Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Pepsi One Mascot Bobbleheads

I've been trying to track down information about this set for quite some time.  The information below might not be totally accurate and its been pulled from several different sources.  So, if you can add anything to the story behind these bobbleheads, please do.

I believe in the 2003-2005 range, Pepsi One did a set of 33 college mascot bobbleheads.  It included both major and minor conference schools.  AGP produced the bobbleheads and the detail in them is amazing. That's the reason I decided to collect this set even tho it has nothing to do with Minnesota - well at least the teams don't.  Besides that, its a pretty tough collection to put together.  At the time, you had to redeem points (from purchasing Pepsi One cans/bottles).  I've heard 2 different variations.  The first is, so many points got you one bobblehead of your choice.  The second, another batch of points got you 3 bobbleheads of your choice.  Also, only 1 set of points could be redeemed by the same person.  And from the sounds of it, lots of points were needed to get the batch of bobbleheads.  Add in the fact that there are 33 pieces to this set, you'd have to come across a lot of friends who drank Pepsi One.

I teased that Minnesota wasn't really involved in the Mascots earlier - which is true.  But Minnesota is heavily involved in the story.  I've heard the same thing from numerous people, a lot of these Pepsi One Mascots ended up in the Minnesota area.  Not sure why that is, but it certainly seems to be true.

Update: The bobbleheads ended up in Minnesota because the redemption company has a warehouse in Maple Plain, Minnesota.  All bobbleheads were supposed to be destroyed once the redemption period ended.  However, we know that most likely didn't happen.

Here's the set, broken down into 4 pictures.  Who's your favorite?





Also - there is one bobblehead missing from these pictures - Kansas State.

5 comments:

  1. Hi. I have 9 of these. Any idea what they are worth individually?
    Colorado State
    Colorado
    East Carolina
    Cincinnati State
    Tulsa
    Utah State
    Northwestern
    New Mexico
    Arizona
    Stanford
    Kansas State

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  2. Hey, just friendly heads up.

    There r actually 36 in the complete set

    Missing Kansas st & then the 3 announcers (fowler, Corso, herbstreit)

    Thx

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  3. Hi, there is actually 4 more n the complete set.

    1 mascot missing, Kansas st

    & also the 3 announcer bobbles (Fowler, Corso & herbstreit). I’m sure u have prob got b4. Just friendly heads up

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    1. Thanks. Full mascots is 33 (32 are pictured). 3 announcers.

      Plus for those completists, there is an error Oregon State one (says Oregon State on base but its the Duck from Oregon) plus there are an additional 3 announcers, a different version of Corso plus 2 other guys.

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