summer Olympic torches
Sydney’s was the coolest imo
Very frutiger aero
Looks like a PS5
Authentic flame as well
I got Sydney opera house vibes, but you’re right haha
Missing the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics torch
Missing all of the winter Olympic torches, right? This seems to be summer Olympics only.
Huh, I didn’t know it was designed to look like the Calgary tower, that’s neat.
So this year’s looks like RPG grenades, and that one looks like a German WW1 grenade
Made by Hitachi.
So the Olympic games started on 1968 in Mexico
The Olympic torch relay is actually less than 100 years old, starting in (Nazi) Berlin in 1936. Wikipedia
Maybe before that they just picked one up at a tiki supply shop.
“…if you’re brave enough.”
Many of those like like they’d make various sounds of “toot” if you blow through them. The Paris one looks like it would attract ducks, though
Crazy light sabre hilts
Your first thought was light sabers. Clearly I am more perverted.
My first thought was RPG-7 ammo
Seriously! 1996 Atlanta was 100% a lightsaber.
I saw the London one in person when they handed off the flame in Manchester: