When the Singapore pavilion powers-that-be revealed their weird mascot last year, we pretty much crowned it the winner of the Worst Expo Rep Pageant 2010. The back story created for little Durian Star by the Singapore Tourism Board also won the Most Awful Narrative prize: more ›

When the Expo people first revealed Haibao, we were less than pleased. Then the Australian mascot came along and we thought to ourselves, well at least we're not that obvious. Then the Taiwanese mascot made its appearance and we were thankful that at least Shanghai wasn't being represented by something that looked like crap. Literally. But this new Singaporean mascot? It actually makes us happy that Haibao's ours. more ›