While there was Ollie, Mille and Dickhead, there was Fatso the Fat Arsed Wombat. Also when I volunteered with the Aus Paralympic Committee after Salt Lake City with Stiffy The Bush Kangaroo, which was a blow up kangaroo with the tail folded forward....

The Aussie govermental furries are certainly up there with Engadine Maccas

mecha and muscular characters...? they're mostly known for sailor moon and one piece fanart

wait what-

This is mostly correct - I'm not a furry artist and wasn't a furry artist at the time, and the job description I applied for only mentioned wanting an Australian artist who could do "dynamic sporty poses" and an "anime style". It wasn't until I had already accepted the position that they mentioned ANYTHING about the anthropomorphic angle, so you can imagine my surprise! I do think that while the Mint didn't know the details about the furry community, they were vaguely aware that anime-style-humanoid-animals had a certain popularity. I just delivered what they asked me for. From the Mint's perspective I doubt they had ANY qualms about the campaign's success given the coin sets quickly sold out and even had international buyers. Rare to see collectable coins gain that much traction in pop culture. And God I wish I knew how to draw mechs.

with aGUN

The sudden "here's the mascot with a shotgun" got me the most.

I've now imagined what a stylized shooter with the mascots would look like with all these "x character with gun" designs

The video is like 80 minutes long, so you maybe think the joke will soon become less funny. Nope. Killer every time.

i was doing the dishes while watching a chunk of this and ALWAYS had to look over IMMEDIATELY when “and here’s (character) with a gun” was said. it’s important information

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

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They justified the whole thing with that move

​@@e5h8x3lol damn you just triggered a memory, I super spun out girl at a festival told me I should check that band out, they good?

I don't and think it was a federal psyop 👍

Brazilian here, I also remember my mom talking about Misha in every olympics whenever they showed the mascots, I guess it really resonated with people, huh?

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Are you Ana Paula's volleyball player daughter ?

And then everyone clapped

@@the-np4mrthere is nothing unbelievable about this comment

Except Vučko, he is a good boy and he wouldn't shoot anybody

"And here's Desert Bus with a gun!"

This was such a good running gag, because of course they have guns, but like... yeah 😅

This has been popping into mind at random times since watching this video and makes me laugh every time.

I mean, if it was a cannon... No, it's just a marksman's rifle

He's filled up his brain so much with that stuff, he quite literally forgot he HAD CANCER.

@@andrewsparkes6275 We found the cure. Rev up those wiki articles.

Para olympics are evil they discriminate against little people banning them!

did he forget helicopters existed during munich olympics

Tbf everything about the olympics except for the sports themselves are interesting

I feel like this needs to be pinned. I love it when I see people in the video also in the comments

That's not exactly what you said. In Sydney there were two separate Organizing Committees. However, everything that was managed in common was unified. Two different marketing strategies were developed. While the licensed products for the Olympics were dedicated to stores and supermarkets " premium" and were more expensive. Those for the Paralympics went to more popular and suburban markets as a way of getting the population involved with the Paralympic Games, which were unknown to around 85% of the Australian population. They were even the same suppliers and manufacturers, but in smaller quantities and more cheaper in an action to envolve better the population with the Paralympic Spirit. However, Australians identified more with Lizzie personality, than with the Olympic mascots. While products with Lizzie with the Olivia Newton-John's voice sold like hotcakes, those with Olympic mascots dried up.

The only part of the mascot I liked was the name. The opening ceremony made up for it though

Big miss not using a dragon as the London 2012 mascot as a dragon is on the coat of arms for the City of London

@@nuttynatsu2354 the opening ceremony was SO GOOD.

Nothing speaks London like two dripping slags of molten metal forged into sentient creatures. Seriously what on earth was going on with London’s branding?

EXACTLY. I was 9 at the time and had thought the Vancouver mascots were adorable so I couldn’t wait to see what my country would do only to realize that sometimes things are bad for no reason

Right??

