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"Dimmer, dumber, crapper" The 2012 Olympic mascots.
Posted by Beany on 20 May 2010 - 8:10am.
If you were glued to the box last night to witness the unveiling of the 2012 Olympic mascots on the One Show you would have uttered one of these phrases, "I like them" or "what a f**king waste of money!"
I am in the former camp, for Wenlock and Mandeville were "born" in a steel works in my home town - actually it's a steel fabrication plant just around the corner but what the heck. I do think they should have been given more Boltonian names though, like Reebok and Dibnah.
In this clip on Newsnight, Jeremy Paxman can hardly contain his enthusiasm - UK viewers only. Warning: contains Stuart Hall.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8693607.stm
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Misha
will always be my fave.
Compo over at B3ta
This is my fave so far:
http://www.b3ta.com/board/10056537
A bit 'bling' aren't they?
Perfect then for our materialist generation.
I like them...
better than yer standard cuddly animal.
Hmmm
I like 'em as toys, but I don't think they make very good Olympic mascots. I guess it's difficult to make something that'll sell to children (i.e. be cute and cuddly) but at the same suggest great athletic prowess.
Do you remember the Barcelona olympics?
Where's the bloke with the flaming arrow when you need him?
Fatso the Big Arsed Wombat
is the only mascot ever worthy of the title. Unofficial symbol of the Sydney games and a true class act.
Described
on the radio this morning as "looking like two pulled teeth".
My first thought was that one looked like a sperm and the other a sort of melted, streamlined Sonic the Hedgehog.....you can decide which is which.
The BBC report
reminded me that I'd spotted an advert for this in the paper at the weekend:
Presumably the paper was Viz? :-)
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dummer
They look like two dummies out of Burton's window,
I'm tired of them already.
I LOVE them.....
When I saw them, I knew that the kneejerk response of most people would be that the mascots are shit. And checking out some of the comments on newspaper websites this morning suggests that some people think the designers have committed a heinous crime, worthy of physical punishment.
And this will be the trend over the next couple of years - many people will bitch and groan about ANYTHING to do with the Olympics, and will complain at great length about how they always knew the London Olympics were going to be rubbish, and are we going to have morris dancing at the opening ceremony, blah blah f**king blah.
So, I shall be counterbalancing that by being hugely enthusiastic about everything to do with the event.
I've been lucky enough to be living in 2 host cities during the games(Sydney and Beijing), and I can categorically state that the Olympics are a Great Thing.
And the quality of the mascots has NO bearing on that.
Oh I agree
Look at all the flack Manchester got before the Commonwealth Games. Being in the middle of - I worked at a venue that did four of the indoor sports - was utterly fabulous. All the crowds were having a wonderful time and the weather was great too (OK it pissed it down at the closing ceremony).
Make the most it - you will not see its kind again in your lifetime - except perhaps at the Global Word Massive Pub Crawl and Gigathon.
Agreed!
It is the British way - to sometimes be more cynical and mocking than we should be. I was a car park attendant at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in 1982 - The games were terrific and not spoilt at all by my one abiding memory, viz - Having to stand in the same spot day after day in the blistering sun, I became aware of an unpleasant smell which grew to be overpowering as the games went on. It transpired that someone had thoughtfully dumped a 2kg bag of prawns in a nearby bush.
Strewth!
Scary!
Even Doctor Who would balk.
But I'm sure kids will love them. Not exactly cuddly though, are they? And why the one eye?
I'm sure the quality of the mascot has no bearing on the Olympics being A Great Thing. But they're still horrible.
Given they've only got
one eye perhaps they should have been called Snake and Trouser
yeap
One Eyed Milkmen was the first thing I thought of
My first thought ...
... was that the designers drew just as heavily on these for inspiration as they did on the Lisa Simpson 2010 logo. Surely these are the two aliens?
Lets face it, they're crap but it doesn't really matter if the Games are a superb event for those who like that sort of thing.
Buying tickets for the Olympics
It now appears that people in the UK, let alone London, will have no priority over other people in the EU in getting tickets for the Olympics. Anyone in the EU will be able to apply to be put in the ballot for the 75% of tickets which go on direct sale. Given the relative ease of travel to London, I would guess that a lot of Europeans will apply.
When we were talking about this at work, a couple of people got genuinely angry - we're paying for it, why shouldn't we have first go at the tickets. And I kind of see their point. Although I think this policy would help good feelings across the EU towards the UK, it wasn't exactly highlighted during the bid process.
I like them
Although someone I spoke to last night thought they looked like two taps...
Re the b3ta post, check out the Berlin 1936 version (on front page at www.b3ta.com).