Furry Marketing

[lupestripe]

Does a company's use of a fursuit or a furry concept make you more or less likely to buy the product being advertised? Elephant.co.uk use an elephant fursuit whilst Foxy Bingo use (an admittedly poor) fox one. Do/Would you let the advertising sway you in this way?

As for me, I can't stand that bastard Coco Monkey in the Coco Pops advert so I never buy those nobbly balls of monkey shit. However I do like Quickie the Nesquik Bunny and so buy a lot of his chocolate flavoured powder to add to my milk. In many ways I would like to be Quickie - he seems to happy and bouncy selling chocolate milk all day. It must be a good life.

And then, added to this, does anyone buy products because they want to yiff the character?

Comments

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

It's creepy. Really creepy. The head is all wrong and he looks about as slimy as Peter Lilley. I half expect him to pounce on the old dears at the bingo and eat them - it's like the Bingo Hall is a giant chicken coup *shudders*

[tr-wolf.livejournal.com]

Did you see the OLD Foxy Bingo suit? THAT was scary!

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

That may be the one I am thinking of. It has improved but it still weirds me out. I think it's something to do with a fox head and human hands - it's a horrible hybrid and probably a mistake at a government science laboratory somewhere...

[tr-wolf.livejournal.com]

Old Foxy:
http://www.saverpages.com/saverpages/slots-images/foxy250x250.gif

New Foxy:
http://www.thelab-uk.com/images/large/foxy_sun_1.jpg

He has white gloved hands nowadays, and a Bolton accent, which is odd.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

The old foxy was definitely more creepy, it was like a scientific experiment gone wrong. The latest one is better but the gloved hands and the Bolton accent still weird me out :P