A New Thing: Article Type Entry for Gear
Well, last week's update didn't go particularly as planned....
Research went down the proverbial rabbit hole (or should it be knothole) and turned up an absolute bucket of interesting art and information. The whole thing started when being unable to read a caption on one of those 'satam fake screen shots' things that went onto prototypes. It turns out there's a whole huuuuuge pile of prototypical things out there for the show that has to get onto Gear. But, it also spawned 'the new thing' which is 'article type entry'.
Article Type Entry:
This is where an item or a screen cap or just whatever 1 or 2 pictures of something spawns basically a whole big article sort of text block because there's just so much to pack in. Obviously, most things are ordinary to a degree and don't come with a huge amount of backstory or whatever but...it looks like there's sure going to be some upcoming, at least for the show. For people who love peeking behind the scenes or peering into history it should be quite an interesting read...and, all the better with which to improve SonicGear.*
I like research.
I LOVE finding out new stuff, rare art, rare items, rare photos...it's also been quite a long time since I was able to just kind of tumble all around like a rolly weed about the internet reading up things I didn't know and gathering up unseen art. It's been so long since I've been able to do that, I did not realize how much I liked it. (I didn't miss it because I just kind of forgot such things existed to do)
Item of the week:
Obviously the SatAM concept things
But in 2nd place would be the Acrylic Keychains from Joypolis simply because they have new modern stock art for Shadow to use. That or the Neo Metal Sonic mini board thing just because it's the first merch of him to exist so it's neat to see.
Mini Crisis-
SonicGear fell under attack from an unknown outside source that ruined the translation PHP on the site so all of it had to get torn down and now only googletrans can be used on there. Of course, we'll never know how, why, or from whom the attack was generated but...there it went. Hopefully throwing out everything into the dumpster right away and then never ever putting it back will teach it a lesson in futility.
Next Week:
And speaking of firsts......will see the first RAY merchandise!
Yep, Jakks Pacific has put a figure of him in a plastic ball, so that's going to be the first actual Ray item, I think. They need to put Mighty in some other ball too, if they're really focusing on Mania.
Next week's update will be a doozy--
There's going to be a LOAD of stuff on the next update. Sega collaborated again in Japan, so there's stuff from that, Target got a new shirt (if you read this now, you can probably go buy it--I did, as a tee collector who's been in the tee-desert due to virus rubbish I couldn't resist it) So anyway, get ready for it to be a double size update or more, just to keep the image bins in ok shape.
*Yes the stuff I found is going to end up on gear, with the whole interesting tale to tell which is to spoil it now, SatAm wasn't supposed to be a Show at all. Now THERE's a loop! Also more 'sign of the times' article-type banter will appear. When it goes on, depends when merchandise calms down a little bit.
**Sign of the times
SatAM is old by now (yes), but having a look at the proto stuff for it you kind of take a look into a whole era of shows and how people expected them to be with like stale tropes on display like
"Girls are smart and boys are dumb and strong"
"Girls are token characters/teams must be all male 1 female maximum"
"girls are only interesting if they are a princess but they are ALWAYS have to be HOT*"
"male and female characters in a group are always trying to get with each other"
"Boy likes girl but she only kinda likes him back so is always thwarting his 'funny' advances".
Stuff like that isn't common now, but back in the day even whole shows were built around some of them (Family Matters sitcom had Steve Urkle, Johnny Bravo was basically Wile E Coyote vs women road runners who wreck him, etc--there's loads more from the era & beyond for every trope on the list, it was a product of it's time but now that the time is past it's easy to see HOW it was and also WHY it was that way--which is interesting of itself.)
The hotness* thing is going to take big big revenge when the rest of the stuff goes up because there's (depending on the view you take) some somewhat........disturbing angles & items that are going to be present in the art. And any defenses that might spring out "Oh before people say a 14 year old child rabbit character is 'hot' they never meant her to be sexy you're just attracting to it as is everyone else with that belief" well wait till you read what's written on the official art............)
