My guess - something like an orca duo. Or something "First Nations-y".
Hoping it will be an animal(s). Animals that are found in BC include: Spirit Bear - a.k.a. Kermode Bear - They are found on the central coast of BC. It's neaither an albino or polar bear, but a white black bear. Here's an article on Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermode_bear Vancouver Island Marmot - an endangered species Cougar Sea Otter Moose Elk Orca Salmon Osprey Eagle Cariboo Beaver Coyote Wolf Grizzly Bear Black Bear Badger Big Horn Sheep Mountain Goats
I've seen all these out in the wild except for the Spirit Bear and the Vancouver Island Marmot.
Re: Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Mascot(s) to be revealed Nov 27
Don't forget the elusive Naiveus Environmentalus, otherwise known as Tre Arrow. He'd be a great Olympic mascot! He even knows a ton about running and torches! He's perfect!
Re: Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Mascot(s) to be revealed Nov 27
Who Cares! It will be dumb and stupid like the previous one and the one from Atlanta. Not to mention to dumb Arizona Super Bowl Mascot "spike". DUMB!!!! How about we focus on the athletics?!
Re: Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Mascot(s) to be revealed Nov 27
While I agree the Olympics should focus on athletics, it's also a money making machine, you can't deny that. It's not cheap hosting an Olympics, and if the government of a nation isn't going to fund them, you have to get the money somehow! Mascots and their products are one way of doing that.
Plus, mascots bring the Games to the children of the world. They see the mascots, ask what they are, and then focus on the sports and then get into the Games that way, or at least that's the gist of them.
Whether a mascot in and of themselves is dumb or not is a personal choice. But the purpose of them is important to "selling" the Games to the younger generation.
Re: Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Mascot(s) to be revealed Nov 27
I was watching our Global BC news today and they hinted that the mascot may be a Kermode Bear, a.k.a. Spirit Bear. They showed a story where a little Spirit Bear cub was rescued up near Smithers and they are rehabilitating him in Terrace. They said that they want to release him back in the wild when he gets a little bigger, probably in the early summer. Cute little bear, except that his fur wasn't white because it was dirty. He looked more like a brown bear. The reporter hinted that the Spirit Bear may be a mascot for the Olympics.
A lot of the comments about them on other message boards are negative. For those of you living in LA, you guys probably had the best mascot so far; Sam the Eagle. Why was he good? He was designed by Disney.
Re: Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Mascot(s) to be revealed Nov 27
The mascots are getting quite a bit of negative feedback. Even on the Global BC news, the reporters didn't know what to think, that led them to parody the mascots by coming up with ones that were more representative of Vancouver with such characters as:
Mouldy the Grow-op fungus
Tarpy the Leaky Condo
The Pan-Handling Pine Beetle
I have mixed feelings about them. They are too similar in style to the 2008 Beijing mascots.
well, Vancouver does have a large Asian population.
It certainly does. That's why it has the nicknames of Van Kong, or Hongcouver :lol:
I know the days of one mascot are virtually over due to marketing, but I sure would like to go back to those days where we could focus on one instead of 2, 3, 4 or in Beijings case FIVE!
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