Suggestion on how to bring BAWLS back to PAX

SmallLady

I know the big issues is a Coke Vs. Pepsi deal

Convention Centre is a Coke Building, Bawls is Pepsi.


if Bawls can perhaps be "given away" maybe this might be a way around it.


if we could buy Bawls tickets with our passes, or just online outside of the convention centre. then we could redeem them inside for delicious bawls.




if anybody else has ideas pls post them! Brawndo is teh suck.

Runningblind0913

Just remember everyone, if we get Bawls back we also get the "Steak tastes better pills" at the bottom of each glass bottle!

GameOver!

what are bawls?

NotASenator

GameOver! wrote: »

what are bawls?

It is like drinking pain and loneliness.

BigRed

Bawls isnt coke or pepsi....

Aramark has rights over all food/beverages being sold in the convention center.

and brawndo is delicious.

SmallLady

BigRed wrote: »

Bawls isnt coke or pepsi....

Aramark has rights over all food/beverages being sold in the convention center.

and brawndo is delicious.

Ahh I heard wrong then..

but there still has to be a way we can get around it if we all put our heads togeather!

and brawndo is like drinking the dirty filthy tears of satan.

Atlus Parker

Wouldn't the solution be not to sell it so much as give it away in return for donations to Child's Play?

BigRed

PA has been trying to find a way around it. 07 was successful but I think there was something about broken bottles or somesuch that upset the convention center to prevent it this year. Dont quote me on that though.

With the new show management company taking a lot of the workload off of PA, heres hoping they have time to work on getting a solution for 09.

Meh, I find brawndo delicious. (IT HAS FIVE KINDS OF SUGAR). Its far better than the majority of energy drinks out there. Plus I am kind of sick of bawls at this point :P (mostly due to consuming 24+ cases since pax07 :P)

capnjack

Atlus Parker wrote: »

Wouldn't the solution be not to sell it so much as give it away in return for donations to Child's Play?

Hm, that could work.

spec

BAWLS is awful. There are so many better energy drinks out there.

NotASenator

Or you stay hydrated and energized with a healthy living routine.


I'm just saying.

tr0tsky

NotACrook wrote: »

Or you stay hydrated and energized with a healthy living routine.


I'm just saying.

Heathen.

Astayonix

BigRed wrote: »

Aramark has rights over all food/beverages being sold in the convention center.

This is true. I heard it is out of PA's hands because both PA and Bawls want to be together . However, the Convention Center and Aramark are being huge cock blocks and won't allow Bawls to be sold there. I'm not privy to the details, but that's the gist of it. What I did to get around it was buy my own cases of Bawls at Metropolitain Market on Lower Queen Anne and that was good for me. Delicous Bawls were consumed.

BigRed wrote: »

and brawndo is delicious.

LIES!

KrnDoxy

Plus, what sounds better: "Mmm, I love Bawls in my mouth" or "I love Brawndo in my mouth"? Seriously, there is so much more fun with Bawls.

Damn Aramark and their evil evil ways.

If they could get Rehab though, that wouldn't be too bad. Another energy drink that tastes pretty good, and one you could make jokes out of. Also, you know it has to be good- it has a fucking warning label on it!

terrix

I was having a case shipped to the hotel, but ThinkGeek dropped the ball. I was happy to find it at the ECA booth for members.

Bawls Geek Beer is really good, I don't even have to 'tolerate' the flavor, it tastes like legitimate root beer.

VThornheart

On a taste test, I have to say bawls beats Brawndo hands down for me. While bawls was delicious to drink, when I had brawndo in the expo hall I felt like the taste was something I needed to *recover from* rather than something delicious. Brawndo was something liquid to drink when nothing else was available at the moment, but that's about all I can say about it. =(

Nerd Trauma

terrix wrote: »

I was having a case shipped to the hotel, but ThinkGeek dropped the ball. I was happy to find it at the ECA booth for members.

Bawls Geek Beer is really good, I don't even have to 'tolerate' the flavor, it tastes like legitimate root beer.

Would have been nice to share the love, terrix...

TNTrooper

Can you arrange to have it delivered to your hotel room?

Druhim

I'm just amazed how much work some of you will go to simply to have easier access to a particular beverage during the weekend of PAX.

MeeOk

Bawls. So many fond memories, and Brawndo was terrible! I needed to sip something else to remove the taste, after I sampled it. Bleh.

terrix

TNTrooper wrote: »

Can you arrange to have it delivered to your hotel room?

Yeah, hotels that nice receive packages for their guests. They charge a dollar per pound as a package handling fee, so it would be like $10 but still worth it. I ordered the bawls on Saturday thinking they would ship on Monday and be there at least by Friday. Wednesday rolled around and they still had not shipped, so I had to cancel.

Anyway, just ship it to your name (assuming you are the person registered for the room) at the hotels address and the rest is taken care of.

terrix

Nerd Trauma wrote: »

terrix wrote: »

I was having a case shipped to the hotel, but ThinkGeek dropped the ball. I was happy to find it at the ECA booth for members.

Bawls Geek Beer is really good, I don't even have to 'tolerate' the flavor, it tastes like legitimate root beer.

Would have been nice to share the love, terrix...

They were out, you missed the boat.

Arco

NotACrook wrote: »

Or you stay hydrated and energized with a healthy living routine.


I'm just saying.

LOL.

