2012 Olympic Mascots REVEALED!

[auschr]

a bit overkill with the chrome

 

[MattBackHome]

London 2012: readers' mascots | UK news | guardian.co.uk

 

[sam86]

Wicked! It's 2010 guys. Move with the times.

 

[Colossal Squid]

Should have brought World Cup Willie out of retirement

Now THAT is a mascot

 

[ROSM]

I thought the Newsnight piece on this summed up the country better than the mascots could;

full of egocentric pseudo intellectuals sneering at anything and everything, complete with a token eccentric Englishman who people point and laugh at

BBC News - Newsnight - Olympic mascots: Love them or loathe them?

although I did get to the punchline about the alternative names quicker than the narrator did

 

[Mellotron]

Not bad but nowhere near as cool as the Jamie Hewlett/Gorillaz designs for Beijing 2008

 

[strings]

I think they are brilliant. Top work by the designers and I love the backstory. They will certainly appeal to my 2 year old nieces, who love anything that is done in a pixar style.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Just me that thinks they're f***ing crap then.

Not the only one!!!!

 

[highway61]

Should have brought World Cup Willie out of retirement

Now THAT is a mascot

World Cup Willie is legend. if we do get another world cup i would love to see his reincarnation

 

[Trigger]

I like, in fact I may well buy a cuddy Mandeville & Wenlock!

 

[The Ringleader Returns!]

Is Matt Groening on our Olympics committee? First the 2012 logo looks like Lisa Simpson giving head to Bart, and now we have Kodos & Kang as our mascots?

 

[ROSM]

Not the only one!!!!

But if we are all being totally honest here - I cant think of anything that would appeal to everybody and it is the 'british' way to criticise everything and anything so a certain level of dislike and cynicism is to be expected

 

[Mellotron]

But if we are all being totally honest here - I cant think of anything that would appeal to everybody and it is the 'british' way to criticise everything and anything so a certain level of dislike and cynicism is to be expected

Totally agreed. It could've been literally ANYTHING and SOMEONE would still call it s**t. We are painfully negative/cynical as a nation.

 

[Simster]

I like them.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Fence.

Good NAMES, though

 

[backson]

I hope someone's not taking the piss. On the BBC sport page at the moment, there's a picture of one of these one-eyed creatures, just underneath a picture of Gordon Banks talking about England's goalkeepers.

 

[Scampi]

I think they look like gogos

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

They are top

 

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[Jimmy Grimble]

Yes YES YES! I love them.

Well they are aimed at eight year olds