| theandrewbailey wrote:
| My brother asked once if Angels with Filthy Souls was a real
| movie.
| mablopoule wrote:
| Awesome !
|
| My favorite "movie withing movie" idea is "Wormhole X-Treme",
| the Stargate TV-show within the Stargate SG1 TV-show.
|
| They use it for self-deprecating humor, by e.g. lampshading the
| sometime easy scenaristic shortcut they take, with some
| episodes where the "real" Stargate SG1 cast would (secretly)
| serves as advisor for Wormhole X-Treme spoof tv-show.
|
| On top of that, the justification for it is absolutely genius:
| Because that way, the (in-universe) army could quell any rumor
| of the existence of the Stargate Command by simply saying "No,
| that from a TV-show, duh!".
| layer8 wrote:
| SG1 also had some nice parodies in episode 200:
| https://youtu.be/whfMMfR4KKw
| speps wrote:
| It's missing some Microsoft ones like Contoso:
| https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120803-01/?p=69...
| teepo wrote:
| That was the first one I looked for as well. Also Volcano
| Coffee Company, AdventureWorks, the always enjoyable Northwind
| Traders. (I recall working on a Visual InterDev project that
| had the Northwind e-commerce store). There's a bunch of others
| as well:
| https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/...
| kotaKat wrote:
| I was thinking that too, but this archive focuses specifically
| on media (film/series/video games) as per its info page[1]
|
| https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/info.php
| computronus wrote:
| The Wipeout game series has a broad set of racing companies
| complete with in-universe histories and branding that evolves
| with each release.
|
| https://wipeout.fandom.com/wiki/Teams
| Eduard wrote:
| The Designers Republic did an incredible work by providing
| wipEout with its signature Y2K aesthetics.
|
| The fictional brand logo animations in wipEout 3's intro still
| give me futuristic goosebumps a quarter century later:
| https://youtu.be/DaI_084xDsg
| kyle-rb wrote:
| Only 116 entries? The fictional companies wiki has over 1000.
|
| https://fictionalcompanies.fandom.com/
| leotravis10 wrote:
| I like that archive quite better since it has many others like
| IBN (IBM) for example.
| 1000100_1000101 wrote:
| Both the article and this wiki are missing some big entries,
| like all the fake businesses in GTA. Rockstar even had websites
| for them back in the day.
|
| Eris running shoes. PetsOvernight.com. Pisswasser beer. Gruppe
| Sechs armoured cars.
| seabass-labrax wrote:
| I like the attention to detail and the background information on
| this site. However, it looks like the form to add a new entry
| requires signing in with a Google account, which is a shame.
| GuB-42 wrote:
| It is going to be a long list.
|
| Roleplaying games for instance have entire lists of them, and I
| am sure there is a video game somewhere that generate them
| procedurally, making the list effectively endless unless you have
| some kind of notability criteria. There are hundreds listed in
| here https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MegaCorp and it
| is just the megacorps, there are many more that are not "mega".
| ghostDancer wrote:
| Arasaka appeared in Cyberpunk 2020 RPG long before the video
| game Cyberpunk 2077 used it.
| inkcapmushroom wrote:
| I'm not positive but it looks like the list is limited to
| brands that have a specific, recognizable logo and name, which
| appear in visual media. So that should at least narrow it down.
| yreg wrote:
| I think whatever is generated locally cannot be canon, since
| the world cannot know about it.
| GuB-42 wrote:
| It is canon within your game, and it may ascend to being a
| true world canon if your game becomes notable enough.
|
| But generally, I agree, I was just commenting about how many
| there are and how easy it is to create new ones, a lot of us
| probably made a few of them. Making a fictional brand is a
| common exercise in business or design schools, it can be done
| in creative writing, as an example for a presentation, in a
| role-playing campaign, or just for fun. If anything goes, we
| may be in the billions.
| marl0 wrote:
| How did Pied Piper not make the list?
| jeroenhd wrote:
| No Veridian Dynamics either. They even have ads to get a feel
| for their corporate style from:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEEBE7_-aMM
| sva_ wrote:
| I've seen Duff beer in stores. I wonder what other fictional
| products have made it into real life.
| rippercushions wrote:
| Wonka Candy was a Nestle brand of candy.
|
| US Robotics was a major modem manufacturer (but not robots).
|
| IOI is a large Malaysian palm oil producer.
| isleyaardvark wrote:
| The whole reason the 1971 movie was made was because Quaker
| Oats had already decided to release "Willy Wonka" branded
| candy. That's why Quaker Oats funded the movie, and why the
| title differs from the book, because Quaker Oats insisted
| "Willy Wonka" be in the title for the tie-in.
| iSnow wrote:
| IDK which one was first, but "Alpha Industries" exists as a
| mil-tech fashion brand: https://www.alphaindustries.eu/uk
|
| Even the logo is kind of similar.
| Adrox wrote:
| The company was founded in 1959 and its pretty famous for
| they bomber-jackets.
