Celebrations
This article is in a work in progress.
Celebrations is a popular brand offering mini versions of iconic chocolate bars like Mars, Snickers and Twix.
A collaboration starring hoops&yoyo would take place in 2007 on Netherlands and being promoted out there via commercials, two Netherlands-exclusive e-cards, and on Hallmark's Netherlands site.
It had pin buttons, and of course, candy from the boxes. it contained 400G of Celebrations.
Promotional material
Since the collaboration was ongoing, several commercials, advertisements would start to pop up in Netherlands.
Box art
Since the box art is really hard to find anywhere else online, commercials and the Flash files of the E-Cards contain the images of the box art.
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Box art of the celebrations seen on the promotional E-Cards. -
Without the pin -
Ditto, but from another angle -
Opened
Pins
There were pins on the box, which you would recieve one of them, it contained 4 different pins on each box depending which you choosed.
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The first pin from the promotional e-cards/animations. Translation: "I'm the nicest... ...on my birthday!" -
Second pin. Translation: "I'm a hottie seed today(?)" -
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One of the pins. Translation: "you can kiss me.... ...it's my birthday!" -
Another picture -
Back of the pins -
the pin from the promotional e-cards/animations. Translation: "I'm the nicest... ...on my birthday!"
Candies
Candies from inside of the box. They are seen in Celebrations E-Card and Party Trouble!.
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Teasers -
Dovi -
Snickers -
Milky Way -
Mars -
A image of candies on a box, cropped.
E-Cards
Two promotional E-Cards animated by Mike Adair was made to advertise the Celebrations products, they were exclusive in Netherlands and Australia.
Celebrations E-Card
Hoops and Yoyo is seen holding a box of Celebrations behind, talking about "how the viewer are gonna love it", they turn into the viewer, and they are exicted about opening the box, once you click, the box opens with lots of candies flying around. Both starts cheering by saying "thank you".
Party Trouble!
Hoops and Yoyo goes into a party and once they enter, they see the party isnt really exicting, people around unhappy and bored. Hoops has an idea and hits an "emergency party" button, once he does, the party starts to gain traction and people around starts getting happier because of the Celebrations candies.
Commercial
Yoyo is sad because nobody remembers his birthday. Hoops jumps off inside of the celebrations saying "I do homie, He he! now everyone knows it!". Hoops attach the pin to Yoyo, both starts dancing with narrator specifying the product details.
More information here: Celebrations Commercial
Trivia
- This is the only instance of Hoops kissing Yoyo on a pin render. That also happended earlier on a 2007 Printable Calendar earlier on.
- In the Celebrations commercial, Yoyo bends his ears when Hoops jumps out of the Celebrations box.