Newly Discovered!! Dream Machine Yume Kojo '87 Lawson Commercial (With Subtitles)

I was going through some old video and noticed a commercial for Yume Kojo '87! When I looked closer, I noticed that this commercial was something I had not seen before! So, let me share it!
If you have time after that, why not watch the two videos I made about Yume Kojo in the past?
What Was Yume Kojo? (2016 version) • What Was Yume Kojo? or...
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[@kapparomeo]

What makes GTV stand out from so many other channels is that you actually live in Japanand so can tap into the ninutiae of primary sources that everyone relying on reading secondhand articles can't replicate.

[@fixedfunshow]

I will add my two cents: I also hate people taking the US as the saint or the default of videogames, if Nintendo of America doesn't do something it gets ignored by a lot of people or when they talk about popular games is always in the US perspective and not the Japan perspective too, seeing how Nintendo is based on Japan. Of course not all do this, but the number is high enough for me to notice.

[@jescis0]

​@@fixedfunshowwell, for a time we were both in our own worlds initially! What Japan did was in Japan and what USA did was USA. Atari only named themselves "Atari" because the company's owner thought it sounded Japanese! As well as Atari being the face of video games in the USA! Even I never knew or thought(even back when they were new) that Space Invader's and Pac-Man were made in Japan! I know better than that now, but I was just a kid when they came out back then! As I was born in 1977! So knowing what I know now, I respect the Japanese for their contributions and culture! I just wish I could actually get my passport and take my seizure meds to Japan and visit! So I can get it off my bucket list! 😉😉 When I DO go to Japan I want to go to two or three prefectures/cities… Akihabara, Kyoto and maybe Edo… the last one because of the history of Japan! 😉😉

[@napoleonfeanor]

@fixedfunshow me too. I hate it when American is seen as synonymous with "Western" and all the other different countries are thus taken as being like America

[@GTV-Japan]

Many Japanese do that. They see a non Asian face and bingo you’re automatically a hamburger eating yankee cowboy. 🤠 however I often have people ask me if I’m Canadian or British. Probably because I’m polite well dressed and not 300 lbs

[@PopoTCG]

​@@napoleonfeanorcant help but be the best country on Earth.

[@mightyfilm]

They really pushed this thing, didn't they? I'm surprised they didn't have a full series anime leading up to the launch of the event.

[@DasNordlicht91]

I imagine if it did have an anime, it'd be a loose adaptation of Doki Doki Panic's plot, and timed to release with the game.

[@j-555]

That whole event looked incredible. Wish I could experience something like that.

[@CarletonTorpin]

I’ll be humming that “Unintelligible Lawson Jingle” all day now.

[@DasNordlicht91]

you bet your butt I sung "Unintelligible Lawson Jingle" to the music.

[@escopeto7849]

Thank you VERY much for sharing this🎉

[@darktetsuya]

cool to have this one archived! man what a cool event I'm definitely still jealous of the Japanese kids and families that got to go to this thing.

[@jescis0]

I KNOW RIGHT?! SO JEALOUS!! 🤩🤩

[@iloverandombox]

Thanks for this!!! I would die for an Imajin plush from that event 😔😔

[@GTV-Japan]

Those did exist.

[@Vulpas]

"Click on a video already!!" I saw them all, I'm ready for more! 😂

[@NuevaBestia]

Thank you for preserving this

[@uncledot1868]

Very nice. I love lost media.

[@garshanarny]

Great video quality too!

[@DontKnowDontCare6.9]

Wow I didn't even know Lawson was in the market for that long.

[@defunctchannel942]

Lawson was founded in Ohio in 1939.

[@GTV-Japan]

They opened in Japan in the early 70s but weren't called Lawson for a few years later. They were very prolific in Ohio and nearby states and I had one in my neighborhood growing up. Then it became Dairy Mart.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

​@@defunctchannel942Yep. There used to be one down the street from me!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

​@@GTV-JapanThat's what happened to mine. The building is still near me but is now a day care.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

​@@GTV-Japankzbin.info/www/bejne/oV6mZoGofcmHgcU&feature=share8

[@garlandstrife]

OMG THIS IS AMAZING!!! Thanks for sharing GTV! What's really puzzling is that several Yume Kojo CMs and other media has progressively disappeared from YT. I hope this one isn't taken down.

[@GTV-Japan]

I don’t know but some like Satoshi Matrix are still there. Probably those channels just self deleted.

[@dsmania]

The quality of this video is awesome for a domestic recording from 37 years ago.

[@belstar1128]

The sound could be better

[@CushionSapp]

Ah man, there aren't any Lawson stores near me. How am I supposed to get tickets to Yume Kojo '87 now?

[@GTV-Japan]

Scalper.

[@GU__NI]

Imajin if they brought back the festival again :D

[@8232Bittzz]

😄that's awesome. stuff like this is a total time capsule

[@Mr.Peanut1986]

Pretty neat!

