Not to pester you to expound on your mascot post but please elaborate on the 80s being a mascot decade. Growing up in the aftermath of the 80s I always took mascots for granted but within this framework the Cheddar Goblin segment in Mandy (2018) starts to make more sense as a period-piece callback.
I mean it was really the combination of the “ad wars” when businesses had expanded and consolidated to the point all they could do was puff up identity and tear their competitors down
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the peak of “practical effects” whether on a one-off VFX model or regular makeup/costuming like Alf (or TNG!) or on an infrastructural level like child actors and stunt casting
Animated stuff like The Noid, Claymated California Raisins too, the Energizer Bunny was always a prop, but that’s also “pushing the limits of physical filmability”, isn’t it?
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