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Title: Olympic Mascot
Post by: Bugloss2009 on May 20, 2010, 10:13:07
has anyone else seen our Oyympic Mascots for 2012? Can't we do anything right? Look like a pair of deformed Power Rangers

or a pair of Novelty Condoms

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/picturegalleries/7740806/In-pictures-London-2012-Olympic-mascots-Wenlock-and-Mandeville-are-launched.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/picturegalleries/7740806/In-pictures-London-2012-Olympic-mascots-Wenlock-and-Mandeville-are-launched.html)

Title: Re: Olympic Mascot
Post by: nilly71 on May 20, 2010, 10:29:23
and they probley paid 100,000 of £'s for them to be designed.


Neil
Title: Re: Olympic Mascot
Post by: Bugloss2009 on May 20, 2010, 10:43:57
at the Sydney Olympics, the Australians got so peed off with their offical mascots they created their own

Fatso, The Fat @rsed Wombat

http://www.tripandom.com/australia/fatso-the-fat-arsed-wombat/ (http://www.tripandom.com/australia/fatso-the-fat-arsed-wombat/)

perhaps we should do the same.

Boris, The Fat @rsed @rse
Title: Re: Olympic Mascot
Post by: Pesky Wabbit on May 20, 2010, 11:45:04
Yup, I'd would like to know how much of tax payers money went into creating those 'things'.
I think they'd even look tacky on a Blake's-7 set.


What ever happened to the UKs better known mascots - Lardy-Arse and ASBO ?
Title: Re: Olympic Mascot
Post by: caroline7758 on May 20, 2010, 18:41:00
Does anyone else think we should rename this site Cynics4all?  ;)
Title: Re: Olympic Mascot
Post by: powerspade on May 20, 2010, 21:12:04
Quote from: Bugloss2009 on May 20, 2010, 10:43:57
at the Sydney Olympics, the Australians got so peed off with their offical mascots they created their own

Fatso, The Fat @rsed Wombat

http://www.tripandom.com/australia/fatso-the-fat-arsed-wombat/ (http://www.tripandom.com/australia/fatso-the-fat-arsed-wombat/)

perhaps we should do the same.



Now thats a good idea

Boris, The Fat @rsed @rse
Title: Re: Olympic Mascot
Post by: Bugloss2009 on May 20, 2010, 22:00:48
Quote from: caroline7758 on May 20, 2010, 18:41:00
Does anyone else think we should rename this site Cynics4all?  ;)

considering that the Official Olympic Logo cost us £400,000 to design, and was woefully bad....
Title: Re: Olympic Mascot
Post by: Isleworth on May 20, 2010, 22:05:05
OMG... What a joke, did we the tax payer get any say in the choice  ???

Exactly what are these things supposed to be?? (http://wscdn.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/assets/images/2010/05/20/100520150106_olympic_mascot_466x262_afp.jpg)
Title: Re: Olympic Mascot
Post by: :( on May 20, 2010, 22:16:48
Theyre based on drops of molten steel from the girders that went in to the Olympic site and theyre called Mandeville and Wenlock, the 2 towns that inspired the Olympic and Paralympic bids. What theyve got to do with London Ive no idea. They look to me like refugees from the teletubbies.
Title: Re: Olympic Mascot
Post by: Stopp on May 21, 2010, 01:18:00

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/8175474.Made_in_Bolton/

Think that explains it a little more ...
Title: Re: Olympic Mascot
Post by: caroline7758 on May 21, 2010, 09:54:43
I think kids will love them, and if the merchandising offsets the cost, all well and good. I also think it's great that the paralympics are being given a high, equal profile by having their own mascot.
Title: Re: Olympic Mascot
Post by: lillian on May 21, 2010, 11:37:10
Other half thought they looked rather rude ??? ;D
Title: Re: Olympic Mascot
Post by: Growing4twins on May 30, 2010, 22:10:51
I was listening to Micheal Ball on radio 2 last week & he said he thought they looked like "aliens willies" .  His words not mine lol.  Well they aint as bad as the lisa simpson logo for the olympics,  some1 should really have had a good look @ the logo b4 it was approved!
Title: Re: Olympic Mascot
Post by: Jeannine on May 30, 2010, 22:14:25
They look just as daft as the Canadian ones and I thought they were stupid too..but they made millions for the cause.

XX Jeannine