That exact same commercial airs in the US (only w/ a .com website instead of .com.au); it wasn’t made specifically for Australians. And except for American celebrities (& Disneyland) Australia already has everything being advertised.
Where is “here”?
Or my favorites (:rolleyes:), the sketchy “Adventure Road” commercials hawking roadside stuff in Oklahoma.
We also get a shitload of California ads and a fair number of commercials for attractions located in Florida, although not specifically for Florida.
If they were smart, places like Michigan would advertise their 75 degree weather in August here in Texas. That would be good advertising…
New York State.
Thanks, I saw similar but wasn’t sure if it was completely identical.
Australia is California with spiders. 
It’s due to what I call “Texas arrogance,” and I say that as a person in Texas. Residents of Texas are frequently inordinately proud of their Texan-ness, and they let you know about it. Advertisers have latched on to this, and use Texas arrogance to sell products, because to a Texan, anything Texas has to be great. So, we have Dairy Queen saying, “this is where we stop in Texas!”, Pizza Hut saying, “Texas knows best!”, and Ford saying, “Ford is the best in Texas!” to sell their Texas-edition trucks.
I can’t imagine the ad doing as well if they went with, “Ford is the best in Connecticut!”
I doubt the Texas tourism ads in other states have anything to do with products marketed specifically as “Texas”-whatever.
I suspect it’s because as a relatively wealthy state, we can afford to spend more money on ads elsewhere than smaller states can.
And the Texas-specific marketing is more retailer driven than anything; I’m not even convinced it’s even anything other than a way of marketing the same thing in different markets. In other words, the “Texas Edition F150” might well be the “Rawhide Edition” or some other rugged-sounding name in other states.
About the only thing I can think of that’s definitely different are the “Texas style” burgers that fast-food places typically come out with- they have mustard, and no ketchup standard, which is definitely not the norm for most other places.
I can’t think of a place in Texas that you can only access from New Mexico, except the northern entrance to Guadalupe Mountains National Park, but I’ve never seen that part so I don’t know how it compares to the rest of the park, which is, as you say, one of the prettiest above ground parts of Texas.
I am about ready to nuke San Diego from orbit if Hulu does not SHUT UP about it.
That is probably it (but it could be something else). You access it through Lincoln National Forest (New Mexico). And maybe some BLM land along the way. So I guess if you are talking the park as a single entity the “only access” thing isnt true. But unless you wanna do some serious hiking, you are only accessing THAT part from New Mexico.
Very pretty campground, not to mention the immediate surroundings. Never camped there but drove down to look at it. Because it is kind of outa the way and a dead end at that probably not overly used. Now that I think about it, not positive there IS a campground there.
IIRC significantly higher elevation that southern end GMNP (and most other stuff in that area), which means much more snow, cooler days and nights, and therefore more vegetation.
I like Texas, really I do. And I enjoy a good joke too.
Q: How do you get to Texas from here?
A: (from California) You walk east until you smell it. Then you walk south until you step in it.
This is a great idea! Except for the “Moving to Texas” part.
Here in the central lower Midwest, the promotional ads I see the most are for California tourism and New York (hailed as an utterly fabulous place to locate your business, as there are apparently hordes of super-trained techies inhabiting Albany, Rochester etc.).
… because they can’t afford to live within easy commuting distance of NYC
Yes, here near San Francisco I’ve seen commercials attracting people to base their companies in New York.