Why were the World cup Mascots from the 90s so kino, bros? Whereas the modern ones are soulless?

>>149379805 (OP)
66 >>> 14 > 86 > 98 > 70 > 78 > 06 > 10 > 94 > 74 > 18 > 82 >>>>>>>>>>>>> 90 >>>>>>>>>>> 02

>>149379805 (OP)
Footix is so based, only good thing to come from France.

Ciao > Footix > Pique > Fuleco >>>>>>> the rest

>>149379805 (OP)
What the fuck is that in 2002

I forgot 2022 oh no no

>>149379805 (OP)

fuleco was an absolute chad
https://youtube.com/shorts/a1Iohqn8hKA?si=v1pPhfGGPjK3SezW

>>149379805 (OP)
I still have a Footix plushie somewhere in my parents' home (I think/hope)

>>149379852
Rude.

>argentina hiding a knife behind it's back
How fitting

>>149379919
footix is just a woody woodpecker knockoff

>>149379942
Mascot (japan)

>>149380538
I blame the Koreans

>>149379805 (OP)
2002 is too comfy, best year from my childhood

>>149379805 (OP)
>ciao

>>149379805 (OP)
Reminder that Ciao is BOUNDLESS.

>>149379852
You deserve to get raped by ciao's blocky penis for ranking him that low

Ciao and Footix are the only soul mascotte

Anyone got "that" screenshot of the anon who went full sperg on the mascots?

zabivaka Is pretty based tbf, just abit safe. Needed some edge a la crash bandicoot or chester cheetos in the 90s

>>149380021
> A ghost doing a Nazi salute

What did they mean by this

>>149380021
oh lord, You made me remember that I have this saved

>>149381595
LMAO

>>149381595
Legends speak of the Ghost of Madeira... One time he won 5 different teams with a single tap-in. The bane of the Luxemburgians and the Armenians...

Ciao is so cool

https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/48335143/#q48336392
Obligatory

>>149381595
Based

IGOR JESUS, FROM BOTAFOGO, THE GOAT
!!

>>149383163
chikaner

>>149379805 (OP)
mandatory

>>149382544
> mfw I made this thread
> mfw it was more than 10 years ago and I'm still here

>>149379805 (OP)
i hate france but i have to admit that footix is the best one

>>149386858
What did we do to you

>>149386880
poisoned ronaldo and a french faggot made me paperhand a nft worth millions at the top
also you're too smug and leftist

>>149379805 (OP)
For me, it's 2022 mascot

>>149380021
>the Qataris had to get around any art being haram so they just made a sheet with a face

>>149379942
It was going to be an anime styled mascot but koreans convinced euros to include them with japan as hosts and they were forced to change the mascot. I blame the europeans for allowing this, the FIFA president at the time was a brazilian and was in full support of Japan as the only hosts and against multi hosting.

speaking of mascots, I don't care if you guys think these two suck. seeing them is enough to make a grown man cry.

Because every office today is filled with female "experts" with useless degrees in "management" who don't actually know how to do anything so they just repeat dumb corporate shit about minimalism and brand recognizability or whatever popular buzzwords they come across, all to make it seem like they're doing stuff instead of leechingoff of their employers who are too pussy to fire them because potentialky being labeled misogynists will kill their career

Also you people have no taste Naranjito is the most sovlful one

>>149388556
look at Faggiopoulos over here

>>149389052
Based
https://youtu.be/SgLCcMuWGpM?si=DU2uGqf8XxLI4INb

>>149389052
him and Pique are the best ones
>>149389649
fuck off Twain

>>149379805 (OP)
>>149379805 (OP)
Zabivaka>gauchito>willie>all

>>149379805 (OP)
Zabivaka is soul so is fuleco and goleo

>TIL that World Cup Willie and Footix are the only national animals of their respective countries to become WC mascots
Will there ever be another one in 2026? I'm thinking of a bald eagle for USA, a golden eagle for Mexico and a beaver for Canada

>>149389052
I will kill the serbs

>>149381743
YOU DELETE THIS POST RIGHT NOW OR I'LL CRY

>I rate Ciao
is this the new cool contrarian take? whats the logic behind it? its just blocks with no meaning that look like absolute shit. Even the Saudi floating rag had more personality than that

>>149380021
How can some bedsheet encourage people to believe in themselves

>>149379805 (OP)

ELITE TIER:

1- Pique
2- Goleo

Great tier
3- Naranjito
4- Ciao (Plebs need not apply)
5- Striker

Good
6- Fuleco
7- Footix
8- Striker
9- Gauchito
10- Willie

Meh
11- Zakumi & Zabivaka (interchangeable)
12- Juanito

Shit:
13- Laeeb
14- Tip and Tap

Gook tier
9001- gook shit

At least 2026 olympics mascots are kino again.

