Beijing released their 2008 olympic mascot, ‘Friendlies’ (or Fuwa in chinese pronounciation)
It’s 5 different doll-like ‘creature’ (from left to right fish, panda, olympic torch?, tibet antelope, swallow) that was designed according to the 5 olympic rings, quite unique and adorable and each with their own name.. beibie, jingjing, huanhuan, yingying and nini.
All their 5 names combined is “BeiJing Huan Ying Ni” which is ‘Beijing welcomes you’. Quite creative bleh..
What bothered me is the name Friendlies.. you can’t find the word in normal dictionary, but if you do it with google, it produce one and only one definition:
US troops, allies, or anyone not on the other side
Who is the dumb S who come out with that stupid name? I totally lost interest with these 5 thingy now…
November 13th, 2005 at 6:17 pm
Very creative and cute mascot.
November 13th, 2005 at 7:04 pm
it is said that the things are chosen without comparison with others
and also it is said that the things are like by the children in china, and the fact is, the students are too busy for their works and no time to judge it (lame), and the teacher says she represent them to choose with the heart of a child (she’s old okie? she can never understand how child thinks)
beisdes, i dun like the words friendlies too, sounds like feng li in chinese, which means separate
November 14th, 2005 at 12:40 am
Their design is not bad imo, very chinese look. It is very common in traditional for parents to make a similar doll for their kids when they are 3 or 4 as a blessing and protect them from evils.
Each of the mascot actually represent some meanings and sports, which I have no intention to study deep into.
Honestly the ‘Friendlies’ sucks, just call them ‘Fuwa’ instead, much better.
December 7th, 2005 at 8:20 pm
它们都很有lovely！每个福娃的具有不同的代表性，也体现出了中国的特色！
December 7th, 2005 at 8:45 pm
Julia, I agree that they are pretty unique and represent China pretty well.. just that the name ‘Friendlies’ really means nothing.. again I would rather just call them ‘Fuwa’
March 17th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
You sure the un-Chineses can understand “Fuwa” as the “blessing dolls”?Though I neither in much favor of the “friendlies”, they may be more international
March 17th, 2006 at 10:46 pm
excuse me,a “am” is missed.
March 18th, 2006 at 12:39 am
Well Yoanna.. I believe Fuwa will sounds more interesting.. at least it sounds like Chinese, and people can easily relates to China.
Friendlies sounds like in the middle of no way.. not pleasing anyone at all.
March 20th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Whatever,they looks good,and that’s what we both admit, right? ^v^
March 20th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
Right ^_^ They looks cute and very Chinese, I like that.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
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August 8th, 2007 at 2:36 am
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April 20th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
I like the yellow one.
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