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Industries
|
| Either the designer in the movie didnt remember he "copied"
| it, or didn't care...
| reaperducer wrote:
| Acme is a large East coast supermarket chain.
|
| "Acme" as a brand name was very common in a number of
| industries and predates Looney Tunes.
| ericrallen wrote:
| If anyone has screenshots of KrebStar Industries products from
| the Adventures of Pete and Pete, please feel encouraged to submit
| it to the database (and post here that you've submitted it) or
| share a link to the screenshots, so I don't spend the whole day
| getting lost down that rabbit hole of nostalgia.
|
| Here's a list of KrebStar products:
| http://pnp.norecess.org/kreb.html
| regus wrote:
| I came here to mention Krebstar as well.
| lucas_membrane wrote:
| TFA missed Darlington Electronics Inc. of "Real Genius."
| bombcar wrote:
| No Octan. No love.
| zabzonk wrote:
| ubik - pk dick - everything
| BirAdam wrote:
| It's cool, but it needs Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong, among many
| others mentioned here.
| ahmedfromtunis wrote:
| Is there to submit corrections or additions? I couldn't find
| anything about it on the website; I must be missing it
| tkgally wrote:
| There's a link to a form for submitting additions here:
|
| https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/info.php
| ahmedfromtunis wrote:
| Thanks
| willcipriano wrote:
| No Binford Tools? No Setec Astronomy? No Strickland Propane?
| myself248 wrote:
| Setec Astronomy was never the name of a fictional company, even
| in-universe they didn't pretend it was a front operation or
| anything. Merely a phrase, more of a password.
| speed_spread wrote:
| It's missing Buttfucker's and Tarrington from Idiocracy, amongst
| others. "If you don't smoke Tarrington, Fuck You!"
| sizzzzlerz wrote:
| They could fill their database from the Simpsons. Just some of
| what they missed:
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| Osaka Food Concern
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| Laramie Cigarettes
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| Krusty Burgers
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| Powell Motors
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| Chalmskinn Productions
| cjsawyer wrote:
| The FONY (ie SONY) logo in Akira is really important to me. It's
| a flawless pun, a fake brand, and does it in only 4 characters!
| jimjag wrote:
| No Yoyodyne? John BigBoote is gonna be sad
| cafard wrote:
| Are we going to attribute it to _Gravity 's Rainbow_ or to
| Buckaroo Banzai?
| enginaar wrote:
| US Robotics sold modems in late 90s
| dsr_ wrote:
| They named the company after the fictional one in Asimov's
| stories.
| usrusr wrote:
| Who put Rebel Alliance and House Atreides in there? Terrible lack
| of focus, turns it from an interesting study into a random list
| of stuff from fantasy worlds people like to ramble about.
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| >The term fictional branding refers to the design and use of
| brands that do not refer to any service, product, company or
| organization that actually exists. They can come to include any
| type of brand, as well as political institutions, military
| organizations, and more.
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| https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/research.html
| JasonFruit wrote:
| Yes, it's a part of the plan, but the point still stands: it
| dilutes what could have been a focused, interesting
| collection.
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| You can set the filter to "private" and get your focused
| collection. Or somebody interested in fictional political
| brands can filter by political and get their focused
| collection.
| usrusr wrote:
| I don't disagree with the observation that fantasy entities
| like rebel alliance and the empire they are rebelling against
| are built using many of the same mechanisms brands are built
| with, and with similar goals (recognizability). But it's
| still ruining the focus of that list. Why not include
| dwarves? Or Robin Hood's merry men?
|
| If it was "fictional logos", those star wars flags might have
| their place, but Atreides? Yeah, supposedly there's a falcon
| on their coat of arms, but I couldn't tell if that particular
| form is from the most recent movie, from a game or some fan
| art. And it's been only a few weeks since I've seen that
| movie, there can't be much visual brand going on if I don't
| recognize.
| FuturisticLover wrote:
| There are so many can be added not just from movies but tv shows
| and anime as well. For example, Capsule corp from DBZ is quite
| famous. Then there is Incite Inc from Westworld and Westworld is
| not a company but a park created by Delos.
| abruzzi wrote:
| Where is "Blammo" the maker of Log?
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