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Why would you need 2 duplicatel mascots?

Mascots lead VERY busy social lives.

We made a bunch of identical mascots for the NCAA. J.J. Jumper is the official mascot for the NCAA. There are a lot of schools in the NCAA. J.J. needed to be at many, many schools, all over the country, at the same time.

It is their job to get out and bump shoulders with fans, students, customers, clients and the larger community. They will be at official events, at charitable functions and at sponsored events. They will be at conventions when new products are unveiled, at parties, mascot basketball games—well, wherever they need to be.

Often a mascot needs to be in 2 places at once.

Sometimes a mascot needs to be part of a long event. Performers need to rest and hydrate. While one performer is resting and re-hydrating, another performer can don a second, identical mascot costume and head out to bump shoulders with the fans.

Mascot costumes are worn hard. When one mascot is out of commission because it is getting cleaned and repaired, the back-up mascot costume can pick up the slack.

Think about getting a back-up mascot costume or 2.

©Jennifer Smith/ AvantGarb Inc 2016.

AvantGarb designs & creates custom mascots. They are mascots that represent a team, school, event, product —even an idea. Each character is an original.

We’re a dynamic company of artists, designers and craft people. Our raison d’etre, our training and our experience is in custom creations.

There are companies that make many, many, many copies of the same mascot, and they do a good, efficient job. That’s not us.

We do, however make a few duplicates of the same mascot because…

Mascots have a very, very, very, busy social calendar.
The same mascot must be on the east & west coast at the same time.
A mascot is making several appearances with multiple performers
Each region needs it’s own mascot for all of the appearances and fabulous events that mascots get to go to —-this gets back to the busy social calendar

Sometimes we make 3 more or less duplicate mascots like the racing beer cans for Griffins Hockey

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Sometimes 5 that do a lot of traveling TiVoWashSqNYC

—and occasionally 10 because there are many, many schools in the NCAA

J.J. Jumper – the official mascot of the NCAA @ mascot training

Our Mascot Mission is to be the physical marketing component for your marketing strategy. We strive to deliver countless hi-fives, hugs, laughs and “ooohs!” We resolve to be energetic, rambunctious and effervescent!

Additional, Duplicate Mascots?

Why would you need 2 duplicatel mascots?

Custom Mascots, Original Characters

There are companies that make many, many, many copies of the same mascot, and they do a good, efficient job. That’s not us.