It looks like he would have been staring straight at her if he was looking through the mouth, but if he also has a view through the eyes or something else higher up, he might have simply been staring through the wrong hole to see at her at that moment.
I've never worn one of these suits, but I've been given the opportunity to try on the head, and in my experience (but of course, depending on the suit) you'd have a better field of vision looking through a fucking periscope.
The most blisteringly obvious explanation is that these mascots just sort of make happy gestures at whatever they can see, which isn't much. Instead, these grifty idiots are either pretending not to know, or are too stupid to know, that putting on a mascot suit doesn't give you a T-800 computer-assisted targeting system.
I think in this case, they might be.
It looks like he would have been staring straight at her if he was looking through the mouth, but if he also has a view through the eyes or something else higher up, he might have simply been staring through the wrong hole to see at her at that moment.
I've never worn one of these suits, but I've been given the opportunity to try on the head, and in my experience (but of course, depending on the suit) you'd have a better field of vision looking through a fucking periscope.
The most blisteringly obvious explanation is that these mascots just sort of make happy gestures at whatever they can see, which isn't much. Instead, these grifty idiots are either pretending not to know, or are too stupid to know, that putting on a mascot suit doesn't give you a T-800 computer-assisted targeting system.