Retired Mascots

Super Chunk, a fat cartoon boy with spiky red hair, a rectangular right eye and his belly sticking out, wearing a purple T-shirt with his initials in yellow and the periods in green on the front and the Cartoon Network logo on the back, checkerboard shorts à la said logo and red shoes

Super Chunk on a shirt, himself wearing his T-shirt back to front

Super Chunk hanging by his teeth from the Cartoon Network logo

Super Chunk in mid-90's CGI as seen in the UK, strutting across the screen

Super Chunk
Cartoon Network
1994-2001

CN satisfied the "cartoon hogs" who didn't get enough toons on their plate with 3-hour Sunday marathons named Super Chunks, the mascot for this block being a fat cartoon fan voiced by C. Martin Croker. He survived a few years longer in the UK, but in crude CGI.

Watching Super Chunk was like playing the lottery. You go through an entire week at school and over the weekend, you get a multi-hour marathon of a random show. If it was one of your favourites, you were in for a good time. Just have a VHS tape on hand!!

Super Chunk, a fat cartoon boy with spiky red hair, a rectangular right eye and his belly sticking out, wearing a purple T-shirt with his initials in yellow and the periods in green on the front and the Cartoon Network logo on the back, checkerboard shorts à la said logo and red shoes

Super Chunk on a shirt, himself wearing his T-shirt back to front

Super Chunk hanging by his teeth from the Cartoon Network logo

Super Chunk in mid-90's CGI as seen in the UK, strutting across the screen

Super Chunk
Cartoon Network
1994-2001

CN satisfied the "cartoon hogs" who didn't get enough toons on their plate with 3-hour Sunday marathons named Super Chunks, the mascot for this block being a fat cartoon fan voiced by C. Martin Croker. He survived a few years longer in the UK, but in crude CGI.

Miss My-T-Fine (name given by the book Meet Mr. Product), a cartoon girl wearing a small black bow on her blonde hair, wearing a blue dress. She is depicted holding a tray of My-T-Fine puddings. "Try My-T-Fine puddings, too!"

1956 ad for My-T-Fine featuring the girl (wearing a green dress) and her brother, also with blonde hair and wearing overalls over a white T-shirt, hurrying to get their puddings. Boy: "INSTANT OR REGULAR" Girl: "BOTH AT THE SAME LOW PRICE" "You'll please everybody with My-T-Fine puddings and pie fillings. So easy on your purse, too. Both My-T-Fine Instant (no cooking) and Regular (cook with milk) are yours at the same low price. Four famous flavors. All simple to make. And simply wonderful." Boy: "TRY QUICK 'N EASY MY-T-FINE LEMON PIE FILLING TOO! REAL LEMON FLAVOR WITHOUT SQUEEZING OR GRATING"

Miss My-T-Fine
My-T-Fine
1955-1956

Cover and left side of a box of Honey Raisin Amazin' Raisin Bran, featuring three anthropomorphised cereals - a bow tie and sunglasses-toting dude named Crunch, a stereotypical geek with a bow tie and suspenders hooked to his body also named Crunch and a chief in a green vest and a striped tie named More Crunch. "What makes new Post Amazin'™ Raisin Bran truly amazing? It's got Crunch, Crunch and More Crunch!" Crunch: "We've done it! We've made a truly crunchy raisin bran. Instead of mushy, boring flakes, Post Amazin'™ Raisin Bran has honey-sweet rings that stay crunchy in milk." Crunch: "Kids love the fun of a raisin bran that's full of crunchy, sweet taste. But what's really amazing is that every serving gives them the goodness you expect from raisin bran: 3 grams of fiber, 10 essential vitamins and minerals, plus lots of naturally good, juicy raisins." More Crunch: "That's right! From Crunch, Crunch and More Crunch to your family comes a delicious new cereal — crunchy, tasty, nutritious, truly Amazin'™ Raisin Bran!"

From the back of an Amazin' Raisin Bran box, an illustration of the trio producing lenticular prints. Crunch: "Hey Kids! Here's how it works—Take out your MAGIC STORY from the box!" Crunch: "Now put the MAGIC SCREEN flat against each picture..." More Crunch: "That's right! Then move the MAGIC SCREEN back and forth over each page, and watch what happens! AMAZIN'!" "Look for another exciting MAGIC STORY in great tasting Cinnamon Raisin Amazin'™ Raisin Bran."

A boy holding boxes of Amazin' Raisin Bran in Honey and Cinnamon Raisin flavours, and the trio as puppets

Two of the eraser figures modelled after the trio that came with boxes of the cereal

Crunch, Crunch and More Crunch
Amazin' Raisin Bran
1987-1988

Post tried to revive their Amazin' Raisin brand using a trio of inventors supposed to have invented all crunchy food. The shape of the cereal pieces would leave the raisins sinking to the bottom of the box, thus the cereal failed to last.

Miss My-T-Fine (name given by the book Meet Mr. Product), a cartoon girl wearing a small black bow on her blonde hair, wearing a blue dress. She is depicted holding a tray of My-T-Fine puddings. "Try My-T-Fine puddings, too!"

