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JO
Jonny
All I want to know is where are these magical vending machines that dispense glass bottles.
LL
Larry the Loafer
"Don't believe everything you're told" over an image of Santa. That's breaking it to the kids gently.


Not only that, but they're implying simple safety rules like "Don't open the door to anyone" and "Don't accept anything from strangers" should be ignored because you might get a bottle of Coke out of it. Somebody get me a copy of the Daily Mail so I can roll it up and shake it in the air.

Seriously though, I don't know why they insist on making a new one every year when the majority of people want to see the "trucks" advert. All the new ones just get forgotten about.
MI
Michael
That new endboard slapped on the end of Holidays Are Coming is hideously jarring. I'm sure MDTA could come up with a better transition....
JA
james-2001
Although the transition on the last version was hardly any better!
JA
james-2001
Seriously though, I don't know why they insist on making a new one every year when the majority of people want to see the "trucks" advert. All the new ones just get forgotten about.


Are the trucks big in other countries though, or just in the UK? I went to the World of Coca Cola museum in Atlanta earlier this year, and they have an exhibit on classic Coke ads from the US & around the world- and the trucks are nowhere to be seen! The Americans seem to be mad for the polar bears instead, but I think it's a long time since we've had them in the UK.
JO
Jon
The trucks was always a European thing I believe. They'll show classic one for the popular demand and the new one is deemed to be needed elsewhere.
MA
madmusician
Jon posted:
The trucks was always a European thing I believe. They'll show classic one for the popular demand and the new one is deemed to be needed elsewhere.

I went along to a Coca Cola trucks event a couple of years ago! They are big! Twas great fun, with carol singers miming along to the various Coca Cola jingles (!!), a chance to visit Santa and lots of fake snow everywhere.
VM
VMPhil
Isn't the main problem with simply repeating the original adverts (apart from the 4:3 issue) that they were designed around the 'Always Coca-Cola' campaign of the time - both in the lyrics of the song and the logos featured in the commercials (which they have airbrushed out now).
IS
Inspector Sands
I've never got the appeal of the Coca Cola trucks. Hideous smaltzy American adverts for an equally as bad a product!

'Holidays are coming' for most of us in the summer!
LL
Larry the Loafer
I've never got the appeal of the Coca Cola trucks. Hideous smaltzy American adverts for an equally as bad a product!


It's never encouraged me, or anybody I know, to drink Coca Cola. But over time it became a tradition to see it on television, with a lot of people considering it as the first sign that Christmas is coming. I was too young to remember its first showings but I can only assume it didn't generate the adoration it gets now for at least a few years.
BA
bilky asko
I've never got the appeal of the Coca Cola trucks. Hideous smaltzy American adverts for an equally as bad a product!

'Holidays are coming' for most of us in the summer!


Well the Yellow Pages advert wouldn't work now, so it's all we have.
RE
remlap
Hellman's ad is still a favourite didn't that get a modern Christmas remake few years back?

What's Toys R Us doing this year?

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