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Tarot cards = plastic printed with game pack?

AmaterasuAmaterasu
edited October 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
Well, the last 2 S&M games came with a cool gamepack of really inventory stuff from the game.
I still wear the "Max for president" badge on my hair, and the mafia bear magnet is on my fridge...

Now I see that the Tarot cards started playing a big part in ToMI, and it seems you have made a whole majors deck!
I study Tarot cards and collect original decks.

I really hope that in future we will be able to order a whole deck (at least the 22 majors) of "Monkey Island TAROT cards" from the telltale shop, printed as official tarot deck!
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  • RMJ1984RMJ1984
    edited September 2009
    Could be really fun to own a card game with monkey island cards looking like those from the game! would pay quite alot for that :)

    and when we are talking about items, i could just LOOOVE to be able to buy a big sized murray skull kind of thing to have at home. :D maybe it could be a hard skull item or a furry item or an alarm skull clock with murray famous quotes " I WILL END YOU"
  • AmaterasuAmaterasu
    edited September 2009
    What about a life-size Pyrite Parrot? XD
  • nikasaurnikasaur Telltale Alumni
    edited September 2009
    We love these cards around the office as well- no promise about getting them out there for merchandising, but us Telltalers want them just as badly as you do.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited September 2009
    nikasaur wrote: »
    We love these cards around the office as well- no promise about getting them out there for merchandising, but us Telltalers want them just as badly as you do.

    If you do will they have the voodoo powers
  • wispwisp
    edited September 2009
    these cards are nice indeed...not real tarrot cards though. if you want to release them as a real tarrot deck, you would probably have to change the design of some cards. i would rather like to have them as they appear ingame...
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited September 2009
    They would definitely be cool to make. Even if they only get released digitally or something, I hope we can get them out into your hands. A real deck would be amazing though, as all of the art is great. We printed a banner for our booth at PAX that was four of the cards blown up to be about a foot and a half wide each. It's hanging up in the office now, but hopefully people will eventually forget about it so it can "disappear" one day.
  • praevalenspraevalens
    edited September 2009
    it's funny i thought a deck of cards with similar styling would be great
  • GuineaGuinea
    edited September 2009
    It would really be awesome to get hands on those cards, even if it's only in digital format.
  • n64playn64play
    edited September 2009
    I'd love some Murray merchandise, the alarm clock idea is excellent. Alternatively, just a Murray statue type thing would be brilliant.
  • SpadgeSpadge
    edited September 2009
    I'm still holding my breath for an "El Pollo Diablo" tarot card.

    picture.php?albumid=276&pictureid=1873
  • Lena_PLena_P
    edited September 2009
    I second the Tarot cards for purchase! They'll go great with my Escaflowne set.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited September 2009
    Welllllllll... I love the tarot cards, but for a full deck, more than 7 different cards should be available (that was an estimation of the cards we have seen in the game so far...).
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited September 2009
    The tarot cards would make an awesome collectible and I hope Lucasarts and Telltale work something out so that I can have them :)
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited September 2009
    I would LOVE to have those come out around DVD time. Maybe with enough designs to make a full deck?
  • MyrphMyrph
    edited September 2009
    Spadge wrote: »
    I'm still holding my breath for an "El Pollo Diablo" tarot card.

    picture.php?albumid=276&pictureid=1873

    You sir, win so hard!
  • Epic KiwiEpic Kiwi
    edited September 2009
    Will we be able to play Insult Fortune Telling with these cards?
  • EduardoEduardo
    edited September 2009
    Jake wrote: »
    They would definitely be cool to make. Even if they only get released digitally or something, I hope we can get them out into your hands.

    Yes, please. :)

    Even if it is only digital. (I'd prefer both options :D )
  • AmaterasuAmaterasu
    edited September 2009
    Wow, 78 cards would be awesome... A full tarot deck is a hard work, but i'm sure everyone here will pay a full price for it.

    The suits could be Monkey Wands, Pirate Swords, Pieces of Eight and... emm... Cannons?
    Hmmm what could replace cups?
  • balin2kbalin2k
    edited September 2009
    i got the special edition tenacious d CD and got the tarot cards from the movie in it. so i would love to have some monkey island ones :D
  • MelanctonMelancton
    edited September 2009
    I already own the Vertigo tarot deck. If I owned Monkey Island cards too my life would be complete.

    Pleeeeease, Telltale?!
  • kksmithkksmith
    edited September 2009
    I just wanted to say I would totally buy this if they had all the cards used in the game on them (with that great artwork). The cards from episode 3 were especially awesome.
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited September 2009
    Vainamoinen wrote: »
    Welllllllll... I love the tarot cards, but for a full deck, more than 7 different cards should be available (that was an estimation of the cards we have seen in the game so far...).

    There have been 11 so far.

