Another piece of tat I found on clearance a
couple of few years ago, this is the Olympic team's mascot (as opposed to those
awful abominations that represented London2012), whether it was just for those
Olympics (hence a 2014 clearance) or is still the mascot I don't know, and I
don't need to know - if they changed mascot for Rio, it'll turn-up as clearance
tat in about 18 months time!
He certainly seems to have been designed by
the same person who did the Olympic mascots, but because he's an actual
lion-thing, rather than the WTF-things of London2012, he looks OK, a bit Art
Deco - stylistically - but eminently more bearable than the other two!
The thing is - let's be honest - these
mascots are now designed first-and-foremost to be worn as a foam-suit by some
poor sweating, dehydrated, jobbing-actor who can barely see where he/she's
going, while taking muttered instructions from someone with a clipboard and an
earpiece!
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