London 2012 mascots announced

[eastman23]

Can't believe no one has posted this yet.

Wenlock and Mandeville: Say hello to London's Olympic and Paralympic mascots

LONDON - They're not furry animals, neither male nor female and have no cutesy names.

London 2012 organizers unveiled the Olympic and Paralympic mascots Wednesday — one-eyed creations from the digital age named after two small English towns.

Officials predicted the mascots — Wenlock and Mandeville — will be a big hit with kids and help inspire young people to get involved in Olympic sports.

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They're.... different, I'll give them that.

 

[Trekker4747]

They're like Teletubbies mixed with epilators mixed Satan and then designed after a crack-fueled orgy.

Seriously, how many different ways is London screwing up the 2012 olympics? Starting with the logo they made that was out-of-date in 2001 when they first madei t?

 

[Docbrown777]

Their names should be Kang and Kodos if you ask me.

 

[Cornholio]

they remind of that one-eyed red thing in that Kia commercial.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

^^^ I don't think they'll want to ask the British people "How you like me now?" with these guys though.

Ah, yes, who could forget those majestic beasts of the English countryside, the Giant Wild Sperm?

I know London gets foggy, but people are capable of actually seeing these things before announcing them, right?

 

[Mallory]

I'd sure hate to see the losing designs. Whatever they paid for those, it was too much.

 

[Canadave]

Dear British press, who were busy ripping on the Vancouver games,

Suck it.

Sincerely,

Canada

 

[eastman23]

Dear British press, who were busy ripping on the Vancouver games,

Suck it.

Sincerely,

Canada

Exactly my thought... and the National Post too apparently.

 

[clint g]

They look like giant penises.....

 

[auntiehill]

Dude...that is seriously f***ed up. If I saw one of those things coming at me, I'd scream and run the other way.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Wenlock and Mandeville took 18 months to conceptualize and bring to life.

Really, London? REALLY?

 

[gturner]

Yeah. A pair of one-eyed cyclopses of love.

 

[gturner]

They also resemble a gas pump from the 1940's. Is BP behind this?

 

[Neeka Keet]

The people in charge of organizing London 2012 are acid heads.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Yeah, they look quite uninspired, though there were a lot of complaints about Canada's mascots and a lot of hype surrounding them, but you never saw them connected to any of the broadcasts like the opening ceremonies.

 

[Roger Wilco]

The blue cyclops looks like he pissed himself.

 

[BigFoot]

^ He does.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I thought that Syd, Ollie and Dickhead from the 2000 Sydney Olympics were bad enough but these are far, far worse.

What someone in London needs to do is to come up with a People's Mascot like Australians got with Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat (he was way more popular than the official mascots)

Maybe the designers of Wenlock and Mandeville want to get onto this list

Ten Worst Olympic Mascots

 

[JRS]

Thats quite an EYEfull
They should have asked some better local talent..like Aardman animation to create the mascots..you know, the guys and gals who made this:

I guess that idea didint even glimbse into their heads

 

[Lonemagpie]

Can't believe no one has posted this yet.

Wenlock and Mandeville: Say hello to London's Olympic and Paralympic mascots

LONDON - They're not furry animals, neither male nor female and have no cutesy names.

London 2012 organizers unveiled the Olympic and Paralympic mascots Wednesday — one-eyed creations from the digital age named after two small English towns.

Officials predicted the mascots — Wenlock and Mandeville — will be a big hit with kids and help inspire young people to get involved in Olympic sports.

...

They're.... different, I'll give them that.

What.

The


Fuck?

I doubt kids'll love them - I doubt kids will be able to follow the fucking names.

Jesus, as if the whole 2012 thing wasn't a worthless money-pit to start with...

And what fucking loonies got paid a pile of taxpayers' cash to come up with this shit?

And if the blue one that's pissed itself is meant to be the paralytic - sorry, paralympic one - then it's in pretty fucking bad taste too. Not that the one with the cowboy hat is any better.