ShrapnelGames Game merchandise..
 

I just found out today that there are all kinds of shrapnelgames.com merchandise. Mousepads, mugs, T-Shirts, etc..

Searched through their main page and didn't see it, checked their storefront, (which happens to be gamersfront.com) aaah, a discrete link to merchandising, again off site at,.. http://www.cafeshops.com/shrapnelgames.

How on earth are people to know about merchandising when they have to bounce around like that to even know of it's existance. I think this kind of info should be on the shrapnelgames main page.

Shame on you shrapnel. For a regular like me to have to find out about this through the grapevine and not see a link on your main site is just not right. (and to think it just took two years for me to find out.)

Oh well, such is life. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ June 02, 2004, 22:26: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

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I want trading cards, models of the ships, figures, and pez dispensors.

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Oh ya, I need a new mouse pad too, my SEIV mouse pad is about conquered.

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so cool, i never knew about that!

I always did like that grenade pin logo, might have to get it on a shirt.

I dont like the contrast of the big black SE4G rectangle on the white shirts, though. maybe a black se4 shirt would be better, or one with the MM logo.

yes, i'll pay to be a walking billboard! i am a consumer whore!

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We need SEIV - SE V Plates, T-shirts, mugs, calanders, small stickers, bumper stickers, pens, pins, etc.

You might be additicted to Space Empires if you have a "I Live Fore Space Empires IV" bumper sticker on your car. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ June 03, 2004, 00:36: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Im a grapevine now? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Actually it hasnt been there 2 years. It was one of the things I brought with me and its just getting started. So... if I win a game do I get a "I CONQUERED THE KNOWN UNIVERSE and all I got was this lousy tshirt" t-shirt?

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Well there has definitely been some merchandise for over 2 years, such as the MM mouse pads. You were not the first to suggest such drivel to Shrapnel. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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There was mention of Shrapnel's new merchandies and a link to order stuff in the most recent issue of the Frag Newsletter:

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• <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">New Shrapnel Games Merchandise
  
  Imagine the following scenario: You're out at the local park, playing frisbee
  with your dog. You toss the disc, your dog leaps up and catches it, maybe runs
  around a little bit with it and makes you chase him. All a lot of fun, right?
  Yeah, it's fun all right but imagine if instead of using an old Wham-O frisbee
  you were using an official Shrapnel Games' Dominions II frisbee! And you were
  wearing an official Shrapnel Games' Lock 'N Load t-shirt! Can it get any better?
  Dare you dream the dream, it can! Toss in a Shrapnel Games cooking apron and
  uou'll be the coolest looking guy in the park! Well, okay, the apron may cause
  you to look a little dorky, but you'll definitely be the hit of the neighborhood
  cook-out!
  
  Frisbees, t-shirts, and aprons are but a few of the high quality Shrapnel Games
  branded products that are now available through CaféPress.com, a great
  merchandiser of uniquely branded products available only Online. For the
  full product line up please visit the site at http://www.cafeshops.com/shrapnelgames.
  We are continually looking for new products to offer, so check back often as the
  catalog increases.</font>

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(Hope it was ok of me to clip it here. If not, one of the Moderators is welcome to remove the info, or send me a PM to remove it).

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I used the WayBackMachine to view the site back to Nov 1999 when they started. I see a poster for SEIV, and various merchants that came and went (die cast metal military cars?!?) but nothing like what CafePress will let them do.
But yes it looks like they have tried other things in the past.

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Its all in the marketing. Nuff said.

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shrapnel games frag grenades, thats what i want. either classic prussian stick bombs, or modern baseball grenades. im not picky. or at least the PINS, like in the logo.

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I don't know how they are called around the world, but in Holland we have "Wuppies". Fuzzy little dots with nothing more that two feet and two eyes. The sure would be a hit if you sell them with the Shrapnel of Malfador logo.
A friend of mine collects Wuppies, he puts them on his motorbike. Image an all green Kawasaki with a dashboard filled with Wuppies. LOL!

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I think they are either wuppies or weeples here. I had a handful, too. Googly eyes, either bare feet or shoes, and a message tag. Maybe accessories glued on, like a hat. Cute and fuzzy.

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I still think the Action figures and toys is the best choice for big bucks.

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Buy now your Aaron Hall action figure, with fully adjustable limbs!
"Oh mom, can I have an Aaron? Please?"

Nah, I don't think that will be a monsterhit.

This stuff about action figures really make me almost fall from my chair. Every time someone mentiones action figures, I must think of the Jay Stile action figure and the Bathtub Girl action figure. I won't give the link to that Online comic, coz of the high degree of porn banners on the site. If someone would like the link, just PM me. But remember, I've warned you for the sic stuff on the site.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I dunno..i consider him something of a hero http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Maybe have included accessories - a lone work station, a modem, and this huge honkin' grey cloud called "Ideas" that he uses as a weapon to shatter other space stragegy games.

just a thought,
deth

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Hero of no hero, he needs to have superpowers to be an interseting figure for the public. He needs super powers! Like... eh... like, well I dunno. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif