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Real-life Ocarinas: Just in Time for the Holiday Shopping Season

by Scott Jones | 8. October 2009 12:25 | permalink

I know what Kyle Orland is doing over the holidays this year: Teaching himself how to play a mournful rendition of "Epona's Theme" on his real-life Ocarina.

While eating a sandwich and leafing through a recent issue of Nintendo Power yesterday, I came across the following ad:

Yes, it says: DISCOVER A MAGICAL WORLD WITH YOUR OCARINA.

It features some fourth-rate Photoshopped-in magical star effects and a woman who looks like she's sad that her modeling career has taken her to a point where one-third of her head is appearing in ads in videogame magazines for Ocarinas.

If you blow into this ocarina, the only "magical world" you will likely discover is one of loneliness and alcohol and subscriptions to Cat Fancy.

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Tags: ocarina, holiday, cat fancy, shopping, magical world, epona's theme

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DarthChris26
11/18/2009 12:51:46 PM

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/18/ocarina-surges-to-top-paid-iphone-app-position/
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Palalong
10/9/2009 3:03:56 PM

@ScottJones: It wouldn't be the first time!

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ScottJones
10/9/2009 1:00:10 PM

@DiTrent:

She DOES look like she found something unsavory stuck in her ocarina's blowhole!
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Palalong
10/9/2009 12:42:30 PM

@JasonMcMaster:

SNAP... man some people are nuts
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SC
10/9/2009 12:29:28 PM

It looks like a hooka and an asthma inhaler combined. Whatever it is, it brings tears (of sadness) to my eyes.
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w1ndst0rm
10/9/2009 11:02:00 AM

@evohollywood:
I lol'd.
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JasonMcMaster
10/9/2009 10:30:18 AM

Note, it's a quadruple ocarina. This is not the ocarina for the faint of heart.
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JasonMcMaster
10/9/2009 10:29:54 AM

@Palalong:

Dude, there's a 500 dollar one on there too

http://www.stlocarina.com/quadruple1.html
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evohollywood
10/9/2009 1:58:06 AM

There was a lot of confusion when they ran this same ad in High Times.
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KingArmery
10/8/2009 11:40:34 PM

@KyleOrland:
Does yours shoot out sparkly stuff like in the ad??
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KyleOrland
10/8/2009 11:10:26 PM

"I know what Kyle Orland is doing over the holidays this year: Teaching himself how to play a mournful rendition of "Epona's Theme" on his real-life Ocarina."

The jokes on you Scott... I got one of these ocarinas as a holiday gift YEARS AGO and I ALREADY know how to play Epona's Song by heart. SO THERE!

(Man I wish I was kidding in this post)
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johnteti
10/8/2009 11:05:23 PM

I think these are kind of neat. [bashful emoticon]
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DiTrent
10/8/2009 10:48:08 PM

The model doesn't exactly look like like she has discovered a magical world. She does look, however, like she has discovered a big, slimy gob of cold saliva in her Ocarina.
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piccolo13
10/8/2009 10:19:30 PM

I remember when they used to make these years ago when the game first came out....doubt they cost THAT much though!
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Palalong
10/8/2009 5:55:36 PM

The prices range from $22 to $300? I would think that the alcoholism and Cat Fancy subscriptions would come before a purchase of a $300 piece of pottery.

The only ceramics I buy for that much money are meant for inhaling.
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