I legit thought there were gonna be more of them, like Hodori, and Sam Eagle were about to join in or something

would be a long shot nowadays but imagine some future olympic mascots being in some sorta officially commissioned animation where the mascots meet past ones

@@yeeoof1995 I would love that It would be wholsome

NAH LITERALLY

Irregularly recurring* * As often and involved as is feasible within Graham's willingness and ability to do so **Because "Graham just doesn't feel like it" is a perfectly reasonable and more than sufficient justification for not doing another whether or not it will continue at some point in the future, but we clearly enjoy these and it seems generally like G does as well so hopefully they do

​@@TehFrenchy29 yeah, that's basically what I was trying to say, thank you for putting my words together more accurately 😂

Agreed!!!

Absolutely, even if it's not Olympic related in the future, more stuff like this would be great!

Graham's Font Feels

Their behavior was based on Brazilian children who don't sit still and are curious and "a little more intelligent and uninhibited than those from the rest of the world". They also signified the good humor of all of we brazilians.

Im not from Brazil, but I absolutely adore Vinicius and he's my favorite Olympic mascot. I love his warm color scheme and proportions in his design

I wonder if there was any relationship between the olympic Lumpi and Picasso's dog Lump (aka Lumpi) who was from Germany.

There will never be justice for Lumpi, he didn't deserve it

oh roni has definitely taken a life. no doubt about it

He's always terrified EXCEPT when he's holding a gun. Just what I want at a mass event!

“yo can’t believe I have a gun.”

Pretty sure he's a Vietnam vet with severe PTSD

@@Wohlfe Roni: First Blood?

It was really cool

27:57 *traumatic flashbacks*

the eyes being different sizes added a LOT of personality to them!

Quick addendum to that last point: not only can original, authorized images of Vučko be seen alongside the graffiti - at times, Vučko IS the graffiti. It seems that some of the vandals who came to tag the site had a soft spot for the guy, and have spraypainted their own renditions of Vučko throughout the abandoned venue - including at least one holding a spray can. Rock on, Vučko.

@@elliottchrist I so dearly wish to see these images.

Vučko is highly underrated and the first mascot i remember as a child. There was many shorts and he could sing.

If you're talking about the graffiti that I think you're talking about, they were actually done by Mariscal himself!

You have to admit though, New Lizzie is everything a mascot should be. We furries understand the assignment when it comes to character design.

Furry artists are great at mascot design… it doesn’t have to be saucy to be furry.

@@emilysmith2965The problem is what people do with that 💀

@@LexYeen The redesign is great... It doesn't really represent the Paralympics though.

I was super confused on why Lizzie had a weird amount of muscle definition in her coin and that actually answered a lot of questions

My reaction is a split-second instinct to shout “Duck!” before giggling.

Believe it or not, in the late 90s early 2000s adobe introduced the Adobe Flash Player to compete with I believe was Apple's Quicktime Player in the late 1990s. Shockwave Player was made by Macromedia, so you were either a macromedia shockwave player type of person, a Quicktime Player type of video user, or Adobe Flash Player type of user. Some videos on theme park websites either chose Adobe Flash Player, Shockwave Player, or Quicktime Player for their websites that have videos you can stream through the website (or on a separate window player), or it would play embedded in a programmed window the coders did in the late 90s early 2000s. Believe me, theme park, video game, and many multimedia companies all used one of those three at some point in the mid to late 90s, eventually adobe bought shockwave player once Macromedia got discontinued or went bankrupt. But sometimes when Adobe's Shockwave or Flash Player didn't work, I used to use Apple's Quicktime Player function if the shockwave player wasn't working for say a Front POV of Talon The Grip of Fear or Hercules, or heck, even Cedar Point with Blue Streak, Gemini, Magnum XL-200, MIllennium Force, Top Thrill Dragster, etc. All of those back in the 2000s and late 1990s all used Quicktime Player or Adobe's Shockwave/Macromedia Shockwave Player, or Adobe Flash Player up until it's discontinuation in the early to mid 2010s, and later shut off on January 1st, 2022. So yeah, I'm also nostalgic for Shockwave/Flash/Quicktime Players that you would separately install on Windows 98/2000/XP back in the day. Heck, if you had a Macbook or even an iMac, Quicktime Player was automatically installed upon installing the Mac OS X back in the day (which were 10.0 to 10.3 in the early 2000s up until Maverick in 2012).

