Laserschwert

Thanks to a VERY generous collector, more stuff is in the works. Behold:

I am very sorry to inform you, that I have added the artworks to the Monkey Island Special Editions to the thread.

You guys have huge boxes like that, and I, like a fool, had to scan puny regular sized ones? You disgust me!

Frank has made a scan of the official poster (the one Jake has as well). Currently it will most likely be used by Limited Run Games, so we are not sharing it just yet.

This is going to be great. I think you'll like what this is turning into.

Ah well, it's not like something at "only slightly higher" resolution would be of any help here. Plus it's not the complete artwork anyway, since it's at least missing the palmtree at the top.

This is the only one I found on my drives. Is it this one? Even though they aren't great, I'll add the Special Edition posters eventually, just for completeness' sake.

Yes, I think the magazine poster I've used for my current version (while being the highest quality source I had) is an early version of the painting, which differs from the final box art in a few more places. Just compare some parts of the ship and the ropes, which got a few additional highlights and details painted in for the final box art: Of course this might also stem from different scanning or photography settings used back then. But if I should get a chance to work with the "The One" poster, I'll revise this anyway. Unfortunately @m1ckey hasn't replied to my requests yet.

Steve Purcell's "Tales of Monkey" artwork has been added to the opening post.

Exactly. Anything bigger than that? Or was that just the usual resolution of digital photos back then? Also: That would probably be enough for Disney to make a great digital backup of the artwork (I assume that's a print).

I remember a photo of the original MI1 box art painting (or a print), framed, from one of Mojo's LucasArts visits articles. Any chance that might resurface at the full original resolution?

What exactly are those marketing one-sheets? Also I'm curious about the quality of the Steve Purcell MI1 paintings in the Adventurer (issue #1 and especially #2) as the scans available online suffer from severe color shifting on some of them. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1TsQuf-h7Bw/Tmq9Sy_VWlI/AAAAAAAAAVA/8i778huN_zk/s1600/adventurer_02_pg03.JPG

Well, if you can get it scanned or let me scan it for you (I'll happily return it to you afterwards) there'll be no folds left in my restoration of it.

Agreed, we NEED a scan of that. I'll send you a PM.

I didn't say anything about it though, that was Udvarnoky. 😉

The last word on this hasn't been spoken yet. Stay tuned.

I have a whole design idea for a collection as well, including a big slipcase with 5 individual boxes inside (but a bit bigger than the concept above).

Only if brass has six letters.

Duffadash's "Devil's Playhouse" posters have been added to the opening posts.

Also this seems to be a bit small for maximum attachment size:

That looks indeed great!

Don't do it just yet. I might have another source for scans and don't want to ruin your life.

Sorry about being so picky Scanning can be a bitch though. If you're not too enamoured of the box, you could always just cut off the rest of the lid. I killed my share of boxes and manuals for the "greater good".

Thanks for the effort, although unfortunately Zak is still very blurry: Ideally you would just put a heavy book inside the lid (or stand it upright in there) when you scan it - that should press it flat against the glass.

I'd like to point out a problem with the forums on mobile devices. At least on my phone the header doesn't allow me to access my PMs or notifications - I always have to switch the browser to desktop mode to see the buttons. I don't know if there's anything you can do to fix this or if I'm alone with this problem.