Coca Cola Polar Bears

Age: 16 Bear years

The 123 year old company has decided to use animated Polar Bears to remind us that Coke is always best served “Ice Cold”, In 1993 Coca-Cola ran 27 commercials to send this chilled message to its audiences.

If you’re a collector or just like the way the huggable polar bear makes you smile, you’ll find a wide assortment of Coke Polar Bear Collectibles all around the world.

Mr Suntop

Age: Unknown

CO-RO FOOD A/S the Danish company was founded in 1942, yet we all know and love Mr Suntop who has been always inspiring us by giving information about sports, geography, inventions among other things. We all remember times, where we look for a copy of Suntop booklet to fill it up with Mr. Suntop stickers, read the information, and then when the booklet is filled, we head out to get our reward, he has always been a loved friend.

Fido Dido

Age: 24 Years old

Place of Birth: On a napkin in a restaurant.

The symbol of coolness, even the place of birth attest to that, I don’t know about you, but if someone tells you that they were born on a napkin, that would be cool. Created by Joanna Ferrone and Sue Rose, Fido Dido was licensed to PepsiCo, and used for 7Up and Slice brands in markets outside the US. Fido Dido is also used on PepsiCo’s Turkish soft drink Fruko. This cool dude is famous over six different continents.

Tony the Tiger

Age: 57 Years old

Designed by children’s book illustrator Martin Provensen and voiced on television by Thurl Ravenscroft. Tony is the mascot for Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes (aka Frosties), but what was great about Tony is that he was always encouraging us to be active and healthy, helping to get out the tiger in us. We never forget him saying: “They’re Grrrreat!”

Mr. Peanut

Age: 93 Years old

According to the Planters web site, Mr. Peanut was created by first grader Antonio Gentile in 1916 for a contest to design the company’s brand icon. His design was perfected by a commercial artist and has changed over the years.

Mr. Peanut has rarely spoken, since his appearances are often accompanied by an elegant accented narrator. In 2006 Planters made a survey to see how the public would change Mr. Peanut. The public voted for no changes.

M&Ms

Forrest Mars, Sr., founder of the Mars Company, got the idea in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War when he saw soldiers eating Smarties, a chocolate morsel covered with a hard sugar shell so that the chocolate would not melt. Mars started producing M&Ms in 1941.

Red

Age: Well Red says he is 30-something…

Motto: Everything is under control.

Red really loves it when people blindly follows his wise advice, he is a genius, yet sometimes thinks he knows more then he really does.

Yellow

Age: Unknown, yet he has a child in him.

Motto: Inside everyone there’s a little nut.

Yellow likes pretty ladies, and fluffy things, his best friend is Red, and he likes to always see the good in things, but as they say nice guys finish last.

Ms. Green

Age: Never ask a lady.

Motto: I melt for no one.

Ms. Green likes simple candlelit dinners in Paris, she dislikes people who stair, She is so beautiful that words can’t even describe her.

So by now you surely have heard the news. Green is the new color of love. Red is out, Pink is out. Green is all the rage.

Blue

Age: Old enough

Motto: Never let’em see you melt.

Blue is such a dreamer, he likes Moonlight nights, jazz music, ladies, he is very smooth, confident, and hates squares. No you don’t get it, he really hates squares.

Orange

Age: He is so stressed out, you can’t tell

Motto: I’m a dead man.

Orange always on the lookout for people who want’s to eat him, since he think everyone is out there to get him. He can spot a hungry person in the room, Orange always dreams on being on the endangered species list.

Coco the monkey

Age: 19 Years old

Although we all love Coco the monkey, he wasn’t picked to be the mascot for Coco Pops since day one, the cereal was introduced in 1958, many mascots tried to fill in with no luck, there was Jose the monkey, Coco the elephant, Snagglepuss, Ogg the caveman, Tusk the elephant, even Snap, Crackle and Pop tried.

In the end we got Coco the monkey, who became the mascot when the cereal was introduced in the UK.

Pepsi & Pete: Cola Cops

Age: 70 Years old

Back in 1939 Pepsi used these two comic cops to do heroic deeds after drinking a bottle of Pepsi. But their main job was to enforcing flavor and size. In the mid 90s Pepsi introduced Pepsiman in Japan, who took on three different outfits, each one representing the current style of the Pepsi can in distribution. His job was to appear at just the right time with Pepsi to thirsty or soda craving people. He even got his own video game on the PlayStation. Poor Pepsi & Pete…