I was going through an old German magazine the other day and came across this ad, which I thought worth sharing:
At first it doesn’t look like much. I mean after all, it’s just a train set, right? Actually, it’s a little more subtle than that. It’s called the “Stop-den-castor-start-set” which would translate as “Stop the nuclear train beginner’s set”. The ‘castor’ refers to a canister holding nuclear waste that was sent to Germany for reprocessing. Every couple of years these are sent from France and there are inevitable riots and then more riots. Here’s a photo from the 2006 installment:
If you look closely at the ad, you can see the following:
- A protester has tied himself to the tracks (top)
- In the middle are farm equipment (used to block the tracks) and protesters (carrying placards saying “We’re against this”)
- In the bottom is a sample of what the actual ‘castor’ looks like: a massive container mounted on a flatbed
I thought it a great ad and worth sharing. The paper also gets a bonus for their slogan: “The traditional paper for the new philistines.”