Dodge Dart

[PayneTrain]

My family hasn't bought something from Chrysler that hasn't been a lemon, but the whole Fiat ownership has brought in really good ideas and good ways to market their cars.

[Akash Rastogi]

Awesome on so many levels.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by Libby K

It's on my project list now....

LIKE

[Tetraman]

-How-
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Start with a simple idea (spin wrench in hands)
Think (team gathered around)
Think more (students at a white board)
Drink Dew (slam a bottle of mountain dew on a table)
Stop thinking, start doing (students and mentor working on Inventor)
Hatch a design (build something in cardboard)
Kill the design (set on fire, students running in the background, mentor takes it out with a fire extinguisher)
More Dew (slam a 2-litter bottle of mountain dew on a table with some cups)
Design something totally original (old footage of 71's Zone Zeal robot hoarding the goals)
Ok, not that original, this original (zoom back that footage, new footage of 148's Tumbleweed)
Now it's time to make something (team working on a chassis)
Do it again (new chassis)
And again (new chassis)
That's good (perfect chassis)
Kick out the trouble makers (turn away from a huge group of kids fooling around)
Call in the Mentors (A bunch of old guys and women ready to work look determined)
Call in the Parents (A few mothers show plates of cookies with a team theme to them)
Call in the Nerds (A student looking over some math problems)
Not those nerds (Bunch of Warcraft and card game playing kids)
Those nerds (Long shot of students on a team with tools in hand ready to work)
Blow off lunch (Pizza getting cold)
Blow off sawdust (student finished cutting something blows some sawdust off the band saw)
Finish your homework (students around with an important local political figure shaking hands, showing off robot.)
Sleep (Student uses an Uber Tube as a pillow)
That's enough sleep (student gets up)
More Dew (slam some 6-packs of mountain dew on the table)
Build a prototype (image of a CAD drawing spins around)
Build it (robot ready to go)
Drive it (Robot runs)
Break it (falls over)
Start over (student kicks fallen over robot)
Build another prototype (better image of a CAD drawing)
Build it (robot ready to go)
Drive it (Robot runs)
Love it (robot scores)
Thats good (team cheers)
Bring in the Sponsors (business men and women come in)
Why? Because they share experience (talking with students)
And sharing experience leads to this (student has an interview with one of them, and the interviewer shakes the student's hand and says "you're hired")
Ok, one week left (team exhausted)
More Dew (a bunch of 24 packs on the table, and a student shakes an empty box)
Give it a kick (robot drives around)
More CIM Motors (attach a CIM motor)
More CIM Motors (attach another CIM motor)
Never too many CIM Motors (Robot speeds around a set up of cones)
Give it 40 psi (Student shows a typical cylinder)
No, give it 80 (mentor shows a cylinder three times the size)
Give it the ability to control with a wiimote and kinect (human player waving around in front of a kinect like crazy)
Give it a Robot Cart (a small push robot cart)
No, Bigger (a larger robot cart)
More lights (the cart not flashes with LED lights)
Good
Give it an autonomous mode that sees the targets. (have the robot running autonomously.)
Uh Oh, the code team (a group of students with their laptops look up, disgusted)
You can't do that (Code student is dismissive)
Give them more Dew (Code Team hard at work with lots of mountain dew at their disposal)
Take it to the Scrimmage (robots playing in a scrimmage)
Tweak
Tweak
Tweak
Decals (Attach some sponsor logos on)
Take it to the Regionals (shot of a regonal)
Maintain 1st seed (drive team cheers after a win)
Select the 3rd seed (team captains shake hands)
Win some awards (team high-fives the judges)
Apply to high ranking colleges (student sends some mail)
Accepted (holding acceptance letter high in the air)
Study (hitting the books)
4.0 (report card)
Graduate (throwing hats in the air)
Get a Job (that handshake with the interviewer comes back)
You are the future. (student surrounded by paparazzi)
I am?
Yes, you are. (pan back out)
Making the world a better place. It's that easy. (images of the team, students working, general inspiration stuff)

-FIRST-

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

-How-
-To-
-Change-
-The-
-World-...

