Fido Dido – Wikipedia

Fido Dido
7-up mural featuring Fido Dido in Pune, Maharashtra, India .
First appearance	1985
Created by	Joanna Ferrone Sue Rose
In-universe information
Species	Human
Gender	Male

Fido Dido ( or ) is a cartoon character created by Joanna Ferrone and Sue Rose. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

history [edit ]

Rose first doodled the character in 1985 [ 3 ] on a diaper in a restaurant. [ 4 ] Ferrone came up with the character ’ s name on her way to work the following day. [ 5 ] The two late stenciled Fido on T-shirts. [ 6 ] These T-shirts became very popular in New York, [ 7 ] and featured the character ‘s official mantra : “ Fido is for Fido. Fido is against no one. Fido is young. Fido has no age. Fido sees everything. Fido judges nothing. Fido is impeccant. Fido is potent. Fido comes from the past. Fido is the future. ” [ 8 ]

Soft-drink mascot [edit ]

Fido Dido was licensed to PepsiCo in 1988 [ 9 ] but the character did not receive much attention or popularity until the early 1990s, when he appeared on numerous products, peculiarly stationery and 7-Up ads. later, he was replaced with Cool Spot as the 7-Up brand mascot. Since PepsiCo does not have the rights to 7-Up in the United States ( where it is a product of the Dr Pepper Snapple Group ), Fido Dido was rather used to promote Slice. Fido Dido reappeared in the 2000s on cans and ad for 7-Up cosmopolitan. [ 10 ]

In 2018, Fido Dido has reappeared in the Vintage Series cans. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Fido Dido is besides used on PepsiCo ‘s turkish soft beverage Fruko. [ 13 ]

early [edit ]

Fido Dido besides appeared in Saturday good morning bumpers for CBS. [ 14 ] His bumpers on CBS started in 1990 and lasted until 1993. Fido Dido: Life in the Third Lane was published in paperback in 1989.

A boastfully mural of Fido Dido was painted on the side of a construct in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador in the early 1990s and was closely erased by the pass of time, creating a sense of nostalgia in the population. After a news program article was published by El Universo in March 2019, the mural was repainted in full magnificence. [ 15 ] In 1992, Fido Dido appeared in his own magazine in the United Kingdom. The beginning version introduced his family, and was titled “ Meet the Fidos ”. It was published by Ravette Publishing. [ citation needed ] In 1993, a television plot called Fido Dido was made by Kaneko for the Super NES and Sega Genesis. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] however, it was never released, because the publisher Kaneko ‘s United States branch shut down in the summer of 1994. [ citation needed ] There was a Neopets sponsor game starring Fido Dido. [ citation needed ] In the early 1990s, Fido Dido had a comic clean in the adolescent magazine YM. [ citation needed ]

Fido Dido appears in the animate inadequate Logorama, as a bystander. [ citation needed ]

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