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NetRodent
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:11 pm

I was squandering time, when I came across this blast from the past:

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/61/

Anyone have any links to other D&D related commercials?

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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:27 pm

I missed the Red Dragon in B2. Must've been in the Cave of the Unknown. :wink:

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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:46 am

Their gaming desk is the most barren I've ever seen...

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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:03 am

NetRodent wrote:I was squandering time, when I came across this blast from the past:

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/61/

Anyone have any links to other D&D related commercials?

That was so amazing (for me) I put the news and link on one of my websites! It was so... retrÃ²!

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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:02 am

VermilionFire wrote:Their gaming desk is the most barren I've ever seen...

No beer, No cigarettes, No pizza, No peanut butter sandwiches.

An tÃ© nach mbÃonn lÃ¡idir nÃ follÃ¡ir dÃ³ bheith glic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ajduHx5hc

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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:21 am

heh funny commercial - never seen any of them before

i tell you what though, there is no WAY i would game on a table like that....way too small and i like loads of room to DM with nobody close to me. i normally have bowls full of food too, like crisps, peanuts etc so hey not a chance!

fun to watch though thats for sure

wonder if any of them in the ad ever see that and look back and think "OMG WTF was i doing?!!"

Are we nearly there yet?

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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:52 am

Has anybody seen these on Youtube?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgT33Z4M ... commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycLc1QZn ... %20dragons

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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:38 pm

jasonw1239 wrote:Has anybody seen these on Youtube?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgT33Z4M ... commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycLc1QZn ... %20dragons

JasonW

I've seen the Colbert one (which is great), but the D&D Book for Dummies commercial was new.

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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:48 pm

The D&D for Dummies is not a spoof (if anybody is wondering).

There was a real book published under that title. :lol:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076458 ... 32?ie=UTF8

(something else for the completists to watch for)

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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:15 pm

jasonw1239 wrote:The D&D for Dummies is not a spoof (if anybody is wondering).

There was a real book published under that title.

I know the book is real, but that ad has to be a joke.

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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:28 pm

I actually met Len Lakofka at Gen Con X...
All in all a sad day in Badabaskor...
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:56 pm

NetRodent wrote:

I know the book is real, but that ad has to be a joke.

Afraid not....

Here is the direct link from the Dummies Book website

http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/Dummies ... age-1.html

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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:14 am

The girl in the D&D commercial from the early 80's is Jami Gertz. You may remember her from The Lost Boys or more recently as the woman who brushed her teeth with a toothbrush that fell in Jerry Seinfeld's toilet. As for everyone else in that commercial, I have no idea who they are, but I am curious as to which animation studio worked on those pre D&D cartoon animated segments.

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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:16 pm

Actually, the "toothbrush" girl on Seinfeld was the hot one from Sex and the City.

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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:54 pm

Tharizdun wrote:Actually, the "toothbrush" girl on Seinfeld was the hot one from Sex and the City.

Ok, back to lurking

Exactly. The episode that Jami Gertz was in was the one where she is the phone sex operator that Kramer talks to and the one who could not "spare a square" to Elaine in the bathroom at the movie theater.

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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:05 pm

Oh yeah.

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