[OliviaG]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

-How-
-To-
-Change-
-The-
-World-

Start with a simple idea (spin wrench in hands)
Think (team gathered around)
Think more (students at a white board)
Drink Dew (slam a bottle of mountain dew on a table)
Stop thinking, start doing (students and mentor working on Inventor)
Hatch a design (build something in cardboard)
Kill the design (set on fire, students running in the background, mentor takes it out with a fire extinguisher)
More Dew (slam a 2-litter bottle of mountain dew on a table with some cups)
Design something totally original (old footage of 71's Zone Zeal robot hoarding the goals)
Ok, not that original, this original (zoom back that footage, new footage of 148's Tumbleweed)
Now it's time to make something (team working on a chassis)
Do it again (new chassis)
And again (new chassis)
That's good (perfect chassis)
Kick out the trouble makers (turn away from a huge group of kids fooling around)
Call in the Mentors (A bunch of old guys and women ready to work look determined)
Call in the Parents (A few mothers show plates of cookies with a team theme to them)
Call in the Nerds (A student looking over some math problems)
Not those nerds (Bunch of Warcraft and card game playing kids)
Those nerds (Long shot of students on a team with tools in hand ready to work)
Blow off lunch (Pizza getting cold)
Blow off sawdust (student finished cutting something blows some sawdust off the band saw)
Finish your homework (students around with an important local political figure shaking hands, showing off robot.)
Sleep (Student uses an Uber Tube as a pillow)
That's enough sleep (student gets up)
More Dew (slam some 6-packs of mountain dew on the table)
Build a prototype (image of a CAD drawing spins around)
Build it (robot ready to go)
Drive it (Robot runs)
Break it (falls over)
Start over (student kicks fallen over robot)
Build another prototype (better image of a CAD drawing)
Build it (robot ready to go)
Drive it (Robot runs)
Love it (robot scores)
Thats good (team cheers)
Bring in the Sponsors (business men and women come in)
Why? Because they share experience (talking with students)
And sharing experience leads to this (student has an interview with one of them, and the interviewer shakes the student's hand and says "you're hired")
Ok, one week left (team exhausted)
More Dew (a bunch of 24 packs on the table, and a student shakes an empty box)
Give it a kick (robot drives around)
More CIM Motors (attach a CIM motor)
More CIM Motors (attach another CIM motor)
Never too many CIM Motors (Robot speeds around a set up of cones)
Give it 40 psi (Student shows a typical cylinder)
No, give it 80 (mentor shows a cylinder three times the size)
Give it the ability to control with a wiimote and kinect (human player waving around in front of a kinect like crazy)
Give it a Robot Cart (a small push robot cart)
No, Bigger (a larger robot cart)
More lights (the cart not flashes with LED lights)
Good
Give it an autonomous mode that sees the targets. (have the robot running autonomously.)
Uh Oh, the code team (a group of students with their laptops look up, disgusted)
You can't do that (Code student is dismissive)
Give them more Dew (Code Team hard at work with lots of mountain dew at their disposal)
Take it to the Scrimmage (robots playing in a scrimmage)
Tweak
Tweak
Tweak
Decals (Attach some sponsor logos on)
Take it to the Regionals (shot of a regonal)
Maintain 1st seed (drive team cheers after a win)
Select the 3rd seed (team captains shake hands)
Win some awards (team high-fives the judges)
Apply to high ranking colleges (student sends some mail)
Accepted (holding acceptance letter high in the air)
Study (hitting the books)
4.0 (report card)
Graduate (throwing hats in the air)
Get a Job (that handshake with the interviewer comes back)
You are the future. (student surrounded by paparazzi)
I am?
Yes, you are. (pan back out)
Making the world a better place. It's that easy. (images of the team, students working, general inspiration stuff)

-FIRST-

Wow you got it all figured out! that was awesome...

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

My family hasn't bought something from Chrysler that hasn't been a lemon, but the whole Fiat ownership has brought in really good ideas and good ways to market their cars.

