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{{Infobox personnel | {{Infobox personnel | ||
|image = MediEvil1998-TeamPhoto-CalvinTCamel.png | |||
|caption = Calvin on James Busby's shoulder. | |||
|gender = Male | |||
|medievil = Development Support Team | |medievil = Development Support Team | ||
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'''Calvin the Camel''', credited as '''Calvin T. Camel''' in ''[[MediEvil|MediEvil's]]'' [[ | '''Calvin the Camel''', credited as '''Calvin T. Camel''' in ''[[MediEvil (1998)|MediEvil's]]'' [[credits]], was [[SCEE Cambridge Studio]]'s toy camel. He was brought into the office by [[James Busby]] who got him by trading in a Cadbury chocolate bar's competition tokens.{{Note|name="calvin"|Calvin Sawdust, also known as Calvin the Camel, was a marketing character created by the [[wikipedia:Bartle Bogle Hegarty|Bartle Bogle Hegarty]] advertising company to promote Cadbury's [[wikipedia:Picnic (chocolate bar)|Picnic]] brand in 1991. Calvin starred in a commercial where he sang a parody of Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky."<ref>{{Cite web|author=Richmond, Susannah|published=April 5, 1991|title="Singing camel to give Picnic a boost"|newspaper=Campaign}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/c3d74978-bc98-4d63-a82f-73e216dd9ff0|title=Cadbury's Picnic Commercial: Goo C'Chew|site=History of Advertising Trust|retrieved=January 3, 2022}}</ref>}}{{Siteref|MED1-EU-Site|english/sorcerers/sorcerers_james_7.html|Sorcerers - James Busby: CAMEL}}{{Siteref|MED1-EU-Site|english/sorcerers/sorcerers_paul_9.html|Sorcerers - Paul Donovan: CHIMPS, part 2}} Busby considered Calvin to be "sort of the ''MediEvil'' mascot."{{Siteref|MED1-EU-Site|english/sorcerers/sorcerers_james_7.html|Sorcerers - James Busby: CAMEL}} | ||
The camel's tail was cut off and sown back on at a Christmas party.{{Siteref|MED1-EU-Site|english/sorcerers/sorcerers_paul_9.html|Sorcerers - Paul Donovan: CHIMPS, part 2}}{{Siteref|MED-EU-Site|english/sorcerers/sorcerers_jason_2.html|Sorcerers - Jason Riley: CAMEL NIGHTS, part 1}} | The camel's tail was cut off and sown back on at a Christmas party.{{Siteref|MED1-EU-Site|english/sorcerers/sorcerers_paul_9.html|Sorcerers - Paul Donovan: CHIMPS, part 2}}{{Siteref|MED-EU-Site|english/sorcerers/sorcerers_jason_2.html|Sorcerers - Jason Riley: CAMEL NIGHTS, part 1}} Calvin was well-travelled, as team members would take him on holidays with them to places such as Portugal, Greece, America and South Africa.{{Siteref|MED1-EU-Site|english/sorcerers/sorcerers_james_7.html|Sorcerers - James Busby: CAMEL}}{{Siteref|MED1-EU-Site|english/sorcerers/sorcerers_paul_9.html|Sorcerers - Paul Donovan: CHIMPS, part 2}}{{Siteref|MED1-EU-Site|english/sorcerers/sorcerers_jason_3.html|Sorcerers - Jason Riley: CAMEL NIGHTS, part 2}} | ||
==See also== | |||
*[[Chunky Monkey]] | |||
*[[Moghul Tandoori]] | |||
*[[Mr Apple]] | |||
*[[Mr Pumpkin]] | |||
*[[Rachel]] | |||
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