KFC has the honor to be the first brand to be visible from outer-space, according to company officials. The 87,500 square feet logo was created by tiles placed in the Nevada desert, near the super secret Area 51. The stunt marks the revamp of the KFC logo, which now features a more streamlined image of Colonel Sanders. (click image to enlarge).
UPDATE: Who had the first corporate logo to be seen from space?
From the KFC news release:
The "Face from Space" took more than 3,000 hours to create from inception to launch and was built by Synergy, a leading event company.The logo consists of 65,000 one-foot by one-foot painted tile pieces that were assembled like a giant jigsaw puzzle: 6,000 red, 14,000 white, 12,000 eggshell, 5,000 beige and 28,000 black.
The logo took 24 days, working around-the-clock, to manufacture and ultimately produce. It then took six days on site to construct the logo, during which time the logo design pieces were kept hidden and under cover from identified and unidentified flying objects.
KFC has also now reintroduced the name "Kentucky Fried Chicken" into their marketing materials.
BONUS: Google has video of the logo's creation:
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79 Comments:
this makes me want to kill myself
Hopefully we can look forward to Taco Bell's Spicy Gordita logo soon!
Mmm...87,500 square foot Spicy Gordita.
I agree... placing shotgun in my mouth...
Take that PETA!
Now the aliens will leave us alone..
I guess now we know what that face on Mars actually is. A big corporate logo!
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Were all gonna die, cause the aliens will stop for chicken. And get nuked my the government. So thanks KFC, thanks for dooming the Human race.
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So what? Big deal. Now do something really impressive like vastly improving the animal husbandry for all those animals that are slaughtered in the name of Colonel f\/ck|ng Sanders
who the hell cares, i can zoom on google earth or google maps and see my car from space.
I wonder what it looks like from Uranus though. Probably the same as any KFC experience...
OKAY that wasn't nice, but I bet you smiled at first.
Im not sure about from Uranus, but what about when PETA-ites pull their heads out of theiranus to look at it.
Will their collectivist heads explode and leave tin-foil all over to pollute the earth.
Anyone know what the longitude and latitude are, so we can locate it on Google Earth?
great. how much did they spend to market to the 3 guys on the Space Station who couldn't buy their greasy crap even if they wanted too?
i hope the shareholders are happy.
37º 38.801' N, 115º 44.760' W
Looks like their running a promo on their website about it too...
Great know the aliens know we all have clogged arteries and are properly fattened up for harvest. All hail our mighty conquerers!
My company's logo is the earth, so technically we've got KFC beat by several million years, or however long the continents have been in basically this position.
Great viral marketing, I mean it's so relatively cheap and simple and it will get them alot of attention. Not sure that it will be viewable from space though.
Either way the company has had a lot of bad PR, and personally I hate the company - their lack of care for customers (read: lady finds chicken head in her order), and their inhumane treatment of the chickens (read: chickens fed dead chickens, mass poison consumption) - the company deserves to die a horrible and costly death.
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Chris Norris said, "So what? Big deal. Now do something really impressive like vastly improving the animal husbandry for all those animals that are slaughtered in the name of Colonel f\/ck|ng Sanders"
Actually, he wasn't a Colonel - common misconception. He was actually a Conciencious Objector.
"Stinky Rotten Chicken!", they used to say to him.
"Aha!", said the Colonel, "That gives me an idea".
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looks like they are far from first
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Not the first, Maxim mag did it last year.
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Errrr....
1) The premise is completely nonsense.
2) I think I can do a better job at taking an image from googMaps, opening the gIMP, opening a picture of my money-maker and conveniently locate it wherever I want...
just imagine if those had been solar panels..
Take us to your leader... NO not Bush!.. The Fried Chicken guy!
I don't know how you define "visible from space" -- but the Mattel logo outside their corporate headquarters is clear as day on satellite views, and has been for years.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=el+segundo,+ca&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=33.921088,-118.391563&spn=0.00341,0.006201&t=k&om=1
Well, if aliens were looking for a sign of intelligent life here. KFC just proved to any aliens that we're just not suited to join the so-called "Galactic Community". No wonder SETI keeps getting a busy signal...
Presumably, aliens would have no idea what this thing is. A human face would not be recognized by them if they'd never seen one, so who cares - it's for future space tourists.
Will certainly constitute visual pollution for them. I can already imagine the protestors! ;-)
then....just kill your self bro
> "Were all gonna die, cause the aliens will stop for chicken."
Real Chicken? In a KFC? Real aliens aren't quite dim enough to believe that.
Is it just me, or at the end of the video, don't it look like the logo is a piece of plastic lifted by the wind from the helicopter?
Is this our way to conquer other planets????
- alien comes to planet earth
- sees sanders
- sudenly he feels the awkward desire to shuv greasy "i cant believe its not chicken" chicken down their mouths
- arteries start clogging but they just cant stpo eating it
- high colesterol... heart attacks.... (or whatever they have as hearts)
- the whole alien race ends and one more triumph for planet earth
- the crowd cheers sanders and promote him to president and saviour of Mankind
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Corect me if I'm wrong, but I beleive google maps uses aerial and not satallite images, making all the posts here about seeing things on google earth irrelivent to the topic. And even if something is visible from space with photographis equipment equiped with zoom lenses, I think the point would be that it is visible to the naked eye from space, like looking out the space shuttle's widow.
