Did anyone catch the first Games Workshop commercial here in the U.S.A.?
I set my DVR for the time and channel as given to me by my GW store manager but it wasn't on.
Anyone happen to see it Monday?

And if anyone is interested the spot should also run at the following times:
Tue 2/24 5:25p
Wed 2/25 5:58p
Fri 2/27 4:16p
Sat 2/28 4:42p, 5:28p, 6:50p
Sun 3/1 6:59p
I'm assuming these times are Pacific but the information given to me doesn't say.

Edit: Sorry I forgot the channel Q13 FOX

I think someone has been yanking your chain mate.

That's quite interesting. I'd love to watch it, but for the life of me I have no idea what channel it's supposed to be on.

Little help?

What are they advertising?

And first ever commercial?

In the UK, we had commercials for Heroquest and Space Crusade during the 80s.

Maybe it's made it to YouTube?

It's a wind up. Advertising is expensive. GW would be unlikely to recoup the cost from any increase in sales, hence why they haven't advertised thus far....

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I think someone has been yanking your chain mate.

I kind of doubt it. The store manager at my local GW store was extremely excited over this, and he made sure that everyone who came in left with a list of the air times.

Flashman wrote:In the UK, we had commercials for Heroquest and Space Crusade during the 80s.

Both were published by Milton Bradley, though. GW just made the models.

WInd up, wind up, wind up.

We'd have heard something about it before now.

So is there a gamesworkshop commerical?

So is there a gamesworkshop commerical?

Platuan4th wrote:

Flashman wrote:In the UK, we had commercials for Heroquest and Space Crusade during the 80s.

Both were published by Milton Bradley, though. GW just made the models.

Commercials were good (well, good if you were 12) though. They did a genestealer for Space Crusade. The Heroquest one had the obligatory dwarf in a goblin mask.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:WInd up, wind up, wind up.

We'd have heard something about it before now.

They have to start somewhere. Info just doesn't magically pop up two weeks ago.

I doubt that there is commercials as well, but GW is a surprising company lately, in both good and bad ways.

Padapolis wrote:Did anyone catch the first Games Workshop commercial here in the U.S.A.?
I set my DVR for the time and channel as given to me by my GW store manager but it wasn't on.
Anyone happen to see it Monday?

And if anyone is interested the spot should also run at the following times:
Tue 2/24 5:25p
Wed 2/25 5:58p
Fri 2/27 4:16p
Sat 2/28 4:42p, 5:28p, 6:50p
Sun 3/1 6:59p
I'm assuming these times are Pacific but the information given to me doesn't say.

Edit: Sorry I forgot the channel Q13 FOX

I watch FOX all the time. I'll give it a gander, but none of my GW staff mentioned this.. and if you set your DVR, what time Monday was it supposed to run?

Now, I have seem some Dawn of War 2 commercials, I wonder if this is just more of that?

The DoW Winter Assault TV adverts were pretty cool. Are they on You-Tube?

two_heads_talking wrote:

Padapolis wrote:Did anyone catch the first Games Workshop commercial here in the U.S.A.?
I set my DVR for the time and channel as given to me by my GW store manager but it wasn't on.
Anyone happen to see it Monday?

And if anyone is interested the spot should also run at the following times:
Tue 2/24 5:25p
Wed 2/25 5:58p
Fri 2/27 4:16p
Sat 2/28 4:42p, 5:28p, 6:50p
Sun 3/1 6:59p
I'm assuming these times are Pacific but the information given to me doesn't say.

Edit: Sorry I forgot the channel Q13 FOX

I watch FOX all the time. I'll give it a gander, but none of my GW staff mentioned this.. and if you set your DVR, what time Monday was it supposed to run?

Now, I have seem some Dawn of War 2 commercials, I wonder if this is just more of that?

Mondays ad should have run on 2/23 @ 4:26p

I would definately like to see this myself. If it's true, why wouldn't they have advertised on TV in Britian first, since they're HQ'd there? Maybe a bigger player base in the States?

Nope. But a bigger target population though.

