Dec 15 2009OLD!: 1970's Stop-Motion LEGO Commercial

Suck it bitches

Good commercial is good

u suck nits larry

I was excited about being the first post and would like to apologize to all bitches. You do not have to suck it.

That's awesome!

LAWLZ! You crack me up, GW. Can I host my own blog site on this webpage? I want to call it "Geekopoly." It combines my love for Geekologie and the sport of Monopoly

That laugh at the end wasn't creepy at all...

What was the FIRST line??? Everything else was legible (to an extent)
Legos seem... cooler back then D:

Yeah, that announcer sounds like the type of wonky dude that gets fired from his job for breaking his hip.*

Nice commercial. Lego did good with that add in the 1970's. Do they still advertise, though? I can't think of any Lego commercials, but that might be because I don't watch the little kid shows that Lego would target their ads to.

*By falling off his barstool at "lunch" of Guiness and Jameson.

That advert is actually being aired on british TV at the moment.

I should know, i am one.

My favorite was the dog- "ah-ruff-ruff" LOL

The voiceover is Tommy Cooper.
Best.Magician.Ever. Makes Gandalf look like....Wizbit

Not to sould cliched. But old.
Really really old.

LITERALLY older than the internet.

This guy wasn't even hired. I think he was just on a lot acid, got lost, somehow ended up in the studio where they were filming this commercial, walked into the fresh fruit and cocaine table... catching the attention of the lego people who just found him amusing and let him stay. No paycheck though. True story.

I'm a British too... and i think its Tommy Cooper who does the voice over

Lego commercials these days are all the lego theme games. Lego rockband anyone? I remember the old 80's commecials that always screamed at you "Legomaniac! WOW! What a Difference!"... wait I think I mixed in a 80s Blockbuster commercial

That was cool!

they are showing that in the run up to christmas in england, really clever ad

OH DEAR LORD! Having spent first 13 years of my life overseas, I do so remember those commercials! EPIC! I can't BELIEVE you dug that up! I remember I used to watch these sort of commercials of lego on the telly *see what you made me do here???*

Someone call the bobby, I am going to go jump off my window now.

BTW, guys. Is the reference of *mice vs elephant* a common knowledge in the US? I honestly don't know.

I remember that's a common saying in England, and that also is the rule for a popular chinese chess game.

cool

I wish Lego was still that cheap. In those days £20 would get you more Lego than your puny childhood muscles could lift. True story.

Aww GW why did you have to bring the British stereotype about teeth into this.
thats just mean.

Tommy Cooper is a plague. Not that he's infections. Not that you can't help but get him.
He kills people.

@22 and some left over for a pick'n'mix.

Actually, I wan't even born in the 1970s. I was born in the 90s. And I have never owned a dog. And I do not like the newer simpsons. And I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

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

And I'm from Ireland. Well. Sort of.

I thought the same thing about bringing up a rather lame and tediously dated stereotype about British teeth...just odd.

Tommy Cooper was a old school (even in the 70's) comedian. He died on stage and in front a TV audience in 1984 http://dumpalink.com/videos/The-death-of-tommy-cooper-first-time-on-the-inter.html

I love this ad its awsome and still going now. why did you have to bring up our teeth GW its like us saying your fat lazy guys who shoot each other...oh wait

How far it has come! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsWFFuYZYI

Re:- The 70's Lego ad it is'nt Tommy Cooper doing the voiceover it was the comedian Russ Abbott !!

@30, you're right. So many epic fails thinking it was Tommy Cooper. *shakes head, tuts, scratches bum*

"Legible", Momo-Deary? Really?

I understood every word of it....and I'm not even British. I transcribed the commercial below, in case anyone was wondering.
"You see, I was standing outside my mouse hole the other day when, all of a sudden, along comes this cat. So quick as a flash I turned into a dog, ah-ruff-ruff, but the cat turned into a dragon. So I turned into a fire engine. Hows that? Uhhuhhuhhauh. And then, and then he turned into a submarine. So I became a submarine eating kipper. I said a kipper not a slipper. Thank you very much. Uhhuhhuhhauh. But he turned into an anti-kipper ballistic missile. So I turned into a missile cruncher. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. Just in time to see him change into a very, very big elephant. So you know what I did then? I turned back into a mouse and gave him the fright of his life, just like that. Uh HAHAHEHEHE."

That was a great commercial!

Tommy Cooper terrifies me along with Robin Williams and Ken Dodd.

If it was Russ Abbott, then he was certainly impersonating Tommy Cooper.

As for 'bad teeth', god, step away from old stereotypes ffs.

The man in the advert is supposed to be Tommy Cooper, an Anglo-Welsh comedian who famously died doing his job: comedian...ing. However, this is an impressionist of him. And no, neither of them had smelly teeth. Hope this helps.

I'm pretty sure it's the real Tommy Cooper. Do all Americans think they are Irish?
People of America, know this - Tommy Cooper was and still is a British institution. You insult him, you insult us.
So play nice. :)

they are showing that in the run up to christmas in england, really clever ad..