Reply to: London 2012 mascots

[eliquant]

"In the realm of the Blind the one-eyed man is king."

[Zippy]

Add me to your list!

Which list? And why are you ?

[AtW]

I rather like the mascots, and they are better than an over tattooed hoodie.

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells (Mrs)

Add me to your list!

[Zippy]

I rather like the mascots, and they are better than an over tattooed hoodie.

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells (Mrs)

[AtW]

a hyperactive, thieving grey squirrel

[SueEllen]

I think they are quite cool - kids and teenagers will be able to relate to them more than some crappy animal based mascot. What animal could London have used anyway? A skanky urban fox, and a grumpy old badger?

Also, the cartoons & story that goes with them was quite cool.

Badgers aren't common in London.

It would be a skanky urban fox, a hyperactive, thieving grey squirrel and a mutant one-legged pigeon.

[DimPrawn]

I quite like them. Kids will enjoy them and it should bring in a bit of extra cash.

The Daily Mash - THE MASCOT NIGHTMARES BEGIN

[shaunbhoy]

What animal could London have used anyway?

Some manifestation of loathsome spotted reptile? No offence zeity, obviously.

[Moscow Mule]

I think they are quite cool - kids and teenagers will be able to relate to them more than some crappy animal based mascot. What animal could London have used anyway? A skanky urban fox, and a grumpy old badger?

Also, the cartoons & story that goes with them was quite cool.

[dang65]

You lot will whinge about anything that is produced in a creative way.

I don't. I always get really enthusiastic about these things, and I even quite enjoyed the double-decker bus Jimmy Page show in Beijing. But the London 2012 logos were genuinely horrific mistakes - even if you didn't see the suggestive side of the images, they were still just... rubbish. And they've never replaced them, even with a bit of subtle tweaking or something. And now these mascots. Well, they are a slight improvement on the logos, I suppose, but that's pretty much the only mildly positive thing that can be said about them. I don't get it. Designers can come up with such fabulous stuff. I'm full of admiration for them. So how does something like this get selected?

[northernladuk]

You lot will whinge about anything that is produced in a creative way.

I think they are alright. At least they showed creativity and not come out with an uninspiring bear with long legs.

True, a blob with virtually no legs is much better

And they can go too far with this naming reference to obscure forgotten and uniportant facts. Must have cost millions to agree to those. Why do they just not call them Bob and Steve and then go to the pub?

[fullyautomatix]

You lot will whinge about anything that is produced in a creative way.

I think they are alright. At least they showed creativity and not come out with an uninspiring bear with long legs.

[FiveTimes]

I quite like them. Kids will enjoy them and it should bring in a bit of extra cash.

[Spacecadet]

Good God no!! "Mandeville" was named after the fact that the first Paralympics was first mooted/coordinated by Stoke Mandeville Hospital

Thats alright then

[shaunbhoy]

Was Mandeville named after/in honour of Mandleson?

Good God no!! "Mandeville" was named after the fact that the first Paralympics was first mooted/coordinated by Stoke Mandeville Hospital, and the Wenlock relates to the fact that a rival to the modern Olympics was once held at a small place called Wenlock. Tenuous links indeed.
As for the "who thought of one-eyed creatures", I think that boils down to the fact that the designer of same has spent altogether too much time with a one-eyed thing in his hands. Some kind of bizarre auto-suggestion.