Best Mascot
 

Sooo, since it's off season, I'd like to see what people think of other team's mascots. Like, what team has the best looking mascot, who's team mascot gets most into character, and just the over all one-look-and-your-jaw-drops-in-awe mascot.

One of my favorites has been team 1939's giant killer bunny. Or, as they call it, a cute little kuh-nig-it. ;)

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I hate to toot our own horn, but I think our mascot is pretty well put up. It might not be the most creative, but it represents nicely at competition.

Since our mascot is a Lion, both for the team and the school, the school allows us to borrow the mascot suit for competitions. So everything is authentic and it looks awesome. We also get some really spunky people in the costume. I remember a couple of years ago, one of our teacher sponsors jumped into the suit. It was a blast for him and the people around him.

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The best two mascots I've seen are Team SPORK's (#3196) or 100 Scholars (#3091).
SPORK's is guy wearing a black suit and a spork-shaped hat.
100 Scholars has a bulldog and whoever they have in there is awesome. :p

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Team 201 (the FEDs) have two semi-mascots: a guy and a girl who dress up in a really nice suit, jacket, and dark sunglasses, then walk around pretending to be federal agents, protecting the robot, and stuff like that, with completely straight, serious faces the whole time. The only time it wasn't like that was when there was some sort of dance song on at MSC (maybe Sandstorm?) and they were sitting down with the rest of their team, making their hands go in circles, looking like they were dancing. With straight, serious faces. I didn't stop laughing for a while. :p

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(they also have had someone in a falcon costume - who gives great hugs - but I like the agents a lot more. How they don't smile, I don't know. Definitely one of my favorites.)

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I'm pretty sure it was 3200 that had this really neat cardboard box Decepticon looking mascot that I really got a kick out of. part of what made it so awesome too was the fact that it was homemade out of cardboard boxes, instead of buying a mascot suit or borrowing one from their school (guilty...). the other part was the fact that it looked like something out of the really old Transformers show I watched when I was like 6 :D

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Alex, I've got to tell you, that picture just made my day. that picture is just awesome

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Our school currently has no idea what happened to our mustang costume... but it keeps turning up at robotics competitions then mysteriously disappears. I'm currently trying to think of something funny to do with it as a senior prank next year, any ideas?

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I really like our mascot(s). depending on the competition and who can make we had cool mascots 2 years ago. I will try to find pictures. this year we just kinda made up mascots they weren't as elaborate but I thought they were pretty cool.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-a...28_5457615.jpg

^ 2 years ago

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Last year Paradox (2102) had one of the most creative mascot costumes I've seen, along with heaps of team spirit.

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@S-Forbes: *Twitch, Twitch, Faint* ;)

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Moe's giant leaf costume turns a lot of heads. I still have no idea how that guy fit on the escalator in Georgia. You had to be at least 5 steps behind

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My vote goes for the Wildhat from team 100.

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I like team 155's nut mascot. It's always among the best mascots in the northeast,

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I can't remember which team it was, but at Championships, there was a team with 2 rock 'em sock 'em robot mascots made out of cardboard.

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Idk man...while our school is pretty nice about letting students use the equipment with moderate freedom, they bring down the hammer when something goes wrong...

- Sunny

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Team 857's Yeti is a pretty awesome mascot.


http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/...6611&ref=album

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I agree! While moving around Galelio I remember seeing that elaborate costume walking around and cheering! That was most definitely one of the more noticible mascots!

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http://www.baesystemsfirst.org/regio...0-0075-073.jpg

Best? Maybe not.

But CUTE!!!

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Here's a thread about the 'spirit catcher':

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=85486

It's their version of a Mummer.

Very clever marketing:
Eye-catching, play on the word, spirit: spirit catcher - and if asked about their mascot, they have a wonderful way of introducing some of the history of the community that they are a part of and recognizing it. Really amazing work that only MOE can do.

Jane

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Was even worse with the previous version of the Spirit Catcher -a giant gear- when I build it originally in 2003. (Picture here) to replace the original Uppet (Picture Here) which while perfect for the Rutgers Gym and Epcot... was a little too tall for Drexel and the other venues we went to. We also had the short lived giant MOE stick (Empty Costume Here) along with a couple other short-lived designs.

The new downsizing/upgrade of the Spirit Catcher was totally in the hands of the students who found it's remains in storage and decided to fix it up and happily paraded it around at competitions so kudos go totally to them.

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Its not so much the mascot costume as it is the man in the suit!! for instance, our teams is really just a knight costume. pretty boring. but when u put somebody charasmatic in the suit, u get a pretty awesome mascot. for instance, we've had the knight that wouldnt stop dancing in the costume until he got sick from heat exhaustion, we've had the knight who made it his goal to knight 195 people before the end of a competition, we've had the knight who broke the bleachers at a competition by leading teams to stomp and jump as hard as they can....

personally, i like team beta's mascot

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Their is a lot of good mascots at competition.

NJ has a lot of GREAT mascots. (Not tooting my own horn...)

But what constitute as a good mascot? Is it just the suit or is it the person in the suit?

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A little bit of both I believe.
You can have a great person inside the outfit but the initial response of the people watching is important.
(E.g. One mascot I know of caused some little kids to cry just because the outfit was rather terrifying.)

Conversely you can have a good costume but if the person inside isn't willing to go out of his/her comfort zone things can get dull quickly.

Right now I think this thread is going for overall best mascot; one that looks good and makes a good impact on people watching.
:p

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Well, I've made a few kids cry but after a hug and dance they stop rather quickly... (yay full body gorilla suit!)

I find it hard to say who is the best mascot because of how many of them (and knowing a lot of them) and seeing I am a mascot.

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One of the best parts of being in a mascot suit is you can be someone else without the world knowing who's inside of the suit. But, it doesn't hurt to put someone inside the suit who acts spirit filled outside of it too!

As far as the Thread, it can be any of the three. Best costume, best person in costume, or the awesome overall best.