Expect to see this hoax video

Thanks to my good friend Reverend Strone, I can alert you to this video, which attempts to mimic a real event, though it is not:



Reverend Strone sent along this text with the alert of the video:

A few years ago at Weta Workshop (the company I work for) a pitch was created for a fiction based cryptozoology series. The show didn’t end up being made, but a pretty neat looking Yeti suit was created and has been used a couple of times since on various advertisements, including one for (from memory) AT&T. Most recently, the suit was used for a new advertisement for LandSar, a national volunteer organisation within New Zealand providing Land Search & Rescue Services to the Police and public.

Inevitably, someone involved thought it would be fun to create a couple of spoof videos which have since popped up on Youtube as well. I don’t know who posted these, but assumedly it was someone of the crew that shot the advert. Of course these should not be taken seriously. The suit itself was created to fit an actor over seven feet tall and was designed to be an obviously fictitious depiction of a yeti, hence being white, having orang-utan style cheek pouches and very pongid facial features. I thought they did a great job of creating a unique and cool looking suit while not attempting to go for complete realism or matching eye witness descriptions.

So there you are. Don't be taken in!