Hornby – Scalextric

Campaign in 1998 (Christmas) by Lowe Howard-Spink for Scalextric (Hornby plc). New approach to motivate fathers to buy it for their sons, to play together.
Agency: Lowe Howard-SpinkAuthor: Guy Lambert

For Boys of All Ages: The Repositioning of Scalextric

INTRODUCTION

If you are a man and you are somewhere between the ages of 25 and 45, you might be picking up this submission with just a little bit of a twinkle in your eye. Scalextric ehdo you rememberthat sixwheeler Tyrrell that your mate had that you so badly coveted, beating your dad rotten with your all conquering JPS Lotus, your mum complaining that she was fed up of the thing taking up the whole of the dining room and if that dent in...

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