--- title: Avo Head Replaces Mr. Potato Head on April Fools description: Meet Avo man who has "replaced" Mr. Potato Head for April Fools' Day and has a whole look. canonical: https://time.com/5561976/avo-man-toy/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-04-01T13:12:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:48.201Z og:title: Meet the Avocado Man Who 'Replaced' Mr. Potato Head og:description: Hasbro's April Fools' Day prank is the pits for Mr. Potato Head og:url: https://time.com/5561976/avo-man-toy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meet the Avocado Man Who 'Replaced' Mr. Potato Head twitter:description: Hasbro's April Fools' Day prank is the pits for Mr. Potato Head twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # An Avocado Head Is 'Replacing' Mr. Potato Head as Millennials Continue to Ruin Things ## Video: Why You Should Eat More Avocado [Watch (HLS stream): Why You Should Eat More Avocado](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dWdExSxc.m3u8) (1:03)  _Published 2017-04-13. Here is some very good news for guacamole lovers everywhere: A new review of scientific literature suggests that eating avocado may help prevent metabolic syndrome_ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Apr 1, 2019 1:12 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Apr 1, 2019 1:12 PM UTC Mr. Potato is out of a job on April Fools’ Day. In what can only be a deeply concerning prank, Hasbro “announced” Monday that Mr. Potato Head got the boot in favor of the hip new toy: [Mr. Avo Head](http://time.com/5558025/avocado-recall-listeria/). “It’s no guaccident that the avocado was chosen to replace the carby potato,” Hasbro said in an April Fools’ Day [statement](https://mashable.com/article/mr-potato-head-avo-head/#YH.FzQ8T2Zq6). “Hasbro has announced that Mr. Potato Head will no longer be a star carb character and will be replaced with his soon to be Insta-famous rival, Mr. Avo Head.” Rough stuff. Avo man has glasses, a beard, a man bun, and headphones and is about a thousand times more on-trend than his mustachioed predecessor. From what we know about Avo man thus far, he is ruthless. For instance, a promotional image of the new toy shows him pictured alongside an iced coffee with a designer straw and guacamole. > [](https://twitter.com/Hasbro/status/1112655852706717699) Not only did he take the iconic toy’s place, but are we supposed to just deal with the fact that Avo Man scoops his brethren with chips? One thing will never change. The spud classic in a top hat is still relevant. The punk rock march of time can’t kill him. He rides again on the big screen soon when Don Rickles voices the Mr. Potato Head character in [_Toy Story 4_](http://time.com/4118006/20-years-toy-story-pixar/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5561976/avo-man-toy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5561976/avo-man-toy/"},"headline":"An Avocado Head Is 'Replacing' Mr. Potato Head as Millennials Continue to Ruin Things","datePublished":"2019-04-01T13:12:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:02:48.201Z","description":"Hasbro's April Fools' Day prank is the pits for Mr. Potato Head","url":"https://time.com/5561976/avo-man-toy/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Bizarre","Business"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5561976/avo-man-toy/","name":"An Avocado Head Is 'Replacing' Mr. Potato Head as Millennials Continue to Ruin Things"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Why You Should Eat More Avocado","description":"Here is some very good news for guacamole lovers everywhere: A new review of scientific literature suggests that eating avocado may help prevent metabolic syndrome","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dWdExSxc/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-04-13T17:54:11.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dWdExSxc.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5561976/avo-man-toy/","duration":"PT1M3S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5561976/avo-man-toy/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```