Things I learnt today while researching the Cadbury Caramel Bunny and other mascots

At work today, I've been looking at popular mascots to put together some slides for our marketing presentation after the Cadbury's Caramel Bunny was ranked 4th in a poll of mascots.

Here are some of the things I found out:

1.) Wikifur exists...

Yes. It's a wiki encyclopedia for "furries".

Here's the Caramel Bunny's entry (chortle!): http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Cadbury_Caramel_Bunny

2.) This thread starter was happy to admit to the world that he masturbated over the cartoon rabbit, but finding out (mistakenly) that she was voiced by Grotbags was a step too far.

He's a "wicked child" because...

3.) The lady who actually voiced the Cadbury Caramel Bunny is Miriam Margoyles who also played Lady Whiteadder in Blackadder, Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films, voiced most of the women in the English dub of Monkey, and Aunt Sponge in James and the Giant Peach!

4.) Alexandr Orlov, the Compare the Market Meercat, is voiced by Simon Greenall who plays Michael in Alan Partridge.

5.) The PG Tips Monkey, originally created for ITV Digital, became the subject of a legal battle between ITV and Mother, the ad agency that created him. It was settled when both parties agreed to donate the rights to Comic Relief.
PG Tips now use Monkey, but any profits from Monkey merchandise go to Comic Relief who still own the rights.

6.) Grotbags!

No facts.

Just remember how awesome she was!

 




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#ChocCoinGate

Search for ChocCoinGate. Go on. I'll wait.

Did you know Cadbury made chocolate coins? I work for Cadbury World and I didn't.
(Maybe I'm just a remiss employee, but I don't think so).

Search for #choccoingate on Twitter to gauge public response to the news that Cadbury isn't making chocolate coins anymore, or look at Birmingham Updates' Facebook post and check out the comments.

Am I alone in thinking this is ridiculous? If your Christmas is ruined so easily, you should probably take a good hard look at how you celebrate Christmas.
This has been picked up on by several local and national newspapers including broadsheets. Is this news? A confectioner is discontinuing one (and not one of the iconic ones) of of it's hundred of product lines. Why is this national news?

People are strange.


EDIT: Yahoo have it about right, here.


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