The club also hopes that the rebranding of the team's main colours from blue to red and featuring a dragon on the team badge will help secure "future commercial opportunities".
Their work took on a decidedly surreal edge with the Clangers, pink creatures with pointed noses who lived on a blue moon with a friendly soup dragon, and spoke in whistles.
Eight feet tall and twenty-four feet long, the specimen had been mounted in a predatory running position, with its arms out and its jaws open, as if determined to eat Lot No. 49220 a cast Komodo dragon, crouching ten yards away, on blue velvet.
He defended his controversial decision to change the club's strip from blue to red but said he hoped the bluebird and the red dragon would fly high together.