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Re: Lego Commercial in Top 100 of all time
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Tue, 2 May 2000 19:31:06 GMT
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I taped this in case anyone missed it.

Ill bring to the TV fest!

Regards,

Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: Nicholas Allan <nick@clunyterr.u-net.com>
To: <lugnet.general@lugnet.com>; <lugnet.loc.uk@lugnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 10:29 PM
Subject: Lego Commercial in Top 100 of all time


On the UK's Channel 4 • (http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/greatest_ads/)
and through the Sunday Times newspaper (http://www.sunday-times.co.uk)
10,000 people were surveyed on what they thought was the best television
advertisement of all the last century.  The Lego advertisement of 1980 was
number 74.  A Tommy Cooper impersonator voiced this ad which showed a Lego
mouse being eaten by a Lego cat being eaten by Lego dog - in the end they
all ended up inside a Lego kipper going via an
anti-submarine-eating-fish-ballistic missile launcher. Natural progression
of course.  Naturally it ended with Tommy Cooper's catchphrase 'Just like
that'.

Nicholas Allan




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  Re: Lego Commercial in Top 100 of all time
 
Would it be possible for you to create an MPEG, avi, RealVideo or Quicktime movie out of it? Then we could demonstrate to everyone else just what a fine tradition Lego use to have for innovative advertising. Anyone remember the Lego 12V train one (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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  Lego Commercial in Top 100 of all time
 
On the UK's Channel 4 ((URL) through the Sunday Times newspaper ((URL) people were surveyed on what they thought was the best television advertisement of all the last century. The Lego advertisement of 1980 was number 74. A Tommy Cooper impersonator (...) (24 years ago, 30-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk) ! 

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