Shadowrun Merchandise?, Would you buy Shadowrun Merchandise? Options

[Thanos007]

I would absulutly love a Property of S-K tee shirt. Like the id cards as well. Would love almost any kind of SR merchandise.

Thanos

[Chandon]

[weblife]

It must be pretty cheap to set up... I mean, mugs and T-shirts are among the first things to show up on popular websites. They subcontract their logos to a webshop that then handle all the buying/shipping.

Its low-cost for the affiliated shop who prints shirts and mugs more or less on demand, and a trickle of revenue will go back to FanPro.

[nezumi]

Actually, if we got FanPro's official blessing, I'm sure we could do it. My wife knows a company that'll print shirts with your picture for something like $13 a pop. She'd be willing to touch up the art (for a price, of course, depending on complexity, if she has to start from scratch, etc.) If it's just a DSF deal, it'd be limited in selection since somebody actually needs to MAKE so many of these images. But as I said, the crux is would FanPro support our doing it? How much of a cut would they want?

[winterhawk11]

It's probably not FanPro that would be the sticking point--it's WizKids. I suspect they probably won't want to allow their intellectual property to be used in this way unless they get a cut. But who knows? I could be wrong.

[Nikoli]

Well, cut them in. Right now they are not making a profit on a venue for which there is some market for.

[RangerJoe]

I want a sticker for my powerbook that says, "My other deck is a Fairlight Excaliber."

[Nikoli]

or a medallion that says Deus inside

[Euchrid]

I'd love both a shirt and a mug with the ShadowRun logo, but with one proviso - it would have to be the old one. I know that I'm in the minority here, but I just love the skull. The new one is nice, but I find it a little bland.

If it were going to be done with FanPro's blessing, I don't see that causing a problem - surely they've got the license for *everything* ShadowRun, old logos included.

[Nikoli]

I doubt you're in the minority there, many people enjoyed the ram skull logo.

But use of and return to old branding and logo's is tricky at best as it may confuse new people when they see older books with that logo next to newer ones with the tribal S logo.

[2bit]

Laubenstein (who did that logo) has a way of making everything look leathery, no matter what material it's supposed to be. He does fantasy good but his techy illustrations suck!

[Bigity]

So, do I have to get permission from FanPro to have the Shadowrun "S" logo tattooed on my arm? :)

[Nikoli]

Technically, the tattoo artist does, and you'd have to go back to whoever represents the original FASA intellectual Properties as it's a change in medium.
realistically, no, provided a thousand people don't start walking around with one.

[nezumi]

Time for thread necromancy...

On 1/10/06, I sent the following e-mail to Mike Muhlvihill (as recommended on the FanPro website for questions in regards to err... whatever it was he's in charge of).

[ Spoiler ]

Mister Mulvihill,

I am an avid Shadowrun player since SR2 and a regular poster in the dumpshock community. In the not too distance past, the subject came up of Shadowrun Merchandise on the forums. (This thread can be read in full at: http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?show...wtopic=8804&hl= ). We realize currently FanPro does not sell any Shadowrun related merchandise outside of the printed materials. I don't think anyone feels there is a big enough market to expect a full-scale deployment of the novelties brought up, but thanks to things such as cafepress, it is possible to print out individual shirts and mugs relatively cheap. I was hoping that we could receive Wizkids' official blessing on this, or perhaps determine terms of use or even royalties, if Wizkids feels those are appropriate. I believe all we could easily do right now is individual mugs or cups and t-shirts using Shadowrun based logos (such as the Renraku fractal or the Fuchi logo), names and perhaps select quotes. I expect we'd sell less than 30. Of course, we'd be happy to include credits, although I think I'd speak for most people when I say keeping it discrete or moving it to a different part of the product would be preferable (for instance, "Property of S-K" on the front of a shirt, and "FanPro/Wizkids ...." on the back, or Renraku on the mug and FanPro printed on the other side or bottom). This will help with the game imagery I believe the customers desire.

My wife is a graphic artist who is willing to do the cropping and modification of the images to set this all up for free (although she wouldn't complain if the customers paid her a small fee for her time too, especially if the task requires a significant amount of work on her part). She feels this would be a great way for the fans to express their enjoyment of the game, and I would certainly agree.

I do look forward to your comments on the feasibility of this. Depending upon your response, I may post it back on the forums so people know what to expect, and so as to organize what people specifically want. I do hope we can come to a mutually beneficial agreement.

Thank you for your time,
Me
(real name withheld)

It's been almost a month and no response. So I open this up to the DS community. Assuming my e-mail (from a gov't address) wasn't just spammed, who else should I be e-mailing to get permission for this? I'd hate for this idea to sink just because one guy doesn't check his e-mail enough (or thinks the die-hard fans of his product are all dorks for trying to sell his stuff for him).

Thoughts? Comments? Am I still just a dork?

[Lindt]

Try Adam. Hes usually good about at least knowing where to go.

And Id SOO want a "Deus Inside" big for my new box.

[warrior_allanon]

alright, heres some ideas for practically everything.

shirts: Go with the pictures from the 3ed pre-gens, the archtypes. the art was cool and between them and the pictures from the GM's screen, you could basically label everyone in a group with one

Mugs: definately go with the corporate and national logos here, I mean who doesnt want that collection of the "Big 10" Coffee mugs

love the idea of the plush dunkies would have to have one just because.

shirts: (again) I agree with the corp polos idea, they would be very cheap to do and probably be able to sell for at least $20.00

USB flash drives as credsticks: excellent idea, and each one have a copy of an SR manual on them (cost included in the price) most of the electronic copies fit on a 128mb drive, you might even be able to fit 2, and for probably about 30 bucks

dockwagon bracelets, AP3 model of soft airs, and other bric-a-brac:
good ideas all, just one thing, I want the first AS-7 Soft air.

bloody GM dont want to admit its concealable worth a flip

[the_dunner]

You guys know that Battlecorps has T-Shirts with the SR4 cover art and logo, right?

I asked at GenCon why Wizkids didn't have a Shadowrun Cafe Press store (like they do for all their other lines). Sharon Muhlvihill told me that they were working on creating one.

[Maltaltin]

Trying to make charactes for shadow run action figures would prove indefinatly difficult because their are just so many ways to create a character that the figures would apply to fewer people.

[nezumi]

[warrior_allanon]

time to resurect this thread again. Battlecorps has SR t-shirts though right now its very limited. personally i think they could expand like everyone has suggested. but heres another idea for the shirts.

now everyone has seen shirts that have lists on them. They seem to be in right now and i bet if fanpro did this that places like Hot topic would carry them and make a fortune for the companies involved. (and hawk i'm ashamed you didnt put this up first). Use the "Top Ten" lists from Duck's site, (with her permission of course) along with the archtype pictures. You could either go "This is what a so and so is" or isnt list to fit the picture

[winterhawk11]