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What happened to the store merchandising?

StikaStika
edited May 2013 in General Chat
I remember a few years back there was plenty of Monkey Island and Sam & Max themed merch.

Posters, buttons, coffee mugs, etc.

what happened to them? I can't find them anywhere :\

Comments

  • fleskflesk
    edited May 2013
    The coffee mugs turned out to be extremely poisonous. I don't know what happened to the rest of the merchandise though.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2013
    flesk wrote: »
    The coffee mugs turned out to be extremely poisonous.

    Sounds like Stan sold it.
  • Nintendo Boy1Nintendo Boy1
    edited May 2013
    coolsome wrote: »
    Sounds like Stan sold it.

    I would totally buy his jacket.
  • StikaStika
    edited May 2013
    A shame all of the cool stuff merch is gone. I guess they just weren't selling
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited May 2013
    Ouch, since last time I checked, they have killed almost everything from the store. There's two physical items still available right now ("Stock up on featured Telltale merch"), and one of them's a game...

    Remedy this please!
  • medacrismedacris
    edited May 2013
    I'm hoping to get the Surfin' The Highway collection, provided it's still available (I tried ordering it from a comic book store, and was sadly told it was out of print), and possibly the Season 3 bonus DVD (I already own S3 on Steam).

    I was sad to see the Skeletal Max shirt was gone. That was something I had been planning to buy as well.
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited May 2013
    That Skeletal Max shirt is the best T-shirt I have ever bought online. It was exactly the right size and had really nice fabric.

    Looking back, I should have bought half a dozen so I never run out.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited May 2013
    medacris wrote: »
    I'm hoping to get the Surfin' The Highway collection

    Errrrr, you're in luck, it's one of the two remaining products. ;)

    Still, a new hardcover edition with the "Big Sleep" should be out any minute now! would be a cool thing for Telltale to next put in their store.
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited May 2013
    Wow. It really is sad to see the store so barren. I have so many cool things that I've gotten from the Telltale store over the past few years. It's disappointing to see that come to an end.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2013
    They should sell smoking monkeys.

    smoking-monkey-photo-u1.jpg
  • Ash735Ash735
    edited May 2013
    Awww, I wanted some more Flaming Max shot glasses.
  • medacrismedacris
    edited May 2013
    Vainamoinen wrote: »
    Errrrr, you're in luck, it's one of the two remaining products. ;)

    Still, a new hardcover edition with the "Big Sleep" should be out any minute now!

    I will keep an eye out for the new hardcover! Thank you for letting me know.
  • RingmasterJ5RingmasterJ5
    edited May 2013
    medacris wrote: »
    I will keep an eye out for the new hardcover! Thank you for letting me know.

    It's going to be quite a long wait.
  • Jen KollicJen Kollic
    edited May 2013
    flesk wrote: »
    The coffee mugs turned out to be extremely poisonous. I don't know what happened to the rest of the merchandise though.

    They are?! *looks suspiciously at her Monkey Island tankard* Eh. *drinks tea from it anyway*
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited May 2013
    medacris wrote: »
    I will keep an eye out for the new hardcover! Thank you for letting me know.

    That was a joke!!!!!! :eek:
  • medacrismedacris
    edited May 2013
    Vainamoinen wrote: »
    That was a joke!!!!!! :eek:

    Ack! Sorry about that, I didn't know!
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited May 2013
    Do you know what they do with moderators who spread misinformation?? ;)
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited May 2013
    Vainamoinen wrote: »
    Do you know what they do with moderators who spread misinformation?? ;)
    I know, but your punishment will have to wait until I can find a yak to milk.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2013
    Darth Marsden wrote: »
    I know, but your punishment will have to wait until I can find a yak to milk.
    milk.gif
  • FoinikasFoinikas
    edited May 2013
    Dear Telltale....

    How much I love your games is needless to say.I'm a big fan.I love you as a company because you care for us fans,just as much as we care about you too.You show us that you care about our opinion and about what we think.

    So my dear Telltale I have to ask you: Give us posters.Give us merchandise of your heroes and characters.I'm a fan and I wanna show it.I wanna show my love for your work.I want to have a big poster in my room's wall with Sam and Max and Lee and Carly.With your Jurassic Park crew and your Poker Night guest stars.With Marty and Doc,with the Walking Dead and crazy rabbit.
    I want my room's door to have big nice Telltale brand names and scenes from your games.Kenny posing,Max teasing,Dinos lurking,Guybrush screaming.

    Please my dear Telltale,give us posters and goodies of your work!!I love this company and these characters and heroes so much!
  • Ash735Ash735
    edited May 2013
    They used to do posters, the poster set for Season 3 of Sam & Max is amazing, as well as the Steve Purcell drawn posters for Season 2 and TOMI, but since changing, TellTale seem to have dumped off their old stock and don't seem to be selling many extras anymore.
  • FoinikasFoinikas
    edited May 2013
    I made this thread in order to ask for Telltale to think about making new posters,new merchandise.I mostly want posters and stuff of all their heroes together and/or of each game seperately.

    We need Telltale to think about it!I want to have posters and stuff of my favorite Telltale games heroes so much!
  • FriarFriar
    edited May 2013
    I think it's probably rights issues. Walking Dead, Back to the future and Jurassic park were popular mainstream franchises, and Universal probably had merchandising deals with other companies. And given how many licenses are involved in games like Poker night, having merch for that would be a nightmare to negotiate. And Telltale would probably be left with very little after everyone took their cut.

    As for the rest of the stuff disappearing, maybe the rights expired/ were withdrawn (lucas arts has changed pretty spectacularly since ToMI).
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited May 2013
    Friar wrote: »
    As for the rest of the stuff disappearing, maybe the rights expired/ were withdrawn

    But a large chunk of it was Sam & Max, and I'd be surprised if Purcell would ever disallow Telltale to do Sam & Max merch.
    (lucas arts has changed pretty spectacularly since ToMI).

    Considering that LucasArts doesn't exist anymore, yeah, I'd say that's a pretty spectacular change.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited May 2013
    GuruGuru214 wrote: »
    Considering that LucasArts doesn't exist anymore, yeah, I'd say that's a pretty spectacular change.

    Now THAT is debatable. ;) ;)
  • FoinikasFoinikas
    edited May 2013
    Actually I didn't like the fact that my thread was merged with another one,I posted mine as a personal appeal to Telltale,didn't want it get merged with an already existing one.

    POSTERS please!Make some game posters! :(
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited May 2013
    Foinikas wrote: »
    Actually I didn't like the fact that my thread was merged with another one,I posted mine as a personal appeal to Telltale,didn't want it get merged with an already existing one.

    Send your personal pleas to Telltale via email. This is a community forum. ;)
  • FoinikasFoinikas
    edited May 2013
    -_-
  • nachtritternachtritter
    edited June 2013
    flesk wrote: »
    The coffee mugs turned out to be extremely poisonous. I don't know what happened to the rest of the merchandise though.


    Err, what? Shouldn't TTG have warned ppl who bought one? Like me????
    :eek:
  • WarpSpeedWarpSpeed
    edited June 2013
    They weren't really poisonous. Just the State of California thought so. And they included a warning about it.
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2013
    Since moving here, I've seen the same warning posted in Starbucks.
  • fleskflesk
    edited June 2013
    I might have exaggerated a little.
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