A great video using Action Men for Money Supermarket:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=s2db20DCr_s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=s2db20DCr_s)
Aside from smiling and laughing throughout, I kept spotting bits of kit I used to have or wanted. Enjoy!
YouTube says the video is not available in my country. :(
Sorry bought that :(. It's a UK advert which might be the issue.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D at last a replacement for the Village People!
GOOD GRIEF !!! X_X X_X X_X
How long did that take someone to do?
(Bill, you haven't missed much....honestly.)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: d_Guy on 15 March 2018, 03:57:49 PM
YouTube says the video is not available in my country. :(
Don't know what I'm doing here (so what's new) but might either of these work?
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/03/13/uk-top-shazamed-ads-moneysupermarket-and-action-man-boogie-weeks-chart (http://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/03/13/uk-top-shazamed-ads-moneysupermarket-and-action-man-boogie-weeks-chart)
Thanks Steve, Impossible not to smile (a lot).
My Brother-in-Law told me about the advert last week, but I have not been able to catch it, cheers.
Going back up now to watch it again!
I caught the end of this on the TV the other night, and was intrigued, not least due to strong nostalgia
But now having seen the whole thing, its just quite irritating, as are all the ads for comparison sites. Their style really seems to be as irritating as possible to make what they are doing stick - which I suspect works.
Not available in my country ???
Based on Leman's comment about the Village People I think this is it
https://www.queerty.com/queerty-tv/video/13C9E4535AACCA71 (https://www.queerty.com/queerty-tv/video/13C9E4535AACCA71)
Uh Queerty is a -uh- alternative life style site BTW
The vid has a YouTube stamp on it so who knows.
Obviously CGI - there is no way you get that many Action Mans (?) to stand up simultaneously!
The one with the moustache may well be leading an alternative lifestyle (says the man with the shaven head and tattoo :-).
Bill, yep, that's the one, you just made me watch it twice more :D
And then there's also the Chippendales' clothes tip away :o
Stupid. Just stupid.
Are these the same idiots who did the recent He-Man/Skeletor dancing advert?
So, take a 'beloved' children's toy and make them dance in a camp fashion to sell a price comparison website? I expect it's being post-ironic or something.
And, because it's camp, anyone who doesn't like it can instantly be labelled 'HOMOPHOBE!!!!'.
Again, stupid, just stupid.
I'd much rather watch that than Bojo and Vlad having their 'I've got the biggest' comparison stand off. Now that really is stupid!
Being too old to have had an Action Man (boys in my day played with pen knives and pointy sticks) and far to old to even know who Skeletor and HeMan are I found then amusing if rather baffling.
But to respond to Raider4's comment
QuoteSo, take a 'beloved' children's toy and make them dance in a camp fashion to sell a price comparison website? I expect it's being post-ironic or something.
No, it's an attempt to make you remember Moonie Hypermarche as opposed to any other price comparison web site, and as this thread has now got to its second page without being derailed it's obviously a working.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 15 March 2018, 06:33:09 PM
Don't know what I'm doing here (so what's new) but might either of these work?
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/03/13/uk-top-shazamed-ads-moneysupermarket-and-action-man-boogie-weeks-chart (http://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/03/13/uk-top-shazamed-ads-moneysupermarket-and-action-man-boogie-weeks-chart)
Got to be my favourite advert EVER!!!
Is it stop motion or CGI?
Its got to be CGI or they aren't real Action Men (mans?) - everybody remembers how hard they were to stand up! Seriously though you'd need a frame to hold them - real stop motion are usually designed to be posed - Wallace and Gromit have a jointed metal skeleton.
It could be MoCap, so the routine is danced by people with dots on - like Andy Serkis/Gollum. With more traditional animation the model is made in a computer, you pose it in start position, you move the arm where you want it to be, and the computer doing the bit in the middle. In traditional animation 'Key Artists' do the start and end, and 'inbetweeners' do the frames in between.
So that's what 'Key Artists' means, you learn something every day :)
Both sons did the same BTEC - 3d computer modeling and animation. Given they are both dyslexic they needed a proof-reader. The Key artists are the more skilled ones I believe. The Simpsons sends all its inbetweener work to South Korea - watch the names in the credits.
Quote from: Raider4 on 16 March 2018, 04:35:22 PM
Stupid. Just stupid.
Are these the same idiots who did the recent He-Man/Skeletor dancing advert?
So, take a 'beloved' children's toy and make them dance in a camp fashion to sell a price comparison website? I expect it's being post-ironic or something.
And, because it's camp, anyone who doesn't like it can instantly be labelled 'HOMOPHOBE!!!!'.
Again, stupid, just stupid.
My youngest lad -who is 35- is equally incensed by the whole thing. He says that a lot of his childhood heroes are being abused by companies whose whole ethos is simply to make money. I must agree, I felt a little disappointed when the Flintstones and Top Cat were used for the same purpose.