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well Rob you do have a point there although the shuttles widow has really good eyesight (she was widowed quite young) but if we were all to pay attention to all those details... what would we do with our time???? i have a boring job,,i need something to do while im pretending to work
Hey look... its Target from space
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1+Mystic+View+Rd,+Everett,+MA+02149+(Target)+%4042.401497,-71.070530&ie=UTF8&z=15&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr
Whoop dee doo
I think this is damn amusing that its a giant mugshot of Colonel Sanders, but at the same time it pains me that it wasn't someone who may have mattered a bit more in the history of space and technology. Like say... Franklin, Einstein, Tesla, or Armstrong.
Oh well! Still funny.
Mcdonalds too
But like Chickenrob says, Googlemaps is a different technology. It should be visible with the naked eye. But even if the KFC look very big, i'm not sure if you could see it; its not THAT huge..
I think this is a hoax...just like the face on Mars. HAHA! What is this video called I can't find it on Google video and would like a copy.
So they've got a big corporate logo. But whoop. Wanna fight about it?
Human Buffet come and get it!
Someone please tell KFC to fuck off.
Also, there have numerous existing logos already visible on the google maps... so those company officials should get a god damn clue.
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this makes me want to kill myself
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THIS IS AWESOME!!! I THINK IM GOING TO GO AND GET SOME 99 CENT SNACKERS FOR BREAKFAST!!!
I don't frequent KFC often and the idea of a giant "poster" is not as amazing as they might think (see "Nazca Lines") but I just LOVE watching all the PETA drones get their collective, politically correct, radical panties in a bunch. Let's do another one for...McDonalds? :) or Popeyes? :)
Give the PETA nazis a reason to kill themselves! :)
I heard it was a conspiracy to keep the race of alien-chickens from coming to Earth.
What get's me is that KFC was the only restaurant I've ever been do that was consistently out of their main product...what do you mean your out of chicken, your a freakin chicken restaurant for crying out loud!!!
Now we know where the Colonel got his secrete recipe from.
I thought the MAXIM logo was the first to be seen from outer space. Maybe they don't count MAXIm as a "corporate" logo.
they should have taken all the money spent to make this stupid space logo, cooked some chicken and gave it to hungry people. what a frickin' waste.
I agree with the above post. What a waste of money on this project! :@
KANG: "Soon, Kodos! Soon, the inhabitants of this pathetic little planet will bow before us! Mwahahahaha!"
KODOS: "Yes, Kang. Your plan has worked out brilliantly. They puny humans will never...hey! What's that!"
KANG: "It appears to be...a face! I think the humans are trying to send us a message!"
KODOS: "Perhaps they are more advanced then we thought. Obviously, this is their leader. An older, Southern gentleman, wearing a quaint string tie."
KANG: "And what's all this about a "secret recipe?" I don't like it. I don't like this at all. I fear a trap."
KODOS: "As do I! And yet...I'm exhibiting a strange craving for Boneless Honey-Barbecue Colonel's Strips."
KANG: "I too, feel this craving. We must be strong, Kodos! I totally just joined a gym!"
KODOS: "But, you're not fat!"
KANG: "You're just saying that. Much like our home planet of Rigel-7, I have my own twin moons. Oh, and obliterate the humans."
KODOS: "As you wish."
Out of all the important and vital things this planet has to offer, they gotta show chicken man. If this wasn't so ignorant, I'd be laughing. Who really gives a ratz azz.
How ``bout I will take a picture of my Butt, but before that, lets say 1 week,, I will sit on some COLD cement, that`ll add some detail (hemmorids)....Then the best detterent artwork security device has just been PATENTed..to keep your aliens away..Trust me even the comets headed this way will D-tour..
I also have nothing better to do
hey who knows maybe the aliens will think that picture of MR.Sanders is our president..... which would be a big improvement.
Nobody down here but us Chickens...
Wonder what the Extra Large Bucket costs?
As a Nevada resident who likes to camp in the Great Basin, especially around Area 51, I could not be more offended by this. Stupid Earthings suck!
Yeah, Maxim's cover of Eva Longoria is a better execution of this idea. Who really wants to just look at a logo from Target and KFC?
http://www.adrants.com/images/maxim_longoria_desert.jpg
god smiles upon the United Stated of America on this day...Colonel Sanders grins right the F*** back at him.
...so now we need a giant sanders hear to launch into space so all us dumb sh*ts on earth can see it.
i'd bet this was a republicans idea.
I wonder how KFC could afford such a project as this when so many people are boycotting them?! How sad is this for America? What is next? Will the deserts look like Las Vegas with neon lights and such? This makes me ashamed to be an American with 'consumerism' such as this.
Holy s**t !!! you American are so f**king stupid....
i mean Sanders' face , COME ON.
This is interesting KFC is such a fatty food though isn't it?
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as mister Gossip said earlier, this thing was made of plastic at the end of the video, and the helicopter was blowing the corner up. Was it maybe a printed version test run to see if it was 'visible from space' before they built it out of tile? Or is it a hoax made of plastic? It looked pretty legit in the time lapse section. Who can really vouch for it that it's 'visible from space'? Anyone? Anyone?
Wait a sec!
Didn't Maxim Magazine do this first?
Yes, I'm sure they did... :)
The BMW headquarters has a big BMW logo on the top. It is visible from space, and has been there much longer than the KFC one.
Now if the aliens see the BMW logo, they will be sure to stop by as that is a definate sign of intelligent life.
Am I just having a flashback to the 60's, or does the new logo look like Uncle Ho with glasses...
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That's a cool thing.....
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That's a marketing ploy and what else?
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Too bad they'll spend all that time and money for a stupid huge logo, but, won't clean up their act when it comes to humane treatment of the chickens....!!!!!
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