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Crazy light sabre hilts
Seriously! 1996 Atlanta was 100% a lightsaber.
Your first thought was light sabers. Clearly I am more perverted.
My first thought was RPG-7 ammo
Sydney's was the coolest imo
Looks like a PS5
I got Sydney opera house vibes, but you're right haha
Authentic flame as well
Very frutiger aero
summer Olympic torches
"…if you’re brave enough."
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.
Missing the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics torch
1988 Winter Olympic Torch
Missing all of the winter Olympic torches, right? This seems to be summer Olympics only.
So this year's looks like RPG grenades, and that one looks like a German WW1 grenade
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stielhandgranate
Huh, I didn’t know it was designed to look like the Calgary tower, that’s neat.
Made by Hitachi.
I saw the London one in person when they handed off the flame in Manchester:
Many of those look like they'd make various sounds of "toot" if you blow through them. The Paris one looks like it would attract ducks, though