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Kodak Says It Can Make Me Super. Do You Give an Elf?

 

Poster of Attention Shoppers! staffer being Super

Poster of Attention Shoppers! staffer being Super

 

The fine folks at interactive shop EVB, famous for the Elf Yourself campaign, are trying to catch lightening in a bottle once more, this time for former film-giant, now digital camera and photo-sharing giant, Kodak.

 The premise of the Make Me Super site is simple and similar to Elf Yourself. You visit the site, upload a photo enter your name (if they have it) and then you can watch a video of you as a super hero doing mundane tasks as a soundtrack sings your praises.

 There is also the possibility of downloading a poster of yourself as a super hero (but not the video, which is too bad). You can also buy lots of nifty Kodak merchandise—a nice coffee mug of you as a super hero for the office, perhaps—and upload your video to the site, but only if you register with Kodak’s photo-sharing site.

 That is one reason why we feel this probably won’t be nearly as popular as Elf Yourself. It’s a bit more complicated—simple rules with viral—and, frankly, it feels a bit done.