Opinion zone: Not hot & never was.
Research went down the proverbial rabbit hole (or should it be knothole) and turned up an absolute bucket of interesting art and information. The whole thing started when being unable to read a caption on one of those 'satam fake screen shots' things that went onto prototypes. It turns out there's a whole huuuuuge pile of prototypical things out there for the show that has to get onto Gear. But, it also spawned 'the new thing' which is 'article type entry'.
Article Type Entry:
This is where an item or a screen cap or just whatever 1 or 2 pictures of something spawns basically a whole big article sort of text block because there's just so much to pack in. Obviously, most things are ordinary to a degree and don't come with a huge amount of backstory or whatever but...it looks like there's sure going to be some upcoming, at least for the show. For people who love peeking behind the scenes or peering into history it should be quite an interesting read...and, all the better with which to improve SonicGear.*
I like research.
I LOVE finding out new stuff, rare art, rare items, rare photos...it's also been quite a long time since I was able to just kind of tumble all around like a rolly weed about the internet reading up things I didn't know and gathering up unseen art. It's been so long since I've been able to do that, I did not realize how much I liked it. (I didn't miss it because I just kind of forgot such things existed to do)
Item of the week:
Obviously the SatAM concept things
But in 2nd place would be the Acrylic Keychains from Joypolis simply because they have new modern stock art for Shadow to use. That or the Neo Metal Sonic mini board thing just because it's the first merch of him to exist so it's neat to see.
Mini Crisis-
SonicGear fell under attack from an unknown outside source that ruined the translation PHP on the site so all of it had to get torn down and now only googletrans can be used on there. Of course, we'll never know how, why, or from whom the attack was generated but...there it went. Hopefully throwing out everything into the dumpster right away and then never ever putting it back will teach it a lesson in futility.
Next Week:
And speaking of firsts......will see the first RAY merchandise!
Yep, Jakks Pacific has put a figure of him in a plastic ball, so that's going to be the first actual Ray item, I think. They need to put Mighty in some other ball too, if they're really focusing on Mania.
Next week's update will be a doozy--
There's going to be a LOAD of stuff on the next update. Sega collaborated again in Japan, so there's stuff from that, Target got a new shirt (if you read this now, you can probably go buy it--I did, as a tee collector who's been in the tee-desert due to virus rubbish I couldn't resist it) So anyway, get ready for it to be a double size update or more, just to keep the image bins in ok shape.
*Yes the stuff I found is going to end up on gear, with the whole interesting tale to tell which is to spoil it now, SatAm wasn't supposed to be a Show at all. Now THERE's a loop! Also more 'sign of the times' article-type banter will appear. When it goes on, depends when merchandise calms down a little bit.
**Sign of the times
SatAM is old by now (yes), but having a look at the proto stuff for it you kind of take a look into a whole era of shows and how people expected them to be with like stale tropes on display like
"Girls are smart and boys are dumb and strong"
"Girls are token characters/teams must be all male 1 female maximum"
"girls are only interesting if they are a princess but they are ALWAYS have to be HOT*"
"male and female characters in a group are always trying to get with each other"
"Boy likes girl but she only kinda likes him back so is always thwarting his 'funny' advances".
Stuff like that isn't common now, but back in the day even whole shows were built around some of them (Family Matters sitcom had Steve Urkle, Johnny Bravo was basically Wile E Coyote vs women road runners who wreck him, etc--there's loads more from the era & beyond for every trope on the list, it was a product of it's time but now that the time is past it's easy to see HOW it was and also WHY it was that way--which is interesting of itself.)
The hotness* thing is going to take big big revenge when the rest of the stuff goes up because there's (depending on the view you take) some somewhat........disturbing angles & items that are going to be present in the art. And any defenses that might spring out "Oh before people say a 14 year old child rabbit character is 'hot' they never meant her to be sexy you're just attracting to it as is everyone else with that belief" well wait till you read what's written on the official art............)
Opinion zone: Not hot & never was.
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