Walkers Crisps 

One of the ads shows Gary recovering in hospital, lying on a hospital bed and enjoying a bag of Walkers MixUps. After taunting his visitors with the snacks, they gain revenge by operating the bed’s remote control and causing it to fold rapidly in half.

Starting with a real hospital bed and modifying the mechanism with air rams, we enabled the bed to fold in half like a bear trap. To achieve the look of Gary’s legs being folded up to meet his head, the mechanism was designed like a magician’s box, with dummy legs where Gary’s real legs should have been.

The second ad sees Gary take on the role of a handyman who arrives at an elderly woman's home to fix her stairlift. When he refuses to share his packet of Walkers crisps, the old lady decides to take drastic action: pulling on a lever and firing Gary up the staircase at high speed and out of the window!

To achieve this effect, we built a stair-lift with a mechanism that enabled Gary to move all the way up the stairs within about two and half seconds, but without, in reality, being dangerous. A second rig, comprising an air cannon and a seat from the stair-lift, was installed on location and fired through a SFX breakaway window. We sculpted a life-like portrait of Lineker and cast it in silicone before constructing a life-like, articulated stunt dummy, which we attached to the seat.