Quatchifan2010 unveiled this masterpiece by Quatchster the Artist. You might call him SuperQuatchi. Speaking of which…
SuperQuatchi‘s pin collection continues to grow. Here’s a neat triptych:
Over on QuatchWatch, Sammers’ Q gets his hair did…
Finally, while theirs isn’t a full-blown Quatchi blog, Shanny & D. deserve mention for toting Quatchi along on their many travels. Here he is in France:
– Steve
Let’s begin with this blue scarf, featuring a weird blue Quatchi:
Next up is this Quatchi syrup:
Photo courtesy of Michael Francis McCarthy, from his flickr set of Vancouver 2010 souvenirs. He also has a cool Quatchi post on his designKULTUR blog.
I’d wear this nifty sweater, by Aritzia:
Let’s not forget the ever-popular Quatchi slippers. At Vancouver’s Bay Olympics store I snapped this shot of a display rack filled with ‘em, forming a veritable Quatchi army:
Finally, this sweet Quatchi wallet is sure to be empty after buying all this great stuff!
– Steve
Some time ago, blogroller Superquatchi scored this killer Wonder Bread Quatchi plush with the hockey sweater. I wondered if its back looked the same as the number 10 sweater Quatchi wore at the Mascots on Ice show. I asked Superquatchi about it, and he she kindly linked to the above photo in his her blog’s comments… Thanks!
Then yesterday I wondered about the blue armbands on blogroller Quatchifan2010′s plush, which Sophia explained were for his backpack. Turns out she made three such backpacks, as seen on her blog today. Here’s the blue one, with the number 10 and a sweet racing stripe:
This Canadian maple leaf pack is pretty awesome too:
The third one went to yet another blogroller, Sammers, who had actually been in search of the perfect backpack — looks like she got it! Q models this classy monogrammed number:
Can’t help but imagine Quatchi wearing a backpack of himself.
Anyway, nice work, fellow Quatchi bloggers!
– Steve
Superquatchi is a new blog by an anonymous Vancouverite (apparently also named superquatchi) who loves collecting Quatchi stuff and other Olympic souvenirs, particularly pins. My favorite on the site so far is actually this Mukmuk pin:
Anyway, superquatchi is now listed on our blogroll — we’re sure they’d love to hear from you!
– Steve
Rob Taylor added audio and video to his “Quatchi Rap,” which we previously linked to here. This is the current link… Audio NFSW!
Here’s a cool stop-motion animation of the Quatchi Happy Meal luge toy…
Quatchi has a cameo in this clip of the mascots having tea at Victoria’s Empress Hotel…
This comes from the several amusing videos starring Mukmuk featured on the TourismVictoriaBC YouTube channel.
Finally, this hardly counts as a video. In any case, the image here comes from this non-embeddable clip.
– Steve
I’m amused by these little instruction sheets showing how to operate the Quatchi McDonald’s Happy Meal toys, though I’m even more amused by the toys themselves…
– Steve
Yesterday’s Vancouver visit was a blast! We’ve seen lots of this stuff online already (and blogged about it too), but it was cool to take it all in firsthand and capture it with our own cameras.
A four-story Quatchi on the side of the TD Tower looms over fans eagerly awaiting the Meet the Mascots on Ice show. We took in the 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. performances. Both were crammed with kids screaming at all three mascots, chanting their names, and completely losing their minds. Here’s Quatchi making his big entrance…
Moments later, in his hockey sweater, he makes a big save and brings down the house…
Between shows we had a snack at Beard Papa’s (note Quatchi on the street sign)…
Later we had lunch from Japa Dog…
If all that food wasn’t enough, we hit three different McDonald’s™ and scored four different Happy Meal™ toys. We now have all the Quatchi toys, and need just two others to complete the eight-toy collection: Miga Figure Skating and Sumi Alpine Skiing. At one McDonald’s™ was this Quatchi display, so Eliza took a picture of me in it.
Here’s Eliza sporting her Quatchi hat at the cauldron…
And here she is next to a hollow plastic Quatchi, part of a Samsung display in the Pacific Center Centre mall…
We covered lots of downtown, and we saw Quatchi and the other mascots everywhere we looked — on hats, backpacks, buses, etc. It was cool. Eliza will show us a bunch of that shortly.
– Steve
Finally, a violence-free contribution by George Buford, who spotted the mascot posse on NHK, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation. That’s far more Quatchi than we’ve seen on NBC, the National Broadcasting Corporation.
UPDATE
Japanese figure-skating bronze medalist Daisuke Takahashi was filmed in the Olympic Village, sporting a Quatchi hat while clutching Mukmuk. At the 5:42 mark in this video…
Thanks Chinatsu!
– Steve
What a difference a friggin’ day makes.
Just yesterday I was whining about Quatchi’s conspicuous absence of late, both in the media and in person, though I remained optimistic. Since then, I learned he was on a magazine cover, and last night I finally saw him on NBC. Granted, it was a brief shot of a figure skater clutching a Quatchi plush to his chest, but hey, it’s a start.
Then this morning I woke to find that Eliza’s pal/Slate.com correspondent Seth Stevenson mentioned Quatchi in his description of the scene in Vancouver…
You never know when you’ll run into Quatchi, posing for pictures with groups of tourists on a street corner. Quatchi is a friendly sasquatch who wears earmuffs and snowboard boots. He looks like he wants all the people of the world to do bong hits with him.
And there’s this Time article about volunteers at the Olympics…
For every three days the volunteers work, however, they get a sticker with a picture of Quatchi, one of the Olympic mascots, stamped on the back of their identification badge. For every Quatchi sticker, they might get a pin or some other small token of appreciation. And once they get three or four Quatchi stickers, rumor has it, the volunteers get a Swatch.
A smaller outlet, Curator, published the intriguing essay In Defense of Quatchi…
Most of the objections to Quatchi and his gang, however, overlook the very nature of the mascot: they are for children, young and old. Their sole purpose is to engage and enchant. This is best done through simple, fun and easily adaptable cartoon characters… To those who claim they are simply too cute, I have no defense. They simply are too cute. Which is exactly why I, along with thousands of sasquatch-loving Olympic fans will be sporting a screen-printed Quatchi on my favourite Olympic hoodie while I cheer on my country’s athletes this week.
Last but not least, I love this eight-year-old kid’s Olympics blog in the Los Angeles Times…
Outside of the stadium were two Olympic mascots, Miga and Quatchi and I took a picture with them, they were so cute, I wanted to take them both home with me but my mom said they would not fit in the suitcase.
– Steve
