Retro Themed Lottery Cards
By bohus
We've written about zombie brands before, old nameplates resuscitated to sell new product, but these lottery cards are just weird. I see some sense in the Rubik's Cube ticket since the game involves numbers in a cube, but Betty Boop? I guess that Betty is still slapped on everything decades after she was last on screen, so I shouldn't be surprised. I'm actually a huge Boop fan; I love anything from the Fleischer studios (creators of the Popeye cartoons) of that era.
I guess that I'm being naive in wishing that the industry of low-rent gambling wouldn't choose one of my all-time favorite characters as a spokesmodel. To anticipate your next question, no I didn't play the ticket. I just didn't have faith that Betty's boop-oop-a-doop would net me more than the $5 it would cost to play. Now maybe if the ticket featured Scrooge McDuck...


