Focus Group Frankensteins

[ltmurnau]

This crap just gets worse and worse.

Meet the new mascots of the 2010 games:

http://www.vancouver2010.com/mascot/en/index.php

Proof positive that Form, finally and irrevocably, has broken Content's head open with a lead pipe and pissed manfully into the resulting crevice. The Marketing departments are really running things now; it's old news though.

I'm goin' home.

Comments

[r1vethead.livejournal.com]

this is a joke, right?

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

VANOC doesn't joke around - remember how they hassled some guy who had run a pizza restaurant for 15 years for having the name "Olympic Restaurant" and a fake torch outside his door.

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

There's a .. little tlingit bear in native garb, a saskwatch, and.. umm.. a pokemon?

WTF? What ARE they? I don't get it.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

They're kind of everything at once, like the symbol at the end of the "Logos Galore" sketch Rick Moranis once did on SCTV. The website gives details of how these focus-group Frankensteins were created, and even little bullshit biographies - e.g. the sasquatch wants to be a famous goalie.

FAP!

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

Beyond Horrible. But marginally better than Turin's ice cube and snow ball. :)

We're so damn multicultural.

I want an Ogopogo. That's my favourite made up native animal.

firecracker firecracker BOOM BOOM BOOM

[nonentity-bob.livejournal.com]

GET SMART . . . it will take time to restore KAOS (http://youtube.com/watch?v=EoNwsevMxTw)

[angelface-vic.livejournal.com]

Here's me wishing that the Satanic Christmas Critters from South Park did something Evil to those mascots...