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Horrible Toys R Us Advert

Vast_GirthVast_Girth Posts: 9,793
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SXybm6bss

What a nasty advert! Nature is crap, toys are brilliant. Crass commercialism at its very very worst.
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    rupert_pupkinrupert_pupkin Posts: 3,975
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    Lucky kids, I wish they took to me toys r us and I could choose any toy I wanted instead of walking around in mud looking at trees
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 7,182
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    I'm hating so hard on trees right now.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 8,916
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    There's a longer version of this in that this also doubles up as their advert for April 1st.
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    venusinflaresvenusinflares Posts: 4,194
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    That's almost as horrible as this Littlewoods advert from a couple of years ago.

    Hey kids! Demand expensive presents, your 'muvver' will just get into debt, it's fine. Oh and there is no Father Christmas, it's your 'muvver'.

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=INJ5Q16EntU
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    sonicshadowsonicshadow Posts: 8,388
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    This is the only good Toys R Us advert.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qpEVl-Q-Ks
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    ÆnimaÆnima Posts: 38,548
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    venusinflares wrote: »
    That's almost as horrible as this Littlewoods advert from a couple of years ago.

    Hey kids! Demand expensive presents, your 'muvver' will just get into debt, it's fine. Oh and there is no Father Christmas, it's your 'muvver'.

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=INJ5Q16EntU

    Yeah, that one was ****ing annoying, and why do so many of these adverts make out it's only ever the women buying presents? Either that or the dads are buying awful ones :rolleyes:
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    VoynichVoynich Posts: 14,481
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    A trip to an out of town warehouse is better than a pesky outing to the countryside. Yay for Toys R us. :D
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    nobodyherenobodyhere Posts: 1,313
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G81g4rzA3kA

    Best advert ever :)
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    PencilBreathPencilBreath Posts: 3,643
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    i wonder what adverts they show at christmas in north korea.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 3,362
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    If you watch the behind the scenes video of it it says all the kids were linked to different charitys so its really not that bad.
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    GibsonGirlGibsonGirl Posts: 1,307
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    ukool wrote: »
    If you watch the behind the scenes video of it it says all the kids were linked to different charitys so its really not that bad.

    Yes it is that bad. All the advert will do is turn even more kids into tantrum throwing beggars! It sets a terrible example in that it sends the message of it being better to shun nature in favour of plastic, videogames and that it is okay to get whatever you want.

    And if those kids were from disadvantaged homes, etc, then would it not be better to take them to the great outdoors instead of a chain store?
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    crunchienutcrunchienut Posts: 885
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    Don't know about anyone else but i'd much rather have been in a forest where i could climb trees and cause trouble when i was young, than go to a toy shop where i couldn't actually even buy anything?

    I was never allowed anything from toy shops so i would probably have just got annoyed at having to go there!
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    rupert_pupkinrupert_pupkin Posts: 3,975
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    GibsonGirl wrote: »
    Yes it is that bad. All the advert will do is turn even more kids into tantrum throwing beggars! It sets a terrible example in that it sends the message of it being better to shun nature in favour of plastic, videogames and that it is okay to get whatever you want.

    And if those kids were from disadvantaged homes, etc, then would it not be better to take them to the great outdoors instead of a chain store?

    It's a toys r us advert, not a nature advert

    Some people will look for anything to get wound up by :confused:
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    GibsonGirlGibsonGirl Posts: 1,307
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    rupert_pupkin wrote: »
    It's a toys r us advert, not a nature advert

    Some people will look for anything to get wound up by :confused:

    I don't go looking for things to get wound up by. I have lost track of how many times I have been in shops and kids have been throwing tantrums because they want something. This is happening more often nowadays. Adverts like this are no example! It sends a very clear message that it's perfectly alright to get exactly what you want and that nature is bland and boring compared to a toy store.
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    rupert_pupkinrupert_pupkin Posts: 3,975
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    GibsonGirl wrote: »
    I don't go looking for things to get wound up by. I have lost track of how many times I have been in shops and kids have been throwing tantrums because they want something. This is happening more often nowadays. Adverts like this are no example! It sends a very clear message that it's perfectly alright to get exactly what you want and that nature is bland and boring compared to a toy store.

    The advert has done its job then. Or do we ban companies from making adverts which make people want their product? Is a chocolate advert horrible for saying you should be eating chocolate instead of fruit? Maybe the kids could go and have a day in nature next week, that day they went to toys r us and had a whale of a time
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    Jambo_cJambo_c Posts: 4,672
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    To be fair, I'm an adult and I'd rather go to Toys R Us than walk around the countryside.
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    ~Twinkle~~Twinkle~ Posts: 8,166
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    I'm trying very hard to see what's horrible about the advert, since when was seeing happy children horrible? I can still remember being a child even if it was tens of decades ago and I would have loved to have been let loose in a toy shop.
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    CrimsonmonCrimsonmon Posts: 1,116
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    venusinflares wrote: »
    That's almost as horrible as this Littlewoods advert from a couple of years ago.

    Hey kids! Demand expensive presents, your 'muvver' will just get into debt, it's fine. Oh and there is no Father Christmas, it's your 'muvver'.

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=INJ5Q16EntU

    Oh thank god, I don't have to spend any money this year
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    brbbrb Posts: 27,561
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    "A princess always smiles. And never gives up. And always follows her dreams" awww.
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    FlufanFlufan Posts: 2,544
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    ~Twinkle~ wrote: »
    I can still remember being a child even if it was tens of decades ago and I would have loved to have been let loose in a toy shop.

    Wow! Didn't they have toy shops before the Battle of Waterloo? :D
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    Hugh JboobsHugh Jboobs Posts: 15,316
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    ~Twinkle~ wrote: »
    I'm trying very hard to see what's horrible about the advert

    Yeah,me too.

    My reaction to the advert is "Meh" to be honest.

    Come on, is anyone really THAT surprised that a bus load of kids would prefer an impromptu trip to a toy shop than a trip to a nature reserve?!?!?
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    NightFox_DancerNightFox_Dancer Posts: 14,740
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    American kids have the most irritating voices.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 7,174
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    Come on, what child wouldn't be thrilled by that? :D I'm a grown up but if anyone offered that to me right now instead of looking at a bunch of trees in the freezing cold, I'd jump at it! And I'm pretty fond of trees :D
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    Alien_SaxonAlien_Saxon Posts: 1,178
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    Fio Montoya wrote: »
    Come on, what child wouldn't be thrilled by that? :D I'm a grown up but if anyone offered that to me right now instead of looking at a bunch of trees in the freezing cold, I'd jump at it! And I'm pretty fond of trees :D

    ..Well you're just another victim of the concrete synthetic culture we have in the West.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 10,273
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    It's not as bad as the M&M online clothing store that sponsors The Simpsons on channel 4. Grown up children sat at their laptops shouting "MURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRM can I have this top?" And mum pops her head round the door and says "oh go on then"... If they were my kids I'd tell them to get a f***ing job and buy it themselves. :sleep:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrG8As5AYc Awful :mad:
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