Hand of Dume wrote:I would definately like to see this myself. If it's true, why wouldn't they have advertised on TV in Britian first, since they're HQ'd there? Maybe a bigger player base in the States?

Everything is bigger in Texas. Including Frazzled's mouth...

*cue Frazzled with his "Bo-ay...what we have here....is a failure to communicate" speech*

Frazzled is watching you...

No....not...the...BANJOS!!!!

Anything but the BANJOS!

Advertising on cable channels which are local and targeted is comparatively cheap as compared to running something on broadcast television during, say, Lost.

There is indeed a commercial being tried in this manner in select US markets. It's less about specific product and more along the lines of, "come by one of these stores and see what all this is about."

Still don't buy it until I see's it.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Still don't buy it until I see's it.

That's the ENTIRE basis of the advertising industry!

Hellfury wrote:No....not...the...BANJOS!!!!

Anything but the BANJOS!

Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. We're too far west for Banjo Country. Down here it's slide guitars!

Yeah, I know. I lived in corpus for about 8 years.

But Frazzled is so pro texas ("Ayum an ameruhcun goddammit!"), I figured being intentionally obtuse would drag him out of the wood work right meow for some of his favorite good ol', down home shenanigans.

He loves shenanigans.

i would like to see this advert

Chris Gohlinghorst wrote:Advertising on cable channels which are local and targeted is comparatively cheap as compared to running something on broadcast television during, say, Lost.

There is indeed a commercial being tried in this manner in select US markets. It's less about specific product and more along the lines of, "come by one of these stores and see what all this is about."

Thanks Chris for backing me up on this, it kind of bugged me that my post was so quickly dismissed.

Padapolis wrote:

Chris Gohlinghorst wrote:Advertising on cable channels which are local and targeted is comparatively cheap as compared to running something on broadcast television during, say, Lost.

There is indeed a commercial being tried in this manner in select US markets. It's less about specific product and more along the lines of, "come by one of these stores and see what all this is about."

Thanks Chris for backing me up on this, it kind of bugged me that my post was so quickly dismissed.

Welcome to Dakka, cynicism keeps us sane

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Still don't buy it until I see's it.

Well it will be hard for you to see it as it's being aired here in the US.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Banjo's? You heard me playin all the way over there on the other side of this here internets?

I wonder if any commercials will make it to this sleepy east coast city I call home.

I hope GW (or a person who tapes it) puts in on Youtube so the rest of the world (and those not watching US cable at set times) can see it.

If there actually were commercials, I don't think things would've stayed this quiet, especially if some of them are supposed to have already aired. Many people, somewhere, would have seen it. Others would've just happened to have their digital recorders running, and it would've gone to youtube already. One way or another, there would currently be confirmation.

Still saying it's a wind up.

No rumours about them, nobody seems to have seen them....only heard about in this thread....

Not saying it's impossible, just highly unlikely.

Why in the world would there be rumors about commercials?

Seriously.

This type of news has to arrive from somewhere, and just because you 'didn't see it on warseer first' doesn't mean that it isn't happening.

Sheesh. Even chris golinghorst confirmed it.

Besides, it probably isn't that interesting. It just maybe....just maybe like what golinghorst described it as. Which to be honest doesn't sound that impressive. It sounds very similar to what you see on local TV about a new shop opening up in the delta shopping center in downtown wherever USA.

In other words, hardly news worthy, nor hardly unbelievable.

Good thing this is in the Discussions forum then.



Ozymandias, King of Kings

Hellfury wrote:In other words, hardly news worthy, nor hardly unbelievable.

qft

And yet a milestone for GW, who have never advertised before.

As such, I'm certain we'd have heard something. Two people on the Interwebs does not a wind up prevent.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:And yet a milestone for GW, who have never advertised before.

As such, I'm certain we'd have heard something. Two people on the Interwebs does not a wind up prevent.

and one person continually going "OMG! This cant be true because I didn't see it on warseer first! Impossible!" doesn't make it invalid either.

Sorry, I know you aren't going off exactly as I am exaggerating about. But a bit of hyperbole helps levity sometimes, unless of course you are british and have a huge stick stuck up your arse.

