The Pencil Guy » mascot http://hourann.com Hourann’s illogical blog Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:46:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The less-than-happy anthropomorphised bus ticket http://hourann.com/blog/2006/08/10/the-less-than-happy-anthropomorphised-bus-ticket http://hourann.com/blog/2006/08/10/the-less-than-happy-anthropomorphised-bus-ticket#comments Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:58:20 +0000 azza-bazoo http://pencilguy.dview.net/blog/2006/08/10/the-less-than-happy-anthropomorphised-bus-ticket Although I never did get those action shots of SmartRider Man that I’d been hoping for, it seems that I didn’t need to. He’s popping up in the newspapers, on the sides of buses, and even in random online promotions.

SmartRider Man features in the Student SmartRider Scavenge!

But why does he never seem to be smiling? The best he can manage is some kind of weird straight-faced smirk. Is it some sort of blasphemy for an RFID card to be happy about its triumphance over magnetic strips?

]]> http://hourann.com/blog/2006/08/10/the-less-than-happy-anthropomorphised-bus-ticket/feed 0 SmartRider Man coming to a station near you! http://hourann.com/blog/2006/07/14/smartrider-man-coming-to-a-station-near-you http://hourann.com/blog/2006/07/14/smartrider-man-coming-to-a-station-near-you#comments Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:47:23 +0000 azza-bazoo http://pencilguy.dview.net/blog/2006/07/14/smartrider-man-coming-to-a-station-near-you Some months ago I noted that Transperth seemed to have a new mascot for SmartRider, to replace their talking card graphic. It was basically a dude in, um, a SmartRider suit.

I also predicted (in jest!) that we’d soon see said dude in said suit standing on row E at the Busport, ambushing unsuspecting commuters — somewhat akin to that old Lotto ad with a dude in a scratch-n-win suit who’d rugby-tackle people.

Today Transperth announced that SmartRider will be usable for secondary school students from next week, as originally planned. And — surprise, surprise! — they announced that a dude in a SmartRider suit will be making appearances around Perth and Fremantle.

I have to get me some decent photos, to preserve the cheesiness for posterity …

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