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Were there any commercials for the movie toys? I haven't seen any and would like to see some if any are on Youtube or something.

i saw one for the movie toys a while back.... i think on cartoon network i saw it.

I haven't seen any here in the UK. I guess they thought the movie and surrounding promotion coupled with front of shop displays in TRU and Woolworths were enough to raise the Transformers profile enough for the kids to activly seek out the toys. Anyone know if this is working?

Yours AK

Alex Kingdom wrote:I haven't seen any here in the UK. I guess they thought the movie and surrounding promotion coupled with front of shop displays in TRU and Woolworths were enough to raise the Transformers profile enough for the kids to activly seek out the toys. Anyone know if this is working?

Yours AK

Actually, the commercials were not shown in the UK because you're peoples mothers complained that the movie was too violent for little kids. They even tried to demand that burger king not carry the toys!

oh man, i'd like to see a commercial. I mean sure, they dont need it, but it would be entertaining.

My thoughts exactly.

I don't remember them ever showing commercials on TV, but I know they existed; they were shown on the monitors at the Hasbro Toy Shop booth at Comic-Con.

Toyotus Superion wrote:

Alex Kingdom wrote:I haven't seen any here in the UK. I guess they thought the movie and surrounding promotion coupled with front of shop displays in TRU and Woolworths were enough to raise the Transformers profile enough for the kids to activly seek out the toys. Anyone know if this is working?

Yours AK

Actually, the commercials were not shown in the UK because you're peoples mothers complained that the movie was too violent for little kids. They even tried to demand that burger king not carry the toys!

Wow! and I though Soccer Mom's were more of a problem in the US. Do you think maybe they complained that the movie was too rubbish for the UK audience? That seems more likley.

Yours AK

Alex Kingdom wrote:

Toyotus Superion wrote:

Alex Kingdom wrote:I haven't seen any here in the UK. I guess they thought the movie and surrounding promotion coupled with front of shop displays in TRU and Woolworths were enough to raise the Transformers profile enough for the kids to activly seek out the toys. Anyone know if this is working?

Yours AK

Actually, the commercials were not shown in the UK because you're peoples mothers complained that the movie was too violent for little kids. They even tried to demand that burger king not carry the toys!

Wow! and I though Soccer Mom's were more of a problem in the US. Do you think maybe they complained that the movie was too rubbish for the UK audience? That seems more likley.

Yours AK

Thats nonsense. Everyone knows the english like rubbish. Just look at english pop culture.

Toyotus Superion wrote:Thats nonsense. Everyone knows the english like rubbish. Just look at english pop culture.

Oh yeah cos American pop culture is so much better, country music, Britney Spears, terrible mass produced sit-coms, a gun in every home? English pop culture is the best and you know it!

Yours AK

Alex Kingdom wrote:I haven't seen any here in the UK. I guess they thought the movie and surrounding promotion coupled with front of shop displays in TRU and Woolworths were enough to raise the Transformers profile enough for the kids to activly seek out the toys. Anyone know if this is working?

Yours AK

They've shown adverts for movie toys on Saturday / Sunday morning TV.

I've certainly seen ads for the Prime & SS arm blaster thingies and the voice changer, and I think I saw some for the figures when the movie was new out.

Autoclot wrote:They've shown adverts for movie toys on Saturday / Sunday morning TV.

I've certainly seen ads for the Prime & SS arm blaster thingies and the voice changer, and I think I saw some for the figures when the movie was new out.

Ha! So that blows the claims about UK soccer moms out of the water. I did think that was odd seeing as we got TV adds for the actual movie featuring Bonecrusher smashing a bus in half show before the watershed here in the UK, surely thats far more violent than any Toy commericals.

Yours AK

It was actually an article here on Seibertron.

Toyotus Superion wrote:It was actually an article here on Seibertron.

i seem to remember it was only refering to the burger king promotion in the uk that was affected by complaining parents

Toyotus Superion wrote:

Alex Kingdom wrote:I haven't seen any here in the UK. I guess they thought the movie and surrounding promotion coupled with front of shop displays in TRU and Woolworths were enough to raise the Transformers profile enough for the kids to activly seek out the toys. Anyone know if this is working?

Yours AK

Actually, the commercials were not shown in the UK because you're peoples mothers complained that the movie was too violent for little kids. They even tried to demand that burger king not carry the toys!

man, i hate those moms, like kyle's mom from south park!

If they have some or made some, they'd suck compared to the G1 "Bruticus is one bad dude-icus!" one.