German IKEA Catalog(ue) for 2020 Features a Familiar Book

[LoneWanderer]

This has been doing rounds among Witnesses in Scandinavia apparently 😁

 

 

Now what is that book... Isn’t it the Swedish-language hardcover edition of My Book of Bible Stories! (Min bok med bibliska berättelser)

 

This seemed too good to be true so I checked the online version for various countries. I was surprised to find the picture from page 213...having to browse that far from page 1 made me doubt the existence. But I did see several pictures if products with same colo(u)r scheme so I deduced it must have been from the brand new catalog(ue). In the updated online version, however, the book has been tilted so that you can’t read the cover!

 

 

Hi whichever Swedish advertising agency was used by Ikea 👋🏻 You almost caused quite a judgmental ruckus among the secular Swedes 😂

Edited August 27, 2019 by LoneWanderer

[Thesauron]

That’s right. It’s “Min bok med bibliska berättelser”, the Bible Stories-Book in Swedish.

Edited August 27, 2019 by Thesauron

[JayMusicGirl]

That's so cool! I wonder who was behind it? 🤔

[The Outcast]

The first picture (Neu) is not in the catalog.

The second picture is in the catalog (page 213). But if you zoom in, there is no title and the book looks more like a plastic folder.

[Thesauron]

The first picture (Neu) is not in the catalog.

The second picture is in the catalog (page 213). But if you zoom in, there is no title and the book looks more like a plastic folder.

No, the book is there, with the title and all.

 

https://onlinecatalogue.ikea.com/US/en/IKEA_Catalogue#/pages/213

[DavidMc]

Lot of similar yellow coloured items in the image including the NEW sticker. Chances are the book was the right size and colour for the image as a whole, tying all the elements in the image together.

[Hope]

Yah, it's in my paper catalog, too! That first pic shows the book's title more clearly but we who know can tell what it is in the second pic, too!

 

Nifty! 😎

[tekmantwo]

7 hours ago, JayMusicGirl said:

That's so cool! I wonder who was behind it? 🤔

Looks like a little girl with her dad......

[Miss Bea]

Can’t fool us. We know!

[Bluebell]

[The Outcast]

Which edition is that?
Here in Berlin in the German edition the picture is pixelated.
This is the same in the edition from Austria.
Prices are:
Hilleborg 39,99 €
Fleetbo 529, - €

[The Outcast]

Ah, found it.
It is the catalog from Switzerland.

 

https://onlinecatalogue.ikea.com/CH/de/IKEA_Catalogue/#/pages/213

[Dages]

Nice one, Manfred.

Edited August 28, 2019 by Dages

[ChrisC]

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have furnished praise.

[sunshine]

On 8/27/2019 at 10:39 PM, Thesauron said:

No, the book is there, with the title and all.

 

https://onlinecatalogue.ikea.com/US/en/IKEA_Catalogue#/pages/213

No more it ain't...at least not online in the link provided  (screenshot)

https://i.ibb.co/x8t7hdP/Screenshot-20190902-230102.jpg

 

I imagine that it would be very shocking to see a father teaching his daughter about the BIBLE... magic, no problem, superheroes that's fine... but the bible??!!! 

 

Edited September 2, 2019 by sunshine

[Qapla]

It looks like it is still the same picture but they have doctored the cover of the book so that no title is shown and the book is not easily recognizable

[Thesauron]

No more it ain't...at least not online in the link provided  (screenshot)
https://i.ibb.co/x8t7hdP/Screenshot-20190902-230102.jpg
 
I imagine that it would be very shocking to see a father teaching his daughter about the BIBLE... magic, no problem, superheroes that's fine... but the bible??!!! 
 

I know, they’ve edited the digital editions.

[Dages]

Awww, too bad...  

[sunshine]

8 hours ago, Dages said:

Awww, too bad...  

No matter, think of all those first edition  paper editions that will become Witness collector items. 

 

 

(I do feel sorry for the poor photographic department  at IKEA that were raked over the coals for the "mistake" (I dont know about copyright law but it must have cost thousands to  revise and reprint the paper edition).

[DavidMc]

No more it ain't...at least not online in the link provided  (screenshot)
https://i.ibb.co/x8t7hdP/Screenshot-20190902-230102.jpg

 

Replacement book is also yellow coloured, albeit with an animal head to match the mask.

[Eejay]

On 9/3/2019 at 4:48 PM, sunshine said:

(I dont know about copyright law but it must have cost thousands to  revise and reprint the paper edition).

Appears to have been a targeted complaint campaign by apostates that resulted in the edit to the original picture.

[Eejay]

On 8/27/2019 at 4:20 PM, LoneWanderer said:

Witnesses in Scandinavia

Somebody in IKEA must like us. It is not the first time we have been enlisted to support their projects. If you speak Norwegian, you can understand Bro. Rolf Furuli who somehow was used for an IKEA advertising campaign.

 

[Eejay]

 

https://www.op.no/bolig/han-har-20-billy-hyller/s/1-85-5947924

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Furuli

[Wren]

On 8/28/2019 at 1:20 AM, LoneWanderer said:

 

 

 

This is the image in the Australian catalogue I just picked up in the store.

[Luigi62]

On 8/28/2019 at 7:12 PM, The German said:

Ah, found it.
It is the catalog from Switzerland.

 

https://onlinecatalogue.ikea.com/CH/de/IKEA_Catalogue/#/pages/213

They now photo chopped it out of the online versions