The fact that we're past a couple of the airdates and yet, 'mysteriously' no one has seen anything about them, and there's still been no mention of them anywhere else does say a lot about the chance of them actually existing.

I mentioned there is nothing on Warseer. Being one of the biggest, you'd think someone would have flagged something up. And nothing from BoLS.

Just saying that it's such a radical departure for GW, you'd think more people would be talking about it.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I mentioned there is nothing on Warseer. Being one of the biggest, you'd think someone would have flagged something up. And nothing from BoLS.

Just saying that it's such a radical departure for GW, you'd think more people would be talking about it.

Or people possibly don't find commercials particularly newsworthy. Especially if they go something like "Hi! This is redshirt jim over at GW's dollie emporium! Y'all come down and see us, ya hear?"

But then again, I suppose you do so I will let you gnaw in angst over the "ifs whens and hows" of a GW commercial.

I'm not going to put my thoughts down on whether there is an advert or not. (some people in this thread will be looking rather foolish me thinks if the former is true.) But people need to realise television advertising in the US is completely different from the UK. For example over there they get single outlets of certain franchises (macdonalds, kfc etc.) advertising on a local level, unlike in the UK where we only get the main corporate identity stuff on a national level. So it's entirely possible GW are only advertising in select areas.

Hellfury wrote:

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I mentioned there is nothing on Warseer. Being one of the biggest, you'd think someone would have flagged something up. And nothing from BoLS.

Just saying that it's such a radical departure for GW, you'd think more people would be talking about it.

Or people possibly don't find commercials particularly newsworthy. Especially if they go something like "Hi! This is redshirt jim over at GW's dollie emporium! Y'all come down and see us, ya hear?"

But then again, I suppose you do so I will let you gnaw in angst over the "ifs whens and hows" of a GW commercial.

Oh please, don't be dense. It's an odd enough occurence that someone would've commented on it. The fact that this thread is the only place it's mentioned anywhere is a pretty concrete sign that Padapolis is just stirring up the anthill to see what happens. The fact he didn't even think this through enough to mention a channel is telling too.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I mentioned there is nothing on Warseer. Being one of the biggest, you'd think someone would have flagged something up. And nothing from BoLS.

Just saying that it's such a radical departure for GW, you'd think more people would be talking about it.

You must not have seen the post from Chris, you know the guy that works for GW.....

What the hell? Wait a minute... this thread sucks!

mattyboy22 wrote:

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I mentioned there is nothing on Warseer. Being one of the biggest, you'd think someone would have flagged something up. And nothing from BoLS.

Just saying that it's such a radical departure for GW, you'd think more people would be talking about it.

You must not have seen the post from Chris, you know the guy that works for GW.....

And no GW Staff Member has ever been party to a wind up now, have they?

As I said, it's not impossible, I just think that there hasn't been a lot heard about it, and for such a big change in policy (no advertising to TV advertising, no matter how locally specialised) is a big enough change that I doubt the veracity of the OP's information.

If I am wrong, and the advert exists, then fair enough, I will stand corrected.

But come on, the OP said he set his DVR, and it wasn't to be seen. Now he could have set the time wrong, or programmed the wrong channel, sure. But I still have the default position of 'it's a wind up' until proven otherwise.

Adventure Games Plus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ran a commercial in the early 90's. Cool thing was they panned across a 40K battle scene and the orks I had painted for the store were shown.

hey thAT must of been pretty cool.

Hellfury wrote:Why in the world would there be rumors about commercials?

Seriously.

This type of news has to arrive from somewhere, and just because you 'didn't see it on warseer first' doesn't mean that it isn't happening.

Sheesh. Even chris golinghorst confirmed it.

Besides, it probably isn't that interesting. It just maybe....just maybe like what golinghorst described it as. Which to be honest doesn't sound that impressive. It sounds very similar to what you see on local TV about a new shop opening up in the delta shopping center in downtown wherever USA.

In other words, hardly news worthy, nor hardly unbelievable.

way to not even know what forum you're in.. YOU!! Pay More Attention!!

