You know I think I need a therapist after seeing this...

[AggroJones]

Looks like you guys got your wish. I don't see the video intro on their wbsite anymore. Sad, I was looking forward to it for a good laugh this morning......

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jwareing

I use Mozilla with Adblock, so I couldn't see whatever it is. And I am sooooooo disappointed.
Should I be?

concider yourself lucky
Gearhead426
in a very confused state....

[%-)]

[Anonymous]

Forget the therapist.

Im sorry I even opened the animation. I think the execs got swept away by the song and dance.

[mecovey]

I think (and I'm open to the suggestion that I'm wrong) this effort just may answer the age old question "How dumb can you get"

[jeffshultz]

I think they've figured out that it's screwed up - they had at least one or two elequent teens on their forum tell them that they'd missed the target completely.

I suggested they stick Trainman in a MP15DC, let the dog sit on the anticlimber and howl, and have the other characters doing railroad things - switching cars, fixing engines, whatever.... and end it by pulling out to show that this was all taking place on a layout, controlled by a kid with a DCC throttle in his/her hand.

I hope they at least think about it. The music could even be saved. Just not the band or the moonwalking by the dog.

[TrainFreak409]

You know...

I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room. Rubber room, rubber room, rubber room. I love that rubber room. I died in that rubber room. They put me in the ground. The ground has worms. I hate worms! Worms make me crazy...I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room. Rubber room, rubber room, rubber room. I love that rubber room. I died in that rubber room. They put me in the ground. The ground has worms. I hate worms! Worms make me crazy...I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room. Rubber room, rubber room, rubber room. I love that rubber room. I died in that rubber room. They put me in the ground. The ground has worms. I hate worms! Worms make me crazy...I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room. Rubber room, rubber room, rubber room. I love that rubber room. I died in that rubber room. They put me in the ground. The ground has worms. I hate worms! Worms make me crazy...I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room. Rubber room, rubber room, rubber room. I love that rubber room. I died in that rubber room. They put me in the ground. The ground has worms. I hate worms! Worms make me crazy...I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room. Rubber room, rubber room, rubber room. I love that rubber room. I died in that rubber room. They put me in the ground. The ground has worms. I hate worms! Worms make me crazy...

[TrainFreak409]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

Looks like you guys got your wish. I don't see the video intro on their wbsite anymore. Sad, I was looking forward to it for a good laugh this morning......

You can still laugh Aggro, they have a link to it underneath the logo on the home page.

[Anonymous]

I just came in to see what the newest topic was. I wish I had never turned on the computer...oh,God...another spurt of nausea...[banghead]

[MStLfan]

Just watched it. It is tasteless and I did not expect it of a company like Atlas.
This is what I expect from websites like madblast.com.
Marc

[MAbruce]

A few days ago, the Atlas Pres posted a reply on their O scale forum to address all the criticism. He elaborated on what drove their decision to use this web company (that does web greeting cards) to do this Ad in order to target 5-15 year olds.

He also made an interesting comment that he had never seen such a reaction in his 25 years in the MRR industry, and seemed completely perplexed by it. He ranted that it was a wholesome ad and could not understand why people were reacting so negatively to it.

A few members, including a couple in the target demographic, chimed in and elaborated why they thought it was bad (they used other terms which the Atlas forum moderators deemed inappropriate).

Later that day, the whole topic was “accidentally deleted” by the Atlas moderators while attempting to remove the inappropriate comments. They claimed they could not recover the topic.

Not long after, the Atlas trainman webpage was restructured so the AD didn’t play first.

Interesting.

I wonder when the Trainman ad will get “accidentally deleted”?

[trainboyH16-44]

Hopefully, soon!
Actually, I still wach it from time to time, when I need a good laugh, but not that good, and a healthy sense of confusion.