Izzy the 1996 Summer Olympics mascot

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you mean springy?

MSPaint was a glorious tool circa 1996.

I always feel bad for the artists that are stuck with the task of coming up with these olympic mascots. You want to know why they almost always suck? It's a classic example of design by committee. I'd bet that if you looked up the original round of concepts from the artist you'd see a dramatically different take on this guy. But no... Ethel from accounting was selected to be on the mascot committee, and she likes Rainbow Brite. So go back and use 9 more colors. And Ted from marketing thinks you need to make his eyebrows look like lightning bolts, so give that a shot would you, sport? etc and so on.

Having said that, I'm 50/50 on the chances that the illustrator actually keeps this character design in their portfolio of work to showcase.

Its the small details that piss me off. This thing raises so many more questions than it answers. The tail. Why the fuck does it have a tail?

Stars as eyes? Did they really need to put that in? Then they went ahead and made him cross-eyed. He looks drunk.

What is his general shape? Is he a genie? He looks like a wannabe 7up guy.

I am just going to skip past the lightning eyebrows.

Lastly, his big fucking mouth. Its just gross. He looks like he is burping.

Did you know he had a super nintendo game? I owned it. I remember it being a pretty decent platformer.

A pipe bomb would have made more sense

Was anyone else a member of the Izzy Club?!

The year of my birth

I lived in Atlanta in 1996 and went to the Games. Had a blast, doubt I'll ever experience anything like that again in my lifetime.

The 1996 Olympic website was my first experience with website that didn't crash with the heavy load of people coming to visit it. During the games, the tech sponsor (IBM) invested a TON of money into the site to make sure it didn't get crushed at peak times.

Also, was supposed to be at the Olympic Park the night of the bombing. Oddly, I wasn't feeling like making it here, so stayed home.

I left Atlanta in 1998 and have only ONCE visited the Olympic Park. I even have a brick there.

What the fuck is that abomination?

Springy

I have a shirt of this.

My parents still have an Izzy Christmas ornament.

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I think I once saw a Saturday morning cartoon of this. I can't find it on YouTube. But I remember it being very 90's.

ATL!

I remember colouring that thing in at primary school

I had a fucking sweet Atlanta Olympics baseball cap from McDonald's. 95% sure it was maroon with a suede brim.. super styling.

I remember he had his own roller coaster at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA.

I actually still have stuffed animal of him

Give the south's statistically significant interest in meth this seems oddly up to date.

Where will you be......when the acid takes hold?

I just looked up the mascots from my hometown's turn at hosting the Winter Olympics, and I'm pretty sure they took them straight out of Song of the South.