Olympic mascot Wenlock (orange) and Paralympics mascot Mandeville (blue) are unveiled
Are they a pair of gay, one-eyed spacemen? As panned by international media outlet.
Or "two futuristic, magical beings" according to their creator.
Two metallic, one-eyed creatures whizzed into the London 2012 Games , when organizers unveiled them as their new Olympic and Paralympic mascots.
They look like two little steel aliens with one eye each and a yellow light on top of their heads as a homage to London Taxis.
Wenlock's name comes from the village of Much Wenlock in Shropshire, England - which hosted a precursor to the modern Olympic Games in the 19th Century.
Mandeville is named after the birthplace of the Paralympic Games, Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire also in England.
A children's author, Michael Morpurgo, was commissioned to write a story about the mascots, imagining them being created from the last drops of steel left over when the final girder for the Olympic Stadium was cast.
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