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You Have To Feel Sorry For Acura RDX Product Placement People

Seriously, Acura spend all that money on product placement for their new RDX in Avengers, literally in a show room window at which Captain America stops to take a look, with all the futuristic display devices, and what happens? It gets cut out in the final edit.

Then when it is included as a deleted scene, it's only the Blu-Ray and not on the DVD.

And when you do get to see it, finally, the clip in question begins with Adolf Hitler.

You can just can't win, product placement people, you just can't win.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dehn8RqOt7U[/youtube]

So you send out a press release e-mail, esperately trying to draw attention to it. Finally, something that works.

Thankfully all the Avengers and SHIELD drove Acura vehicles throughout the movie, so there is that at least…


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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