Real early Neopets energy

That didn't answer my imaginary question but thank you very much for the information nonetheless

God I remember those

I still have my Syd the Platypus drink bottle. I don't think I ever actually used it as a drink bottle.

I certainly liked Komainu & Shisa as well, Komainu especially. I too was there for the disappointment...

Komainu and Shisa do look like porn bait

I wonder if the vote was split. I personally love komainu and shisa, but honestly miraitowa and someity aren't bad. Just inferior

I had this phase of being an Olympics fanatic that both started and ended around Rio season. It was arguably the first Olympiad I actively followed, and I became enamored with all the presentational aspects - the logos, the mascots, the field decorations, the ceremonies... And I was hyped for the future Olympiad in Japan, for reasons that would double the length of this comment. But one day, I discovered that the future (not yet named) mascots for that event, which I was very so-so on, was in competition for the role with... a kitsune and a tanuki. *I FREAKING LOVE TANUKIS* (kitsune are also cool). How could Japan's collective youth fail me so hard? Driven to such despair, I vowed to quit consuming info on the Olympics, and ignore the (originally slated for) 2020 event. Thankfully, my relationship with Tokyo 20“20” was mended when Google's Doodle team of all people dropped an entire video game celebrating the event, and delivered justice for the noble tanuki, and the komainu, and a bunch of other critters from JPN folklore.

Not sure what these "very obvious reasons" are supposed to be. Isn't the shared trait between kitsune and tanuki that they have the _power_ to change into things?

That’s silly, most Brazilian cartoons are based on western aesthetics, heck most cartoons period are based on western aesthetics. Heck cabolinha the most famous Brazilian character is very clearly based on the current western comic style at the time.

@@tuney7319 Monica's Gang cartoons are based in japanese manga.They won more western aestestics with the time.

As a little aside, vučko is pronounced “vuchko”, right?

@@SQUIZZLER24I was thinking that too with the little mark above the letter c!

I was looking for this comment, you gained my like.

To be fair, Teddy Bears were named after a very specific man.

I cannot stress enough how wild it was seeing these characters again. I was in grade 4 I think when the Olympics were on, and I remember watching Roy and HG's show on 7 with my family. Being reminded of Fatso while watching this video sent me into a solid ten minute spiral of hysterical laughter, like a core memory was unlocked from my childhood, and while I love him as what he really is; an Australian critique of the safe, digestible design by committee mascots of the Olympics in general and a lampoon on the over-advertised and corporatized nature of the Olympics at the time, I really have to betray myself by being honest here and saying I really was just laughing at the name Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat for the whole ten minutes.

"Olly, Millie, and Dickhead" Ah, Australia, never ever change

Wait, why is _Syd_ the "dickhead"? Aren't echidnae the more phallic-looking animals?

@@lrgogo1517 I think because he's from/named after Sydney and it's a common gag in Australia that people from Sydney are huge dickheads.

​@@lrgogo1517 It rotated around, or whichever order they were going with when mentioning them. 'X, Y. Dickhead.'

Lol what was team name (not the school, just the generic "vikings," "warriors" etc...) that evoked top-hat?

@@XxzoundsxX the Hatters

My high school's mascot didn't even have a proper mascot suit. They just dressed a dude in a cheap knight costume without even a helmet to hide his face.

We were the Bethlehem stars and did not have a mascot.

Lmao we were a dumbass football-centric town that just used the generic bulldogs

Thanks!

As a person that did Special Olympics from January 2005 up until June 2014, and even getting Mario & Sonic At The Beijing Olympic Games, and heck, even played the Ham-Ham games that were related to Athens 2004 Olympics games, it's always interesting to see what sports used to occur or what events took place before, during, or after the olympics in the early part of the 20th century compared to the 21st century....But considering that Paris is going to have the summer olympics nearly 100 years later is quite a coincidence, and I wouldn't be surprised if we get another type of Chariots of Fire film in the 2080s at some point (If it doesn't, oh well, but it would be like reviving the original with a new perspective on the athletes from the 2024 games, not just the 1924 games in Paris, France).

