What's Wrong With Your Toy?
Added 2020-07-08 06:17:23 +0000 UTCDear Insane Children,
While we're working on a couple of possibilities for physical merch - calendars, snow globes, etc - I thought we should think about a couple of additional Plush Toys. Why? Because they're relatively easy to produce, everyone seems to love them, and ... I like making eff'ed up toys?
So I first asked for a Vorpal Blade Plush - because I figure cosplayers and Alice fans alike will have fun with it. We can't make/export "knife" things but I think we can get away with mailing plush/pillow objects in the shape of a knife? Anyway, based on the rough concept image turned in by Jen (above) we're getting a sample made of this. I'll try to ship it to someone outside of China to test whether or not it can escape... and if it can, then we'll make more! Yay for bending the rules!
As per the usual routine, we'll want to connect this with an in-game perk. Ideas? It could unlock an early upgrade to the Vorpal Blade? Or an alternate attack with the Vorpal Blade? (Keep in mind that whatever it does, it WILL NOT be exclusive to people who purchase the plush - since we all agree that sort of thing is unfair/un-fun).
The next idea is a Humpty Dumpty Plush. This is the initial design Jen turned in. And here are my notes...
For Humpty Dumpty... I'd like to see 'more' go into his design. Not to make him more complicated but to make him more "ours." Here are a bunch from a Google Search...
How are we different? My creative direction (as per usual) is "eff him up" or "make him dark" etc, etc.
Also, with whatever concept artwork comes back on the next revision... please include dimensions. That's always the first question the factory asks me "how big is this thing?" I suggest we keep the longest portion of his diameter (top to bottom of the oval) around 25~30cm. Arms and legs can dangle off that central hub.
Try to do something that inspires children to say, "What's wrong with your toy?"
Same question here... what might Humpty Dumpty unlock in the game?
Let us know in the COMMENTS below what you think of these designs and this direction.
Which toy do you want more? A plush Vorpal Blade or an Effed up Humpty Dumpty?
From Shanghai with Plushness,
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Comments
Vorpal Blade! Not a huge fan of Humpty Dumpty in general lol
2020-07-27 22:12:25 +0000 UTCVorpal Plushie!
2020-07-20 21:31:40 +0000 UTCDeffinately the vorpal blade
2020-07-17 16:11:50 +0000 UTCAlso, “(Keep in mind that whatever it does, it WILL NOT be exclusive to people who purchase the plush - since we all agree that sort of thing is unfair/un-fun)” - I disagree. If I paid extra money, I’d like to get something extra for it. Hmm... Actually, you could make a skill/weapon skin/outfit (or a combo of those!) available with the plush - and also available as a paid DLC for those who want it. That would be fair.
Karolina Belomestnova
2020-07-17 09:40:16 +0000 UTC“We can't make/export "knife" things” - What about LARP weapons, though? Made of resin or something. Are those illegal or something?
Karolina Belomestnova
2020-07-17 09:33:20 +0000 UTCLoving the blade <3
2020-07-14 14:17:39 +0000 UTCI love the vorpal plush!! So cute ❤️
2020-07-12 17:13:20 +0000 UTCYou know... It might just be me... But what about a cannon that shoots out egg people? Historically, Humpty Dumpty was actually a cannon and is only depicted as an egg because of the original illustrations, if I'm not mistaken. So, going off of that, wouldn't a cannon with a "metal shell-head" that shoots itself out be kinda cool?
2020-07-11 00:17:55 +0000 UTCVorpal blade plush yussss!! As an in-game perk, ut could be just like the vorpal blade but instead of a metalic sound could do a ripping fabric one, and maybe do the enemies bleed cotton instead of blood? I dont know if that last part is possible to perform...
2020-07-10 22:48:22 +0000 UTCVorpal blade
2020-07-10 18:54:06 +0000 UTCI’ve always dreamed of having a vorpal blade of my own.💗
2020-07-10 17:38:40 +0000 UTCI vote Vorpal Blade ❤️
Ann Marie Moxley
2020-07-09 21:56:29 +0000 UTCLOVE the vorpal plush! 💜🖤 Just received my print from March and it's even MORE gorgeous in person! Thank you.
