The character has been featured in advertising since 1963. I know that all of you are, too.Toucan Sam is the cartoon toucan mascot for Kellogg's Froot Loops breakfast cereal. Iguana just wants to make a lot of jewelry. Toucan Sam wants to save it for his young friends, because he’s a secret jerk with an insatiable need to be the hero. I’ve decided that they are enemies, fighting over Froot Loops cereal. It would only take a minute to Google “Froot Loops” and find out if these guys are friends or enemies, but I don’t want to. If left to my own devices, the next post will almost certainly be a tour of Iguana’s new shoebox house. If this is something that you absolutely do not want to see on Dinosaur Dracula, you might want to speak up. I’m sure that half of what I write seems like a put-on, but this isn’t: I really, really want to make a little house for Iguana. This wasn’t one of those things that I’d create, look at and sit on in the span of two minutes. I think back to when I was a more appropriate age for cereal box art projects, and I know I would’ve been absolutely hell-bent on keeping my Iguana blockhead safe. He was just as hard to make, but the rewards were so much greater. If Toucan Sam is the type to pull seed from a container that looks like him, I’m glad I buy Froot Loops so infrequently. If the version shown on the front of the box looked like a neatly rectangular Toucan Sam, mine looks like some kind of Sam-themed bird feeder. I did the best I could, and “the best I could” amounted to the monstrosity pictured above. He’s covered in enough Scotch Tape to have my fingerprints forever protected within his seams.Īdmittedly, I’m not perfect at this sort of thing. Creating my cardboard Toucan Sam bordered close to impossible. The box suggests parental supervision, but I believe this transcends merely finding someone who is more capable with a pair of scissors. Making Froot Loops blockheads is neither easy nor fun. No matter where his loyalties lie, Iguana rules. He’s a mean-faced aquamarine lizard, wearing a Froot Loops necklace for what are sure to be darkly religious reasons. I really don’t know, and I really don’t care. He could be a friend of Sam’s, an enemy, or something in-between. I’m sure Iguana has been in a few Froot Loops commercials, but I haven’t seen them. Decisions!Įven if Toucan Sam got top billing, he isn’t why I bought Froot Loops again.
With the aid of scissors and the patience of Saint Monica, you can fashion your very own Toucan Sam “blockhead.” On the other hand, if you leave the box alone, Toucan Sam looks like a deranged moose. This guy needs the boost, and I don’t need to consult Merriam-Webster to know that making Toucan Sam out of cut up cardboard is the exact definition of “boost.” Toucan Sam may be an icon, but he’s also eerily similar to Generic Grandpa. Look closely at the latest Froot Loops box, and you’ll spot it. Still, I had a good reason to hop into Toucan Sam’s nest again. It’s tasty stuff and it’s been around forever, but there’s only so hard I can fall for a smug bird with a nose obsession.
If one of the cereals I really liked did something to piss me off, I’d slide back to Froot Loops for a bit, and then, when I was ready, try something new. Froot Loops is great, but for me, it was always a rebound. Before today, it’d been a long time since my last box of Froot Loops.ĭon’t get me wrong.
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