Skinnay

NotACrook wrote: »

Or you stay hydrated and energized with a healthy living routine.


I'm just saying.

the best thing about water and gatorade and other drinks that are out there to keep you hydrated... is they're everywhere!!! except mexico... don't drink it there...

MetaverseNomad

What happened to the "It just isn't PAX without Bawls" thread???

Seriously people, Bawls Brigade. I'm sure if everyone who's really into this can contribute and we can buy some cases to "give away" for Child's Play donations, maybe use some of the donations to offset the cost, but I'm pretty sure we could get something together ourselves.

Plus, I've heard many stories about how awesome the Bawls people are, we could probably even work out something with them and get some cases for free.

MetaverseNomad

BigRed wrote: »

PA has been trying to find a way around it. 07 was successful but I think there was something about broken bottles or somesuch that upset the convention center to prevent it this year. Dont quote me on that though.

With the new show management company taking a lot of the workload off of PA, heres hoping they have time to work on getting a solution for 09.

Meh, I find brawndo delicious. (IT HAS FIVE KINDS OF SUGAR). Its far better than the majority of energy drinks out there. Plus I am kind of sick of bawls at this point :P (mostly due to consuming 24+ cases since pax07 :P)

Seriously if you still have cases i will BUY some from you!!!

Randomfool

Bawls is good and so is Brawndo. I would buy either of them if they were for sale. The RockStar that the convention center had is horrible swill.

BigRed

MetaverseNomad wrote: »

BigRed wrote: »

PA has been trying to find a way around it. 07 was successful but I think there was something about broken bottles or somesuch that upset the convention center to prevent it this year. Dont quote me on that though.

With the new show management company taking a lot of the workload off of PA, heres hoping they have time to work on getting a solution for 09.

Meh, I find brawndo delicious. (IT HAS FIVE KINDS OF SUGAR). Its far better than the majority of energy drinks out there. Plus I am kind of sick of bawls at this point :P (mostly due to consuming 24+ cases since pax07 :P)

Seriously if you still have cases i will BUY some from you!!!

Screw you :P they are all miiiine

my precioussssss......

MetaverseNomad

BigRed wrote: »

Screw you :P they are all miiiine

my precioussssss......

I will destroy you!! And claim the Precious as my own!!

Centipede Damascus

I don't get the deal with energy drinks.

They all taste terrible and make my head hurt.

All I need is some Coke Zero and I'm good.

BigRed

MetaverseNomad wrote: »

BigRed wrote: »

Screw you :P they are all miiiine

my precioussssss......

I will destroy you!! And claim the Precious as my own!!

on second thought ill trade them for hookers and blow

BlackDragon480

Randomfool wrote: »

Bawls is good and so is Brawndo. I would buy either of them if they were for sale. The RockStar that the convention center had is horrible swill.

The RockStar was pretty shitty, but it doesn't have anything on the Full Throttle: Unleaded (i.e. sugar-free Full Throttle). I was forced to get a can after the Friday night concert as every other thing in the damn machine was sold out.

It was a whole new level of craptastic, with a wonderful neutrasweet aftertaste that I could still taste Saturday when I woke up.

Miles

If someone has a contact for bawls where we can convince them to set up shop in the Sheraton or Hyatt (rent a meeting room or something) and sell it out of there, please post. I would love to be able to convince bawls to come back.

I think the easiest thing for them to do would be to sell it offsite of the WSCTC but within a block. Easy way around the rules.

Someone find a petition for me to sign.

TrainwreckX

Or Bawls could just drive up to the front of the convention center, megaphone in hand, and just start handing the shit out like Monster did. That was epic win, and the new grape Monster flavor was delicious.

spec

TrainwreckX wrote: »

the new grape Monster flavor was delicious.

/signed

Post Blue

Just get a two-liter bottle of 7-up, squeeze a tube of toothpaste into it, shake it up and you've got BAWLS. Sweet original BAWLS.

Or Sprite, if the Coke allegiance interferes.

VThornheart

Bawls really doesn't taste bad in my opinion. I mean, compared to Brawndo, or Rockstar or the like? Bawls is delicious by comparison.

It might not beat non-energy drinks in flavor, but in its own category I personally like the taste. Got to compare apples to apples and such, you know?

Post Blue

VThornheart wrote: »

Bawls really doesn't taste bad in my opinion. I mean, compared to Brawndo, or Rockstar or the like? Bawls is delicious by comparison.

It might not beat non-energy drinks in flavor, but in its own category I personally like the taste. Got to compare apples to apples and such, you know?

I'm one of the strange ones who drinks Monster and Redbull for the taste, and not some imaginary buzz.

Buraisu

Someone could secertly sell them out of their van in the garage.

Schrodinger

My family is friends with the Vietnamese Restaurant across the street from the convention center, at 9th and Pike (Bambuza).

It's a fine dining place, but I know that they got their start selling street food at various fairs. Perhaps they could set up some sort of booth inside the restaurant for people who with to buy Bawls or Brawndo? I mean, they're licensed to sell food, they're independent of the convention center, and they're right across the street.

MetaverseNomad

BigRed wrote: »

MetaverseNomad wrote: »

BigRed wrote: »

Screw you :P they are all miiiine

my precioussssss......

I will destroy you!! And claim the Precious as my own!!

on second thought ill trade them for hookers and blow

Deal! Hookers and Blow: I'll give you 200 pounds total, you decide where to allocate it.