2 hours? You really rounded up there

@@andyknapp adding up this and the emblem videos its about 2 and a half hours

@@avr7120 true

Yeah, my initial reaction was literally: 1. This looks good! 2. Holy crap, this is pure furry bait, isn't it?! Most mascots wish they could get the glow-up Lizzie did, just holy shit!

furries: we're everywhere.

​@@LexYeenWe are indeed everywhere.

I love her mouth in the original design. Redesign is indeed smashable tho

@@LexYeen they're in tech, they're in the Olympic committee, wouldn't be shocked if they took over the illuminati at this point XD

the battler's prince :)

I'm the opposite: I forgot Fatso was a thing until he was brought up, while I still remember Syd, Millie and Ollie (along with Lizzy) after 20 years. Tho he's a Commonwealth Games mascot, I want to shout out Borobi, the Koala of the 2018 Gold Coast CG's. His design was cool.

they're the colours of the 5 rings as well which probably adds to it all!!

I agree with this. As a Australian-Born Chinese who was young at the time of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, and was influenced by them, I may sound biased in saying this, but Graham Stark is a bit too harsh on them. I believe that the fact they are supposed to be imp-like is because they're representative of China's sporting spirit in a sense. Just watch the donghua that they star in, and you'll see that they're really into the theme of the Olympics overall, with their various quirks. So five might seem much, and I'm not too against that idea, but their theming was pretty good. I do still feel bad for the artist Han Meilin, now that I learned that they went through thousands of drafts for this. But I think that they deserve praise for making the mascots of the Olympics as good as they are, from my perspective.

Thanks for that. I remember watching the 1984 Winter Olympics on TV s a kid and really liking the idea of Vučko as a mascot. I liked that he looked a bit fierce but was actually very friendly. I read later on that the Olympic planners wanted to change the fairy tale depiction of wolves as scary villains and show children that Vučko was a friendly and playful wolf.

In Serbo-Croat-Bosnian it's Voochko Sarajevo is in Bosnia

-Sugoi!-

You're a complete liar. There's no way a man, who's likely over 40, would have chosen to have the channel art or videos of a meme-y Discord kid.

I thought that the two Tokyo mascots were the Legendary Pokemon from the next game to be released when I first saw them. I still like the design and am glad to see they have a following!

I actually really like them! They're like chibi mecha heroes, and look like they'd make awesome nendoroids. Tokyo 2020 may have suffered from the pandemic but their character designs are still on point!

I don't think they're very good at all, but I'm glad some people really enjoy them

@@jonathanhughes3537 They reminded me more of Pokemon designs from the then-recent generations 5 and 6 games when I first saw them, with the strong, somewhat geometric outlines that were most heavily seen in those generations' designs. I also predicted that kids would prefer them for that same connection, so I wasn't surprised that they won.

I love them!!!

I love Lizzy, The Fuwa, Vinicius, Tom and Miratowa. Thanks!

🍊

As a person with autism, I LOVE MIRAITOWA AND SOMEITY. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THEY'RE THE BEST!!!!

@@Blakbox92 They do! Wish I could narrow down what to call that style beyond "90's clip art", though.

@@the_real_Kurt_Yarish I guess post modern digital screenprint art, but don't quote me on that lol

@@y.m.or.4053 As good a name as any!

They remind me of the seven up guy

they seem pretty "anti-corporate" I would say. lots of the safe or boring mascots have uniform shapes and clean lines, whereas cobi, petra, and the snowletts are very asymmetrical and a sketchy pencilled-in kind of artstyle. it gives them a lot of charm and character

@SupremeLeaderKimJongUn Thanks Supreme-Leader Kim Jong-Un, your impressive knowledge of Korean history is always so very immaculate and well received. Even more interesting is how you at so well versed in the legacy of Atlanta terrorism!

Soviet era cartoons are wild. Very creative, progressive and artistic. And like the rest of Europe, everything went to hell in the nineties.

And the utterly terrifying song lyrics thus literally mean "Little snow man, why do you have such big hands...?"

