Rowan Atkinson Amstrad Ads?

zhulien · 12:24, 18 January 23

I might be remembering wrongly because I couldn't find any on youtube or any references on Google, but didn't Rowan Atkinson appear in a series of Amstrad CPC ads in the 80s?

Gryzor · 14:11, 18 January 23

Did he? I'd love to see them if true!

zhulien · 12:34, 20 January 23

I'm 99% sure it was definitely Rowan Atkinson - he even did his glasses with his elbows up using his hands as glasses

roudoudou · 13:05, 20 January 23

sure it was not a Sony advert?

zhulien · 17:46, 20 January 23

I grew up in New Zealand and the ad would have been between 1984 and 1987.

zhulien · 17:55, 20 January 23

Quote from: zhulien on 12:34, 20 January 23I'm 99% sure it was definitely Rowan Atkinson - he even did his glasses with his elbows up using his hands as glasses

He did something like this in it

https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-girl-making-fake-glasses-hands-smiling-image65737544

(unless it wasn't an Amstrad ad, but I am still pretty sure it was)

mahlemiut · 21:43, 20 January 23

Quote from: zhulien on 17:46, 20 January 23I grew up in New Zealand and the ad would have been between 1984 and 1987.

I don't remember ever seeing Amstrad adverts on TV down here (although I suppose that doesn't necessarily mean there weren't any).

zhulien · 05:55, 24 January 23

Maybe some lucky Amstrad owner can buy his car?

https://www.drive.com.au/news/rowan-atkinson-lancia-delta-integrale-auction/

Gryzor · 06:04, 24 January 23

Ah but it's not the mini...

Anthony Flack · 04:34, 30 January 23

Those Rowan Atkinson Amstrad ads definitely played on TV in New Zealand in the 1980s.

As mentioned, he did the hands-as-goggles thing, and as he did so he said "Biggles".

That's all I got.

zhulien · 13:10, 26 February 23

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/1993-lancia-a-f-integrale-evo-2-rec12124-1-stoneleigh-0223?el=19649&pn=1&pp=100

Sold for: £87,750

rebel1 · 11:37, 10 March 23

I may be misremembering, but Rowan Atkinson appeared in a number of Amstrad CPC commercials in the 1980s, despite my inability to find any references to him on YouTube or Google.

zhulien · 13:32, 16 November 24

Just watched this video... at 3.24 in you can see the NZ Grandstand print ads with Rowan Atkinson. His TV ad seems to have been lost until found i guess... hope someone one day finds it to capture and upload.

https://youtu.be/T14izU3WPrU?si=n7zCJbFdoOBUlL-m

zhulien · 13:46, 16 November 24

That magazine and other issues downloadable here... not a cpc-specific magazine but it does cover the cpc here and there. A time when computers were good and not all clones of each other.

https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/bits-and-bytes/index.htm

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