Wow, that's quite a reversal of life as I know it

Originally Posted by Tetraman

-How-
-To-
-Change-
-The-
-World-

Start with a simple idea (spin wrench in hands)
Think (team gathered around)
Think more (students at a white board)
Drink Dew (slam a bottle of mountain dew on a table)
Stop thinking, start doing (students and mentor working on Inventor)
Hatch a design (build something in cardboard)
Kill the design (set on fire, students running in the background, mentor takes it out with a fire extinguisher)
More Dew (slam a 2-litter bottle of mountain dew on a table with some cups)
Design something totally original (old footage of 71's Zone Zeal robot hoarding the goals)
Ok, not that original, this original (zoom back that footage, new footage of 148's Tumbleweed)
Now it's time to make something (team working on a chassis)
Do it again (new chassis)
And again (new chassis)
That's good (perfect chassis)
Kick out the trouble makers (turn away from a huge group of kids fooling around)
Call in the Mentors (A bunch of old guys and women ready to work look determined)
Call in the Parents (A few mothers show plates of cookies with a team theme to them)
Call in the Nerds (A student looking over some math problems)
Not those nerds (Bunch of Warcraft and card game playing kids)
Those nerds (Long shot of students on a team with tools in hand ready to work)
Blow off lunch (Pizza getting cold)
Blow off sawdust (student finished cutting something blows some sawdust off the band saw)
Finish your homework (students around with an important local political figure shaking hands, showing off robot.)
Sleep (Student uses an Uber Tube as a pillow)
That's enough sleep (student gets up)
More Dew (slam some 6-packs of mountain dew on the table)
Build a prototype (image of a CAD drawing spins around)
Build it (robot ready to go)
Drive it (Robot runs)
Break it (falls over)
Start over (student kicks fallen over robot)
Build another prototype (better image of a CAD drawing)
Build it (robot ready to go)
Drive it (Robot runs)
Love it (robot scores)
Thats good (team cheers)
Bring in the Sponsors (business men and women come in)
Why? Because they share experience (talking with students)
And sharing experience leads to this (student has an interview with one of them, and the interviewer shakes the student's hand and says "you're hired")
Ok, one week left (team exhausted)
More Dew (a bunch of 24 packs on the table, and a student shakes an empty box)
Give it a kick (robot drives around)
More CIM Motors (attach a CIM motor)
More CIM Motors (attach another CIM motor)
Never too many CIM Motors (Robot speeds around a set up of cones)
Give it 40 psi (Student shows a typical cylinder)
No, give it 80 (mentor shows a cylinder three times the size)
Give it the ability to control with a wiimote and kinect (human player waving around in front of a kinect like crazy)
Give it a Robot Cart (a small push robot cart)
No, Bigger (a larger robot cart)
More lights (the cart not flashes with LED lights)
Good
Give it an autonomous mode that sees the targets. (have the robot running autonomously.)
Uh Oh, the code team (a group of students with their laptops look up, disgusted)
You can't do that (Code student is dismissive)
Give them more Dew (Code Team hard at work with lots of mountain dew at their disposal)
Take it to the Scrimmage (robots playing in a scrimmage)
Tweak
Tweak
Tweak
Decals (Attach some sponsor logos on)
Take it to the Regionals (shot of a regonal)
Maintain 1st seed (drive team cheers after a win)
Select the 3rd seed (team captains shake hands)
Win some awards (team high-fives the judges)
Apply to high ranking colleges (student sends some mail)
Accepted (holding acceptance letter high in the air)
Study (hitting the books)
4.0 (report card)
Graduate (throwing hats in the air)
Get a Job (that handshake with the interviewer comes back)
You are the future. (student surrounded by paparazzi)
I am?
Yes, you are. (pan back out)
Making the world a better place. It's that easy. (images of the team, students working, general inspiration stuff)

-FIRST-

You, sir, deserve an award for this. Libby, here's your script. Let's get this done!

I wonder if we could get the exact voice actor who did this commerical to do our commercial...Or an even better well-known FIRSTer....

[ebarker]

Love the commercial.

I didn't know they still made Dodge Darts or at least I wasn't paying attention.. I guess I'm clueless.

When John mentioned Dodge Dart I thought of this

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by ebarker

I didn't know they still made Dodge Darts or at least I wasn't paying attention.. I guess I'm clueless.

Nope, you're not clueless at all; the Dart name was ended in 1976 (with international production going on a little longer). The name is being revived for the 2013 model year. If you look at the end of the video, it also says "Dodge Dart II" to differentiate. This might save you a couple clicks, too.

Also, great commercial. Love it, and I hope we see that FIRST version sometime soon

[ebarker]

Yeah I just got reminded how bad cars in the 1970's looked just by looking at this picture

[Ian Curtis]

I have a friend in the market for a new car who is stuck between this and the Focus partially because he can't decide if this commercial or Alan Mulally is more worth backing.

Honestly Chrysler seems to be the new VW these days.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by ebarker

Yeah I just got reminded how bad cars in the 1970's looked just by looking at this picture

The old Challenger and the 'Cuda would beg to differ.

[Ekcrbe]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

If you look at the end of the video, it also says "Dodge Dart II" to differentiate.

The // is also the logo for Dodge, so that was the the way I took it, considering they haven't marketed the car as the Dart II from what I know.

[Jibsy]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

You, sir, deserve an award for this. Libby, here's your script. Let's get this done!

I wonder if we could get the exact voice actor who did this commerical to do our commercial...Or an even better well-known FIRSTer....

I think the only option here is he who wields the voice of god. I'm sure we could present our plans (and Tetraman's fantastic script) to Mr. Freeman and ask him to help us out.

Libby, you hunt down Dean, who I'm sure could hunt down Morgan. I like where this is going