Saturday, November 22, 2008

The Colonel



This is our collection of Colonel Sanders action figures. I bought these on Ebay years ago, they come from Asian countries where the Colonel is quite popular. In Tokyo there are life size statues of the Colonel in front of every KFC, and they periodically dress the statues in different costumes. We gave this collection to our son because he started collecting food icons when he was five years old. His collection is pretty adorable with Mr. Peanut, Charlie The Tuna, Captain Crunch, Sugar Bear, and Tony The Tiger to name just a few!

6 comments:

farmerjulie said...

oh my gosh!! So cute and funny...makes me smile!!

Diane said...

These are quite amusing! The egyptian one gives me the most chuckle I think.

Rebecca Ramsey said...

Those are so fun! Very cute collection!

Saucy said...

Ha! I also love food icons and have a bobble head collection of: the Lucky Charms leprechaun, the Trix rabbit, etc.

I have always secretly pined for a life sized Bob's Burger Boy but alas, they are not in Canada and would be difficult to bring home on a plane.

Anonymous said...

Hi Linda! There's a vintage life-size CEMENT colonel in the back yard of one of my neighbor's--I want it soooo bad! Your guys are so fun --and I really lr love your blog! xxoo--Laurie

Anonymous said...

He was just on TV the other night--food channel I think! What a riot--I've never seen these before.