Holy Space Marine on a Stick.

This conversation has even begun to boggle my internet-hardened mind.

Here's one to blow your mind, we ran commercials a year ago to target audiences in Maryland.

Commercials have already happened, and continue to happen in very small, select markets in the US to gauge what effectiveness they have on local stores.

They are targeted at populations that don't know the product.

I'd be stunned if the very tiny sample of people that both know GW product AND post on forums would see them.

Sometimes I think people forget the infinitely small sample forum posters represent of an already small, niche hobby when compared to the thousands of millions of individuals in the US. It should not come as a surprise that a commercial can run in a market where there are not only people who might play our games but don't read forums (and thus never report seeing a commercial), but most likely nobody in that targeted market has ever heard of GW before.

The US is virtually untapped in comparison to the UK. The Games Workshop brand isn't even close to having the huge market penetration that it enjoys in the UK and even Europe.

Finally the commercial isn't a mind-blowing piece of animation or adventure like you would find at the beginning of a Dawn of War game. It is a simple, "these are toy soldiers, come to this store to find out more," affair.

Chris Gohlinghorst wrote:It is a simple, "these are toy soldiers, come to this store to find out more," affair.

Sounds awesome.

Chris Gohlinghorst wrote:Sometimes I think people forget the infinitely small sample forum posters represent of an already small, niche hobby when compared to the thousands of millions of individuals in the US. It should not come as a surprise that a commercial can run in a market where there are not only people who might play our games but don't read forums (and thus never report seeing a commercial), but most likely nobody in that targeted market has ever heard of GW before..

They know. They are also the loudest monkeys in the cage, so the quiet ones don't get noticed and thus the louder ones, due ot the ways monkeys learn, think that if you make noise and rattle the cage, that you will payed attention to..

I use this site as my source of information.. http://www.itmonkeys.net/fivemonkeysinacage/ We gamers are all just monkeys, we never got wet, but we know not to go up the daggone stairs..

gah multi-post.. I wish there was an option to delete.

my apologies again.. If a mod or admin would be able to take my multi-post spam off, that would be great..

it appears I have multi posted.. but my posts aren't showing up yet.. I'll delete them when I can actually see them.. my apologies for the spam.. lol

Can ya still post it on YouTube so us nerds can see it?

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:And yet a milestone for GW, who have never advertised before.

In the 90's(at least early 90's), GW advertised in Wizard Magazine.

So when can we expect it on Youtube?

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:So when can we expect it on Youtube?

Unless someone DVR's it and transfers it over, I doubt it'll hit there.

For our use, Youtube is out of the scope of why we're doing the commercial in a tightly targeted locale in very specific locations.

Chris Gohlinghorst wrote:Holy Space Marine on a Stick.

This conversation has even begun to boggle my internet-hardened mind.

I may have to sig this.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:So when can we expect it on Youtube?

It's been on utube for a month. Jervis sent everyone on dakka a PM and said, "Whatever you do, don't tell MDG." And then he made us sign in blood!

Well, I saw the commercial, roughly 7 pm, last night (Feb 24) on KOMO, a Seattle Washington station.

It started off with a shot of some green army men, and the male voice over says somethig to the efect of" Is this what you think toy soldiers looks like?"

Then it showed a quick succession of miniatures, I practically gak my pants, because i was laughing so hard... Couldn;t believe my eyes, but thre it was, showed some CoD buildings assembled, shot of a game, a Carnifex closeup, then mentioned something about come on in and try it out, then showed the Double Eagle, and talked about some place named Auburn? I assume a mall in Seattle where this GW is in.

A friend of mine saw it on the same channel, we laughed about it.

So yeah, it is true, GW commerical on US TV

Matt Varnish wrote:So yeah, it is true, GW commerical on US TV

You sir, are yet another liar in a long line of liars in this thread.

Everyone knows that it is simply not possible for GW to ever advertise outside of white dwarf magazine.

Besides, we didn't already hear about it before, so thus your statement is vapor.

dietrich wrote:

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:So when can we expect it on Youtube?