2020-07-09 18:53:52 +0000 UTCI frankly forgot Humpty was even in the games. Though, going back to look, his old model was pretty uniquely interesting https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/americanmcgeesalice/images/5/56/Humpty_Dumpty.png/revision/latest?cb=20140711060600 Kept true to form, I don't think you'd even really need to change him, but that's a lot of detail on a plush x\ I know it's not really commonplace for games, but have you considered a poseable doll of Alice herself? Or, if it's even possible these days, a porcelain doll of Asylum Alice?
2020-07-09 17:24:54 +0000 UTCThe bunny and chesh are already available on the Mysterious store. :) https://mysterious.americanmcgee.com/collections/plush-dolls
2020-07-09 16:33:34 +0000 UTCVorpal blade if it’s either or...why isn’t Cheshire or her bunny an option? I still have the bunny I made for her cosplay I made tears ago, but would totally buy one! (I totally forgot that they were already being sold! I’m a dumbass)
Therese
2020-07-09 16:16:47 +0000 UTCOmg, vorpal blade PLEASE 🖤
Tuppy
2020-07-09 13:18:06 +0000 UTCHumpty is cool but vorpal blade very very neat be fun
2020-07-09 10:08:11 +0000 UTCOmg I hope the blade plush works if not it least be a good background item for streams!
2020-07-09 01:18:35 +0000 UTCvorpal plush! that way my stuffed cheshire and bunny can have their own weapon
Sherrie Mora
2020-07-08 23:29:16 +0000 UTCLove both of them but definitely leaning towards the Vorpal Blade. 🤗
2020-07-08 22:44:39 +0000 UTCUm... Humpty doesn't really do it for me. There's got to be a more iconic character than Humpty that we could have a plush of. Hell, I'd take a festering ruin plush over a humpty plush. Maybe an Alice plush, which is styled like an old rag doll, tattered and gross looking?
truth_decay
2020-07-08 22:34:00 +0000 UTCVorpal Blade yes! It reminds me all the remakes of it I have seen on the web and makes me want one badly
2020-07-08 22:18:40 +0000 UTCI'd love to see a vorpal blade pillow or plush :D
Definitely not Adam Driver
2020-07-08 22:04:56 +0000 UTCHeck yes a Vorpal blade
2020-07-08 21:48:59 +0000 UTCVorpal blade!
Sarah McKeegan
2020-07-08 21:21:27 +0000 UTCI would love a Vorpal Blade. :)
2020-07-08 21:04:43 +0000 UTCVorpal Blade! I'd also love something related to the eyepots/teapots. I just think they're neat.
RedBreloom
2020-07-08 19:25:26 +0000 UTCLove the plush vorpal blade X3.
2020-07-08 18:39:43 +0000 UTCVorpal blade!
Tal'Ki
2020-07-08 17:37:46 +0000 UTCLove these ideas! Would love a vorbal blade or plush Hatter or Jaberwockey!
2020-07-08 17:02:01 +0000 UTCi would absolutely love a vorpal blade plush. i think an early upgrade would be a good idea for it!
2020-07-08 16:39:19 +0000 UTCI love the vorpal blade and an early upgrade or a special attack in game sounds like a great idea
Henrike
2020-07-08 16:00:53 +0000 UTCI personally vote Vorpal Plush because it's so iconic (and because I could never afford the replica version). Humpty Dumpty is less iconic, *although* it would be cool if the plush told you the location of a secret upgrade or something, the way Humpty shows you where to find the Blunderbuss early in the first game.
2020-07-08 15:00:45 +0000 UTCVorpal Blade!
Katelyn
2020-07-08 14:53:50 +0000 UTCI'd love a plush Vorpal Blade, I really think it would go over better than Humpty, plus I really like the idea of a safe plushy style blade i can take to Cons.
