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texasdave
05-19-2010, 05:22 PM
London Olympics 2012: Meet Wenlock and Mandeville, drips off the old block. Organisers have unveiled their mascots – creatures supposedly fashioned from droplets of steel used to build the stadium.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/19/london-olympics-2012-mascot

When I think of London, I think of Wenlock and Mandeville. :beerme:
Chip R
05-19-2010, 05:25 PM
Why do Olympic mascots always have to be so lame?
Eric_the_Red
05-19-2010, 10:36 PM
Mandeville seems to have wet himself. How embarrassing!
KronoRed
05-19-2010, 10:46 PM
The Spice Girl may reunite for the opening ceremony.

I know I'm excited.
The Voice of IH
05-20-2010, 12:06 AM
LOL, the funny part is that some clowns actually got paid to designs these! :bowrofl:
15fan
05-20-2010, 03:01 PM
It took 16 years, but someone finally seized the title of crappiest ever Olympic mascot(s) from Atlanta.

Thank you, London.
Blimpie
05-20-2010, 03:14 PM
Teletubbies...unite!
Yachtzee
05-21-2010, 02:31 PM
Teletubbies...unite!

I was going to say that the Olympic mascots don't surprise me, considering they come from the country that gave us both Teletubbies and Boobah.
Caveat Emperor
05-21-2010, 03:25 PM
What happened to the rest of the demonic chess set?
thatcoolguy_22
05-22-2010, 07:51 AM
It took 16 years, but someone finally seized the title of crappiest ever Olympic mascot(s) from Atlanta.

Thank you, London.

http://www.studiothink.com/blog/media/blogs/BrainWash//waldi.jpg

1972 - Munich
Yachtzee
05-22-2010, 12:34 PM
http://www.studiothink.com/blog/media/blogs/BrainWash//waldi.jpg

1972 - Munich

That one is not too bad at all. Cute enough for the kids, not idiotic enough to turn off the adults. The Atlanta games mascot looked like some terrible concept for a Saturday morning kids show.

http://olympic-museum.de/mascot/mascot96_7.jpg
RedFanAlways1966
06-04-2010, 07:28 AM
Oh well... it is the Olympics. My guess is someone in the steel industry was the highest bidder to those on the Olympic Committee who decide on the mascots. The same process that is used to decide which city gets to host the Olympics. Money talks, cool mascots walk.
marcshoe
06-14-2010, 09:17 PM
With a metallic finish, a single large eye made out of a camera lens, a London taxi light on their heads and the Olympic rings represented as friendship bracelets on their wrists, they resemble characters dreamed up for a Pixar animation.

No, no they don't. They resemble evil mutant creatures from other, less successful, studios that were created as part of a plot to destroy Pixar, or possibly even the world. I notice the "2012" on the orange creature's mid-section and wonder whether this is a reference to the olympic year or a harbinger of the predicted end of all civilization, which his existence will no doubt trigger.