1956 ad for My-T-Fine featuring the girl (wearing a green dress) and her brother, also with blonde hair and wearing overalls over a white T-shirt, hurrying to get their puddings. Boy: "INSTANT OR REGULAR" Girl: "BOTH AT THE SAME LOW PRICE" "You'll please everybody with My-T-Fine puddings and pie fillings. So easy on your purse, too. Both My-T-Fine Instant (no cooking) and Regular (cook with milk) are yours at the same low price. Four famous flavors. All simple to make. And simply wonderful." Boy: "TRY QUICK 'N EASY MY-T-FINE LEMON PIE FILLING TOO! REAL LEMON FLAVOR WITHOUT SQUEEZING OR GRATING"

Miss My-T-Fine
My-T-Fine
1955-1956

I think the mascots I just shared bombed in the first half hour because the commercial break I linked to in the replies was from CBS and most everybody must have that tag muted for reasons

Cover and left side of a box of Honey Raisin Amazin' Raisin Bran, featuring three anthropomorphised cereals - a bow tie and sunglasses-toting dude named Crunch, a stereotypical geek with a bow tie and suspenders hooked to his body also named Crunch and a chief in a green vest and a striped tie named More Crunch. "What makes new Post Amazin'™ Raisin Bran truly amazing? It's got Crunch, Crunch and More Crunch!" Crunch: "We've done it! We've made a truly crunchy raisin bran. Instead of mushy, boring flakes, Post Amazin'™ Raisin Bran has honey-sweet rings that stay crunchy in milk." Crunch: "Kids love the fun of a raisin bran that's full of crunchy, sweet taste. But what's really amazing is that every serving gives them the goodness you expect from raisin bran: 3 grams of fiber, 10 essential vitamins and minerals, plus lots of naturally good, juicy raisins." More Crunch: "That's right! From Crunch, Crunch and More Crunch to your family comes a delicious new cereal — crunchy, tasty, nutritious, truly Amazin'™ Raisin Bran!"

From the back of an Amazin' Raisin Bran box, an illustration of the trio producing lenticular prints. Crunch: "Hey Kids! Here's how it works—Take out your MAGIC STORY from the box!" Crunch: "Now put the MAGIC SCREEN flat against each picture..." More Crunch: "That's right! Then move the MAGIC SCREEN back and forth over each page, and watch what happens! AMAZIN'!" "Look for another exciting MAGIC STORY in great tasting Cinnamon Raisin Amazin'™ Raisin Bran."

A boy holding boxes of Amazin' Raisin Bran in Honey and Cinnamon Raisin flavours, and the trio as puppets

Two of the eraser figures modelled after the trio that came with boxes of the cereal

Crunch, Crunch and More Crunch
Amazin' Raisin Bran
1987-1988

Post tried to revive their Amazin' Raisin brand using a trio of inventors supposed to have invented all crunchy food. The shape of the cereal pieces would leave the raisins sinking to the bottom of the box, thus the cereal failed to last.

Lil' Softy, a cherubic pixie with a large head, blonde hair and blue eyes, naked except for a large blue floral hat with a polka-dot bow, and in this illustration a heart-shaped medallion emblazoned with the letter S

1974 print ad for Nice 'n Soft, with Softy hugging a pack of toilet paper with her likeness printed on, carrying a bouquet of flowers in a wheelbarrow. She says, "Hi, I'm Lil' Softy." "We call it Nice 'n Soft because it is. Feeling is believing. "Lil' Softy" knows there's only one way to prove how soft Nice 'n Soft really is. Take some home... take off the wrapper... and feel it. Touch it. Feel for yourself why we call it Nice 'n Soft. Sure, we could tell you it's the nicest, softest bathroom tissue around. But feeling is believing. So take home a package of Nice 'n Soft today and prove it to yourself. Nice 'n Soft. Lil' Softy knows: Feeling is believing."

Lil' Softy in stop-motion

A Lil' Softy doll, wearing a plastic hat and a Nice 'n Soft sash

Lil' Softy
Nice 'n Soft
1974-1986

A tiny pixie wearing nothing but a flowery hat, who absolutely adored all things as soft as herself, like flowers and Nice 'n Soft bathroom tissues, and thus appeared on packs holding or wheelbarrowing bouquets. She even invented a word to describe them: "softier".

Lil' Softy, a cherubic pixie with a large head, blonde hair and blue eyes, naked except for a large blue floral hat with a polka-dot bow, and in this illustration a heart-shaped medallion emblazoned with the letter S

1974 print ad for Nice 'n Soft, with Softy hugging a pack of toilet paper with her likeness printed on, carrying a bouquet of flowers in a wheelbarrow. She says, "Hi, I'm Lil' Softy." "We call it Nice 'n Soft because it is. Feeling is believing. "Lil' Softy" knows there's only one way to prove how soft Nice 'n Soft really is. Take some home... take off the wrapper... and feel it. Touch it. Feel for yourself why we call it Nice 'n Soft. Sure, we could tell you it's the nicest, softest bathroom tissue around. But feeling is believing. So take home a package of Nice 'n Soft today and prove it to yourself. Nice 'n Soft. Lil' Softy knows: Feeling is believing."

