Smeg Ups Competition Leaflet

[John Hoare]

So, following a discussion on the Webboard where three people didn’t actually get a compo leaflet in their copy of the Smeg Ups VHS (and all three were the first version of the tape, which included the compo link) – did anyone here actually get a bloody leaflet? And if you did, could you scan it in? I’d love to see it…

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[Phil]

Mine had the compo link, but no leaflet. Of course, mine was also an American release, and they probably wouldn’t have bothered if the competition wasn’t open to us.

[Pete Part Three]

I seem to recall getting one. Smeg Ups/Smeg Outs are the only VHS’s I still own but not sure if it’s still in the case (they didn’t exactly get regular airings). I will have a look when I get home.

[TheLeen]

I’ll check my VHS cases at home if I don’t forget. But I inherited them, so any leaflets may have been thrown away. Been a while since I last watched so anything’s possible.

[Danny Stephenson]

Well ride me sideways! I’ve never noticed that.

Dunno whather this is what you’re talking about, but i found this folded in the sleeve.

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/681/smegupthingqq0.jpg

[Andrew]

There it is!

[Danny Stephenson]

Is that it?! Well I think the confusion starts with the fact that it wasn’t IN the case per se. it was attached to the front cover and folded inside so you could see it when you opened it up.

Could it have been there to be Guillotined and then placed inside, perhaps?

Anyways. Whoop!

[James]

Gah! Beat me to it! Great work Danny. I sent one off at the time, but still had the leaflet in a second copy I had, like you say hard to tell unless you directly looked at it, inside the clam case sleeve but under the cover and attached to the main cover, probably the only way to do it at the time. Still I didn’t win!

[Danny Stephenson]

Like you haven’t got enough stuff, James!!!

[John Hoare]

That’s fantastic Danny! Always weird to see something you’ve never seen before in Dwarf like that. Is there anything on the other side, or is it just blank?

It’s odd they were still using ths sans-serif version of the logo at that point, when the serif version had debuted two years previously. But the same could be said for V and VI, I guess. Presumably it was to keep consistency with the other Dwarf vids – the first ones to be released were Series 3 in 1991, which was before the new logo.

[Andrew]

> Presumably it was to keep consistency with the other Dwarf vids

Bless you for thinking it was deliberate…

[Danny Stephenson]

It’s blank. Which is weird because the rest of the cover isn’t.

[Joey TORDFC]

>> It?s odd they were still using ths sans-serif version of the logo at that point, when the serif version had debuted two years previously. But the same could be said for V and VI, I guess. Presumably it was to keep consistency with the other Dwarf vids – the first ones to be released were Series 3 in 1991, which was before the new logo.

I’m sorry but that is pure John Hoare gold. Brill.

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