It's been on utube for a month. Jervis sent everyone on dakka a PM and said, "Whatever you do, don't tell MDG." And then he made us sign in blood!

You have broken the covenant betwixt GW and Dakka.

Please be seated in room 101 for re-education.

Appears I may stand corrected after all.

Still want to see it though.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Appears I may stand corrected after all.

Still want to see it though.

And just so people don't get their noses out of line, it is understandable that it appears incredulous that such a commercial would happen.

It IS out of character for GW to produce a commercial. The US business tends to push the envelope on many things and thus be the test bed for the world over for all kinds of endeavors. Not only will it leave customers in other countries scratching their heads as to the odd behavior... but we also tend to do the same to non-US staff.

It's the Wild West as it may be. Luckily every now and then something good comes out of it

Chris Gohlinghorst wrote:And just so people don't get their noses out of line, it is understandable that it appears incredulous that such a commercial would happen.

pffft. Everybody quick, point and laugh!

I don' tknow if anybody here has mentioned this, but there are some ANCIENT 40k live action commercials floating around on youtube if you can find them.

Chris Gohlinghorst wrote:Holy Space Marine on a Stick.

This conversation has even begun to boggle my internet-hardened mind.

Here's one to blow your mind, we ran commercials a year ago to target audiences in Maryland..

Hey, I saw that one! Kinda made me wonder why everyone was making big deal of this.

Well, apparntly OP is telling the truth.

As of now, 2 mins ago its on tv.

I didnt pay much attention till i heard WAAAAAAAA
i quickly turned and seen a bunch of players in black t shirt and wearing ork hat lol.
Then it turns to GW logo , metal back ground with announcements voice "Games Work shop (now?) in Supermall "

Which i assume is in USA

It was on channel 28 ( KCPQ , Usually Fox Seattle )

Now if i have no idea wth GW is, seeing that commercial will NOT HELP at all.
The commercial is a failure.

Sounds hilarious, I envision one of those really bad infomercials with the guy with the deep vioce exclaiming how wacked out and amazing this product is. That and bad camera pans of Battlefields lol.

Sure hope this ends up in YouTube.

I saw a GW commercial up north in washington... it was pretty good especially the Big WAAAGH!

Well i think i figured out why the rest of other dakka havnt seen it.

Only the Canadians / Americans near seattle washington see the GW supermall adverticement. ( located in seattle )

maybe local broadcasts?

@ratbarf , no the commercial is really REALLY poorly made. I think they need
to hire professional cameramen lol , everything is too dark, as if someone with home camcorder made it.

The Supermall store made the commercial? Now I HAVE to see it! I can only imagine what they've done....

Ratbarf wrote:Sounds hilarious, I envision one of those really bad infomercials with the guy with the deep vioce exclaiming how wacked out and amazing this product is. That and bad camera pans of Battlefields lol.

"You'll be saying Waaagh every time!"

Wow, the amount of facepalm in this thread is legendary. Sounds like it's a local commercial you'd see on cable access. GW must be trying to save a few bucks, or they're just advertising a new store opening.

A hobby company advertising on TV isn't outside the realms of possibility. GW did used to run commercials for their board games.

WotC ran a series of wonderfully awful commercials Magic:the Gathering.

"I'd say that first round went to the Orgg!"

Oh WotC, you so craaazy, what with your cheesy rubber costumes and Bob the accountant schitck.

The next series of "tragically hip" commercials weren't much better:

"Is there more to life that 500 channel TVs and zillion dollars movies?"

Uh... no?

"All you need is a brain, a deck, and a friend."

Yes, let's play collect little pieces of cardboard that have pictures of dragons on them. And then we have a game where we do math.

Whoever advertising agency did that commercial made out like a bandit.

The "Here I Rule" was worlds better, and actually captured the spirit of the game, and launched a sub-website to go with it.

Hopefully, if GW ever launches another national advertising campaign they can do something similar.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

here it is

http://www.circvsmaximvs.com/showthread.php?t=63919

Not the most impressive trailer is it...

oh and remember kids "Real gamers play face to face"... oh dear..

