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As a follow-up to my previous post in this topic about official T-Shirts, the official Maniac Mansion T-Shirt just sold on eBay for $225.

That is some high art, likely done by a cannibal. Please don't touch it, Herman. Also, please don't touch Herman.

When you get to Insecticide, you will have to decide if you'll play the first half of the game on PC and then in order to play the second half you'll need to do a playthrough on the Gameboy 2/3DS. Or at least I believe Michael Levine at Crackpot released all of the PC 2nd half cutscenes at least. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA34DA2062BED2210

I was just going to suggest if you had time if you could see about making poster-quality work of those three concept art pieces. With them being sold off to lucky bidders years ago, I wondered if you could possibly give them a pass. And you did, and they are lovely! Thank you so much. I also just got time to read the nice article of you in Retro Gamer. Well deserved recognition. We can't thank you enough.

That's a really good idea as source material and perhaps using Adobe Photoshop Content Aware tool, it would be able to replicate it outwards? All of my boxes are still in storage until I get my house (this market is ridiculous!) so I probably won't be your source for scans just yet. As for the edging of the boxes, the bottoms has the logo, the UPC box and some other items blocking the marble. All the sides appear to at least have the logos/titles of the games. I do wonder about how much the marble pattern wraps around into the inside of the box lid but I don't think it is all that much. 😕

Does anyone have the Nightlight audio dramas of Grim Fandango? Their site is offline and they are also not in the mixnmojo media section. I never got into them back in 2002 but I was interested in doing so now. I wonder if the website is saved anywhere other than archive.org. I'd be interested in reliving the whole presentation. Thanks!

A bunch of them stormed ebay.com recently. I don't know who made them either but I snagged a vinyl set myself.

I just wanted to call out here that not only has @Laserschwert brought about these wonderful posters for the Mojo and other video game communities, but he was also a part in the restoration and creation of the Star Wars Despecialized editions with Pete Harmy, and was given a call out on this recent video. Thank you Laserschwert for all that you do.

Beautiful work and thank you for sharing!

I'm curious about the music in the coming game. Is there enough interesting material that a soundtrack release, even digital, is in order?

The difference in the background art styling and the pixel art actually works for me here. I'd suggest an update to the Sam and Max box inventory item to be something more Indy, but nothing is coming to my mind besides a Top Secret crate for Top Men.

Will this have VR Freelance Police-Force Feedback? Wait, no, that's terrible. What spawned the idea of combining Sam & Max with this VR game? Not that I'm complaining... the world needs more Sam & Max. I need more time to prepare questions!

The Secret of Monkey Island, of course.

Hah. I loved Worms Armageddon back in the day. I even bought myself a nice big box edition for my collection just a few months ago. I do want to check out these speech packs. Max by himself could make for a good pack. Maybe purple and green tentacle too.

As mentioned earlier, my wife is playing through Curse of Monkey Island and thoroughly enjoying it. She has just lost the Blood Island "map" to Captain Rottingham and encountered the second-biggest time waster on the sea, the dreaded rhythmic shanty. She is now about to embark on insult swordfighting, against random pirate captains and then finally against Captain Rottingham himself. I was shocked to see that within the manual that comes with the game there is no space to track insults -- not even a Notes section on the last page. Just as well, within the official strategy guide there is no space to track your insults and retorts -- but are plainly written out (but shockingly not easily found within the guide). So I decided to whip up the following. These are essentially a first draft and also why I was hoping to get a larger quality version of Haggis in a separate thread here. Special thanks to: @Laserschwert for the upscaled and enhanced background art for CMI. Clearly I used the Game Options/Save background screens here. I wanted it to fit in with Guybrush's diary journal aesthetic as seen in the opening cutscene (seen here). Mojo Game Database - Curse concept art. The SCUMM Bar - Curse Insults list. Legend OF MI - Curse Insults list. Curse of Monkey Island - Official Strategy Guide Insults list. Ordinary Pirates - Empty page - For the CMI player who has never played before. Ordinary Pirates - All insults and retorts. Captain Rottingham - Empty page - For the CMI player who has never played before. Captain Rottingham - Half page - For the CMI player who has all of the retorts. Captain Rottingham - All advanced insults and retorts. I'll continue to play around with the design, adding in accent marks, and matching the shade of sketches to match across the pages (skeletons are maybe closer to what I want than the darker Barbary Coast pirates). If anyone wants the PSD file, I can make that available, specifically if someone wants to make language variations. Just looking for some opinions.

