bristolsaint29 Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 All looks a bit crap to me. Some chickens a cow and a tree!! http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16245753 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmel Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 It will be fantastic - I am 100% confident. There is an interview on the BBC site talking about how they came up with the concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Gotsmanov Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 It looks likley a bloody birthday cake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 I wonder if they realise other nations have countryside and farm animals too. They arent uniquely British. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolsaint29 Posted 12 June, 2012 Author Share Posted 12 June, 2012 It will be fantastic - I am 100% confident. There is an interview on the BBC site talking about how they came up with the concept. What they were stuck for ideas and happened to glance outside? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedg Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 I think its a far better option that thousands of people randomly dancing in random coloured costumes which appears to be blueprint for all other opening ceremonies. I am optimistic that it is one persons vision not something drawn up by committee. These things are always long and expensive, its what's expected, but hopefully this one will be both good and something different from previous ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmel Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 I think its a far better option that thousands of people randomly dancing in random coloured costumes which appears to be blueprint for all other opening ceremonies. I am optimistic that it is one persons vision not something drawn up by committee. These things are always long and expensive, its what's expected, but hopefully this one will be both good and something different from previous ones. The opening ceremony is costing 27 million quid. Part of the reasoning behind it was, how could they match or beat Bejing? And the answer was that they simply couldn't, so have gone for something completely different. It will be stunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Gotsmanov Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 The opening ceremony is costing 27 million quid. Part of the reasoning behind it was, how could they match or beat Bejing? And the answer was that they simply couldn't, so have gone for something completely different. It will be stunning. In fairness I moaned about thye logo and it grew on me. It was actually very clever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sussexsaint Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 Sooo close , should have gone with the monkey chicken petting zoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weston Super Saint Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 The opening ceremony is costing 27 million quid. Part of the reasoning behind it was, how could they match or beat Bejing? And the answer was that they simply couldn't, so have gone for something completely different. It will be stunning. I'd like to know who is making the money from it? 27 million pounds and ALL the performers are volunteers! Somebody, somewhere is making a fortune off it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 The great British public love nothing more than a good old moan about stuff so this will no doubt satisfy our collective craving for something to vent our spleen over... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedg Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 The great British public love nothing more than a good old moan about stuff so this will no doubt satisfy our collective craving for something to vent our spleen over... Something Boyle is definitely aware off. "You're bound to fail, that's built in. But you hope that on the journey, you hope people will find enough in it to feel that it is representative of us," said Boyle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edprice1984 Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 The people who moan about this and the Olympics in general are always going to moan about it. You will never win them over. I really hope they can pull off something incredible and uniquely 'British' (whatever that is?!). Everyone marvelled at Beijing, but people forget that mass rallies/demonstrations are fairly easy to do when you have the threat of execution hanging over everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedg Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 (edited) Other things: 1) the budget for the ceremonies was doubled by the current government and to some extent it was not a bad decision as you are selling the country to the billions watching and the value for money I suspect compares favourable to advertising tourism in the UK via normal routes. 2) I suspect given the price of the tickets (20.12 for the lowest but 2012 for the highest) that the ceremonies will be self financing. Edited 12 June, 2012 by pedg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 All looks a bit crap to me. Some chickens a cow and a tree!! http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16245753 They have clearly nicked the idea from Legoland Windsor, clearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 I fail to see what farming has got to do with London. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 (edited) Should have done an amazing sound and light show on iconic London landmarks. This kind of thing: Edited 12 June, 2012 by buctootim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 What do you expect if you're only going to spend £81m? You do get a closing ceremony as well for that. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16030785 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 Should have done an amazing sound and light show on iconic London landmarks. This kind of thing: They might still do that. But to be honest that kind of thing is not that amazing - Sky did loads of that just for their coverage of the 2010 Election results. It's basically modern day fireworks. A bit of wooooo but not really groundbreaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warsash saint Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 Loking foward to hearing Underworld's music score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Paradise Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 Why not just put a small stage in the middle of the stadium, get the Queen and Phil on it. Get them to say "welcome to the olympics" they go away and then within 10 minutes the events can start. At the end same stage but get rthem to say "thanks for coming it's past my bed time so bugger off" There millions saved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 12 June, 2012 Share Posted 12 June, 2012 They might still do that. But to be honest that kind of thing is not that amazing - Sky did loads of that just for their coverage of the 2010 Election results. It's basically modern day fireworks. A bit of wooooo but not really groundbreaking.It might not be ground breaking but its a lot more contemporary and relevant than maypole dancing in a pastiche rural idyll set. As one of the comments on the Sky site said - "27Million quid on a tellytubby set???" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 13 June, 2012 Share Posted 13 June, 2012 It might not be ground breaking but its a lot more contemporary and relevant than maypole dancing in a pastiche rural idyll set. As one of the comments on the Sky site said - "27Million quid on a tellytubby set???" If wheeling out a now pretty bog standard bit of technology already used to flog mobile phones in cities all over the world is contemporary and relevent god help us. At least this is nicely counter intuitive and disruptive. And obviously that set is not the entire ceremony, more to come I'm sure. Won't stop the sneering but fu c k them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctoroncall Posted 13 June, 2012 Share Posted 13 June, 2012 It's certainly different and I'm sure the animals will do their own thing what with the noise and flashing lights, unless they're planning to feed them tranqualisers! I feel one part is missing - on one side there should be a digger ready to tear up part of the countryside for the new social housing development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedg Posted 13 June, 2012 Share Posted 13 June, 2012 I think many people commenting on how the set looks (i.e. the teletubby comments) are not taking on board the fact that the set will change over the course of the ceremony to reflect a more urban society. What we have seen pictures of is just how it will look at the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 13 June, 2012 Share Posted 13 June, 2012 (edited) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18421211 London Olympics 'to come in £500m under budget' The Olympic stadium will host the opening ceremony next month Sports minister Hugh Robertson says the London Olympics are set to come in under its £9.3bn budget with about £500m of the contingency funding left. He told the BBC the exact figure would be announced to Parliament later. But Mr Robertson said that "all being well we should be able to hand half a billion pounds back to the Treasury". Edited 13 June, 2012 by trousers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 13 June, 2012 Share Posted 13 June, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18421211 London Olympics 'to come in £500m under budget' 13 June 2012 Last updated at 08:32 The Olympic stadium will host the opening ceremony next month Sports minister Hugh Robertson says the London Olympics are set to come in under its £9.3bn budget with about £500m of the contingency funding left. He told the BBC the exact figure would be announced to Parliament later. But Mr Robertson said that "all being well we should be able to hand half a billion pounds back to the Treasury". Surely that reads that the budget was actually £7.3Bn, but they set aside a £2Bn contingency as costs inevitably increase to exceed available funding, so it isn't 'under budget', it's 'over estimate'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 13 June, 2012 Share Posted 13 June, 2012 Surely that reads that the budget was actually £7.3Bn, but they set aside a £2Bn contingency as costs inevitably increase to exceed available funding, so it isn't 'under budget', it's 'over estimate'. Yeah, but a labour government would have spent the extra £500k because it was there to be spent whereas the natural inclination of the Tories is to save it... ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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