But this is just the tip of the Colonel's Japanese cosplay odyssey. Colonel Sanders passed away in 1980, so he can't have a say in the costumes Japanese KFCs put his statue in.

In Japan, Colonel Sanders has been known to dress up as Santa Claus around Christmas time and as a giant purple robot around … other times, but now he’s found an even cooler costume. Starting Feb 15, ...

I'm of course talking about Tekken and its director Katsuhiro Harada's attempt to bring KFC mascot Colonel Sanders on as a guest fighter. So much potential in that pairing, but it wasn't meant to be.

That's how Mike Morris, who is putting the suit up for auction, met the colonel. One day in 1975, Sanders' white Cadillac limousine pulled up to the Morrises' home in Shelbyville, Ky.