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  • Kate Kirbyuncanny_kate@dice.camp
    Apr 1, 2026, 9:10 PM

    One of the reasons ThinkGeek's April Fools products worked so well is that we spent the entire month of March doing little else other than preparing for April 1.

    The majority of the joke products had physical prototypes. The photography was real, which is why they didn't look like photoshops. They weren’t. They were handcrafted.

    It wasn't something someone did on the afternoon of March 30th. You can't be epic unless you spend the time to do it right.

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  • Kate Kirbyuncanny_kate@dice.camp
    Apr 1, 2026, 10:38 PM

    @patrys The best part of Unicorn meat was twofold:

    a) if you actually opened the tin, there was plushy sliced up cuts of Unicorn. (I think most people left it sealed on their shelf!)

    b) We got a real cease and desist from the Pork people for calling it "The Other Other White Meat”.

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