“grimace was introduced in 1971 as the mascot for their new blueberry milkshake. he used to be blue with purple dots to look like the milkshake. he also used to have 4 arms and was a bad guy in McDonaldland who used to steal children’s milkshakes.”
Ahh, so they rebooted the character, like they did with the Hammurderer.
That still doesn’t explain what he is, just why he looked like he did originally.
No, actually it explains that he’s a blueberry milkshake.
Okay, so the Hamburglar wanted to steal burgers, the Grimace wanted to steal shakes…weren’t there some creatures who looked like tribbles with long legs who wanted to steal fries?
What was up with all the “Hey kids, the world is full of creatures who want to steal your fast food” ideas?
No, he wasn’t. He was The Evil Grimace, who stole milkshakes - he was no more a milkshake than the Hamburglar was a hamburger.
(DD - those are the Fry Guys, AKA the Fry Kids (since there are now Fry Girls).)
“grimace was introduced in 1971 as the mascot for their new blueberry milkshake. he used to be blue with purple dots to look like the milkshake. he also used to have 4 arms and was a bad guy in McDonaldland who used to steal children’s milkshakes.”
Ok, the quote clearly says he’s supposed to be a milkshake. Do you have any evidence to prove he’s something else?
Years ago my Mom & I were traveling on the road and stopped at a McDonald’s to grab lunch. There were some characters in costume there - they must have been doing some sort of grand opening event maybe? - and my Mom is one of those folks who do not like people in costumes coming up to her. Well, wouldn’t you know it as we’re leaving old Grimace came over to say hello and my Mom took off sprinting for the door. Grimace ran after her - not sure why, she didn’t have a shake! Grimace got stuck in the door. It was pretty funny watching that poor guy/gal in the costume struggling to get loose, it took several folks to pull him back out.
Originally the characters lived in a trippy alternate world that so greatly resembled the works of Sid & Marty Krofft, that a federal court told them to them stop. As a result of that suit, the characters transitioned to living in our world and a lot of the characters were dropped in the 80s, including another baddie, Captain Crook (oddly, not Grimace who IMHO is the most Pufn’Stufian character, but the Kroffts were more upset about Mayor McCheese). The new characters that McD’s introduced were friendly, like early bird, happy meal gang, etc.
TL;DR - it was the 70s.
The Grapist was pretty misguided.
No, it quite clearly says he was coloured like one. That is exactly NOT saying he’s supposed to be one.
Mayor McCheese, Officer Big Mac, and the McNuggets don’t eat their own kind. Hamburgler’s not a hamburger, the Fry Kids are not fries, and Birdie the Early Bird is not an Egg McMuffin or Hashbrown patty.
Why do you think the Evil Grimace is supposed to be the sole exception to the food-person cannibalism paradigm of McDonaldland?
It doesn’t say that he was drinking the milkshakes, only stealing them. I tend to think he was just the first step in a bizarre sort of underground railroad; stealing the shakes and starting them on their journey to a distant land where they could live free of bondage.
He’s blue with purple dots, the milkshake is blue with purple dots. What else is he supposed to be?
A Grimace. Just like the Fry Guys are Fry Guys.
He’s a Grimace designed to blend in with milkshakes. It makes it easier to steal them.
As I recall, as a certified Old Person who remembers too much Saturday Morning television, the “Fry Guys” were originally “Gobblin’s” who were likely to raid the fry patch. The shakes originally came from multi-flavored volcanoes.
Stoned, where did you get this quote?
I remember Grimace having more arms, but not being spotted.
Besides, McDonald’s has never had blueberry milkshakes.
The McDonaldland characters were ripoffs of HR Pufnstuf characters. Grimace was based on Witchiepoo’s henchman Seymour Spider.
Grimace was never spotted.
However, I was wrong about blueberry shakes. In 1973, blueberry shakes were a limited time promotion. So Grimace was not colored that way because of blueberries.
It just occurred to me that early Grimace had a passing resemblance to Yarnek, the Excalbian.
The quote was from a user on wetcanvas.com who did some research on Grimace.