@Udvarnoky That's it. I totally had forgotten about that extra scene. Thank you for the reminder. @FaNaTiC You've got to be correct. Good point. And "Ghost Groom" and "Ghost Bride" are also the attributed names within the CMI Strategy Guide. Maybe those names are more memorable than if there were many "Goodsoups" listed within the credits. I'm still hoping for a larger Haggis sketch though!

Within the final act of Curse of Monkey Island, at the Big Whoop Carnival of the Damned, it appears that we almost had two additional characters to interact with. A "Father Pirate" and "Son Pirate". The Father Pirate was to be voiced by Denny Delk (Murray), and "Son Pirate" was to be voiced by Alexandra Boyd (Elaine). I'm curious as to what silly interactions Guybrush could have had with these characters. It's amazing how well characterization is conveyed in these sketches. I feel the dad would be both pompous and dismissive of Guybrush, while the kid pirate looks like a unfortunate loser. I wonder where they could be placed if they were to be forced into the already slightly crowded scene where Guybrush meets Dinghy Dog. I wonder if these two could have been taking up the line for the Soda Jerk, so Guybrush would have to get them to leave. As a bit of note, to me it appears that the embroidered names of Dad and Son on the hats are perfectly referencing the embroidered hats you can have made down in Disney World. Sketches found near the end of the CMI Strategy Guide. (also, Denny Delk voiced "Skully"... who is that??) I couldn't find information on these characters within the forums but maybe I didn't search strongly enough... Also, while I may have the attention of Mojo-sites webmasters, is there a larger version of this image from the Curse of MI concept art gallery? Cutthroat Bill and Van Helgen have larger versions available, but Haggis does not.

There's a minor error on the Mojo: Curse of MI Concept art page. The image of Murray floating on the plank (page image 42 of 55) is linked to a larger version of the cannon mini-game and not a larger version of the concept art of Murray floating about and cursing Wally.

@Jake I assume those two MI items in the bottom picture include a "sell sheet" for MI2 and a really clean copy of what would be put into the Adventurer magazine?? It looks pristine! What is it?? And I haven't seen that "This Store Protected By Sam and Max" window decal before. Love it. And way to get one of those Zak nose glasses store display! Just wow. I would love to see more when you can go through your LucasArts and TellTale stuff.

Last night I was watching my wife play through Curse of MI for her first time. She's really enjoying it and loving the silly dialogs. Although I feel like I've seen and heard everything in that game she stumbled upon a voice line that I hadn't heard before and it had me cracking up. Dominic, once again, really delivered on a line. Related to getting a crew together... I don't think I've heard that line before but the timing and delivery was just so funny to me.

This reminds me that years ago I once attempted to scan all of the Adventurers myself, but with a scan-bed that was not large enough to handle the full-covers and the results were a hundred scans that needed to be properly stitched together and those edges were just a smear due to the pages lifting up at those folds. That effort was futile yet I doubt I ever deleted those scans. This is nicer.

The remakes of Grim, DOTT, and Full Throttle have made their way to the Xbox ecosystem and they actually might also be a part of their "Game Pass" where they are available to download for free if you are a member. I don't know if those games have made it over to their "PC Game Pass" feature (yet) though (and PC Game Pass should essentially merge with their Xbox Game Pass).

Big Whoop.

Maybe wait to see the product quality first before brandishing their logo? Who am I kidding... I need a fine leather jacket.

I'll just go ahead and assume we're finally getting that Star Wars point-n-click adventure game.