    Guybrush at swordpoint
    DeSinge the scientist
    The Pox
    LeChuck exploding
    "The Lovers" (Guybrush and Elaine)
    Morgan as assassin
    LeChuck as "the Lothario"
    The Mouth
    Voodoo Lady
    DeSinge as the fracture
    Guybrush as the traveler or journey or whatever
  • HaggisHaggis
    edited September 2009
    I was thinking about this as well. Would be awesome to have those as real cards, and I'd buy them in the blink of an eye. There's no need to make a full 'official' tarot deck though, since I don't care much for all that fortune-telling mumbo jumbo. Unless it was a tarot deck as in one of the tarot games.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited September 2009
    Haggis wrote: »
    There's no need to make a full 'official' tarot deck though, since I don't care much for all that fortune-telling mumbo jumbo.
    I don't believe that video game merchandise can tell the future, but that doesn't mean the "extra mile" to make a "legitimate" Voodoo Lady deck wouldn't be awesome. Also, it would mean more art!
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited September 2009
    Jake wrote: »
    LeChuck as "the Lothario"

    I serched Lothario on wikipedia and found this "Lothario is a character in the play The Fair Penitent (1703), by Nicholas Rowe. In the play, Lothario seduces and betrays Calista. The word lothario has thus entered the English language as an eponym: a lothario is a handsome, seductive ladies' man."
  • MonkeybuttonMonkeybutton
    edited September 2009
    Amaterasu wrote: »
    Hmmm what could replace cups?

    What else but Scumm Bar Pewter tankards?! :D
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited September 2009
    Monkeybutton wrote: »
    What else but Scumm Bar Pewter tankards?! :D
    The Voodoo Lady?
    Morgan?
    Elaine?

    ...

    I mean, a cup of bile? :o
  • MonkeybuttonMonkeybutton
    edited September 2009
    For cups it would have to be tankards from first game. Or possibly Starbuccaneers mugs from EMI....
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited September 2009
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    The Voodoo Lady?
    Morgan?
    Elaine?

    ...

    I mean, a cup of bile? :o

    Mmm... bile...
  • DeLucaDeLuca
    edited September 2009
    or possibly starbuccaneers mugs from emi....

    burn him!!!
  • AmaterasuAmaterasu
    edited September 2009
    Monkeybutton wrote: »
    For cups it would have to be tankards from first game. Or possibly Starbuccaneers mugs from EMI....

    Grog Mugs!!! XD

    I love it!
    Minor deck suits:

    FIRE = Monkey Sticks
    EARTH = Pieces of Eight
    WATER = Grog Mugs
    AIR = Pirate Swords


    Sticks, PoEs, Mugs and Swords!
  • turingmachine604turingmachine604
    edited September 2009
    Haggis wrote: »
    I was thinking about this as well. Would be awesome to have those as real cards, and I'd buy them in the blink of an eye. There's no need to make a full 'official' tarot deck though, since I don't care much for all that fortune-telling mumbo jumbo. Unless it was a tarot deck as in one of the tarot games.

    Fortune telling and tarocchi games use the same deck. There's only a minor re-naming of some of the suits and trump cards, but that's more regional differences than a standard split (mainly verses the use of French or Italian suits).
  • purple_monkfishpurple_monkfish
    edited September 2009
    Yep, I have a tarot game set and a set of divination tarot... they're basically the same only the french tarot uses hearts, diamonds etc and the trumps are numbered instead of named. Least my set they aren't named, but card 13 is oddly gothic lol. I should really do a comparrison at some point. Get all of my tarot decks together and compair the iconography. I wonder where my Crowley deck IS... hmmmm.
    We also have the Mage: The awakening Tarot deck, if anyone's seen that... oh yes. It's pretty cool. Hubby plans to use it for games, he'll do a spread for each player then weave the narrative around that which sounds like an interesting way to run a game.

    Anyway, i'd love to see MI tarot, even if it's just a few of the cards released like the time cards for S&M season 2.
  • doodinthemooddoodinthemood
    edited September 2009
    I would very very much like this. But also the "max for president" badge is class, cos it's something you can always go back to to wear.

    This being said, I think I only like this because I want lots and lots of MI merchandise, and especially so if I find out I've already payed for it :D
  • SilverwolfpetSilverwolfpet
    edited October 2009
    As far as I know, the Tarot Reading is a subjective experience. By that I mean one can use any type of cards as Tarot cards, IF they're numbered/named properly.

    There are 22 Major Cards (Major Arcana), in which "The Lovers" can find it's place.
    The rest of the 10 cards that Jake mentioned seem like Major Cards but they're not. Lothario can be the King of Cups, The Assasin can be the Queen of Spades... get it?
    There are 52 Minor Cards in Tarot that are combined with the 22 I mentioned earlier.

    I don't see Telltale printing 74 cards just for us to have fun with, or even 52 cards for a normal playing deck. But just in case they do, you should be able to actually use them for Divination.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited October 2009
    A "full deck" is an impossibility. Many of the cards presented in ToMI are not what you would find in tarot decks, but just what you'd think you would. ;)

    "Disease" and "the Assassin" are pretty "unofficial" cards. I liked the idea, nonetheless, and would find these cards to be a nice thing to have. If impossible, please release a small poster - or high-res pictures. ;)
  • BeeKay84BeeKay84
    edited October 2009
    Oh yes I would LOVE to have those cards, either as real cards or on a poster or something like that, or in digital form where you can print them and cut them out to use them as cards. I'm so fond of those cards, I'd die to get my hands on them!
    But I'd want the "Lovers" card to be intact, not cut into two halves. Still, the "Lothario" and "Shivers" cards with LeChuck and Morgan should be included, too.
  • DenyDeny
    edited October 2009
    In would like them to have too... only for look at it! :D
  • KatsuroKatsuro
    edited October 2009
    I'd love getting them as well!
    Although, if they ever get done, I hope they won't be made of plastic but instead like the nice cardstock from Bicycles or Tally-Ho cards. The handling with the Bicycle finish is so much better then slippery plastic cards.
  • The Silent ManThe Silent Man
    edited October 2009
    I wanted to open a thread like this one.
    I think that physical cards would be awesome!
    They could also be a great digital treasure hunting reward.
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