History Main / ProductDisplacement

** DavidTennant blocked out the "Converse All-Star" logos on his trainers when he wore them on ''Series/DoctorWho''.

* An episode of Anthony Bourdain's "The Layover" set in Dublin, Ireland featured Guinness prominently, as any visit to Dublin must, but since they wouldn't pay to be a sponsor, the network required him to not mention it by name and even to obscure the logo when it was being poured. Bourdain being Bourdain, he pointed out the utter ridiculousness of it even as he mentioned "the black stuff." He made sure to include a couple of incidental Dubliners saying the name, too (apparently that was okay).

* Recently this trope was in action where Cedar Fair acquired parks from Six Flags and Paramount's park division.

* AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, has a giant Coke bottle behind third base. Every baseball video game to feature AT&T Park includes the bottle but either omits the Coke logo or substitutes with a fictitious one.

* DVD releases of ''Film/{{Grease}}'' blur out Coca-Cola signs in the diner scene that were visible in the original theatrical print and early video releases. It's particularly noticeable in one scene in which two characters are conversing in front of a rather large Coke ad.

** The print used for "Sing-Along" theatrical re-releases starting in 2011 covers that ad with a pattern matching the rest of the diner wall.

** Geauga Lake had to quickly remove its Six Flags WB/DC theming due to copyright law. All of the coasters had their names changed, and due to the sale being late in the off season, the former Batman coaster trains had their molded-in Batman logos melted with a soldering iron to remove them.

** The worst was Camp Snoopy when it became Park at MOA. The Snoopy-related theming was quickly removed after Ceder Fair stopped running the park, which led to some rides having Peanuts artwork quickly painted over. The sports bar had just the statues removed leaving a ball hanging in mid air.
* Disney Parks also has this happen when a ride sponsor contract is not renewed. Generally, it leads to parts of a ride having branded objects just removed or de-tagged.

** The former Paramount Parks had temporary rights to the Paramount-owned brands, so the parks opened under their old names the first year, and by the next year the Paramount movie and TV-themed rides were given more generic themes. The Nickelodeon-themed kids' zones were moved over to Ceder Fair's Snoopy theming by the third year.

* Disney Parks also has this happen when a ride sponsor contract is not renewed. Generally, it leads to parts of an ride having branded objects just removed or de-tagged.
** The Carousel of Progress had to strip off its GE logos after the company dropped the contract to sponsor the ride. The large GE logos were removed or covered over with an blueprint logo sign while the GE logos stayed on the appliances.

* ''Tiger and Bunny'': Ton's of realworld companies promote and sponsor the heroes in show like Blue Rose promotes Pepsi Next.

* UFC shows lots of clips of their fighters competing in previous events before shows. Many are from much earlier events that were sponsored by companies no longer affiliated with the company, or from other organizations they either bought out or got permission from that had sponsors that have never been affiliated with them. Thus their pre fight packages are often full of a lot of blurs around cageside and often fighter tshirts.

** Geauga Lake had to quickly remove it's six flags WB/DC theming due to copyright law all of the coasters had there names changed and due to the sale being late in the off season the former batman coaster trains had there molded in batman logos melted with an soldering iron to remove the logo.
** the former paramount parks had temporary rights to the paramount owned brands. so the parks opened under there old names the first year and by the next year the paramount movie and tv themed rides were given more generic themes. the Nickelodeon themed kids zones were moved over to ceder fairs snoopy theming by the third year.
** the worst was camp snoopy when it became park at MOA, the snoopy related theming was quickly removed after ceder fair dropped running the park and led to some rides having peanuts artwork quickly painted over and the sports bar had just the statues removed leaving an ball hanging in mid air.
* Disney Parks also have this happen when an ride sponsor contract is not renewed. generally it leads to parts of an ride having branded objects just removed or de-tagged.
** the Carousel of Progress had to strip off its GE logos after the company dropped the contract to sponser the ride the large GE logos were remove or covered over with an blueprint logo sign the GE logos stayed on the appliances.

** The european edit of the show actually uses the terms mints, sweets and candy. Mentos is never mentioned and the myth is called "Cola Cascade".

* Disney Parks also have this happen when an ride sponsor contract is not renewed. generally it leads to parts of an ride having branded objects just removed or de-tagged.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''GreatestAmericanHero'' did it the old fashioned way.]]

* The montage at the end of the first episode of ''NewAmsterdam'' showed Times Square change over the years, but with all the branding replaced with generic products. Apparently, Mom's Homemade Pies could afford large billboard space during the 1940s.

-->'''Jamie:''' What, you mean {{Batman}}?\\

* Since the ''Wrestling/{{WWE}}'' lost a lawsuit to the World Wildlife Fund over the use of the "WWF" initials, new videos from old matches have the "WWF" logo digitally blurred or pixellated out.

* UFC shows lots of clips of their fighters before shows. Many are from much earlier events that were sponsored by companies no longer affiliated with the company, or from other organizations they either bought out or got permission from that had sponsors that have never been affiliated with them. Thus their pre fight packages are often full of a lot of blurs around cageside and often fighter tshirts.

* ''WaveRace 64'' had banners of the Kawasaki brand plastered all over the game, but due to the license agreement between them and Nintendo being expired after several years, Nintendo had to replace the ads with Nintendo DS and Wii logos when the game was rerelased on the Virtual Console.