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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