@@twell1984 continuing on with "what do you want to do with them - pinch me in the bottom?" im literally speechless

​@@twell1984Is Sonnenweiberl supposed to be singing this? HER HABDS ARE JUST AS BIG!

@@juliamavroidi8601 That is not really clear. Here is everything I was able to understand: „Little snowman, why are your hands so big? What do you plan to do with that pair, pinch my rear?“ „So I can clap louder during (unintelligible) tonight, then I will need my giant hands to make it really crack.“

@@twell1984 The part you didn't understand is "Schneeplattln" which i guess is a pun on "Schuhplattln", a traditional dance where you slap your hands against your thighs/shoes

IZZY WAS AT A COCAINE PARTY?!

@@Antifearn That explains the eyes.

They are very underrated duo

for a paralympic mascot the phoenix is a great choice too. a powerful bird who, after falling, is fated to rise again stronger and burning brighter than ever. what a beautiful message to incorporate into the paralympics

Maybe they should’ve just borrowed Momotarō from Japan.

We hope that they will not one day self-animate and reassemble like the Iron Giant. Delighted to learn this, though. What a cool thing, to have such a tangible and historical connection between the subject and the audience. Thanks for sharing!

and this is a side quest for some adventurer in the distant future, i can tell.

Epic video. Loved it

Hello fellow calgarian

Howdy and Hidey were drawn and quartered???

I would advise against telling people that Lizzie is your favourite given the recent redesign, might seem questionably motivated

@@gungle2595who cares? Its not offensive or suggestive in the slightest

@@transcodeshootingstar8266 Yes, but you do realize furries online do make NSFW artwork on the side right??? So keep that in mind that yes, they can do Safe For Work stuff, but they also like to do Not Safe For Work. Considering the 2000s and 2010s were a time when Furries used to do deviant artwork online, and nowadays it's exemplified by 3. Thank goodness for the safesearch/mature filter/SFW switch for every website, can't imagine not having that as an option on every art website out there.

@@SuperFlashDriver Lots of people who *aren't* Furries make nsfw art. It doesn't stop anyone from liking any other sfw art. 'Furry porn exists so you shouldn't like any furry art, regardless of content' is a weird take.

@@LadyLockwood92 I did not say "Furry porn exists" only for those into anthros and such, I'm just saying that I"m not surprised many people prefer that specific mascot over the others, and thus, furry porn/art exists. So my take on it didn't make sense to you at all, my mistake...But I do admit I forgot the other end of NSFW for those not into furry porn and such. So that I had no clue, that's on me.

Since this happened, I hope Miraitowa and Someity can visit the Paris 2024 Olympics, LA 2028 Olympics and Brisbane 2032 Olympics. Oh yeah, don't forget about all future Summer Games.

The 2014 Para Mascots were at the Rio 2016 closing ceremony.

HELL YES MORE IZZY LOVE!

Never heard of him until this video, but similar reasons. Sometimes, I like things that people don’t.

yeah that tracks pretty well, expecially considering the use of the poorly aged cgi lol

Yeah, that BKS call just screams nostalgia. I think I remember catching stuff they dubbed as a little kid with my aunt watching the state channel. Were they the ones who did Madeline?

whoaa that's incredible!

He's also not trying to subtly (and not so subtly) insert a questionable political agenda into his videos like a certain other Canadian youtuber. Also, judging from the rest of his videos, I don't think he ever really set out to make videos like this, it seems to have kinda just happened. I hope he continues though.

@@kandigloss6438 what?

I hope you expand on this point because I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about

pretty sure its referring to jj mccullough

@@kandigloss6438 what?

Well we all know the logo looked like some very inappropriate Simpsons activity

As an olympic-obsessed kid during 2012, for some reason I was absolutely infatuated with Wenlock and Mandeville. Even had the plushes that I got from Hamley's. Hugely nostalgic now even if, in hindsight, they were ugly as sin haha

another brit here, yes the mercury twins do suck ass. mr. blobby is our go-to for this kind of thing and any would-be pretenders shall be smote.

Well yes as an adult in the UK - EVERYONE hated the mascots and the logos.

