We come in peace?
Okay. Obviously Olympic mascots aren’t something to which people pay a lot of attention. But if you’re hosting the Olympics in, say, 2012, and you’ve already had a few issues with some of your, ahem, graphic design choices, wouldn’t you make sure you had vetted everything properly before unveiling these?
There’s allegedly some really detailed story explaining the concept behind these mascots (named Wenlock and Mandeville, by the way), but let’s just get down to brass tacks: anyone who thinks anything other than “we will destroy you, pathetic mortals!” upon seeing these two hasn’t seen any vaguely scary science fiction movie, well, ever. Since most people in 2010 don’t fit this description, I think the designers may have missed the boat a bit here. As in being at the wrong port, on the wrong coast, on dry land “missed the boat.” You may welcome our Olympic mascot overlords, but as for me, I’ll stick with this guy. At least he’s got TWO eyes.
