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fantastic_jackieOkay so... there were a lot of interesting and funny new stories this morning on Yahoo. Including the one about the lame new logo for Seattle's Best Coffee. Though I'm EXTREMELY excited about the AMC & Burger King partnerships they've got prepared for this year.
I read more about the Activision face off with Infinity Ward: it is seriously going DOWN between those two! Kinda sad, but then with the seeming split of the Infinity Ward studio, I can only imagine it will mean more and better games for us in the future - Respawn Entertainment will want to get even and surpass. Conversely, I found an oldish link about Bungie signing a deal with Activision to release a new non-Halo game/game series on multiple consoles instead of just the exclusive X-Box deal they've been sticking with for the last 10 years.
Out of all of that though, and more, I think I just... I have to talk about this:
O_o Uh..... What are they? They look like white cyclops Teletubbies made of marshmallow: Stay Puff. And what's with the pose? Either they're doing some sort of hula dance or I'm about to compare that rainbow behind them to Zordon.
They're actually the mascots for the 2012 London Olympics - and there's an even stranger video that goes with them:
I like the animation. I guess Wenlock and Mandeville are kinda cutish? I think they're more weird looking... Apparently the yellow lights on their heads stand for taxis in London. Okay.... Weird thing to pick out. Why not do... I dunno? Big Ben for hair? I'm just saying, 'cause all big cities have lots of taxis. Mandeville (the blue one) looks like he... erm... wet his pants? And I can't be the only person looking at their hand-claw things thinking, "Crab people. Crab people. Crab people."
The particular Yahoo story says that the Olympic mascots have always been failures subject to ridicule in the past. Truth is though, that despite loving the Olympics like every other normal person on the face of the planet, I never actually knew there were Olympic mascots. I may not be the most observant person when it comes to the blatantly obvious, but I've witnessed a few Olympics over the years, and even as a kid, I never knew.
So on that note, if they were a failure everytime beforehand, why must the world continue the terrible tradition??
I read more about the Activision face off with Infinity Ward: it is seriously going DOWN between those two! Kinda sad, but then with the seeming split of the Infinity Ward studio, I can only imagine it will mean more and better games for us in the future - Respawn Entertainment will want to get even and surpass. Conversely, I found an oldish link about Bungie signing a deal with Activision to release a new non-Halo game/game series on multiple consoles instead of just the exclusive X-Box deal they've been sticking with for the last 10 years.
Out of all of that though, and more, I think I just... I have to talk about this:
O_o Uh..... What are they? They look like white cyclops Teletubbies made of marshmallow: Stay Puff. And what's with the pose? Either they're doing some sort of hula dance or I'm about to compare that rainbow behind them to Zordon.
They're actually the mascots for the 2012 London Olympics - and there's an even stranger video that goes with them:
I like the animation. I guess Wenlock and Mandeville are kinda cutish? I think they're more weird looking... Apparently the yellow lights on their heads stand for taxis in London. Okay.... Weird thing to pick out. Why not do... I dunno? Big Ben for hair? I'm just saying, 'cause all big cities have lots of taxis. Mandeville (the blue one) looks like he... erm... wet his pants? And I can't be the only person looking at their hand-claw things thinking, "Crab people. Crab people. Crab people."
The particular Yahoo story says that the Olympic mascots have always been failures subject to ridicule in the past. Truth is though, that despite loving the Olympics like every other normal person on the face of the planet, I never actually knew there were Olympic mascots. I may not be the most observant person when it comes to the blatantly obvious, but I've witnessed a few Olympics over the years, and even as a kid, I never knew.
So on that note, if they were a failure everytime beforehand, why must the world continue the terrible tradition??
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Date: 2010-05-21 12:13 pm (UTC)I thought the mascot thing was just for the Atlanta Olympics. They did a little cartoon movie for the thing but I never saw a mascot again.
Now I have NO idea WHY the Olympics need a mascot in the first place...
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Date: 2010-05-22 03:33 am (UTC)I don't understand it, either. If you must though, then just attach legs with sneakers/ice skates to the 5 rings... That's mascot enough!