Retired Mascots

Jack Pot, a computer-animated man with a normal cartoon human face, but stacks of National Lottery payslips for a head, a suit and body made of pound notes and payslips, and hands comprised of large £2 coins for palms and smaller £1 coins for fingers

The only image of Jack Pot on the National Lottery's website retrieved by the Wayback Machine

Jack Pot at home, as a costume

Costume Jack Pot at a fireworks display with Louise Nurding, who is holding a Lottery Extra blasting machine

Jack Pot
The National Lottery
2000-2001

Brian Blessed offered his grandiose tone to a man made of payslips and cash, to endorse the National Lottery's jackpot-only game, Extra.

Derek - a young cartoon boy with small blonde hair sticking upwards, blue dot eyes and a head resembling Wallace's; wearing grey fingerless gloves (not pictured), a red and white bomber, jeans and red and white shoes - on an early box of Weeto's, chocolate flavour wheat hoops

"New Weetabix Weeto's" (Derek holds up a box of Weeto's featuring him holding up a bowl of Weeto's) "Derek lives in a world that's boring, where everything that should be round is square" (Derek mopes through a square city, muttering, "boring, boring, boring") "Then suddenly, out of the blue" (A box of Weeto's spills in front of Derek, and with the hoops a red yo-yo) "Derek discovered the delicious taste of new Weeto's" Derek: "...And this FANTASTIC FREE YO-YO" (Derek shows off a Weeto's box and his yo-yo)

Four double-sided circular card jigsaws, featuring Derek riding a racecar with Weeto's for wheels, playing tennis using a Weeto racket, scuba diving with a Weeto around the top of the tube, and playing drums and Weeto cymbals

Derek riding on a bike with Weetos for wheels down a rainbow stave, as Weetos and glowing musical notes float around him

Derek
Weetos
1987-1988

Weetabix's chocolate hoops were introduced with a West Midlands skateboarder named Derek. His exuberantly animated ads saw him escaping his square reality by enjoying the cereal not just for breakfast, but as the wheels on a bike, a tennis racket or the cymbals in a drum kit.

The Smash Martians - red or blue, ant-like puppet robots with oval-shaped heads, long antennae and silver bodies - gathered around a table in their spaceship and laughing at potato-peeling earthlings, two of them laughing as hard as to roll around on the edge of the table (the puppets fell over, but the crew decided that this was to be the final take)

A blue baby Martian, a girl Martian with silver pigtails and a purple Martian cat with a red and yellow striped tie, on display at a museum

A set of Smash Martian pencil toppers alongside Mr. Smash, a clockwork walking Martian toy

Cover for Zeeb and the Martians, one of Webster and Ian McCollough's Martian Books, further exploring the world of Smash Martians. On the cover is Zeeb - a pink Martian wearing a brown cap, a green 'Z' T-shirt and tightly belted jeans - with his family; his tired blue father who is wearing a blue bowler hat and smoking a tin can pipe, his blue mother who has light brown hair, his blue baby sister wearing a yellow nappy and a pink bonnet, his grumpy purple older sister wearing yellow hair tied in curly pigtails and a pink skirt, and his silver cat, Glock.

Martians
Smash
1973-2015

Created by John Webster, voiced by Peter Hawkins, these metal Martians made British cultural history mocking earthlings mashing potatoes the old, arduous way - and puppeteers fooling around on set were to thank. They briefly returned on TV in 1992, and on packaging in 2004.

Jack Pot, a computer-animated man with a normal cartoon human face, but stacks of National Lottery payslips for a head, a suit and body made of pound notes and payslips, and hands comprised of large £2 coins for palms and smaller £1 coins for fingers

The only image of Jack Pot on the National Lottery's website retrieved by the Wayback Machine

Jack Pot at home, as a costume

Costume Jack Pot at a fireworks display with Louise Nurding, who is holding a Lottery Extra blasting machine

Jack Pot
The National Lottery
2000-2001

Brian Blessed offered his grandiose tone to a man made of payslips and cash, to endorse the National Lottery's jackpot-only game, Extra.

Harry and Pete, two anthropomorphic white cartoon rabbits. Harry is perfectly white with a pink nose, while the slightly taller Pete's fur is slightly greyer and his nose redder. They can be vice versa depending on whose cel is overlaying who's.

Carnation milk strengthening Pete's teeth by blowing them up to a large size, much to Harry's shock

Animation cel of Harry by a tub of Carnation ice cream, while Pete shows up to celebrate his friend's birthday a day late

Pete & Harry
Carnation
1965

Pat Harrington Jr. and Lennie Weinrib voiced and Bill Melendez directed this comic rabbit duo in a series of 8-second spots where they gave each other tastes of Carnation dairy, but the products would often inflict exaggerated side effects on them. "Thanks a lot, Harry!"

