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Holidays are coming... holidays are coming... holidays are c (November 2003)

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FA
fanoftv
Are you sure? Even the one where the trolley is in the freezer?
DA
DAS Founding member
Pretty sure, yep.
WH
Whataday Founding member
fanoftv posted:
They have kept the same song/tune (well the first verse), with another new animation. Instead of the spinning star from space, they have a 3D computer model of a toys r us store constructed into a spaceship flying down and landing on earth.



That's the same one as last year.
BH
BillyH Founding member
Why do I have a feeling that the entire tune will be gone in the next few years?
<sigh>
AN
Andrew Founding member
fanoftv posted:
A question for those that remember last year and previous years.
I was thinking earlier of what adverts are shown on christmas day. Commercial channels show adverts still, but what adverts on christmas day, and infact christmas eve.

As shops aren't open and people wont want christmas things, so do they advertise for sales, or do you get advertisers with commercials 'have a happy christmas day from woolworths!'? But perhaps christmas eve night more. As shops are shut the following day.


Yes the minute shops close on Christmas Eve, most adverts are for sales, "Doors Open Boxing Day 10am" of course, or commercials saying 'merry christmas from such and such' in some occasions
FA
fanoftv
Whataday posted:
fanoftv posted:
They have kept the same song/tune (well the first verse), with another new animation. Instead of the spinning star from space, they have a 3D computer model of a toys r us store constructed into a spaceship flying down and landing on earth.



That's the same one as last year.


No I don't think it was. Last years was the same as the year before where the start looks like a catherine wheel, ending up with the Toys 'R' Us star logo with the star in the centre, and a camera zooming in on the building.

This years is like a space station/store that lands on the earth.

Is it just that they have replaced the second verse with the adverts for the toys? Or did they still used to have the toy promotion in there too?
NW
nwtv2003
Andrew posted:
fanoftv posted:
A question for those that remember last year and previous years.
I was thinking earlier of what adverts are shown on christmas day. Commercial channels show adverts still, but what adverts on christmas day, and infact christmas eve.

As shops aren't open and people wont want christmas things, so do they advertise for sales, or do you get advertisers with commercials 'have a happy christmas day from woolworths!'? But perhaps christmas eve night more. As shops are shut the following day.


Yes the minute shops close on Christmas Eve, most adverts are for sales, "Doors Open Boxing Day 10am" of course, or commercials saying 'merry christmas from such and such' in some occasions


From past experience we'll probably get New Year sales at B&Q, DFS, SCS, House of Fraser, The Trafford Centre, Homebase or any sofa shop. Plus dependent on where you'll live, we'll get adverts for Careline, if they're still doing that.

But the one that cannot be beat is......

#YTV'S CHRISTMAS LINE, ON LEEDS DOUBLE FOUR, EIGHT, ONE, NINE NINE.#

Classic IMO.
GE
thegeek Founding member
Oh dear. Vodafone have made a Christmassy version of "Can You Dig It?"

No, I can't. Now bugger off.
WH
Whataday Founding member
fanoftv posted:
This years is like a space station/store that lands on the earth.


Yeah, that's the same as last year. The catherine wheel-type one was from the year before.

8 days later

FU
fusionlad Founding member
Yay! The Coca-Cola trucks are coming, just seen a live shot on the ads before Pop Idol Wink
RU
russnet Founding member
One product I found assuming today was a branded "Ready Steady Cook popcorn maker" The BBC will try anything to make money! I wonder if you can only use stuff that costs no more than a fiver inside it!
BH
BillyH Founding member
Whataday posted:
Yeah, that's the same as last year. The catherine wheel-type one was from the year before.


Actually, they had BOTH last year, with the spaceship one coming a few weeks after the 2001 one and then running concurrently. The spaceship one was a little different than this years though, as the classic tune was absent.

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