{"id":93765,"date":"2021-04-26T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-the-noid-is-back-dominos-villain-returns-to-tv-ads-and-new-crash-bandicoot-on-the-run-mobile-game\/"},"modified":"2021-04-28T01:30:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T05:30:02","slug":"el-noid-esta-de-regreso-el-villano-de-dominos-vuelve-a-los-anuncios-de-tv-y-al-nuevo-juego-movil-crash-bandicoot-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/el-noid-esta-de-regreso-el-villano-de-dominos-vuelve-a-los-anuncios-de-tv-y-al-nuevo-juego-movil-crash-bandicoot-on-the-run\/","title":{"rendered":"The Noid\u2122 is Back! Domino&#8217;s\u00ae Villain Returns to TV Ads and New Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!\u2122 Mobile Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ANN ARBOR, Mich.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 26, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0<b>Domino&#8217;s Pizza Inc. (NYSE: DPZ), the largest pizza company in the world based on global retail sales, <\/b>has always had one nemesis: the Noid\u00a0\u2013 an antihero that has been trying to prevent great pizza delivery since 1986. Maybe it was the chaos of 2020 that gave the Noid the confidence to return, or possibly the fact that Domino&#8217;s has continued to innovate around great pizza delivery with amazing technology. Whatever the reason, the Noid simply can&#8217;t stand it anymore,\u00a0and the pesky antihero has returned in Domino&#8217;s new television ads, which begin airing today, trying to thwart the advanced technology of Nuro&#8217;s R2 robot, a completely autonomous, occupantless on-road vehicle,\u00a0out on a pizza delivery. (See more at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3140380-1&amp;h=365552083&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.selfdrivingdelivery.dominos.com%2F&amp;a=selfdrivingdelivery.dominos.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">selfdrivingdelivery.dominos.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgf0ealeft\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgf0ealeft\" title=\"The Noid has returned in Domino\u2019s new television ads which capture the pesky antihero trying to thwart the advanced technology of Nuro\u2019s R2 robot \u2013 a completely autonomous, occupantless on-road vehicle \u2013 out on a pizza delivery.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Noid has returned in Domino\u2019s new television ads which capture the pesky antihero trying to thwart the advanced technology of Nuro\u2019s R2 robot \u2013 a completely autonomous, occupantless on-road vehicle \u2013 out on a pizza delivery.\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1495561\/Noid_and_Nuro.jpg\" imagelabel=\"General\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The Noid is Domino&#8217;s oldest and most famous villain, and the pizza delivery testing we&#8217;re doing with Nuro&#8217;s autonomous vehicle is exactly the kind of technology innovation that could provoke the Noid to return,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Kate Trumbull<\/span>, Domino&#8217;s vice president of advertising. &#8220;However, after 35 years of practice in avoiding the Noid, we&#8217;re pretty confident we know how to defeat it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While television screens are a great place for a classic nemesis to return, mobile devices are the newest place for the Noid to cause problems. Starting <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 7<\/span>, the Noid will join the newest\u00a0installment of the Crash Bandicoot gaming series,\u00a0<i>Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!<\/i><i>,<\/i> a new mobile adventure that honors the rich 25-year history of the beloved franchise. For a limited time, the Noid will be featured as one of the game&#8217;s mini bosses, pitting players against the Noid as Crash progresses through the story. Avoiding the Noid has never been so fun! Players will also have access to exclusive Domino&#8217;s pizza-themed player skins, showing players love for all things pizza. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to launch our first in-game collaboration for <i>Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! <\/i>with Domino&#8217;s,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Richard Hocking<\/span>, head of marketing at King, the game&#8217;s developer. &#8220;With the Noid making its big return this year and the Crash Bandicoot franchise celebrating its 25th anniversary, it was the perfect opportunity to have players take on the Domino&#8217;s antihero alongside other nostalgic Crash bosses in this brand-new mobile adventure.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Feeling sentimental about the Noid? Domino&#8217;s now has a limited number of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3140380-1&amp;h=59653391&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB08YPBCJR4%2Fref%3Dewc_pr_img_1%3Fsmid%3DA3F14I8VLTPB0S%26th%3D1&amp;a=%22Hanging+in+There%22\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Hanging in There&#8221;<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3140380-1&amp;h=1098063820&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB08YP4HGPV%2Fref%3Dewc_pr_img_3%3Fsmid%3DA3F14I8VLTPB0S%26psc%3D1&amp;a=%22Avoid+the+Noid%22+T-shirts\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Avoid the Noid&#8221; T-shirts<\/a>, as well as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3140380-1&amp;h=1278760178&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB08YP6DM9D%2Fref%3Dewc_pr_img_3%3Fsmid%3DA3F14I8VLTPB0S%26psc%3D1&amp;a=tumblers\" rel=\"nofollow\">tumblers<\/a> available for purchase on Amazon. All profits from the Noid merchandise will go to Domino&#8217;s Partners Foundation, an independent internal nonprofit organization that provides financial assistance to Domino&#8217;s franchise and corporate team members in need. The Noid has even schemed its way into GIPHY, the online platform that houses GIFs and stickers for use on all major social media platforms. Fans can find and share the devious creature by searching &#8220;The Noid&#8221; in GIF and sticker search engines on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok, or by visiting <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3140380-1&amp;h=1225764953&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fgiphy.com%2Fdominos&amp;a=giphy.com%2Fdominos\" rel=\"nofollow\">giphy.com\/dominos<\/a>.