Tag: Mascots

Trix Bunny back of cereal box
Posted in The Advertising

Cereal Mascots on the prowl

I was having a bowl of Golden Grahams, reading the back of the cereal box (Having forgotten to bring my cellphone downstairs); I was momentarily…

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Sad cold poptart
Posted in The Advertising

Sad cold poptart

I have started to notice a cyclical trend of product mascots, and it’s not pretty. Take this Vanilla Poptart Mascot. I don’t know his name,…

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Cement company old matchbook cover
Posted in The Matchbooks

Travel light for better mileage

Why did Campanella and Cardi hire this scrawny, skinny little guy to drive one of their huge industrial cement trucks? Is he somebody’s nephew?

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Otter the Haggen mascot
Posted in The Advertising

WHIMSICAL OTTER WEARS BASEBALL CAP BACKWARDS

I was perusing the local free newspaper a while back and was stopped in my tracks by this enticing coupon. Haggen’s is a little upscale…

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Posted in The Advertising

Iron snot

Little Lulu* was once a mascot for Kleenex. I don’t think I would like my Kleenex to be as sturdy as Lulu’s, only sturdy enough…

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MACU mascot, man made of cold hard cash
Posted in The Matchbooks

This guy is made of money!

I don’t know what NCUA’s mascot’s name is, so let’s call him… Bill Cashman? You can tell he is made of cash because he gets…

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Posted in The Advertising

Gingerbread boy is oblivious

U&I Sugar had a mascot, maybe only at Christmas? A gingerbread boy, smiling because he doesn’t know that his fate is sealed. This guy was…

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The QFC King mascot
Posted in Back in My Day The Advertising

QFC King deposed?

This ad from a Dec. 1963 “Prudence Penny” insert in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer indicates that this is the first Christmas for the little QFC king….

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