A white cereal box that reads "caramel puffs" in brown letters, above a red bowl full of milk and brown corn puffs, with a metal spoon. A clown-shaped pitcher sits next to it.

Caramel Puffs (1959-circa 1961): A caramel-flavored corn puff cereal, which tasted like caramel corn. After the success of Cocoa Puffs, General Mills did extensive market research for a follow-up, and identified "caramel" as THE hot flavor. Despite heavy advertising, it quickly flamed out

Pepsi Man a robot made to be the defender for the thirsty. That's what the PCola company says but in reality, their mascot ended up causing a ruckuss with his aggressive advertising involving chucking soda cans at the local area.

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Harry and Pete, two anthropomorphic white cartoon rabbits. Harry is perfectly white with a pink nose, while the slightly taller Pete's fur is slightly greyer and his nose redder. They can be vice versa depending on whose cel is overlaying who's.

Carnation milk strengthening Pete's teeth by blowing them up to a large size, much to Harry's shock

Animation cel of Harry by a tub of Carnation ice cream, while Pete shows up to celebrate his friend's birthday a day late

Pete & Harry
Carnation
1965

Pat Harrington Jr. and Lennie Weinrib voiced and Bill Melendez directed this comic rabbit duo in a series of 8-second spots where they gave each other tastes of Carnation dairy, but the products would often inflict exaggerated side effects on them. "Thanks a lot, Harry!"

The Smash Martians - red or blue, ant-like puppet robots with oval-shaped heads, long antennae and silver bodies - gathered around a table in their spaceship and laughing at potato-peeling earthlings, two of them laughing as hard as to roll around on the edge of the table (the puppets fell over, but the crew decided that this was to be the final take)

A blue baby Martian, a girl Martian with silver pigtails and a purple Martian cat with a red and yellow striped tie, on display at a museum

A set of Smash Martian pencil toppers alongside Mr. Smash, a clockwork walking Martian toy

Cover for Zeeb and the Martians, one of Webster and Ian McCollough's Martian Books, further exploring the world of Smash Martians. On the cover is Zeeb - a pink Martian wearing a brown cap, a green 'Z' T-shirt and tightly belted jeans - with his family; his tired blue father who is wearing a blue bowler hat and smoking a tin can pipe, his blue mother who has light brown hair, his blue baby sister wearing a yellow nappy and a pink bonnet, his grumpy purple older sister wearing yellow hair tied in curly pigtails and a pink skirt, and his silver cat, Glock.

Martians
Smash
1973-2015

Created by John Webster, voiced by Peter Hawkins, these metal Martians made British cultural history mocking earthlings mashing potatoes the old, arduous way - and puppeteers fooling around on set were to thank. They briefly returned on TV in 1992, and on packaging in 2004.

Col. Crunch, an old, jolly cartoon military officer wearing a blue uniform, white gloves and an orange hat pierced by an arrow, with two crossed swords embroidered on

Sign for Col. Crunch chocolate eclair Sundaes on a Stick, featuring Crunch presenting one with a bite mark

Col. Crunch
1970's-2010's

This Southern colonel riff on Cap'n Crunch was seen on ice cream vans across America, presenting Gold Bond's (later Popsicle's) range of cake-coated ice cream bars with a cheerful smile.

Col. Crunch, an old, jolly cartoon military officer wearing a blue uniform, white gloves and an orange hat pierced by an arrow, with two crossed swords embroidered on

Sign for Col. Crunch chocolate eclair Sundaes on a Stick, featuring Crunch presenting one with a bite mark

Col. Crunch
1970's-2010's

This Southern colonel riff on Cap'n Crunch was seen on ice cream vans across America, presenting Gold Bond's (later Popsicle's) range of cake-coated ice cream bars with a cheerful smile.

Derek - a young cartoon boy with small blonde hair sticking upwards, blue dot eyes and a head resembling Wallace's; wearing grey fingerless gloves (not pictured), a red and white bomber, jeans and red and white shoes - on an early box of Weeto's, chocolate flavour wheat hoops

"New Weetabix Weeto's" (Derek holds up a box of Weeto's featuring him holding up a bowl of Weeto's) "Derek lives in a world that's boring, where everything that should be round is square" (Derek mopes through a square city, muttering, "boring, boring, boring") "Then suddenly, out of the blue" (A box of Weeto's spills in front of Derek, and with the hoops a red yo-yo) "Derek discovered the delicious taste of new Weeto's" Derek: "...And this FANTASTIC FREE YO-YO" (Derek shows off a Weeto's box and his yo-yo)

Four double-sided circular card jigsaws, featuring Derek riding a racecar with Weeto's for wheels, playing tennis using a Weeto racket, scuba diving with a Weeto around the top of the tube, and playing drums and Weeto cymbals

Derek riding on a bike with Weetos for wheels down a rainbow stave, as Weetos and glowing musical notes float around him

Derek
Weetos
1987-1988

Weetabix's chocolate hoops were introduced with a West Midlands skateboarder named Derek. His exuberantly animated ads saw him escaping his square reality by enjoying the cereal not just for breakfast, but as the wheels on a bike, a tennis racket or the cymbals in a drum kit.