Lil' Softy in stop-motion

A Lil' Softy doll, wearing a plastic hat and a Nice 'n Soft sash

Lil' Softy
Nice 'n Soft
1974-1986

A tiny pixie wearing nothing but a flowery hat, who absolutely adored all things as soft as herself, like flowers and Nice 'n Soft bathroom tissues, and thus appeared on packs holding or wheelbarrowing bouquets. She even invented a word to describe them: "softier".

Uncle and Nephew, two Clydesdale horses hauling a Webster's Yorkshire Bitter dray. Hand-drawn animation was used to make their lips move.

The horses peeking through a pub window

The animatronic horses at a bar, each served a glass of beer

Uncle and Nephew
Webster's Yorkshire Bitter
1986-1991

Two talking dray horses - made possible by animating lip movements over real horses - who yearned for a beer, but in the meantime had a laugh over whatever the lucky humans were up to. Later ads used puppetry and finally let them inside the pub.

Uncle and Nephew, two Clydesdale horses hauling a Webster's Yorkshire Bitter dray. Hand-drawn animation was used to make their lips move.

The horses peeking through a pub window

The animatronic horses at a bar, each served a glass of beer

Uncle and Nephew
Webster's Yorkshire Bitter
1986-1991

Two talking dray horses - made possible by animating lip movements over real horses - who yearned for a beer, but in the meantime had a laugh over whatever the lucky humans were up to. Later ads used puppetry and finally let them inside the pub.

Icon for NariCo featuring its eponymous concierge mascot: a small, cute Japanese woman sporting a large, round head with blue hair tied in a bun, wearing a blue neckerchief with white highlights, a half-cut white overshirt, a lighter blue dress and blue high-heel shoes

NariCo gesturing

Ad for NariCo, displaying the mascot's full design

Photo I took in 2014 of a phone-sized NariCo communicating with a man using the app, standing on his phone

NariCo
Narita International Airport
2013-2018

Narita Airport launched their voice agent app in 2013, the mascot being a small, blue-haired virtual concierge who offered advice on airport navigation, shopping, weather, flight status, etc. The app was discontinued with the launch of the NariNAVI app.

The Kao Kao: - K (cocoa), a brown, toad-like alien in a red vest - Ferki (iron), a lanky purple alien with yellow hair and an elephantine trunk, wearing an orange tank top, orange shorts and large white trainers with yellow highlights - Kalz (calcium), a pink femme alien wearing a dress identically coloured to her skin and a long, worm-like head tail representing hair - Zerelk (cereal), a round, greenish-yellow flying alien resembling a frog - Fosfik (phosphorus), a short grey alien wearing green visors and waist-high trousers - Akinha (vitamins), a hovering, dot-eyed, unibrowed, yellow humanoid alien in a blue dress, wearing her black hair in a large double bun and a tail braid that touches the floor

A wallpaper featuring the Kao Kao and their yellow submarine-esque spaceship

Wallpaper of the Kao Kao having crashed their ship into a small Earth

The Kao Kao laughing together in a kitchen, enjoying Cola Cao in their own themed mugs

Los Kao Kao
Cola Cao
2001-2006

These funky aliens, each embodying ingredients or vitamins, encountered the Spanish chocolate drink while on Earth and used the energy it gave them to fuel their ship. When the Kao Kao's popularity waned, Cola Cao reverted back to using athletes as brand ambassadors.

ANUNCIOS DE COLACAO 2001 2002 LOS KAO KAO YouTube video by rarezatv

Plenty of materials and info related to the Kao Kao can be found on this ripped promotional CD:
archive.org/details/Vide...

The Roller Cola Girl, drawn by Jamie Hewlett

The girl sliding on an office chair, blowing a smoking gun as her fellow Virgin HQ employees take a dip in a cola pool

The Roller Cola Girl skating in the park (taken from PostcardHQ.com)

The Roller Cola Girl tugging a lucky Virgin Megastore cashier's cheek

Roller Cola Girl
Virgin Cola
1999-2003

Designed by Jamie Hewlett and animated by the team behind Gorillaz' videos, this rollerskating, gunslinging babe was portrayed as running the Virgin HQ, or the Home of Hedonism. She only made three animated appearances prior to the cola's inevitable downfall.

For the record, YouTube also wants animation dead

these Clydesdales have the right idea

Webster's Yorkshire Bitters (1990c, UK)

Mini figurines of K, Fosfik and Akinha

Took an interest in the Kao Kao when I discovered them on a trip to Spain in around 2004, yet they only ever slipped my mind whenever I did remember them, so I never thought to do any further research. Not anymore!

Tempted to buy the figurines, they'd fit right at home with my other mascot toys

ANUNCIOS DE COLACAO 2001 2002 LOS KAO KAO YouTube video by rarezatv

Plenty of materials and info related to the Kao Kao can be found on this ripped promotional CD:
archive.org/details/Vide...