I find them mildly amusing which puts them well above most ads in my estimation. I'm rather fond of the meerkats and the Winston Wolf ads, too.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 01 April 2018, 10:39:34 AM
Both sons did the same BTEC - 3d computer modeling and animation. Given they are both dyslexic they needed a proof-reader. The Key artists are the more skilled ones I believe. The Simpsons sends all its inbetweener work to South Korea - watch the names in the credits.
I had noted some of the 'different' names in the credits of various animated shows, I now understand where they fit in :)
First time my youngest watched Pulp Fiction he said "I get those insurance adverts now."
Apparently meerkats are really violent- 20% of meerkat deaths are being killed by other meerkats. Much of their time is looking at other meerkats trying to work out if they are bigger so should beat them up, or show subservience to larger members of the pack. They really DO spend a lot of time comparing the meerkat (Source - No such thing as a fish)
Quote from: Subedai on 01 April 2018, 01:13:59 PM
My youngest lad -who is 35- is equally incensed by the whole thing. He says that a lot of his childhood heroes are being abused by companies whose whole ethos is simply to make money. I must agree, I felt a little disappointed when the Flintstones and Top Cat were used for the same purpose.
And this morning I saw an advert (ab)using Mr. Benn to flog something insurance related . . .
I despair, I really do.
However that is what a company is all about. If it doesn't make money it doesn't survive. Actually I quite like adverts that remind me of times gone by, although Topcat having a conversation with a Yorkshire lass is a bit strange. Wait until Specsavers use Vincent van Gopher in an advert!
I'm just waiting for Starfleet to roll around, but dunno if it had quite enough mass market appeal...
Space. The final frontier. Your continuing mission. To use our website to find the best deals on hotels anywhere in the galaxy! Trek Va Go! :D
Did you see the really eerie Trivago adverts from the Tube?
The Trivago woman was on EVERY BILLBOARD staring at you, watching, in a way Cambridge Analytica or the Chinese Communist party could only dream of...
Quote from: Leman on 09 April 2018, 10:46:45 AM
. . . although Topcat having a conversation with a Yorkshire lass is a bit strange.
Is she Yorkshire though? I'm reliably informed that she used to be in something called 'Brookside', playing Anna Friel's little sister?
Quote from: toxicpixie on 09 April 2018, 12:28:28 PM
The Trivago woman was on EVERY BILLBOARD . . .
Well, that matches with the TV advertising then, as she appears to be on in every single break.
Here's a few ideas: Billy bunter advertising reduced sugar drinks; the Man from Uncle advertising dry cleaning; the Baxter's Soup Dragon; Noggin the Nog does the Fjords Cruise; Ivor the Engine advertising the Great Little Trains of Wales; The Bagpuss mice advertising energy drinks.
Just play the Trumpton Town tune and I will give you my money :)
Damnit Norm, now my mind is humming Trumpton Riots :)
The advert using Windy Miller was particularly good.
And if I remember correctly, there was a Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew advert as well. My brother thinks In the Night Garden is an advert for LSD.
Mate of mine has a very bleak outlook on Night Garden. He thinks IgglePiggle is a ship wrecked sailor, adrift on the ocean, dying of thirst and exposure, and the Night Garden is his comforting hallucination! I think the LSD theory is probably correct, mind :D
Very clever advertising because people are talking about it, love it or hate it the advert works. Besides nothing wrong with the YMCA ... said the Royal Marine ;)
Quote from: Subedai on 01 April 2018, 01:13:59 PM
. . . I felt a little disappointed when the Flintstones and Top Cat were used for the same purpose.
and now they've co-opted the Wizard of Oz, inserting some banker* into scenes from the film.
* Feel free to replace the 'b' with another letter . . .
Tanker? :D
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NO That's another bloody yankism, it's TANKEE. GET IT RIGHT YOU TOTAL OIK
IanS
Must be "canker" then?
(https://gardening.which.co.uk/hc/en-gb/article_attachments/208939945/Apple___pear_canker.jpg)
So that's what youse is sufferin afrom nobby
Ranker?
The photo of the canker is astounding and should be turned into a "click-bait" story. It is clear as day that the canker contains a bas-relief image of a poodle in full profile, a poodle who has the head of a mustachioed man turned toward the viewer! I'm not suggesting this is proof of extraterrestrial visitation... :-\
I think it may be proof of something a little closer to home d_Guy.
Gasp! You mean a proto-Mesopotamian culture in prehistoric Britain?! With seafaring capabilities?!! This would explain much!
Yes. that was it exactly.
I'm not saying it was aliens, but...
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It's. A. Smegging. GARBAGE POD!
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Fanker?
:-\
[what an East Ender with a female benefactor should say.]