Anthony Head and Sharon Maughan as Tony and Sharon

Tony and Sharon's (actual) first kiss, unused until after the campaign ended

Cover for Susannah James' novel, Love Over Gold, 'The untold story of TV's Greatest Romance'. The front cover features Sharon and a cup of coffee.

Sharon and Tony featured in a TV Guide listing for one of their Taster's Choice ads' debut on CBS. Tuesday 7:30PM MOVIE; "Coming to America." 45 sec. A dinner party brings this romantic duo together again. Meanwhile, the most eligible bachelor in Zamandu goes hunting.

Gold Blend couple
Nescafé Gold Blend/Taster's Choice
1987-1993

Anthony Head and Sharon Maughan played Tony and Sharon in a serialised campaign covering the couple's complicated romantic bond over coffee. The adverts were so successful that the two reprised their roles for Taster's Choice in the US.

Mark Aiken and Louise Hunt as Mark and Louise

Simone Bendix as Simone

Neil Roberts as Neil

Nescafé introduced two new Gold Blend couples later in the 90's - Louise Hunt and Mark Aiken, followed by Simone Bendix and Neil Roberts. Louise and Mark's series enjoyed a healthy six instalments, but did not achieve the same recognition as the first. Simone and Neil did not go further than one ad.

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Mark Aiken and Louise Hunt as Mark and Louise

Simone Bendix as Simone

Neil Roberts as Neil

Nescafé introduced two new Gold Blend couples later in the 90's - Louise Hunt and Mark Aiken, followed by Simone Bendix and Neil Roberts. Louise and Mark's series enjoyed a healthy six instalments, but did not achieve the same recognition as the first. Simone and Neil did not go further than one ad.

Anthony Head and Sharon Maughan as Tony and Sharon

Tony and Sharon's (actual) first kiss, unused until after the campaign ended

Cover for Susannah James' novel, Love Over Gold, 'The untold story of TV's Greatest Romance'. The front cover features Sharon and a cup of coffee.

Sharon and Tony featured in a TV Guide listing for one of their Taster's Choice ads' debut on CBS. Tuesday 7:30PM MOVIE; "Coming to America." 45 sec. A dinner party brings this romantic duo together again. Meanwhile, the most eligible bachelor in Zamandu goes hunting.

Gold Blend couple
Nescafé Gold Blend/Taster's Choice
1987-1993

Anthony Head and Sharon Maughan played Tony and Sharon in a serialised campaign covering the couple's complicated romantic bond over coffee. The adverts were so successful that the two reprised their roles for Taster's Choice in the US.

Sure-Eddie in his first design - a boy with an angular head and a flat face, with two ribbon-like streaks of hair at the back and another streak shaped like a lightning bolt at the front - tricking a small geek standing on the table into tasting Frosted Shreddies

Sure-Eddie's 2002 design, giving him brown hair, a rounder head, a light yellow bucket hat, a red hoodie, loose jeans and navy blue shoes

Sure-Eddie in his final design - with spiky black hair, a light blue undershirt under a maroon, gold star print T-shirt, beige shorts and green-soled sneakers - giving a geeky groundskeeper a taste of Frosted Shreddies

Sure-Eddie's Tasty Football Trick "Hi team! This week I'm gonna take you through my wicked football trick: The "Flick-Up." It's dead easy and looks spectacular! Especially when you have a bowl of Frosted Shreddies first." 1. Your first goal? Put away a bowl of wicked-tasting Frosted Shreddies. 2. Lock ball between the front of one foot and the back of the other. 3. Raise your rear leg and the ball will rise up the back of your front leg! 4. With a flick from your front leg, kick the ball up in the air. 5. Spectacular! What a pro! It's the wicked stuff on Frosted Shreddies and Coco Shreddies that makes them just TOO TASTY FOR GEEKS

Sure-Eddie
Frosted/Coco Shreddies
2000-2004

A smug, sporty boy who would tempt anyone considered a "geek" into tasting Frosted or Cocoa Shreddies for the first time, knowing that the taste would overwhelm them as to send them zooming up like a rocket. "Too tasty for geeks!" It was the early 2000's.

Tufty The Squirrel always went to the ice cream van with Mummy, unlike Willy the Weasel!