Thursday, April 15th, 2004

by the Writer's Guild of Wunderland

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• Beneficial Mnemotodes
• GinohnNews: The Chicken Up The Nose Club

Something we heard several times from our retailers at the GAMA Trade Show was that they needed a flyer they could give to their customers if/when someone voices a concern about Stoner Fluxx. We were particularly struck by one store manager who told us she'd printed out some of our webpages on the subject and had used them quite successfully in easing and changing minds in her store.

Never being ones to leave good ideas unused, we have this week sent to the printer a beautiful tri-fold Stoner Fluxx brochure! Here's a picture of Kristin holding up the final prototype... you can peek inside by clicking on the image.

We're really excited that we'll have these great new flyers just in time to be giving away (along with sample Stoner Fluxx decks aplenty) at the NORML conference next week. It's here in DC again this year (after being in San Francisco for the past two) and if you're an anti-prohibition activist, this is a don't miss event. Maybe we'll see you there!

If not, you'll have to wait until we get back to get these spiffy new flyers... but they'll be available (in a few weeks) in packs of 25, so store owners and anyone else who wants to help us get the word out will be able to get a nice big stack of them, either directly from us or from their favorite Looney games distributor.

In other news, I got a giant Galactus this week! It's actually my second Galactus action figure, meaning I now have a collection of them (which is complete, as far as I know). We've had a lot of fun noting the differences between the new Galactus (made by WizKids, for use with their HeroClix miniatures system) and the first one I got (which we call the "Play-With" Galactus because it's more of a toy, being poseable and featuring a "Power Cosmic" sound effect which also makes his eyes light up) and re-counting the exciting story of the time when Galactus came to Earth, intending to consume it entirely (that's what he does, you see, he eats planets... the box he came in was festooned with warning labels that said "CAUTION: EATER OF WORLDS INSIDE!") It happened back in the sixties, so some of you may be too young to remember it, but thanks to the Fantastic Four (and the Ultimate Nullifier) Galactus was forced to leave the Earth in search of another planet to consume. It's such a great story, I hope the Fantastic Four movie I hear they've started making again does well, so that in 2008 or so we can see a big screen adaptation of the Coming of Galactus. Gosh that'd be cool... my brother Rash and my nephew James are big fans of the Herald of Galactus, i.e. the Silver Surfer, but the big man himself is my favorite. I'd go so far as to say he's my favorite character in all of comic-book history. And now my collection of Galactus action figures is indeed impressive: I have two! (By the way, those are 3 point Icehouse pieces these guys are holding up... the WizKids Galactus is 15 inches tall.)