2020-07-08 14:49:14 +0000 UTCI love the Vorpal Blade plush idea! It's a classic weapon and one of my favorites. As far as an in game perk..it's hard to choose. I like the idea of an upgrade, but I gotta admit a new attack would be fabulous as well. Hmmm... decisions.. decisions.. but yes I'd prefer the Vorpal Blade over Humpty Dumpty...I'm just not a fan. I'm super excited for this plush! 😍
2020-07-08 14:38:39 +0000 UTCI'd go for the plush Vorpal as I've never really cared for Humpty Dumpty. The Vorpal could be something that is produced faster as the design is already there. While that is being done we could work designing on another plush. My vote would be for the caterpillar. I think we could go really wild with him.
2020-07-08 14:22:38 +0000 UTCI think both ideas are interesting, but I think the plush blade would be better. However, a plush Caterpillar or even Jabawock would be amazing as well!
2020-07-08 14:11:36 +0000 UTCI am living for the Vorpal Knife plush!
2020-07-08 13:48:25 +0000 UTCWhat about the Dodo, or flip doll Denial?
2020-07-08 13:27:37 +0000 UTCI like this idea
2020-07-08 13:26:29 +0000 UTCI love the blade (maybe it unlocks an alternate version of the blade - different color, or an attack you can only do with that blade, or it causes more bleeding...) I love people's idea's of a teapot plush! What about a card with some chaos tentacles? as for humpty....I'm not a big fan of the character in general, so the design would really have to impress me to be something I want. I do like the idea of him being a shelf sitter though, where legs dangle off What if humpty wasn't a plush though? What if it was a smaller figurine?
2020-07-08 12:48:58 +0000 UTCteapot!!
2020-07-08 12:45:28 +0000 UTC💜🔪💜 I have always loved the vorpal blade's design and would go absolutely bonkers for a plush version of it!!!
2020-07-08 12:31:43 +0000 UTCVorpal Blade, with Humpty, perhaps with a zipper ofmr something that you can put a small object in it?
2020-07-08 12:13:40 +0000 UTCI personally don't like the idea of a Humpty Dumpty plush, as there are many other characters that I'd rather see made into a plush, like Alice. I didn't think I'd like the vorpal blade, but I actually do! And while we're on the subject of merch, I don't know how other insane children would feel about it, but I'd love to have a hairbrush!
Wendy Jaa
2020-07-08 12:06:55 +0000 UTCI like the vorpal blade a lot. You don't see a lot of plush weapons. I think its a fantastic idea.
2020-07-08 11:58:40 +0000 UTCI would love the Humpty Dumpty plush! I like the approach in the draft drawing - definitely striped stockings like Alice has in the previous games. I don't think the eye should be TOO big, because I equate big eyes with Anime and cuteness.
2020-07-08 11:23:45 +0000 UTCI'd say the Vorpal plush, and you could make the one in game LOOK like a pillow knife and it can like *Squeak* when it hits something xD
2020-07-08 11:14:14 +0000 UTCMy vote is for the vorpal blade. I don’t know, I’m really not feeling the idea of a humpty plush at all. Though I like the ideas some other people have put out there about the eye pots. Idk, to me an evil egg plush seems a bit lame. But the idea of a vorpal blade plush sounds really cool!
2020-07-08 11:14:04 +0000 UTCI'll vote humpty plush but agree with a few others in a hatter or queen plush. Love the characters that are the backbone of the game, ooooo what about the one eyed teapot??? So effed up and screams dark alice lol.
2020-07-08 10:50:36 +0000 UTCvorpal blade plush is just so cute and dark on the bed, i love it :)) now i'm just fantasising about mobs dolls,,,lol the mobs you and the designers create are so great and memorable ~ humpty dumpty is a classic for a plush, it's a good choice, all bruised up from its fall - ummm, i have a rabbit doll, and its eyes fell off, so i sew buttons on it instead - buttons for eyes makes every doll creepy ;o actually, everything that isn't an eye, for an eye, is creepy
2020-07-08 08:54:11 +0000 UTCAs a cosplayer, I think the vorpal blade is something I would enjoy. I also like the idea of the mock turtle plushie and even something with the eye pots.....what about an eye pot purse? That would be amazing! I was also thinking maybe a moon plushie/pillow.
