NFR Kraken Mascot

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Wadin' Boot

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This is the new mascot for the Kraken. they call this thing Buoy. It is missing teeth.
I think they missed an opportunity here. Specifically for something not fuzzy and absurd.

I'm talking about a terrifying, 9 foot tall humboldt squid that actively pursues fans and players, slaps them with briny goo covered tentacles and shoots jets of ink and slime all over the place. That same slime freezes onto the ice into a new disruptive layer the zamboni can't tame. Tentacles that detach and stick fast onto the ice that in turn, must then be played around. A surface area when splayed out as big as a pickelball court. A beast that emits horrific sounds, popping kids like tic-tacs....

But this thing? it looks like Jonesy's smurf dress-up
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Reilly: "I don't know what's going on, but I don't feel like ripping V-Bar tricep pushdowns"
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That's a Kraken? Yeah, they missed an opportunity all right. Should have consulted with 'Boot, fer sure.
 
I hate everything about "Kraken".

The logo sucks and the name sucks. They should have gone with "Seattle Steelheads". It is both relevant and bad ass; we have (a few) steelhead and a head of steel would be highly beneficial to an NHL player. Not applying a Native American art style was also a huge fail.

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This weekend, the mascot was at the KCI complex (my son is on the junior Kraken select team, we were there for practice) and all the kids were jacked. So for what it's worth, the kids are huge fans.

Buoy working the Starbucks bar at the KCI complex:

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I think they could have done better with the mascot, it's pretty Disney/Nickelodeon style. But mascots are for kids. It's not like Blitz (hawks mascot) or the Mariners Moose does anything for me. (Why a moose? The moose isn't even a PNW animal!) So if kids like it, then it's a good mascot. The idea that grown ass adults have to love a mascot for it to be good is a little weird, to be honest.

Kraken as a name wasn't my first choice. But I don't hate it. And aside from the "meh" mascot choice, I have to admit that the branding has been pretty on-point top to bottom so far. Uniforms, logos, music, tossing stuffed salmon into the crowd, it's all really well done. Hell, I'd call their secondary space-needle/anchor logo one of the best "Seattle" logos ever, to be honest. Right up there with the old-school M's trident and Supersonics skyline logos.
 
FWIW, the only Seattle sports mascot that matters is the Wheedle. He was Seattle through and through (from the local childrens' book, Wheedle on the Needle).

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In fact, there's an argument to be made that the the Flyers mascot Gritty is just the Wheedle with his hair grown out and after living a few rough years since the Sonics fired him.

 
Josh said:
I think they could have done better with the mascot, it's pretty Disney/Nickelodeon style. But mascots are for kids. It's not like Blitz (hawks mascot) or the Mariners Moose does anything for me. (Why a moose? The moose isn't even a PNW animal!) So if kids like it, then it's a good mascot. The idea that grown ass adults have to love a mascot for it to be good is a little weird, to be honest.

Kraken as a name wasn't my first choice. But I don't hate it. And aside from the "meh" mascot choice, I have to admit that the branding has been pretty on-point top to bottom so far. Uniforms, logos, music, tossing stuffed salmon into the crowd, it's all really well done. Hell, I'd call their secondary space-needle/anchor logo one of the best "Seattle" logos ever, to be honest. Right up there with the old-school M's trident and Supersonics skyline logos.
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Bro, the moose is literally a PNW animal. We have many in this state and Idaho has more. Shiras Moose to be specific.
 
Josh said:
I think they could have done better with the mascot, it's pretty Disney/Nickelodeon style. But mascots are for kids.
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Agreed. The kids at the rink were STOKED. I'm talking screaming like crazy people because they got to high five Buoy stoked. So I'd say while we all kind of look at the mascot and go 'huh?', they did a good enough job based on the kids reactions.
 
Chadk said:
Bro, the moose is literally a PNW animal. We have many in this state and Idaho has more. Shiras Moose to be specific.
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Ehhh, I’d always understood that moose were an upper NE corner of WA thing. Perhaps I’m wrong?
 
Long_Rod_Silvers said:
Agreed. The kids at the rink were STOKED. I'm talking screaming like crazy people because they got to high five Buoy stoked. So I'd say while we all kind of look at the mascot and go 'huh?', they did a good enough job based on the kids reactions.
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You gotta admit, that is a pretty low bar. Kids would have been just as pumped if he was giving away candy or ice cream dressed like a toothless meth-head.
 
Josh said:
Ehhh, I’d always understood that moose were an upper NE corner of WA thing. Perhaps I’m wrong?
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Pretty sure that is still considered the PNW... But, even if your point made sense, while most moose would be along the canadian and idaho boarders, there are some in central WA / Columbia Basin as well. I've seen one in Winthrop area.
 
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