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    The Monkey Island box set from Limited Run Games

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    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.

    The Monkey Island box set from Limited Run Games

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    7 minutes ago, Rum Rogers said:

    I appreciate this can be ideally true, however money is money. Makes me think of all those rock bands who split because members hated each other's guts and reunited decades later. Pretty sure reprints might become a thing for LRG in the future.

    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.

    The Monkey Island box set from Limited Run Games

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    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).

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    LucasArts Posters: The Revenge

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    4 hours ago, Jake said:

    I’d always assumed that was in regards to versions of the box that had just the logo and none of the credits, as opposed to a purely clean painting that didn’t present as a box at all.

    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.

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    LucasArts Posters: The Revenge

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    Thanks for both scans, I'll see if I can put the to good use. Unfortunately your scanner seems to have a few problems:
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    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!

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    LucasArts Posters: The Revenge

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    Posted · Edited by Laserschwert

    5 minutes ago, ATMcashpoint said:

    I have copies of some of the sell sheets for Rebel Assault II and Jedi Knight. The former might prove useful as another reference for the box art, while the sell sheet I have for the latter features the early "Dark Forces"-style logo and the early landscape-orientation box art painting by Peter Chan of Kyle with a blue lightsaber fighting Jerec.

    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.

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    LucasArts Posters: The Revenge

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    Posted · Edited by Laserschwert

    Progress on cleaning up this one:

     

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    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.

     

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    The original painting does show a bit more of the ships, though:

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    LucasArts Posters: The Revenge

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    Posted · Edited by Laserschwert

    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:

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    One of the more obscure versions was sent to me by @sanguinehearts, from the cover of the Australian magazine "Eagle and Wildcat":

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    That was very helpful to remove a lot of the text at the bottom:

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    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.

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