<\/u> <\/p>\n<p><b>About Domino&#8217;s Pizza<sup>\u00ae<br \/><\/sup><\/b>Founded in 1960, Domino&#8217;s Pizza is the largest pizza company in the world based on retail sales. It ranks among the world&#8217;s top public restaurant brands with a global enterprise of more than 17,600 stores in over 90 markets. Domino&#8217;s had global retail sales of more than <span class=\"xn-money\">$16.1 billion<\/span> in 2020, with nearly <span class=\"xn-money\">$8.3 billion<\/span> in the U.S. and more than <span class=\"xn-money\">$7.8 billion<\/span> internationally. In the fourth quarter of 2020, Domino&#8217;s had global retail sales of more than <span class=\"xn-money\">$5.5 billion<\/span>, with over <span class=\"xn-money\">$2.7 billion<\/span> in the U.S. and more than <span class=\"xn-money\">$2.8 billion<\/span> internationally. Its system is comprised of independent franchise owners who accounted for 98% of Domino&#8217;s stores as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2020. Emphasis on technology innovation helped Domino&#8217;s achieve more than half of all global retail sales in 2020 from digital channels. In the U.S., Domino&#8217;s generated more than 70% of sales in 2020 via digital channels and has developed several innovative ordering platforms, including those for Google Home, Facebook Messenger, Apple Watch, Amazon Echo, Twitter and more. In 2019, Domino&#8217;s announced a partnership with Nuro to further its exploration and testing of autonomous pizza delivery. In mid-2020, Domino&#8217;s launched a new way to order contactless carryout nationwide \u2013 via Domino&#8217;s Carside Delivery<b><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/b>, which customers can choose when placing a prepaid online order.<\/p>\n<p>Order \u2013 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3140380-1&amp;h=2970188184&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dominos.com%2F&amp;a=dominos.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">dominos.com<\/a>\u00a0 <br \/>Company Info \u2013 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3140380-1&amp;h=1699680438&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fbiz.dominos.com%2F&amp;a=biz.dominos.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">biz.dominos.com<\/a><br \/>Media Assets \u2013 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3140380-1&amp;h=2246700866&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.dominos.com%2F&amp;a=media.dominos.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">media.dominos.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>About King<br \/><\/b>King is the game developer behind the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top-grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King&#8217;s games are being played by 240 million monthly active users as of Q4 2020. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in <span class=\"xn-location\">Stockholm<\/span>, Malm\u00f6, <span class=\"xn-location\">London<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Barcelona<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Berlin<\/span>, and offices in <span class=\"xn-location\">San Francisco<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Malta<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a9 2021 Activision Publishing Inc.\u00a0<b>CRASH BANDICOOT: ON THE RUN!<\/b>,\u00a0<b>CRASH BANDICOOT<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>CRASH<\/b>\u00a0are trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. KING and the KING crown logo are trademarks of\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3140380-1&amp;h=3524159782&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fking.com%2F&amp;a=King.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">King.com<\/a>\u00a0Ltd.<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgfe2eleft\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgfe2eleft\" title=\"The Noid is Domino\u2019s oldest and most famous villain, and Nuro's R2 robot has provoked the antihero's return. \" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Noid is Domino\u2019s oldest and most famous villain, and Nuro's R2 robot has provoked the antihero's return. \" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1495562\/Noid_vs_Nuro.jpg\" imagelabel=\"General\"\/><\/div>\n<p\/>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg064bleft\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg064bleft\" title=\"In addition to crashing TV screens, the Noid will join the newest installment of the Crash Bandicoot gaming series, Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! on May 7. \" border=\"0\" alt=\"In addition to crashing TV screens, the Noid will join the newest installment of the Crash Bandicoot gaming series, Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! on May 7. \" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1495563\/Noid_and_Crash.jpg\" imagelabel=\"General\"\/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg3743left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg3743left\" title=\"Domino's\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Domino's\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/330435\/dominos_pizza_new_logo.jpg\" imagelabel=\"General\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3140380-1&amp;h=799328357&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1495561%2FNoid_and_Nuro.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1495561%2FNoid_and_Nuro.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1495561\/Noid_and_Nuro.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3140380-1&amp;h=4135898488&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1495562%2FNoid_vs_Nuro.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1495562%2FNoid_vs_Nuro.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1495562\/Noid_vs_Nuro.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3140380-1&amp;h=3493003&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1495563%2FNoid_and_Crash.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1495563%2FNoid_and_Crash.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1495563\/Noid_and_Crash.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3140380-1&amp;h=3554416347&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F330435%2Fdominos_pizza_new_logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F330435%2Fdominos_pizza_new_logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/330435\/dominos_pizza_new_logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p\/>\n<p>SOURCE  Domino&#8217;s Pizza, Inc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ANN ARBOR, Mich.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 26, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0<b>Domino&#8217;s Pizza Inc. (NYSE: DPZ), the largest pizza company in the world based on global retail sales, <\/b>has always had one nemesis: the Noid\u00a0\u2013 an antihero that has been trying to prevent great pizza delivery since 1986. Maybe it was the chaos of 2020 that gave the Noid the confidence to return, or possibly the fact that Domino&#8217;s has continued to innovate around great pizza delivery with amazing technology. Whatever the reason,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entretenimiento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}