Groquik n'est pas mort! Groquik is not dead!
Today I ran into Nick in Six Apart kitchen wearing a very cool Nesquik yellow tshirt (you know: naturally worn off by the time. The state of the art of hypeness, as we're used to when Nick is involved). Anyway, it took me a few seconds to notice because I didn't have(*) my breakfast just yet, but then I shocked. Instead of the famous Groquik the infamous Bunny was displayed on the shirt!
This is how I learned (thanks to nick and wikipedia) that poor americans never had the pleasure to meet the big happy guy. Since the beginning, they only knew the vicious bunny!
France and Greece first had another mascot for Nesquik, which was a fat yellow humanoid cartoon monster called Groquik—a variation of Gros Quik ("Fat Quik"), created by Gilbert Mas and puppeteered by Yves Brunier. In Greece the mascot was called Κουικάρας (or Quikáras--English:"Big Quik") He was later replaced by Quicky, much to the discontent of fans who protested against the lack of a sympathetic character and the Americanism. In Portugal, the mascot was a kangaroo, Kangurik, which was replaced by Quicky in 1989/1990.
There are tons of websites on the french web about groquik... most of them were created a long time ago. Hords of fans gathered thanks to the nascent web, and tried to kick out the bunny to get Grosquik back. Unsuccessfully.
- http://www.grosquick.net/
- http://membres.lycos.fr/payelle/groquik/
- http://membres.lycos.fr/nowaynoe/groquik.html
Puis un jour tragique, nous vîmes, malgré nos yeux brouillés par les larmes, notre idole disparaitre à bord d'un train, confiant le Nesquik à un lapin insipide qui se pretendait son cousin. Groquik ne revint jamais de ces vacances
rough translation:
A tragic day, by our eyes full of tears, we saw our star and hero stepping in a train and leaving. Nesquik was left to an insipid bunny pretending to be his cousin. Groquik never came back from vacations.
(*) please fix my english
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