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-''Uknown origin. He arrives in steaming cloud of futuristic hoo-haw, waving his withered mit. His nose is a television dial. He is a television dial. He is given an a return ticket to the stars, first class.''+''Unknown origin. He arrives amid a steamed cloud of futuristic hoo-haw, waving his withered mit. His nose is a television dial. He is a television dial. He is given a return ticket to the stars, first class.''
DingDing was a representative of the alien race that helped to create [[Choco]]. Although he only appeared as a hologram to Choco, he proved to be a useful source of wisdom and aid to the beleaguered chocolate hero. Kind and witty, he communicated in a series of mysterious clucks and twitters only Choco could decipher. DingDing was a representative of the alien race that helped to create [[Choco]]. Although he only appeared as a hologram to Choco, he proved to be a useful source of wisdom and aid to the beleaguered chocolate hero. Kind and witty, he communicated in a series of mysterious clucks and twitters only Choco could decipher.

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Unknown origin. He arrives amid a steamed cloud of futuristic hoo-haw, waving his withered mit. His nose is a television dial. He is a television dial. He is given a return ticket to the stars, first class.

DingDing was a representative of the alien race that helped to create Choco. Although he only appeared as a hologram to Choco, he proved to be a useful source of wisdom and aid to the beleaguered chocolate hero. Kind and witty, he communicated in a series of mysterious clucks and twitters only Choco could decipher.

He was so popular in Canada that in 1982 he was given his own CBC television show, The DingDing Hour. The program was made with puppets and continues to be diffused to this day under the direction of Argentine puppeteer Pablo Mollusconi.

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Screenshot from The DingDing Hour, 1983.
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Screenshot from The DingDing Hour, 1983.

Desiderata


The short-lived snack-cake line, Ding-Dings, were marketed unsucessfully by a cult group dedicated to the use of modern bio-technology to actually bring a Choco-like creature to life.