Pandas Pandas Pandas Mascots
January 19th, 2006This is a hot year for pandas. Everyone likes pandas and with two US-born pandas making their debut in 2004, Pandas are getting even more sizzling! Fiery hot pandas!
Even dogs want to look like pandas.
Pandas are the king of all media.
(Check out Panda Fix and Cute Overload for more images)
A panda is included among the 2008 Beijing Olympic Mascots. The red one I like best, he is on fire! They are “The Friendlies.” That’s a pretty retarded name. Not to mention inaccurate. “Get off my land” says Jingjing
I think the Olympics are boring and pretty much stopped paying attention after ‘88, which I only remember because they had a cute Tiger (Hodori) for a mascot. If you scan down the list of Olympic mascots, the American ones really are the worst…
Sam the Eagle aside from being lame-brainedly obvious, looks like an advertising mascot for toilet brushes. Sure, he was designed by Disney… in one of their worst slumpiest shit years up until the present. (He’s just José Carioca from Three Caballeros with a different paint job) And the less said about that chlorine blue turd abortion Izzy the Whatizit the better. Even the Barcelona Fido Dido dog laughs at Izzy… Although, it looks like Athens just gave up with theirs… what are they? Feet?
In conclusion, pandas rule and mascots drool.
January 19th, 2006 at 9:37 am
even though i know it’s the panda’s ears, the panda friendly looks like he is wearing a mickey mouse hat. i suppose pandas can be mouseketeers too. why am i being so close minded?
January 19th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Mascot comments:
Ollie, Syd and Millie from Sydney were the worst. I don’t like multiple mascots, but at least Hidi and Howdy etc. were matched pairs. OSM had nothing in common, didn’t look alike, had different color schemes, and even “represented” different things!! (Boy, that Ollie sure had “Generosity” written all over him! Mascots with footnotes = suck) Its like the competition committee got down to three candidates, then gave up and wrote an ex post facto justification.
Schuss, the original “unofficial” mascot from Genoble, looks like an ancestor of the infamous Izzy.
My favorite is Vucko, the sneering wolf from the Sarajevo Olympics. He is the only mascot with an unsportsmanlike attitude!! He was later tried in the Hague for ethnic cleansing.
January 19th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Vucko, the little wolf from 1984 Sarajevo, was the mascot I was thinking of yesterday. He’s cute! I used to have puffy stickers of Vucko.
I love mascots!
January 19th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Schuss looks like a gearshift to me.