Seeing as how I tire of the 12-year-olds with whiny voices trash-talking on Xbox Live all the time, I actually kinda like the "face to face" remark...lol.

HEY COME ON DOWN TO GAMES WORKSHOP AND SPEND ALL YOUR MONEY!!!! ON SUPER COOL UNPAINTED PLASTIS SPRUES OMG A SM TACTICAL SQUAD ONLY 50 aus dollars OMFGROFLMAO BARGAIN

AND IF YOU HAVE KIDS THEN WATCH AS THEY SPEND ALL THEIR BIRTHDAY/CHRISTMAS MONEY ON ORKS/SPACEMARINES/TAU!!!!!!

There have been GW related adverts in the past.

I had an inkling I might find this on Youtube, and sure enough so it was:

Space Crusade

P.S. 'Ware thine eyes.

Alright, this looks like a hardcore game for me and my bras.

And yet a milestone for GW, who have never advertised before.

That's simply not true.
I'm stitting here looking at an issue of Dragon magazine from the late '80s with an ad for Rogue Trader as I type this. But yes, GW does not usually advertise outside their own poorly produced proganda rag. But to say they have never advertised is simply not true.

TR

GW had TV commercials when they sold LotR in bi-weekly issues in regular stores.

Just Watched it...

Well...

He wasn't too excited, but it sounds pretty...meh.

I saw an advert here on Dakka, but I can't remember where.

At my local GW the discussion comes up every once and a while... at while some people say it will boost sales drastically... it will also make GamesWorkshop stores even more of a baby sitting service then it already is... and the model molester thread will be full of great new stories! However alot of people (this is what managment says too) is that they just dont do commercials cause its how they like to work... They dont want to spread the hobby through tv but by mouth or w/e... Idk but I hope they dont do commercials... I dont want there to be any more pests running around breaking my stuff... sigh

It seems like every couple of months there's an "OMG GW made it's first commercial!" thread....

Hmmm... I smell the noisome odour of threadomancy...

The real gamers game face-to-face tag line is pretty catchy. That is one of the explanations I give quite often when talking about tabletop gaming, the face to face / camaraderie aspect that WH offers.

To see the pain and defeat in your opponents eye as the final round approaches and he is striving to salvage the game from a massacre to only a solid victory….mwhaaaa

Woah, and to think, i never believed this thread when it started. I'm actually not too dissappointed with the ad, it was'nt horriffic

physcosamatic wrote:AND IF YOU HAVE KIDS THEN WATCH AS THEY SPEND ALL THEIR BIRTHDAY/CHRISTMAS MONEY ON ORKS/SPACEMARINES/TAU!!!!!!

On just one box of Orks/Space Marines/Tau, at that.

Orlanth wrote:There have been GW related adverts in the past.

I had an inkling I might find this on Youtube, and sure enough so it was:

Space Crusade

P.S. 'Ware thine eyes.

Ha ha, that was awesome!

How come there were no girls in the commercial, one might get the impression that GW stores are a sausage party?!?

This is all I could find on youtube:
(sorry i dont know how to add th clip here, so i just copied the link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiXPCrDTveU

Sorry, it's NOT the first ever GW commercial in the USA. There have been brief TV ads in Maryland over the past couple years. They had very limited runs, only on certain cable channels, and generally only at times the rates were somewhat lower, but it has been done before.

For People who don't like following links (which is a GOOD THING YOU'RE ON THE INTERNET)

Models may vary LOL

or we are not liable for your broken models during gameplay

Holy crap... I don't believe it.

Please stop the madness....Please....

Please stop the madness....Please....

Too late I'm afraid. The madness is spreading. I saw this same topic posted in an almost identical way on another forum. I took the trouble to post there just as I did here early on that this is NOT the first time GW has run an advert on TV in the US. On the other hand, this isn't anywhere near the craziest rumor topic related to GW we're likely to hear, I'm sure there will be others with far more "madness" involved coming along shortly.

Here's a working youtube link of it.

Red9 wrote:Here's a working youtube link of it.

nice!