A great video using Action Men for Money Supermarket:

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.

  at last a replacement for the Village People!

GOOD GRIEF !!!

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

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

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

And then there's also the Chippendales' clothes tip away 

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

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.