The photographs of Alan Shepard hitting a golf ball on the moon mark the iconic moment just before a space windmill floated past and derailed his ball into a space moat. Keep your eyes on the prize with today's Groupon to Space Golf in Orland Park. Choose from the following options:
- For $15, you get 18 holes of glow-in-the-dark mini golf for four people (up to a $32 value).
- For $22, you get 18 holes of glow-in-the-dark mini golf for six people (up to a $48 value).
- For $29, you get 18 holes of glow-in-the-dark mini golf for eight people (up to a $64 value).
Admission is normally $8 for golfers age 13 and up, $6.50 for children aged 5–12, and $5 for seniors. Children younger than 5 enter free with an adult admission.
Space Golf illuminates its indoor lunar landscape with 18 challenging putt-putt holes nestled among neon day-glo paint under showers of black light. Throughout the course, golfers nudge their iridescent balls past a synthesized landscape of posed alien life forms, flying saucers, and real aliens trying to blend in. Adding to the scenery are life-size character replicas from beloved sci-fi films such as E.T. and Star Wars beside neon yellow bricks that pave the 18-hole way for club-swinging explorers. Though not included in today's Groupon, golfers can don a pair of Chromadepth 3-D glasses ($1.59) that amplify the facility's already triplicate dimensions, an experience similar to sitting on James Lipton's shoulders at the IMAX.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Advertising Soup
In this economy, soup isn’t going to sell itself. Only the perfect commercial is going to get those cans flying off the shelves. But what are the elements of a good soup ad?
The setting can make someone immediately yearn for a bowl of the hot stuff. Good settings include:
• A wealthy person’s farmhouse glowing warmly in a snowy wooded area (farmhouse should show no signs of actual farming)
• A small but cozy shack standing on a craggy cliff over a violent sea
• A bread factory
The main character is the viewer’s connection to the soup. It should be:
• A loving yet endearingly inept dad. He is in decent shape, not too handsome, and wearing a sweater and/or tucked-in collared shirt.
• A Victorian sailor’s wife. She is pale and beautiful, yet jagged. It has been a hard life.
• A bunch of working-class bread-factory guys who are hungry but tired of all this dry bread.
The story of the ad then whips the potential customers into a soup-eating frenzy by depicting:
• The dad’s son playing in the snow. The dad wants his son to love him but he cannot prepare a meal on his own. He makes the son soup, and the two bond over a game of checkers in front of a fireplace. Mom does not interfere.
• The wife gazes longingly at the sea during a windy, daytime rainstorm. She misses her husband’s warm, hearty arms but finds solace in a thick chowder that possesses those same qualities. Just as she finishes her bowl the husband kicks down the door. He has returned from his voyage and he has brought her many exotic hats.
• The bread-factory guys make some soup and have a crazy party wherein they dip the dry crusty breads into the steaming bowls with much joviality and merrymaking. What a day they’ve had.
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