What Are The Worst Character Designs You Have Ever Seen?

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Allow me to introduce you to Kwaku possibly one of the worst designed Thomas and Friends characters out there. Rather than keeping the face on his boiler like the other Thomas engines they put it on his front water tank, which makes him look rather weird and is going to make his boiler look even odder (Unlike the books there aren't any faceless engines on the TV show)
 
I did a thread search and couldn't find Angela Anaconda mentioned anywhere.

It used digitally manipulated photos of actual children for the faces and it is possibly the creepiest "Nightmare Fuel" ever to come out of Canada. Yes, more frightening than any David Cronenberg film.

It's a little sad knowing the creator behind Fido Dido and Pepper Ann did this.
 
Speaking of Fido Dido, I've noticed that Pepsi Canada has brought him back for a throwback series of 7-Up cans.
Pepsi had previously used the character for 7-Up in many countries outside the US (where they don't own the brand domestically). This was why for a while they used him for "Slice" here, but most Americans really only remember him for the CBS bumpers rather than 7-Up elsewhere.
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Didn't know he had the same creator as Angela Anaconda. Or Pepper Ann for that matter.
It just happens! Sue Rose was just able to keep herself going for a while.
 
How about the Honbatz?

How do you replace something as well-known as the Burger King Kids Club kids?

With these ...things, apparently:
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They lasted almost two years from 2004-06 until BK quietly killed them off and brought back the King character. I think there's maybe a few pictures of them in the play area of my local BK. Nobody remembers them. It's almost impossible to find pictures of them online.
http://admascots.wikia.com/wiki/Honbatz
 
How about the Honbatz?

How do you replace something as well-known as the Burger King Kids Club kids?

With these ...things, apparently:
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They lasted almost two years from 2004-06 until BK quietly killed them off and brought back the King character. I think there's maybe a few pictures of them in the play area of my local BK. Nobody remembers them. It's almost impossible to find pictures of them online.
http://admascots.wikia.com/wiki/Honbatz


Holy shit, i remember those dumb things cause my cousin would eat burger king daily. Never really thought about them that much, though i might prefer them move than the King. (At least they didn't creep on people.)
 
Holy shit, i remember those dumb things cause my cousin would eat burger king daily. Never really thought about them that much, though i might prefer them move than the King. (At least they didn't creep on people.)
I do miss the Kids Club gang though, of course that was a long time back. I forgot they had these odd things but then I wasn't paying attention to these sorts of things at the time.
 
View attachment 506045 Allow me to introduce you to Kwaku possibly one of the worst designed Thomas and Friends characters out there. Rather than keeping the face on his boiler like the other Thomas engines they put it on his front water tank, which makes him look rather weird and is going to make his boiler look even odder (Unlike the books there aren't any faceless engines on the TV show)

I am suddenly reminded of that CGI Bob the Builder reboot.

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I did a thread search and couldn't find Angela Anaconda mentioned anywhere.

It used digitally manipulated photos of actual children for the faces and it is possibly the creepiest "Nightmare Fuel" ever to come out of Canada. Yes, more frightening than any David Cronenberg film.

Oh, I just found out something else about Angela Anaconda.

The English dubbed Digimon movie DVD had a 4-plus minute sketch of Angela Anaconda watching the film at the beginning, for cross-promotional reasons.

Even though I hadn't seen much of any of the TV series beforehand, I actually saw the Digimon movie in theatres when it first came out in... when was it? 2000, I think it was, and while I, having not seen the show, found the plot to be as incomprehensible as Chinpokomon, the Pokémon parody from South Park, at the very least it had nice animation for a monster collecting game-based anime and the character designs were not disagreeable to look at in any way.

 
Oh, I just found out something else about Angela Anaconda.

The English dubbed Digimon movie DVD had a 4-plus minute sketch of Angela Anaconda watching the film at the beginning, for cross-promotional reasons.

Even though I hadn't seen much of any of the TV series beforehand, I actually saw the Digimon movie in theatres when it first came out in... when was it? 2000, I think it was, and while I, having not seen the show, found the plot to be as incomprehensible as Chinpokomon, the Pokémon parody from South Park, at the very least it had nice animation for a monster collecting game-based anime and the character designs were not disagreeable to look at in any way.

Someone at Fox it wherever liked cross-promoting crap.

The Digimon movie wasn't bad if you knew they were three unrelated films edited together.
 
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Oh, I just found out something else about Angela Anaconda.

The English dubbed Digimon movie DVD had a 4-plus minute sketch of Angela Anaconda watching the film at the beginning, for cross-promotional reasons.

Even though I hadn't seen much of any of the TV series beforehand, I actually saw the Digimon movie in theatres when it first came out in... when was it? 2000, I think it was, and while I, having not seen the show, found the plot to be as incomprehensible as Chinpokomon, the Pokémon parody from South Park, at the very least it had nice animation for a monster collecting game-based anime and the character designs were not disagreeable to look at in any way.


Angela Anaconda looked (unsurprisingly) worse in the Kablam shorts.

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Oh, I just found out something else about Angela Anaconda.

The English dubbed Digimon movie DVD had a 4-plus minute sketch of Angela Anaconda watching the film at the beginning, for cross-promotional reasons.

Even though I hadn't seen much of any of the TV series beforehand, I actually saw the Digimon movie in theatres when it first came out in... when was it? 2000, I think it was, and while I, having not seen the show, found the plot to be as incomprehensible as Chinpokomon, the Pokémon parody from South Park, at the very least it had nice animation for a monster collecting game-based anime and the character designs were not disagreeable to look at in any way.


To be fair, that "movie" wasn't good and Tamers is best Digimon show. None of that changes the fact that Angela Anaconda should NOT be anywhere near something like Digimon in the first place, really.
 
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