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Don't have a floppy driver anymore, shame on me. Will have to wait. It is, yeah! More stuff:

First bunch of pics:

OK, this is what we were all waiting for anyway I suppose: And everyone's favorite candle holder! There's more stuff but I guess I'll leave the rest as a cliffhanger for the other collectors?

That floppy disk isn't even write protected. RISKY.

So glad they've removed it! OK, a bunch more before trying to get out the statues and the rest out of the polystyrene. I need to be extra careful.

Where’s the Ultimate Insult poster? I want the Ultimate Insult poster!!

Nah, the Voodoo Priest was originally supposed to be featured more in the game just as his own character, as I understand it. There are two different versions of his office in LeChuck's Fortress that were cut from the game. One version was a black-and-white room sketch shown off in the 30th anniversary source code stream - that version had voodoo ingredients beginning with every letter in the alphabet, as part of a puzzle where Guybrush apparently had to combine them in the right order to form a phrase. The other version shows up in the MI2 SE concept art gallery as a colored painting. This version is simpler, and apparently just had a large screen that Guybrush could hide behind at one point, as well as an altar of some sort, where perhaps he would spread the "more voodoo crap" inventory item that was obtainable at the time of the non-playable demo from the shipping crate that Guybrush arrived in. There's also a black outline of a newt associated with this second version of the room. And LeChuck's office door has a small hole in the base. Plus the original background of the office door was mirrored in layout, but when it was flipped for the game three of the runes on the wall next to the door were kept in their original orientation. Those same runes (shaped like "C-B-M") show up on the cut close-up background of LeChuck's desk as seen from above. I wonder if the original puzzle to get in LeChuck's office involved making a spell for Guybrush to become a newt ("I of Newt"?) and use it to crawl under the door, at which point the GUI maybe went away and the cut close-ups of LeChuck's office were used as backgrounds. Finding the combination for LeChuck's door on the top of LeChuck's desk, Guybrush would leave the office and become human, then press the "C-B-M" runes (as in Commodore Business Machines, makers of the Amiga - "Friend", for a LOTR riff there) to open the door. The change to the voodoo priest's office background suggests this hypothetical puzzle may have been simplified at one point (i.e., probably making the spell) before being cut entirely - which also would have allowed for the LeChuck closeups to be cut, since the puzzle they were used for would be gone. As for El Carlo, I do wonder if part of the joke was going to be that LeChuck was a ghost and his brother was a zombie, for a family of various undead types.

I can't believe how freaking massive this thing is! Wasn't expecting it. Here's a MI2 box comparison: I've also received some fancy numbered card with that odd-looking first take of EMI Guybrush. Good times!

I've updated the Rebel Assault 2 poster with a new version, built from the ground up by scanning the official promo poster (thanks again to @Jake for that one!) and filling the rest with scans by @ATMcashpoint and myself). As always, a massive upgrade in quality. Enjoy!

I think the only correct conclusion is that Kixx accidentally revealed the secret. ;

Wow, I never really wondered why it said "El Carlo's office". Very nice to have an answer to that now. Funny how these things happen, because if the text mentions LeChuck's brother then it would also talk about three difficulty settings. But here it correctly mentions only two. There is only one logical explanation to this! Kixx knew the game in and out and that "the brother" is Guybrush, and to them "LeChuck's Revenge" is all about fighting greed, and the real villain is ones ego, and... Hmm, or maybe it's what Remi said.

also it looks like the jewel case has the titles in the right order 🙂

So what’s on the disk?!

Maaaaaaaan, I need mine to show up soon lol. Who knew Canada was so much farther away 😉 haha. Thank you all for sharing your pics though, I shall live vicariously through them until mine arrives

About to open it. Hold on tight.

Interesting stuff! Enough questions for another Q&A with Ronzo it seems! I’m very curious about the box set in general. For all of you who have it, please post pictures!

What about the content of the book? Hopefully someday they sell it separately

Glad to, but you'll have to wait until I sign off from work. I'm kinda maniacal for the way I keep relics such as this one, so I need to be extra cautious and not rush it.

Maybe the mac versions are on them too? Whatever the case, how annoying is it that the game, that the devs had to downsize for WiiWare, still doesn't fit on one disk? The box itself is incredibly amazing.

One more thing. Since the text is hinting at LeChucks brother being the villain, then the headline "He's big, he's bad, he's back" can't be referring to LeChuck, but to, uh, Guybrush, I guess.

Oh no, not at all ! but as I did not have the opportunity to buy the anthology, I am more than curious to know what we will learn there. It's such a shame that the book is not sold separately

Maybe that's why it shows up on the back of the MI2 Kixx XL box from the UK, which always made me wonder: And, thanks to the original game backgrounds in the MI2 SE concept art gallery, we know that Peter Chan's painting of LeChuck's office in MI2 was labeled "El Carlo's office" on the original art: This definitely clears up some mysteries, I'd say.

I'm gonna repeat what I mentioned to Marius earlier -- the El Carlo thing was briefly mentioned in both marketing and previews for the Amiga version before it just... stopped. I was quite literally starting to think I had imagined it (as I never gained any traction talking about it over the last 30 years) so I'm very happy it is now a stated fact!

Oh man, that sucks...

@Laserschwert Well that's disappointing, I can't seem to read it at all. I'm on Windows 10 so it's not like I messed up a Linux setting. Currently raging.