Aside from the orange-striped one looking constantly angry they seem rather harmless. Don't seem very Olympics-like but then again I never really paid much attention to mascots.
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May 20 2010 12:24 am
This is so fucking dumb...I hate these universally boring, non-offensive things they create in order to get people interested. Fuck this...
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May 20 2010 12:30 am
its even more retarded because the summer olympics automatically have a following. they are fun to watch and dont need these mascots. so its basically a waste of time imo
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May 20 2010 12:36 am
I hate them. I hate their stupid faces, I hate their perkiness, and I hate everything they stand for.
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May 20 2010 12:44 am
sidewaydriver wrote:
I hate them. I hate their stupid faces, I hate their perkiness, and I hate everything they stand for.
whoa, calm down Anakin
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May 20 2010 12:46 am
username wrote:
sidewaydriver wrote:
I hate them. I hate their stupid faces, I hate their perkiness, and I hate everything they stand for.
whoa, calm down Anakin
I knew you'd take their side.
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May 20 2010 12:57 am
sidewaydriver wrote:
username wrote:
sidewaydriver wrote:
I hate them. I hate their stupid faces, I hate their perkiness, and I hate everything they stand for.
whoa, calm down Anakin
I knew you'd take their side.
sand people are people too. just look at them as rednecks from tattooine
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Chile Guy
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May 20 2010 09:09 am
First the logo, now the mascots look very, VERY artificial, bland and unnapealing.
Is that what England stands for?
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Posted:
May 20 2010 10:06 am
When I first saw those things, the first thing that lept to mind was "one-eyed willie".
Well, according to Wikipedia, those mascots are drops of liquid steel from the steelworks of Bolton, so they're related to the English industry. I stand corrected.
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May 20 2010 10:47 am
Honestly, those mascots are creepy as fuck. Just imagine going down a dark alleyway in the rain and finding one crouched over a hobo it just rolled, it's singular eye bloodshot as it grasps at a boxcutter covered in hobo blood with it's weird tendril-thing.
Seriously, though, I'm way past giving two shits and a piss about the Olympics. Between the IOC's dickishness, the banality of the announcers for the network, the allegations of doping/performance enhancements and the general drama that the media tries to create with it on an otherwise slow news day, it just annoys me. I'm glad it's not something I have to deal with again for another two years.
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May 20 2010 11:36 am
The alternative parody one was better...
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May 20 2010 01:36 pm
Never have I wished a shoebox have actual shoes in them compared to these weird little things. Mini terminators or something, why is there even a need for this? Are there really that many stupid, lazy kids who cant get excited over the actual events, but need a toy tie in to have intrest?
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May 20 2010 01:55 pm
I really don't think those ugly, misshapen pieces of garbage are meant to entice children into watching the Olympics. Frankly, were I a child, much like I was about twenty years ago, I'd be afraid that they were waiting in my closet and planning my imminent rape.
Not to mention the fact that I don't think children are very high up in the priorities list of the network's Olympic programming target demographic. Seriously, I'm pretty sure that I spent the 88 Olympics playing NES, the 92 Olympics playing SNES, the 96 olympics playing PS, the 2000 Olympics playing Dreamcast (pretty sure it was out then), the 2004 Olympics playing PS2 and the 2008 Olympics playing X-Box 360 (yes, my childhood ended at 26, so the fuck what). I mean, did anybody really plunk down and watch hours of the Olympics when they rolled around as kids?
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May 20 2010 02:08 pm
MUCH better
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May 20 2010 03:24 pm
They kind of reminded of an enemy you'd meet in a Zelda game. The week spot is obviously the eye. You probably have to shoot them there with an arrow and then slash away.
But they're made of steel... you'd probably have to shoot them with lasers and slash with a lightsaber.
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May 22 2010 12:01 am
space olympics!
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May 22 2010 12:17 pm
They're not as bad as the race and gender neutral mascot (left) from Community.
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Posted:
May 22 2010 03:19 pm
i'd hit it (the girl, not that thing in the background)
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AtmanRyu
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Posted:
May 22 2010 05:46 pm
I kinda have to agree with some sources that Cobi from Barcelona '92 was one of the better Olympics mascots: simple design, straight to the point, and perhaps the only mascot who had a successful cartoon series:
Though to be honest, it is now that I've seeing it once again, I have to admit the cartoon was a tad racist in occasions (it was done in Spain after all...).
