The mission of the Mascot Hall of Fame is to honor mascot performers, performances, and programs that have positively affected their communities through mascot-themed, interactive exhibits embedded with S.T.E.A.M.-based education for the K-8 student population, families and sports fans alike.
The original Phillie Phanatic, David Raymond, had a dream of a hall of fame that would honor mascots the same way athletes in basketball, baseball, football, hockey and other sports get enshrined in immortality.
The Indianapolis Star described it as"a piece of Disney right in Indiana." ESPN called it"Raymond's grand folly," describing the surrounding area as the"sulfurous fetor of the industrial Illinois-Indiana borderland" and"a woebegone landscape of liquor stores, discount tobacco shacks and forsaken gravel lots."
Whiting typically budgets $700,000 to $800,000 for the museum every year and only brings in a fraction of that back to cover operating expenses. Any developer would have to pay off the $11 million still on the Mascot Hall of Fame's bond as well as the cost the city had to buy and demolish the other properties in the Stadium District.
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