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If you need to outrun giant monsters that want to eat you, drive a Subaru Forester. This Subaru ad from Japan draws its villains from Attack on Titan, the forthcoming live-action adaption of the anime by the same name. The movie's director worked on the commercial, which reportedly included some pretty nifty practical effects, including a puppet that required seven sets of hands to control.

BuzzFeed's attempt at an inspiring, empowering video for women falls short, and the target audience is having no problem letting BuzzFeed know it. "Photoshopping Real Women Into Cover Models" opens with four women lamenting that they'd never look like models in a magazine spread.

It takes a lot of imagination to make a trip to New York’s dark and cavernous Javits Center any fun. Fortunately, Toy Fair has just enough of it. The gargantuan trade show (now in its 111th year) isn’t just a peek at the goods that this $22 billion industry will soon be peddling to the youngsters—it's a snapshot of the cultural zeitgeist, too. There’s a good bet that anything popular on YouTube or in the movies will wind up here. Plus, a good portion of the “kids” that toy brands are marketing to just so happen to have kids of their own.

Last month, Sony rolled out a sweeping celebration of its own contributions to technology and the arts. Now, it's diving deep on the same subject, taking viewers on a tour of Northlandz, a giant model railroad museum in New Jersey, as miniatures photographer Matt Albanese uses a Sony QX100 camera to capture images of the tiny scenery. Northlandz's creator, Bruce Zaccagnino, co-stars in the documentary-style ad, offering such bits of humble-bragging genius as: "Thousands of people will come out, and they'll say this is a wonder of the world.