What the...? The 2012 London Olympic Mascots

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In 2007 the organisers of the 2012 London Olympic Games announced the logo for those games, a design based on the numbers 2012:

 The logo was largely disliked. Ken Livingstone, then Lord mayor of London, declared that the design company responsible for the logo should not be paid for what he called a "catastrophic mistake"..