We reported last week on the news that Hard Rock Café were advertising on an Edinburgh Tram for the first time with a design promoting their new Messi Burger on 262. And now there are two Lionel Messi’s in the city as an identical advert is also on 277 – does this finally put an end to the debate as to whether Messi or Ronaldo is the greatest ever considered the Argentinian superstar has two trams with his image on and Ronaldo has none?!
The advert on 277 replaces a design for the Edinburgh International Festival – interesting timing of this change considering the Festival is about to kick off (starts 5th August) – and is the fourth advert for this tram. Previous designs include CR Smith (September 2017 to October 2020), Parabola My Edinburgh Park (October 2020 to June 2021) and Edinburgh International Festival (June 2021 to July 2022).
This design is identical to that carried on 262 so it’s a case of looking closely at the fleet number to make sure which is which!
277 at Princes Street heading out to the Airport.
A close-up view of the Messi Burger. (Both Photographs by Robin Barnes, 12th July 2022)