2020-07-08 08:12:04 +0000 UTCOmg I want a cuddly Vorpal Blade noooow! It's very exciting. As for humpty he definitely needs a bit of F'ing up. I think maybe his eye needs to be more than just a filled in dot. Some of those genuine cuddly humpties are deeply disturbing and they seem to be the ones with big eyes. He needs crazy or angry eyes and maybe some yolk oozing from one of the cracks
2020-07-08 08:11:49 +0000 UTCLove the idea of a humpty dumpty plush!! The only thing I’d love more is a hatter plush 😈
2020-07-08 08:00:59 +0000 UTCHonestly I would love a mock turtle, Alice, insidious ruin (mixed plush and doll bits), hatter, or caterpillar plush more than a blade or a humpty dump. Oooo what about a Siamese twin tweedle plush?
Sarah Heist
2020-07-08 07:44:45 +0000 UTCPLEASE MAKE WALRUS PLUSH 😭😭😭 OMGOODNESS OR THE DOLL MAKER!!!! THAT WOULD BE EPIC 😍😍😍😍😍😍 AND charge like 75 for that one and make it larger than the first two omgoodness. With the oozing black tears. Sexy thought. Superfanning over here. Or even a first and final form red queen as a combo like with the limited cheshire and rabbit 😍😍😍 holy crap to have the final bosses from my childhood American McGee's Alice on the PC as plushies 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😭😭😭 or even the centipede !! Jesus lord I would die of happiness!!! JABAWOCKY!!!!!
2020-07-08 07:18:50 +0000 UTCVorpal plushy! I'd love one!
Helloween4545
2020-07-08 07:08:49 +0000 UTCVorpal plush for sure!!
Samantha Olvera
2020-07-08 07:06:26 +0000 UTCMy vote is for the vorpal blade. The perk could be a cosmetic upgrade. There is many options for the design of other blades so I think you could take some artistic ability for the upgrade.
2020-07-08 06:54:14 +0000 UTCVorpal blade for sure!!
2020-07-08 06:48:51 +0000 UTCI would love to have an Alice Plush Blade! :)
St. Thomas
2020-07-08 06:40:47 +0000 UTCOhh yesss the Eye Pots would be really great.
2020-07-08 06:31:08 +0000 UTCLove both ideas, but the Blade is definitely the one that excites me more. In-game perk could be a cosmetic upgrade for the Blade - how about a leather sheath or somesuch that Alice can stash it into when she's not wrecking face with it?
Rosuav
2020-07-08 06:30:47 +0000 UTCGoodness it's such a toss up honestly. Humpty would be friggin dope, but just seems sorta "random" so to speak, and the Vorpal blade would be cool but I think there could be alot more potential for like the clockwork bomb or even like the Eye Pots. But I do love both ideas alot! ❤️
2020-07-08 06:29:50 +0000 UTCLike the vorpal blade plush, might be a lot of fun. Humpty Dumpty would be strange, but nice too. Maybe he could have an other face on the back of its head (like the mayor from nightmare before Christmas)
2020-07-08 06:28:43 +0000 UTCI know there was a lot of differing opinions last time such a discussion was had; but I'm still hoping on getting my hands on an Alice plush one day..
2020-07-08 06:27:21 +0000 UTC“I'll try to ship it to someone outside of China to test whether or not it can escape... and if it can, then we'll make more! Yay for bending the rules!” You can mail that test Vorpal Bladey Plush to me, I’m outside of China 😈 I need a mountain of Madness plushies! (Jk, but wouldn’t say no and we need a test subject right?!😂)
2020-07-08 06:24:20 +0000 UTCLove the idea of the Vorpal Blade Plush (more than the Humpty Dumpty Plush to be honest). I can clearly see my little one slaying the "monsters" with it XD
Jessi St.
2020-07-08 06:22:13 +0000 UTC
