Annoying Ad Characters To Inhabit Their Own Museum

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Annoying Ad Characters To Inhabit Their Own Museum

A museum devoted to advertising characters -- from cute bacterium to towering vegetable gods -- is planned to open in fall 2007 in Kansas City, Missouri. The Advertising Icon Museum will exhibit artifacts, costumes and advertising samples from a century of zany cartoon mascots. Expect to see all your favorites shrill shills -- the Pillsbury Doughboy, Ronald McDonald, Spuds MacKenzie, and the California Raisins, among hundreds of others.

We anticipate more of these museums cropping up, as retiring Baby Boomers seek vacation comfort in the characters of their youth. Individual characters are already enshrined around the country -- the Kool-Aid Man in Hastings, Nebraska, and Blue Earth, MN's Jolly Green Giant statue.

The museum will be designed with rooms resembling a typical home of a suburban American family.

Feb. 2009: The museum's opening has been pushed back to the Fall of 2009. [02/26/2006]