Laserschwert

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!

All mails LRG sents me are going straight to the spam folder, so make sure you check in there. "In production" is usually the status up until it switches to "shipped", so just be patient, it'll go through. If it doesn't, you can always contact their support. They always have spares.

I regret not getting LRG's Switch version of Thimbleweed Park. Only got Fangamer's PC box.

I think with most of their games getting different tiers of editions, it might be viable for them to offer a smaller edition as the second run. Sure, there are people stating that they would have bought the current edition, but missed the pre-order period. However, I think those are in the minority and most potential buyers for this edition got one. On the other hand, many people deemed the current edition too expensive for them and expressed interest mostly in the book, so a smaller edition that puts the book front and center could pull in different customers.

Any special artworks in the book? Sounded like they didn't have much more than what I sent them.

The problem with that is, they are targeting collectors. If they suddenly reprint something that was sold as a limited product, the backlash would be huge.

It's Limited Run Games... there's not gonna be a reprint. From the photos I can already tell there are a few more things I'd have fixed beforehand, but due to my communication with LRG I'm fully aware that this was changed in very little time, and I'm happy that they went with a lot of my design proposals (which I've basically just threw at them to make sure they DON'T release their initial black box).

Here the statue doesn't look too bad:

Nope, misprint. Shit happens.

They communicated that the world-wide shipping container shortage was the main reason for the delay, but Ron stated that he welcomed that delay.

My guess is they wanted to avoid potential derp face eyes by using stickers instead of having them hand-painted on.

That's not my photo, it's from LRG's Twitter page. Still waiting like everyone else.

It looks like LRG listened once again and swapped out the awful Murray head with the great version used in ToMI. Also that book looks so massive, I'm psyched!

Since the concept of the project is to turn game boxes into posters, I don't think the results should necessarily fulfill the same standards as boxes on display in a store, including blurbs or credits. Granted, by now I've added versions of the posters including credits to several of the games, but it's still quite pedantic to criticise the project for that, without having anything positive to say about it at all. Buy hey, that comment was made years ago, so why bother.

Yeah, he called me a jerk for removing the names which they had to fight so hard for to get on the cover in the first place. He didn't seem to care that this project is actually meant to celebrate the work of the artists creating the cover artworks.

Thanks for both scans, I'll see if I can put the to good use. Unfortunately your scanner seems to have a few problems: Besides a bit of oversharpening and somewhat high contrast, it seems to have trouble keeping a constant speed (which is why the halftone dots alternate between being stretched and compressed, forming a wavy pattern), plus it has some stitching artifacts, which look like skipped lines or columns. However, it's still good to have these scans!

Thanks, but those are all using my existing poster.

Sounds great, I'll happily take scans of both! And regarding the Zak image: if the game's regular manuals and hint book (of which I already have scans) are any indication, that B/W version is most likely printed at a very low resolution. But we can't be sure until we get a proper scan. It might still provide some material for the clutter at the bottom.

That's not the remaster though, right? Just the recent ports.

Progress on cleaning up this one: Although the ships appear in full on the box, it looks like they've been extended after the fact. Especially, the YT-1300's extension doesn't match the style of the painting. And the speeder bike nose fin seems to be a distorted copy of the other one, at least partially. Either way, I'll probably make an extended version as an option. The original painting does show a bit more of the ships, though:

Perfect. I'll compile a list and message you. Thanks!

I'm looking for someone with a good scanner and a few issues (of the LucasArts Adventurer, that is). The scans at archive.org shared a few pages back aren't cutting it, and I could use a few better ones from issues 7, 11 and 14.

Aside from being too small, it's just some crappy touch-up, so nothing providing the actual material. Actually it comes with a whole magazine:

Currently, I'm looking for more pieces of the Zak artwork. Most magazines ran all the same adverts, or used the same material provided to the press, and most of the time they were either cropped or too small to be of much use. Newer uses of the art (for digital releases or retro gaming articles, for example) usually just retouched the art themselves (many times using my poster as a basis), more or less successfully: One of the more obscure versions was sent to me by @sanguinehearts, from the cover of the Australian magazine "Eagle and Wildcat": That was very helpful to remove a lot of the text at the bottom: Clearly this needs more work to blend better and match the detail from the box-scan, but it's already much better than the low-res manual I used for that on my old version. I could still use a good scan of the KIXX box, but as I understand, it's very difficult to scan it completely flat (and thus in-focus). All scans I have of this are blurry.

Yes, I still have your scans. I'll be working on that poster somewhere down the line.