Comments on: This Mascot Hell is Just Beginning

By: Haibao has Growing Pains - Branding in China | China Supertrends

Haibao has Growing Pains - Branding in China | China Supertrends — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:25:38 +0000

[...] ok. Back in September 2008 John Pasden of the Sinosplice blog discussed how the five Olympic Fuwa of Friendliness were finally fading into obscurity. Today only the echoes [...]

By: The Peking Order

The Peking Order — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:59:28 +0000

Fuwa are for children, not adults.

I took a couple of them – the panda and the Tibetan antelope – back to England with me. They were for my cousins’ Christening. However, I have a feeling that my uncle refused to give them to the kids: worried about dodgy Chinese toys I suspect.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:29:58 +0000

Haibao looks like a really cheap rip-off of that clay animation “Gumby” character that was on TV for 35 years.

By: hobielover

hobielover — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:22:56 +0000

I suppose you have not seen Taiwan’s “Open-Chan,” the mascot of 7-11:

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/hobielover/OPEN-chan_no02_1024.jpg

The self-haters will want to hear this, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNwlWw5H1ZQ

It’s not that Mayday is bad. I really like them, but the cuteness of this MV is just plain scary!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:40:26 +0000

You're right...that thing is positively awful...

I can't even believe someone came up with that song and video. He/she must've had a terrible childhood.

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:25:26 +0000

Actually most people over at the lj olympics community seem to really like the Fuwa.

As does Guo jingjing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kD9Mu-8Iuo

I thought they were one of the highlights of the games, even though I didn’t care for them initially. The Shanghai mascot does suck entirely though.

By: John

John — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:03:30 +0000

trevelyan,

Yeah, I have to admit that the Fuwa are way, way better than Haibao. Haibao doesn't really look like a tooth to me, but rather more of a really cheap brand of toothpaste's mascot.

By: ChinaMatt

ChinaMatt — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:09:28 +0000

Haibao looks like a rejected character from Spongebob. China should learn about mascots from the Philly Fanatic.

By: 宝茹

宝茹 — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:09:18 +0000

Hahahahaha…the mascots are pretty cute. Not really hellish though.

By: Changye

Changye — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:51:25 +0000

Hi guys, Here are official mascots called “警警 and 察察”, which are the official mascots of virtual police (警察) on the Chinese Internet. Just hilarious.

http://image.baidu.com/i?tn=baiduimage&ct=201326592&cl=2&lm=-1&z=0&word=%BE%AF%BE%AF+%B2%EC%B2%EC