Meet London Olympics mascots Wenlock, Mandeville

Olympic mascot Wenlock (orange) and Paralympics mascot Mandeville (blue) are unveiled/ Getty Source: Getty Images

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 on Wednesday, 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.

Reminds me of Simpson's aliens Kang & Kodos

London 2012 Olympic Mascots. Designed by Subcircle Creative, Source: flickr.
Cute squirrel, hedgehog and others, was probably rejected.

In my opinion, the two aliens look alright, we have something different here, rather than the usual cuddly animals as mascots.