Wait uk people hated it? I loved it and still love it

Amazing! Thank you!

Tbh I stan Lumpi.

Best mascot EVER ❤

I guess it does not help the fact that when what they call "Summer Olympics" happens it is winter here in Brazil 😆😆😆

@@michellecavalcante5883 and in Brazil we call the Summer Olympics. just The Olympics

@@GustavoFernandesKing true

just when i finally stopped dry heaving from laughing so hard at misha with a gun, i yelled out loud "WAIT, WHAT???" at the balloons clip and laughed even harder. holy shit i dont think ill laugh like that again in my entire life

That man has to be a wizard, what are the odds?

@@massgunner4152 To be fair, he knew he couldn't really compete against the other racers, so his strategy legitimately was "hang back so you don't get caught up in a crash if one happens, hope one takes out a couple people so you get the podium"... It just went far better than he could have expected.

Bradbury was the first in line to acknowledge he wasn’t the best skater at the time, and took the win as a reward for his career as a whole. Legend.

Those guys deserved the 100 episode show with 2 spin-offs, not the chinese quintuplet

Also, the whole idea of Vinícius and Tom gave both of them the same importance. It ain't the Olympic mascot and the other one, they are together, they are friends, they complet eachother

At very least they should have kept the wrestling plushie thing, that was a genius PR move.

​@@lightofaangelg2372I'm Brazilian and the idea was exactly that. They are Brazilian children who are very curious and can't stay still until they discover what's around them. This characteristic demonstrates that children don't discriminate against anyone and everything is the same as the Olympice and the Paralympics.

​@@biazachaThis is the spirit of Brazilians. We are not rigid with life. Everything can be less serious and as we saw in the ceremonies, a lot can be done with little and broken a lot of concepts.

You can't tell Japan to NOT go wild with mascots. It's a physical impossibility for them.

Everything in Japan is mascoted. Towns, Prefectures, Schools, Companies, Fruit, it goes on forever.

Yes, I was curious if anyone brought this up. However I'd like to point out the i (1) isn't the only letter that isn't native to Russian cyrillic, the Z (2) isn't present in it either, neither in Ukrainian, as far as I know.

​@sdasda7777 that's a good point. I figured that "Z" and "З" were close enough to be intelligible, but I'm for sure willing to be corrected by a native Russian speaker or somebody who knows better

@@conorsullivan3528 I was thinking latin alphabet might just be common knowledge in Russia, and from looking it up it seems it really might be the case.

@@sdasda7777 OK yeah that definitely makes the most sense. Helps explain the I/И thing too.

Not just that, thanks to Misha the Bear's comic with Mickey Mouse they're also all tied into the Disney universe too lmao

i would totally imagine athena and phevos meeting up with wenlock and mandeville

I’m glad the 2010s are on their way out, that whole cinematic shared whatever is finally becoming tiresome and cringy.

oh, there's so much

@@GrahamStarkVlogs you and your friends (aka LRR) got me through my chemos. It makes me happy to see you do what makes you happy again after your experience with cancer. Also, I like me some trivia!…

Literally, not figuratively, but literally my exact reaction

Direct comment to the edit.....YES WTF? I laughed and cried when I noticed that about 1:30 in (when we got to see past, future, curly headed Graham in cameo).

@@GrahamStarkVlogs and none of it prepared me for Kristi and Hakon. Nothing at all.

My first thought was "Oh hey, there's five stars on the Chinese flag, and of these five mascots one is bigger than the other four. Cute"

I *knew* there had to be a way that Graham’s Bacon number would be lower, I could feel it in my bones.

I have absolutely no memory of Patriots Day's existence. Looking at its box office, I was obviously not alone.

A bit of clarification: the idea of degrees of separation became popularized through connections to Kevin Bacon, and thus the shorthand term has become Bacon number. However, the Bacon number is a measure of separation between any two people, not specifically between a person and Kevin Bacon. So, when Graham was talking about a Bacon number of 5, he was saying there are 5 degrees of separation between himself and Hidi & Howdy.

Well the other "Sam the Eagle" probably would not be a fan of the show for not having enough America