Hear me out.
I stumbled across this site when searching up "Fruit Winders," "Lemon," and "Comics," together. Steve Williams, one of the co-creators of the ChewChat Gang, shares concept art for the lemon print ad AND concept art for the lemon character, who was originally called Buffy before being reworked into the character we know, who Steve refers to as "Sadie."
Concept Art for the print ad
Concept Art for Sadie
Oh and I finally released that documentary.
@Chafferoni12 and @Cassie Moats I think you should know.
I've been on the interest of the ChewChat's since August of last year and I at first hated the ChewChat's because of their behaviors...but after further thinking, I ended up finding myself amused by them.
But the question is in the title of the subject, is it possible that there are more Fruit Winder adverts out there that hadn't been discovered?
For the longest time, I've been using a page on this wiki to dump as much info as possible regarding a forgotten advertising campaign. I've decided to have my research be part of its own wiki, as I feel that this wiki isn't the best place for such information (It's about the mascots, not every single aspect of the campaigns).
If you wish to keep up with my research and trivia, check out the ChewChat Wiki. I've tried to adjust my grammar to appeal to a British audience, so that if someone who grew up in the UK with this brand has unseen content, they can hopefully feel confident enough to share it.
I'm not sure about this wiki's post rules (if it has any) but I'm making this post mainly because Google seems to actively avoid this wiki when looking up "ChewChat" and I obviously want to make the site accessible to anyone.
Happy Halloween to all fans of the ChewChat gang and Screamin' Fruit world.
Since it's Halloween time, I guess I should provide y'all with tricks and treats.
First, here's a drawing of Voojuice bringing tropical fruit back from the dead, also featuring a coconut and a pitaya bat. The coloring was unfinished because it was mainly done with school art supplies and I had no time to complete this due to a separate costume project getting in the way of time.
Secondly, I've gotten ahold of some old ChewChat-related flash files and have finally updated my archive. If you wish to play Fruit Fill Frenzy or Winders FrightBall, it's now easier to find the files! Additionally, some strange or broken files are included in the drive as well. If you can get the fabled Fruit Test Dummies game from the 2003 flavor vote working, that'd be GREATLY appreciated.
Lastly, I plan on trying to make a YouTube video essay describing the history of Fruit Winders and the mysterious missing media associated with it (since it seems no one else has covered this stuff), possibly my biggest video yet. It isn't confirmed to ever come out, but it's still in the research phase, as I want to list the sources behind most of the information I've echoed about the ChewChat gang for so long.
Additionally, I'm going to design some humanoid fruit characters to represent people associated with Fruit Winders to put in a "Special Thanks" section of the video mentioned above, this could include some of you who are interested in these niche mascots. Perhaps if you send me some ideas or designs for your own characters, I could design/redesign them to be part of this. There are a few rules though:
Character must be based on a botanical fruit. (As much as I like Cassie's concepts for a diverse humanoid food world, I want to stick as close to "canon" as possible. A tomato or eggplant is acceptable, but broccoli isn't.)
Character must be a generally safe and edible fruit. (A lychee is fine, as its seeds are the poisonous part. general poison berries aren't allowed, and I'm not super sure about the explosive sandbox fruit.)
Thanks for your interest!
Erika/Starri
I'd also like to apologize to the Ad Mascot wiki for me using it as my dumping ground of facts and speculation. There's not really anywhere else for me to put this stuff.
I'm very very glad I've managed to get some of this information online, and that there's an audience (albeit very niche) that's interested in these odd characters. The ChewChat Gang have consumed my home life and school life, I can't stop drawing them on my papers!
The niche following on DeviantArt is interesting, somehow, my search "winded" up back on one of the pages that helped me find Voojuice's name, and now people are making fanart and fanfiction on there.
Keep up the cool stuff, I'm interested in seeing your ideas come to life.
Here's some art I did of one of the fan characters I saw, Dractaya, a humanoid pitaya vampire. I've never eaten a pitaya but they're cool looking. I tried to replicate the style of how Stuart Harrison drew the characters' eyes, teeth, and feet, as well as give somewhat of a refresh to the pitaya bats to make look more like real bats. Dractaya's probably my favorite fan character due to their design (probably because it resembles the detailed yet memorable design of Voojuice) and how the character's theming isn't entirely based around the "dragonfruit" name that the Arbetus knight character on the fanon wiki was based on.
Dractaya was designed by TigressBird324 on DeviantArt.
I know they're a bit off...but It's the best I can come up with.
Plus, with the exception of Max and the Raspberry member the rest of these are nicknames for their human counterparts.