Original pink flamingos going extinct

The manufacturer of the iconic lawn flamingos is going out of business:

An estimated 20m of the plastic birds have been sold since the company began production. The line began when a newly-hired art school graduate named Donald Featherstone made a clay model of a flamingo, copied from a photograph in National Geographic.

Mr Featherstone and Mr Plante hope to save the bird from extinction. “It is sad that it is happening, but it may not be dead yet.” The two hope to find another company to buy the flamingo moulds and continue production. Wal-Mart has been its biggest customer, selling 250,000 of the birds each year.

(Anyone shocked that Wal-Mart sells more than anyone?)

A sad day for us all.

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