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Re: LEGO Adverts on Channel 5
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Date: 
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 19:02:17 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, John Smith writes:
In lugnet.loc.uk, Nicholas Allan writes:
Lego are obviously trying really hard to ensure that they get as few sales
as possible this year by having all the adverts on Channel 5.

In a toyshop round here, one of the sales staff confided that Lego had been
selling really well this autumn.  Although the sample size was probably too
small to make a statistically useful piece of information ...

At about
17.45 today I saw an advert for Lego Star Wars

I've not seen a Star Wars ad, but yesterday while flicking channels I caught
ads on C5 for 8448 (around 2pm, during It's A Knockout - ahem) and Znap (later
on, 3pm-ish I guess, during their soap opera omnibus repeat).

I've seen a couple of Lego adverts.  There's one for the Lego Racers computer
game, as well as one for town - a fireman is called out to rescue someone from
a tall building, ends up getting vertigo and is carried down his own ladders
by the said damsel in distress.  The background buildings looked much better
than the Lego sets featured in the spot.

Richard



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(...) I've not seen a Star Wars ad, but yesterday while flicking channels I caught ads on C5 for 8448 (around 2pm, during It's A Knockout - ahem) and Znap (later on, 3pm-ish I guess, during their soap opera omnibus repeat). I'm afraid I can't (...) (25 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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