Commercials with roller coasters

[TheHulk]

If this topic has been discussed already, please go ahead and lock the thread. I believe we had a topic for movies with roller coasters, but what about commercials. The latest one I've seen is for Alltel featuring Silver Bullet.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvQOrjugLH0

[eddie200330]

So, with the people in the last year or so that have died doing stupid crap like this, is it really responsible of a major company to produce a commercial promoting "going over the fence" to get cool stuff? Seems pretty idiotic to me.....

[netdvn]

I remember seeing a thread about that commercial on another forum. Here it is.

 

http://coasterbuzz.com/Forums/Thread/55358.aspx

[Top Thrill Dragster]

So, with the people in the last year or so that have died doing stupid crap like this, is it really responsible of a major company to produce a commercial promoting "going over the fence" to get cool stuff? Seems pretty idiotic to me.....

 

Not really, if you pause the video 0:04 you can clearly see the fence blocking the guest from the ride. And the area where the guest are, there is no fence blocking it off. So this video dose not promote "going over the fence" to get cool stuff.

 

And in real life, there is no grass where the guest are, its part of the midway.

[Bolliger&Mabillard]

Cedar Fair and grass in the same sentence? Was that a typo?

[WFChris]

^Only possible in the context that it was used...pointing out that there is NO grass in that location in real life!!!!

 

Chris.

[cathyJ]

Back in the 60s and early 70's, Norfolk, VA's WGH-AM 1310 ( Norfolk's big rock station at the time ) in some of their TV ads featured The Rocket at Ocean View Amusement Park.

 

Back in those day I believe WGH had a small remote studio at the park either right next to or UNDER the Rocket and yes because of the location often one would hear the Rocket and the screams...on WGH.

[CHILLERLC1]

There was just a Mazda ad with the I believe the Coney Island Cyclone?

 

Is that how the Altel empire is going to end in commercials? I know Verizon now owns them.

[JFrombaugh]

The only commercial with a coaster in it that I can remember off the top of my head was that old one for Aflac where the goose screams "Aflaaaac!" when the train goes down a drop. I think the coaster was either Magnum or Steel Force.

[k_peek_2000]

At IOA I saw somebody go into a restricted zone near Dueling Dragons and picked up an iPhone and walked off with it. I told a security guard, but never found out what happend.

[bhslhs]

The western washington Mazda dealers have a drop on Twister from Elitch Gardens in Denver as a symbol of the economy.

[CHILLERLC1]

Maybe they tazed them.

[Rollerman87]

I remember hearing about when they filmed that I had been wanting to see that AllTell commercial.

 

As for other commercials, I know I keep seeing one where it shows a split second of Colossus, but I can't remember which.

[clecktown]

 

A Channel 4 UK one, featuring Jaguar! at KBF.

At 0:26, the floating signs make the Channel 4 logo (smarts!).

[gerd.muller]

Tried hard to find the pure commercial, but only found that one with the "Making-of", but it´s fun, too.

The commercial itself starts at 2.40.

 

 

[TheHulk]

^ That's a neat commercial. They might have a porsche for zero cars now. Lol. (Note the obvious sarcasm)

[kumba830]

Here are a few....

 

 

 

 

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

 

Not exactly a coaster but there is air time

[BuschSchoe]

I believe Goliath in Canada is the coaster in this commercial?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvDe8eH7040&feature=channel_page

[DiSab]

^haha, I was just about to post that. Yeah, that's Goliath at La Ronde.

[expeditioneverestfan]

As for other commercials, I know I keep seeing one where it shows a split second of Colossus, but I can't remember which.

 

Bing commercial. Pause it at 00:24

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy7Grx3fb2M

 

I've also seen a McDonalds commercial where they say: Someone even has to test the coasters, and they show someone riding Goliath at SFMM. Then at the end they show someone eating a Big Mac with Viper running in the background.

 

Car Commercial

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8JXnUqergs

[CorkscrewFoley]

As much as I love coaster commercials, I have to say I despise and loathe the Ride Warriors commercials. Just when I thought Cedar Fair couldn't get any more lame, they out do themselves.

 

I remember the Starburst advert though...oh nostalgia.

[cal1br3tto]

^Wow, I can't stand that whole Ride Warriors thing. Unbelievably grating. Just, no. no. no.

 

I love the Silverwood commercial! It shows this man just sitting and chillin', interspersed with images of the cute, family rides...like those adorable flying elephants. Then the man gets turned face down, his expression changes completely, and we realize he's on Aftershock! It makes it look like he just realized it as well. I think the dialogue is cool as well but I can't remember what they say.

I'm sure this advertising concept has been done before, but it's the first time I've seen it, anyway.

[Kennyweird]

I remember a commercial where some guy bends a paper clip into a loop and then that design somehow ends up as part of a roller coaster. Does anybody else remember that?

[CheeseburgerZoo12]

^You might be thinking of a documentary about Arrow's design process.

[nhman93]

The Free Credit Report Band is back with a new jingle, this one was filmed on Goliath at La Ronde

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvDe8eH7040

 

 

 

 

PS. Its kinda funny there singing a song about debt at a Six Flags park