[@dood077]

I can't make out the whole jingle either but I'm pretty sure the first bit is 「空いてます」then something-something 「ローソン！」

[@GTV-Japan]

Yeah I thought so too. The voice over covers the start so all I can hear is ています I think it says あなたのローソン which makes sense. Family mart is called anata no konbini. But my ears just can’t confirm it

[@AlanJones1984]

@@GTV-Japan I'm 99% sure it says 空いてますあなたのローソン and my wife (who is Japanese - I live in Japan, too) says it does to. I'm assuming it was the company tagline at the time, so if another Lawson ad from '87 was checked, it could probably be easily confirmed.

[@GTV-Japan]

Yeah I think so. I looked at other cms they all had the same jingle but the sound is not clear

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

Epic

[@EvaFull]

More #LostMedia from Japan if possible. This is such an awesome find.

[@GTV-Japan]

Sure, when I find some. That's the issue with "unknown unknowns" they are they ones we don't know that we don't know.

[@39zack]

Cool 😀

[@Riz2336]

and then we got US Mario 2..

[@thewingedavenger1007]

Kewl

[@igodreamer7096]

Interesting, huh

[@BENULTIMAN2000]

Did they actually sell Tickets to the Yume Kojo Festival at all major participating Lawson Convenient Stores back in the Summer of 1987 ????

[@GTV-Japan]

Yes. Certainly.

[@Rationalific]

Do you get most of your Japanese commercial clips from KZbin or another internet source, or did your family tape all of these back in the 1980s and 1990s if they were living in Japan...or if not either of these, how do you come across them generally? I guess "newly discovered" for this one would mean that it's not likely on KZbin, but I often wonder how such videos are discovered.

[@GTV-Japan]

I found this on an hard drive of a long file of various commercials that I forgot about. I think I was looking for microwaves and stuff at the time. But I was bored and went thru the whole thing and bammo.

[@Rationalific]

@@GTV-Japan I see! Nice find! I lived in Japan before, and did tape some videos (in the 2000s). If a convenient to use tape player ever comes my way, I may have to give them a look...

[@GTV-Japan]

Every station I used to work at had what we called “the drop down machine” that digitized tapes 24/7

[@Rationalific]

@@GTV-Japan 👍

[@RabbitEarsCh]

Wow, you've been able to buy tickets for stuff at conbinis for THAT long? I thought it must have at least been a mid-90s thing, but sure enough... To this day, I notice Lawson is quite popular as the partner for selling concert tickets over Famima or 7-11.

[@GTV-Japan]

That’s not all Lawson Ticket Magazine (tm) basically a paid advertisement actually has some amazing interviews with musicians whose tix are on sale at the time. Even Nobuo Uematsu when his jazz band was going around. I still have that one. Very interesting stuff !

[@ikagura]

*Bong*

[@GTV-Japan]

It was that or dong.

[@Matixmer]

Lost Media no more!

[@belstar1128]

Heck i missed it i am too late what was a doing at the time... checks calendar..... apparently i wouldn't be born until a few years later.

[@GTV-Japan]

Well I mean it’s not 1985 now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

[@belstar1128]

@@GTV-Japan maybe i will live long enough to see yume kojo 2087. or at least they should do one in the near future. like 2027. why not make this a once in every 5 year event.

[@GTV-Japan]

Honestly I think that since the creator of the whole thing died soon after the company did not continue it out of respect for him. But that isn’t to say similar things happen in smaller events all the time.

[@nicholascooney]

"Lawson Food Store" Huh? What was that?

[@GTV-Japan]

A store with food named Lawson.

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

A convenience store similar to 7-Eleven or Circle-K. Lawson was founded in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA in 1939 by dairy owner J.J. Lawson. Sometime after Lawson folded in 1985 in the United States and sold most of their American locations to Circle-K, their international locations, including those found in Japan, continued to soldier on under new ownership for a long time after their exit from the United States (much like Woolworth Mexico, Sears Mexico, Toys "R" Us Canada and Kmart Australia, for example, all of which were started by American companies, or started by American companies as a joint venture with another international retailer, like in Kmart Australia's case, a joint venture between S.S, Kresge Co. of the U.S. and Coles New World Supermarkets of Australia from 1969-1994, before being sold off). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_(store) Lawson is planning a return to the United States, starting with a few locations in Hawaii before opening stores in the lower 48 and Alaska...

[@NoelComiX]

Nice!!!!!

[@Dilios_of_Sparta]

LAWSON CS Hot Station

[@Bangledash]

夢工場x唐揚げ君コラボ🍗

[@pferreira1983]

I wonder if this is known about or archived by the company?

[@GTV-Japan]

No and no.

[@pferreira1983]

@@GTV-Japan You're the most important person to them right now then. 😂

[@GTV-Japan]

Yay.

[@kingOFGAMESPRO975]

imajin is mute character

[@GTV-Japan]

No. He can talk!

[@kingOFGAMESPRO975]

@@GTV-Japan yes

[@白いメガネでーす]

Um.... Actually. This CM is not lost media. Considering that one channel actually found it 3 months ago! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWitd394q6iipcU

[@GTV-Japan]

I did upload this to Odysee first back in April then showed it in some videos after that, seeing it anyone would ask about it. No one did T_T

[@B3anbutgreen]

Japan is so weird

[@GTV-Japan]

Really? I hadn’t noticed