>>149397178
what the fuck is fiffi

>>149397188
i dont get it
there are 8 mascots?
or two?
should be one

>>149379805 (OP)
>Naranjito
Cute! Goleo also underrated but that's mostly because the art style.

>Tip and Tap
Should Spain copy the concept with Tiki and Taka if they ever get to host a tournament?

>>149391516
Maybe they should combine them into one creature ManBearPig style and have Al Gore reveal it to the world.

>>149394226
Like it or not it's a standout. Abstract figures who don't go overboard tend to stand the test of time and see resurgence later on.

>>149397294
only two, those big stoats, the white one is for normal people the brown one is for paraolympic people who is also normal but with handicaps.

>>149388944
Holy buzzwords batman

>>149379805 (OP)
anyone got the copypasta where that furfag grades all the mascots?


>>149397178
mulan a cute

>>149397171
> Sweden
> "How shit we're hosting and we don't have a mascot"
> "What the fuck was done last time"
> "Ok lets just copy/paste it and no one will notice"

>>149398768
the most dogshit mascot I have seen in years

>>149399064
I bet you're a Bardella cuck 100%

>>149399064
They grew on me as the Games went on. /sp/ loved them in the end.

>>149399102
no fucking thanks, blame ubisoft and illumination for running that aesthetic into the ground
>>149399140
I admit the crippled one is kinda nifty though

>>149379805 (OP)
Naranjito, pique and Footix.
The rest from meh to shit.

>>149379805 (OP)
Great: 66, 90, 98
Good: 94
So bad it's good: 06
Shit: 02, 10, 14, 18
Colossal shit: 70 through 86

>>149394226
>blocks with no meaning
It’s a high-tech computer-generated character, at a time when that was an incredible futuristic thing, and he’s playing football and he’s made out of Italian flags. He’s brilliant. He is also instantly recognisable; most people here wouldn’t immediately know Striker or Gauchito because there are 20 other cartoon characters that look the same. Like the legendary furry post said, Ciao is an alpha.

>>149397178
nutmeg > ettie > karla > mulan > shueme > ling > fiffi

>>149379805 (OP)
Post-Cold War Baby Boom meant there were more kids.
Nobody talks about the Post-Cold War Baby Boom because it would involve confronting that the economy isn't suited for a bunch of people who are between 30-39 proportional to the people immediately older or younger than them which radicalized this group in politically conventional and cultural ways.
A lost generation between CBS and Youtube. Still loves Community and 30 Rock but now not sure what they want.
Zohran won last night on this. More people from LA voted for him than voted for Karen Bass.

>>149406674
Pique is the best though.
It's a jalapeno with a mustache!

>>149379805 (OP)
Maybe it is just nostalgia since it was the first i saw but Footix is by far the best one for me.

>>149394226
>its just blocks with no meaning
100% wrong.
This is what Lucio Boscardin, the creator of Ciao, said about it back in the days:

>I got the idea at a traffic light that went from green to yellow to red and I said "Damn! The Italian flag!". From there I started to create the blocks that make up the body of the mascot, which in reality if broken down form the word 'ITALY'. It was a rather instinctive process.

>I believe that creating a cute little animal or puppet in some ways is very simplistic, especially at national level. Most of the time they're decent but these mascots have nothing to communicate, their creators always look for a doll, a flushy and always go for the usual patterns design wise.

>Juanito
>Gauchito
>Naranjito
I love el español.

Ciao isn't in the same league as the others, he's in a tier of his own, doesn't count.

>>149397171
>Slavek and Slavko - Poland

LOL

>>149379879

>food & gastronomy
France > England
>women
France > England
>climate
France > England
>history
France > England
>healthcare
France > England
>life expectancy
France > England
>cities
France > England
>countryside
France > England
>art & literature
France > England
>video games
France > England
>football
France > England
>music
France = England ok

>>149419181
have to say he is the best one by far. I could imagine if somehow if Holland were to hold a WC or Euros that they would have a Lego based one that would be similar, but maybe isn't allowed under the UEFA rules.