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Zirax
08-01-2012, 00:29
Take one Olympic mascot like so:-
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/2908/london2012olympicswenlo.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/26/london2012olympicswenlo.jpg/)

Compare with an alien from Commander Keen

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9484/keenalienphotosculpture.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/11/keenalienphotosculpture.jpg/)
Psymonkee
08-01-2012, 01:07
Bring back Apogee! Greatest games EVER! :D

(also cutest bad guy/pet?)
Garp
08-01-2012, 05:26
Looks like a penis with arms, especially given it's only got a single eye.
Nutcase
08-01-2012, 08:13
I see a similarity between the mascots and lowest bidder syndrome :)
Will
08-01-2012, 10:21
Looks like a penis with arms, especially given it's only got a single eye.


My thoughts exactly! ;D
BBx
08-01-2012, 10:30
They really ****ed up the branding for the Olympics :(

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Zirax
08-01-2012, 12:02
Looks like a penis with arms, especially given it's only got a single eye.

:D I see that now.

They really ****ed up the branding for the Olympics :(

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Yep, Are there going to be people dressed like that for the mascots dotted around London?
Pheebs
08-01-2012, 12:38
Oh my tiddlywonks... that's blatently a ding dong!

Echo BBx. They should've got Sam and I to brand it ;)
Zirax
08-01-2012, 12:52
Here is Mandeville

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/6049/lgpp32317.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/24/lgpp32317.jpg/)

Just found this on google images of the two:-

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/1995/wenlock20and20mandevill.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/197/wenlock20and20mandevill.jpg/)
Desmo
08-01-2012, 17:44
They should've got Sam and I to brand it ;)
Yeah....because you wouldn't have comeup with something cock shaped....NOT!!!
Kitten
08-01-2012, 17:49
Yeah....because you wouldn't have comeup with something cock shaped....NOT!!!

;D Exactly what I thought!
Mark
09-01-2012, 11:49
;D

I've got the plush version. Thankfully it's harder to make the c*ck connection with that! ;D
Belmit
09-01-2012, 14:25
Toejam + Earl + Tinfoil + Spandex + the teleporter from The Fly.
Pheebs
09-01-2012, 19:04
Yeah....because you wouldn't have comeup with something cock shaped....NOT!!!

QFT

;D

I managed to slip only two penis shaped cards into Clintons ;D Mu ha ha haaa!

I tell you what though, we' would've made a hellava cooler looking willy.
volospian
10-01-2012, 12:47
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/1995/wenlock20and20mandevill.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/197/wenlock20and20mandevill.jpg/)

WTF are they supposed to be?? It looks like a "thing" with one eye. It's an iThing. They are crap.
Psymonkee
10-01-2012, 15:02
Toejam + Earl + Tinfoil + Spandex + the teleporter from The Fly.

:D
Mark
11-01-2012, 02:21
WTF are they supposed to be?? It looks like a "thing" with one eye. It's an iThing. They are crap.
Like pretty much all the branding then. After seeing the disaster of a 2012 logo that they came up with, could we really have expected anything else?
Del Lardo
11-01-2012, 02:31
Like pretty much all the branding then. After seeing the disaster of a 2012 logo that they came up with, could we really have expected anything else?



Given that we started with what looks like two people having a naughty knee trembler a giant one eyed trouser snake is exactly what I was expecting ;) ;D
Mark
11-01-2012, 02:39
Fair point. Now if you can make a similar connection to 'Zion', which the logo has also been likened to, then I'll be really impressed! ;D
Kitten
11-01-2012, 09:52
Given that we started with what looks like two people having a naughty knee trembler a giant one eyed trouser snake is exactly what I was expecting ;) ;D

More like Lisa Simpson giving someone a blow job :p

Sent from my Galaxy S2
Glaucus
14-01-2012, 13:26
Looks like a penis with arms, especially given it's only got a single eye.


This, don't see the similarity with the alien commander thing. There's only so many ways to draw a one eyed thing. Olympic one doesn't even have a neck, and has his japs eye poking out the foreskin.
Fayshun
14-01-2012, 14:52
Olympic one doesn't even have a neck and has his japs eye poking out the foreskin.
Accidental tea/screen interface!! ;D;D
BBx
19-01-2012, 12:23
Metro today: http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/extra/887747-schools-boycott-london-2012-olympic-mascots-over-850-charge

WHY WHY WHY do they expect people (schools!!!) to pay to see these monstrousities?!

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Desmo
19-01-2012, 21:08
I actually quite like them myself but why are school being charged for hem to turn up? Surely something like that could have been in the funding?
Pheebs
20-01-2012, 02:12
I actually quite like them myself but why are school being charged for hem to turn up? Surely something like that could have been in the funding?

They spent it all on making knob costumes!
BBx
20-01-2012, 09:23
Lets face it James, if they were less knob-shaped you'd hate em too :p

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