Monday, May 14, 2007

It's giant...it's purple...

...it's a penguin?


McDonald's has put out ads with purple penguins to promote McFlurries over here. (Or would it be McFlurrys? Hmm.) Either way, they had their mascot hanging out by the JR train station in Akihabara, Tokyo.

For some reason, it was a little creepy. I have nothing against mascots in general - in fact I ususally like them - but I felt no inclination to go pose with this one. I was actually trying not to attract its attention...

2 comments:

A.Wallace said...

I was just flipping through blogs and saw this picture. I wonder if the person in the penguin costume is consuming massive amounts of Mc Flurries to compensate him/her being in a hot furry costume during the summertime? It has to be uncomfortable.

Kinami said...

I certainly hope so! At least it was a partly-cloudy day :)