Tarot cards as collectable ?
May we dream about the putting on sale of Tarot cards like we can see in the wallpaper which is won with "Treasure Hunt" ?
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And to be truly on-topic, having those voodoo cards in the store or as a bonus in something like the Sam and Max Case File would be awesome.
Arrr, get your swords and let us take away this license from LucasArts!
Seriously, I have nothing against LucasArts and they are doing some new MI stuff right now (Special Edition, Merchandise), but I think Monkey Island would have a much brighter future here at Telltale than at LucasArts.
Even if LA decides to do a completly new Monkey Island game after the success of Tales (at least I hope it'll be a huuuge success), the real masterminds are here, not there.
To say something more on-topic: Yeah, those cards would be nice, as would any MI merchandise.
So I think you should be able to sell these card on your store if there's no explicit Monkey Island reference on them (even if WE know they are Monke Island-related)
Whatever the case, I know it's not as simple as walking up to Steve Purcell and saying "Hey, do you think this is cool?"
I've heard lots of people speculate that that is the case, but I haven't seen anything anywhere to confirm it.
It just seems odd that they would restrict the licensing to the software product only, especially when ancillary products could be used for purposes of cross-promotion.
Lorn
Not really, when Lucasarts can maintain merchandising rights themselves, make their own merch, and take in ALL the profit and not have to give TTG a cut of it.
I suppose I phrased that poorly. What I should've said was, "As the publisher, I'm surprised that Telltale agreed to a deal in which they would write, design, and publish the series without also getting at least temporary merchandising rights into the deal."
That would seem to me to be pretty standard for any company. As valuable as the Monkey Island IP is, as a publisher I wouldn't consider producing anything in any kind of a licensing deal unless some limited merchandising rights came with it.
Lorn
Technically they're not as Tarot cards originated in Europe around the 14th century (as a playing card game) and then weren't adapted for divination till the 18th century in Switzerland.
Voodoo, on the other had originated from the various African religions, most notably Vodun.
So the two are from completely different occult traditions. However, with that being said modern mysticism tends to draw from multiple sources, and Voodoo itself has a long history of amalgamating different traditions (particularly Christianity). Still, I think you'd be hard pressed to find any traditional Voodoo practitioners in the Caribbean (particularly during pirate times when it was only just emerging for divination in Europe) using tarot. Voodoo as it continued into New Orleans most likely adapted and to an extent used tarot.
Also: what's in the wallpaper technically aren't Tarot cards as the examples aren't any of the Major Arcana - the 22 major cards people usually think of when they think of tarot - and some would be hard pressed to line up with the traditional cards, needing an almost total re-design. Plus, I doubt they'd illustrate the 56 Minor Arcana, which would be pretty lame for a Tarot deck.
thats awsome xD i always LOVE to learn useless facts that i can pull out randomly in conversation xD
Oh, and HELLS YEAH for real life ones. At the very least, can we get them in the season's case file, or bag o' souvenirs from the Gulf of Mélange, or whatever they want to call it? Pretty please?
Here you go.
The way it looks to me, Telltale likely has some kind of deal where any merch based on Tales of Monkey Island, they would get some cut of it. This may be why Lucasarts is only releasing MI:SE merch.
Good: LeChuck Fight T-Shirt, No Longer Sold Poster That's a Remake of the Game Art
OK: Monkey Evolution (Funny, but nothing I'd want to wear - it's a pretty big in joke)
Bad: Buttons, Poster of Statue (Really?)
Telltale would probably release better merchandise but some of the stuff LEC is selling is OK.
No, not really. It's an error, the description states:
It's the same poster that they initially had up, but upon reposting it, they seem to have had a mix-up with the image it shows.
Wouldn't you like to get more? Like Three-Headed Monkey, Death and Root Beer?
yes
also, i can understand that lucasarts won't easily give away merchandise licenses, considering that george lucas made a huge amount of money when he sold the rights to the first star wars movie to the studio, but kept the merchandise rights. he was on of the first to put such a focus to merchandise so i guess, it's kind of a tradition to keep these licenses.
anyway, tales merchandise would be sooo awesome...
And Laserschwert, where did you get those?
that means im exempt
I would like to get these cards with the full DVD game pack. If it would be sellable, I will buy them for sure.