I’m not watching the Olympics but I did accidentally click a link about the 2018 winter olympics mascot which took me to an archive of all the previous Olympic mascots, and like…someone needs to do a tumblr ala McMansionHell where we just talk about the truly poor design choices underpinning the last 30 years of Olympic mascots.
I feel like London 2012 was a high point for dumb Olympic mascots but Wenlock the Big Brotheresque Alien is by no means alone in being a combination of poor taste, pretention, and fuckin’ creepy art design.
Although props to Montreal for going full Watership Down with Amik, the black beaver of death.
Wait… are you dissing Hodori? (Seoul had the summer Olympics 30 years ago.) He was cute & not at all creepy!
I once got trapped in a corridor of the International Broadcasting Center in Nagano Japan by these rotten bastards.
Hodori is okay! Though he looks a little bit like someone in the 90s tried to revamp Tony the Frosted Flakes Tiger.
The Nagano mascots are terrifying. Why are there four of them. Why do they have beaks AND mouths.
I think those might be very pointy noses… which does not make it less weird, tbh.
…..I’m not sure which is more terrifying, owls with beaks and mouths or owls with noses and mouths but no beaks.
I mean they are owls, right? They have wings. They are birds of some kind. Aren’t…they?
WHAT ARE THEY OH MY GOD
I’m gonna have nightmares about birds that have human noses instead of beaks.
I always thought Schneemann from the Innsbruck 76 Olympics was creepy. He looks like the weird uncle that’s way too interested in you
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Not the Olympics, and more than thirty years ago, but can I submit the “Tower of the Sun” from Osaka’s Expo ‘70?:
Mooncustafer 