The mascot for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games was revealed today by being casually dropped out of a helicopter.
Blue koala Borobi was revealed in front of hundreds of people on Burleigh Beach this morning, as he/she was flung from a helicopter in one of the most awkward scene you’re likely to see today.
Jumping out of a plane is not the easiest thing to do under the most normal of circumstances but the person dressed as Borobi had to do it with a giant koala head on and while it was successful in the way that the koala made it to the beach safely, it wasn’t the most graceful descent.
Luckily the koala has a smile plastered across it’s face because there probably would’ve been a very different look on the face underneath it.
The footage was aired on Channel 9’s brekky program The Today Show and Karl Stefanovic couldn’t quite explain the situation without bursting into laughter. He and co-host Lisa Wilkinson laughed their way through the segment as Borobi was lowered to the ground.
“It’s so risky,” Karl managed to say over continuous giggles.
Anyway, meet our new Commonwealth Games mascot, now safely back on land and ready to campaign us through to the 2018 event which will kick off in exactly two years today.
Borobi was designed by teacher Merrilyn Krohn who beat out 4,000 other entrants in a competition to design the mascot. Borobi is the Yugembah language name for Koala which is a nod to the original local indigenous landowners.
Poor Borobi is no doubt now recovering from what would’ve been a very stressful day.
.@MaccaMckee It’s Borobi the blue koala! He made a great entrance at Burleigh. Nailed it. #9Today https://t.co/Vvn4cD1Dbj
— The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) April 3, 2016
