Are Wenlock and Mandeville Olympic-Size Simpsons Copies?
· New Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville appear in an animated short called "Out of a Rainbow" which explains their origin story. Cute, but where's the part where they discuss their stint on The Simpsons? They're supposed to be rainbowed versions of Kang and Konos, right? [Youtube]
· Regis Philbin is hosting the Daytime Emmys. Imagine the pleasure he'll take in over-enunciating The Bold and the Beautiful. [ONTD]
· Worried about Chuck Bass' health since he was shot during the season finale? Fellow cast member Connor Paolo assures the world, "Chuck Bass can't die." [Zap2It]
· Glee's Mark Salling is proving he's capable of frontlining an American Eagle catalog -- or so this GQ spread suggests. [GQ]
· And finally, if The Empire Strikes Back were released in 1950, it might look this. Except the title would be All About Incest, of course. [Kotaku]
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Those are two of the ugliest mascots I've ever seen (worse than the £400,000 logo?). They look like bad early-1990's console game characters.
And it's Kodos not "Konos".
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It is a pity but we couldn't register for the competition, in our opinion, the rules were intended for big companies, we tried to contact some companies but we didn't receive any response.
On the other hand, it seemed reasonable that the company to win the contest had to be English and, for us, compete would mean a great effort without much hope.
By the way, we designed the mascot of the 2008 International Expo, where the theme was the water.
Anyways, we want to show you what we have done and we hope you like it.
I genuinely the web page, keep it up. I uncover this kind of stuff exciting. Seems like an sincere mistake on the sales rep's part, but it can be a thing that shouldn't happen.