Possumblog

So, what's this about garden gnomes?!

Well, a certain business professor got to wondering how hard it is to make these things, specifically with an eye toward doing some generic school mascot sorts of gnomes, for various rabid fans who tend to purchase anything even remotely related to their university's mascot.

Hmm. Sounds like a pretty good idea--which I suppose is why someone's already in the business of doing it. ::sigh:: I did a bit of looking this morning and found that someone has already stuck a toe in the Officially Licensed Collegiate Garden Gnome market. Now, as Jim noted, no matter which school you choose, the body of the gnome is the same, so these aren't quite what he had in mind, which was something a bit more customized to each school.

Of course, Auburn has already had our own tiny garden gnome as a head coach, so as Jim suggested, something more like a gnomish tiger or eagle might be more marketable.

Up there where Doc Smith is at East Carolina, of course, is Pirate country, and a chubby pirate gnome would probably would be kinda cute. Not that this guy is cute, necessarily, but shrunk down some he might work.

I just wonder if there's a market for life-size polyresin cheerleader statuary? Might go over even better than gnomes.