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Olympic Mascot will be announced

Started by Kenadian, Sep 13 2005 10:56 PM

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Posted 04 November 2005 - 10:44 PM

Yahoo! Olympics was talking about the Mascot being annouced at the 1,000 day mark on the 11th and had this picture

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A Monkey King figure, one of a number of contenders for the mascot for the 2008 Olympic Games, is seen in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005. The city of Lianyungang has lobbied Beijing to make the Monkey King, a figure from Chinese folklore, the mascot of the 2008 Olympics. Some of China's poorer places are competing to see their candidates selected, hoping that a victory will raise name recognition and tourism revenues. (AP Photo)

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Posted 05 November 2005 - 08:13 AM

Hmm. . . I found this picture:


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Not bad, actually

I'll keep looking for more . . .
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Posted 06 November 2005 - 10:01 PM

the panda looks a little, well home-made not done by a real marketing company or art company, it looks like someone took a panda from some asian cartoon picture and put the logo onto the appron it is wearing

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Posted 07 November 2005 - 06:01 PM

baron-pierreIV, on Nov. 07 2005,13:14, said:

If that's the final rendering of the mascot, then I approve it.  It doesn't look all that amateurish ...especially NOT compared to a certain stone idol that shall remain nameless.  (I mean even Izzy is better than Insh*tquit or whatever the name of that 2010 thing is...).

The red color on the apron is fine because RED is the good luck-good life color in CHinese culture.  I would change the apron shape a little though.

What's with the mark on the forehead?  It looks like a branding of the torch.  But why on the forehead?  THe adornment of the forehead is a Hindu practice -- certainly not in 'godless' China.  

But we shall see.  I certainly hope Beijing makes up for the absolutely hideous choice of Vancouver.

Now the next question is: what is her name (as I think it is a "she")?
not to be a smartass but "that hideous vancouver thing" is the logo not the mascot. they havent come out with there mascot yet.
also the panda does look homemade with the logo placed on the apron by hand. this is probably not the mascot
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Posted 09 November 2005 - 11:49 PM

Tibeiten Antelope is also very hot now,
i guess BOCOG will choose it as the mascot~
faster higher and faster.

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Posted 10 November 2005 - 11:31 AM

The launching ceremony will be boardcasted online (www.beijing2008.com) on 19:30-20:30, 11-11-2005 Beijing Time.

* I don't know if the English version will also boardcast the ceremony or not. If you can't see it in the official English site, switch to the Chinese version. I'll post the link here tomorrow.
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Posted 13 September 2005 - 10:30 AM

sydney had 3 mascots, SLC too
so maybe Beijing will come up with more then 3 - just to solve all the trouble ;)

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Posted 25 September 2005 - 12:13 AM

Uh, did I read the GB article correctly that the decision of a mascot for Beijing 2008 got delayed?

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Posted 03 October 2005 - 12:31 AM

1.Why not create another Izzy like charachter...he really represents Georgia. :P

2. November 12 is also the grand opening of Renzo Piano's "A New High" art galleries! Wippee!
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Posted 05 October 2005 - 06:26 AM

Any way,
from the logoes of 2008, especially the logo of enveriment logo,i don't think Beijing will have a exciting design!
Really disappoint~!
Hope the moscot will be better~
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