Wenlock - Official Olympic Mascot Announced

[Tunney]

I prefer Chris the Cost Cutting Crab.

 

[Participant]

Not sure if anyone's said this, but reminds me of Day of the Tentacle for all you early-90s gamers.

 

[markweatherill]

I eagerly await a montage of these characters with a bear looking over their shoulders. In a national newspaper.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I thought the whole idea was the mascots sucked?

Have you seen the past mascots? http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2010/may/19/olympics-london-2012-mascots?picture=362817146

 

[platypus]

It's things like this and that god awful steel structure that make me lament the passing of the British Empire.

 

[Cosimo]

Tracy Emin would be proud.

Even she is probably just as horrified as the rest of us.

 

[matt_fsr]

Reminds me of Bhindi-Bhaji from Red Dwarf... the eyeballs on Lister and the Cats' chin, in "Gunment of the Apocalypse"

 

[Spunj99]

I prefer Chris the Cost Cutting Crab.

Love it

 

[SB118]

Is it supposed to be the ejaculate when Lisa Simpson has finished giving head? (as portrayed in the olympic logo)

 

[ScarySquirrel]

I hated them, but then saw this and thought it looked quite cool.

http://www.ourlondon2012.com/mascots/pictures/union-flag-1/

 

[TheMightyTen]

Don't know about Mandeville but I assume that Wenlock is after Much Wenlock in Shropshire

Mandeville is for Stoke Mandeville, the precursor to the Paralympics was organised and held by the hospital in 1948 (The first Paralympics in 1960 were called The Stoke Mandeville games originally)

 

[Cosimo]

They should have used this:

 

['Wes]

They should have used this:

lol

 

[zootfloot]

They should have used this:

And its still better than the efforts that they came up with.

 

[apatia77]

Haahaa, it looks crap and I bet it cost £100k to design just like the awful 2012 logo.

 

[lucky13]

That is awful, the idea of thinking up something differant is good but a giant one eyed monster!

 

[Jumblejug]

The story behind them is alright, but I agree they look pap

 

[Iraklis F.C.]

It must be the ugliest mascot i have seen , it looks like a Cyclops :\

 

[Sp00n]

So we have a logo which looks like 2 people in an adult situation and now we have a mascot which looks like a japseye on legs.

In what way shape or form do either of those things represent the olympics or england?

 

[Alex_6n2]

Who the hell is in charge of all this CRAP? First the rubbish logo, then the terrible steel structure and now this?! FFS :/