Comments on: Say Hello to the “Dandroids,” the Temporary Original Android Mascot

By: GreyHawk

GreyHawk — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:22:00 +0000

Although not similar, the “dandroids” reminded me of the science probes from a video I found a while back by someone named “billyblob” – http://billyblob.com/cartoons/ – specifically, his piece called “We Are Science Probes” (http://billyblob.com/cartoons/we-are-science-probes.html).

By: Christopher Garofalo

Christopher Garofalo — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:35:00 +0000

they look pretty fruty

By: Simple1

Simple1 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:26:00 +0000

“Oh Jesus no!” I screamed, “Oh God yes” it chortled.

By: KRS_Won

KRS_Won — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:43:00 +0000

Jetson’s on crack. o_O

By: WOLFnexus

WOLFnexus — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:58:00 +0000

not a good idea

By: zbeast

zbeast — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:42:00 +0000

Wow, I’m glad they didn’t use these… there even more terrifying that the droid ad’s.

By: thefullritz

thefullritz — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:03:00 +0000

Danger Will Rogers!! Danger!!

By: Margaret Brown

Margaret Brown — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:32:00 +0000

and settling after a couple of hours of Inkscape work on these four characters.… http://www.MoneyHotspot2013one.qr.net/j4gy/ExclusivegiFDM=fwK7ggA3-bU

By: Thomas Mrak

Thomas Mrak — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:16:00 +0000

I miss the rainbow Apple.

Sure, it screamed 70s, but it was and still unusual for a logo to be multiple colors.

By: moelsen8

moelsen8 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:12:00 +0000

hey, you’re back!

By: Randy Mills

Randy Mills — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:28:00 +0000

I like the green. It looks like he’s scratching his ass.

By: Chris Hollenbeck

Chris Hollenbeck — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:22:00 +0000

Stoned robots don’t make me want to buy phones (but maybe a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos).

By: EvanTheGamer

EvanTheGamer — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:09:00 +0000

I didn’t picture that until you mentioned it. Thanks a lot perv.

hahah

By: EvanTheGamer

EvanTheGamer — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:41:00 +0000

All better? lol

By: Droidzilla

Droidzilla — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:28:00 +0000

That’s a gross misrepresentation of the facts and the post. Here’s the complete, relevant portion, for anyone truly interested but too lazy to click the link:
“See, we were prepping for an internal developer launch (meaning, we were going to ask Googlers to start fooling with the APIs and give us early feedback), and I had no eye candy for the slides we were putting together. Hence these guys.
They had a brief flurry of minor popularity amongst the team — enough to pick up the nickname “Dandroids”, anyway. But then +Irina Blok (as I recall) presented her work: the bugdroid we all know and love. Funny how the professional work is of vastly higher quality than the amateur, isn’t it? Even so, these guys have the distinction of being the first proposed mascots for Android (that I’m aware of, at least.)”

These were obviously made to simply fill space for a quick meeting and were never even close to in the running for anything official. Ever. The guy behind them even calls them amateur work and readily admits to their poor quality. This article makes it seem as though they were actual contenders for the Android mascot, or even were the Android mascot for a while instead of being what they are: amateur placeholders for an insider meeting.