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Travelocity Commercial features the Gnome, just saw it on TV.

I JUST SAW IT TOO! THAT VERY SAME GNOME HE IS MISSING IS JUST EXACTLY LIKE THE ONE TRAVELOCITY HAS IN THEIR COMMERCIALS!! THAT IS WHY I AM TRYING TO FIND HIS WEBSITE SO I CAN TELL ON THEM!! HAHAHA

I KNEW it had to be some really clever marketing ploy. I love finding crazy stuff like this. :)

Hope the gnome didn't find it's way to the Big Brother house. He might be a goner.

BTW- The newspaper ad has also shown up in the Indianapolis Star.

I think I saw the gnome in a stray dogs jaws. Sorry. I hope that wasn't it.

I love gnomes... I noticed Bill's "ad", in the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner (THE major newspaper in SF!!) ... It was listed three times accross about five pages... THAT is some big marketing money... we'll just have to see what happens... :)

I saw the web sight as well. It is actually pretty hilarious.

If you read through the sight, he goes on to add other sights just like it as well as linking information about travelocity and how his gnome has been traveling with his captors.

I would not be surprised if this turns out to be a ploy by a travelocity agent that is trying to make it good with his company.

Either way, it is a pretty good sight. I still pass it around to friends.

One's in danger of getting bubbles up one's whoopsey-daisy!

I have seen the Whereismygnome.com ad in movie theaters while waiting for the movie to start in Utah.

See http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/3296161 for more info.

Also, If you have ever see the Domino's commercial for Domino's Dots (kid running down the street about to get crushed by a giant cheesey dough ball) the Gnome also is in that ad and gets bonked by the rolling Domino Dot - I could swear the name of the Gnome in the Travelocity commercial is Dottie Bonkers - What does anyone else think?

BigMike

Well whether this a joke or not,i know how you feel,i got my gnome stolen outta my front yard(a present from my secret sister)my co-workers joke all the time that they see him on TV (the Bill commercials)i've been so sad ever since! hope you find him!!!

You might call it a big marketing ploy, but I know for a fact that Bill's Gnome was actually just bored and looking for a way to get out and see the world. This Travelocity gig came along and he jumped on it. I had the pleasure of meeting him earlier this year when he came through SF on his travels, and I played tour guide for him for the day. Maybe one day I'll be lucky enough to have my own sponsor too!

I just received an email saying that someone had stolen a man's gnome. He could not find it, but received many pictures in his mailbox of his gnome in many famous places around the world(which are the pics on the Travelocity commercials). But just recently after three years of a lost gnome, it showed up back in the front yard with a note attached saying, "I had a lot of fun on my adventure around the world." So...some strange person traveled with it while taking pics of it from all over the world...sent them to the owner of the gnome...then returned it with a note that was supposedly written by the gnome. So you see, if it hasn't been returned to you...then Travelocity isn't responsible for your stolen gnome. But I hope you find him anyway.

It's not MY gnome. It's BILL's gnome...which IS the Travelocity gnome. It's a very old thing...the stealing of gnomes, which became popular in the 80s in Europe...stealing them and taking pictures of them. Travelocity just took off with it and came up with a clever marketing scheme that featured the gnome.

The thing that annoys me about the Travelocity commericals is that they could have tried to make the gnome look better in the locales, rather than super-imposing his picture into everything. I mean, Ludwig the gnome is in all his own pictures...shouldn't Bill be too?

Have you given Joe's mom and brother their gnomes yet? They are cute. Would LOVE to go to the police auction when they sell the gnomes. :)

I think all the fame The Roaming Gnome is getting if fabulous; and know for a fact that this gnome is enjoying all his travelling because he is being looked after by the great group of folks at Travelocity!

There have been a number of gnomes making it in commercials ... exposure is great ... and Amelie is a super movie! I've watched it quite a few times now.

Has anyone found a website where you can purchase bill look-alikes?

You'll find him in Alaska-- Nome, Alaska. ;p

where can i see the commercial of the travelocity traveling gnome....the newer one when he is in europe?

Gnomes are seriously classy and so oddly interesting! I honestly CANNOT get enough of them!!! They are eye candy to me- but they have to be simple- just standing statues with nothing elabourate. Amelie definatley brought out the best in garden gnome lovers! ;)

Im hoping by posting this here that travelocity will start selling the gnomes lol. My 13 yr old daughter is going nuts wanting one of these things. Gnomes are sooo cool

I had 3 concrete gnomes and someone stole 2 of them and kept the for 6 months, they cleaned them up and then one morning I went to go get in my car they had brought them back. They set one right by my car and the other one on my mailbox.

I was glad to get them back. Now the 3 of them are in my back yard under lock and key.

Maybe Bill will get his back. I wish you luck.

Does anybody know where to buy one of the Travelocity gnomes? I have searched the web for one and CANNOT find one just like him. Please post if you know a website. THANKS!

Gina

Hey...when I saw the Travelocity commercials the first time I thought...hey that's just nuts!! When I was in college in Chattanooga, Tennessee back around 97-98 and was hanging out with friends on the "Walking Bridge" there...we ran into a gnome. Some other college kids had stolen a gnome and took it on vacay with them to Arizona and other places...taking pics and such. They were pulling it around in a little red wagon. We set it up on a bench with my friend Levi's guitar and put the guitar case with a few coins in it on the ground in front...making it look like he was playing for change!! Pictures were taken and that was that!! Then I see the Travelocity commercials years later and busted out laughing...no way could that be the same gnome!! It probably isn't, but wouldn't it be so funny if one of those college kids went on the be the one to come up with Travelocity's gnome campaign?

I happened to see the new Travelocity commercial with the couple coming back from their vacation into their hotel room. Does anyone know which one I'm referring to?? Well, I liked the commercial, but my question is this: What is the "slow jam" playing in the background?? I happened to hear the same exact tune on a Cinnomon Toast Crunch commercial with the guy sounding like Berry White or someone, and he's watching his wife eat her cereal; LOL. NAME THAT TUNE???

HELP!!!anyone seen the add around christmas where you can get gnomes with their own seriel numbers on them so you can track them if lost or stolen? apparently there is a site where people can look up their gnomes and find out what they've been up to and/or display photos and log the travels of their own gnomes.let me know i want to take my gnome to vegas soon.