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It’s been some time since our last money saving Coupon Code, so lets remedy that right now. You can use this on all of the spiffy Fangamer merch you see before you. The Snow Wood Hoodie has been restocked in both green and heavyweight! Now is the perfect time to grab something that is both warm and awesome without breaking the snowbank. But act fast since this baby expires on February 14th!

Every little bit you spend helps us on the road to PAX East in Boston, MA. We are all pretty pumped about it and so should you! Come check us out and buy some sweet stuff in person. We may even have some brand new merch that will be making its first appearance! We won’t be hard to spot since there will be tons of good times at our booth. Just look for Nintendo, we’ll be right next to em. (seriously)

Keep in touch with us on Officecam, the Podcast, Twitter, and Facebook as we build up to an awesome showing at PAX East, and an even better new year. Hope to see you there and enjoy that Coupon Code!

This week we bring to you a lost episode we recorded sometime in the distant past as a backup for when we wouldn’t be able to record the normal podcast. Right now the normal podcast is going through a reboot but we will be returning with a new format next week on Tuesday Night so stay tuned. In this episode Gerritt (atticus) hosts with co-hosts, Neopaula (Liz) and your favorite artist and mine Jonk! We talk about Fangamer going to PAX East and that moment in your life when you realized you were a gamer.

Instead of a separate episode guide for this week, if you listen to this podcast with a compatible music player you will have embedded show notes in the file with fun images and chaptered segments if you want to skip sections. So download the new show!

As always, questions, compliments, and complaints go to podcast@fangamer.com, and you can find us by searching on iTunes or following our RSS feed!

First things first, a quick heads up that Fangamer has secured its first-ever booth — at the first-ever PAX East 2010! We’re excited to get to hang out with the PAX crowd, but we’re even more excited to hang out with you guys. If you’re a customer who’s headed to PAX, please consider stopping by, we’ve love to meet you (and maybe give you some free stuff)! We’re working on some really cool ideas for the booth, and if you’ve got a penchant for art (or maybe even if you don’t) you’ll definitely want to stop by. More details later!

Second, we’ve restocked our insanely-popular Snow Wood Hoodies, so if you were looking for a heavyweight or womens size that was sold out you should be able to get it now!

Third, we’re finalizing a series of designs inspired by Chrono Trigger. Until now we’ve only had the Chronometer shirt, but in about a month we’ll be making some major expansions to that lineup!

Until then, feel free to follow us on the forum, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, or UStream — we’re active on almost all of those fronts at least a few times a week!

Steve, the mailroom maestro delivers to us a Pork Army public service announcement to all denizens of nowhere- JOIN THE PORK ARMY! enOBEYjoy! :)

Ready for your Wednesday morning commute!

Episode 2

This is a huge milestone for us but today we had our 10,000 order place! The unassuming local guy is going to get a freebie for being our 10k customer. For more details check out the forum thread .

Thanks to all those happy Nesses (Nessi?) out there who sent us pictures from your halloween escapades. You can check out the full set on our flickr page.

If you’ve got your own fanshots to submit send them over to fanshots@fangamer.com. Right now we are looking for some Flogo pictures so if you take a most excellent photo … well you might get something cool!

Whew! Just in time for Christmas, we’ve got Courage Badges and Handbook Combo Packs back in stock :D

Hey everyone if you are wondering when the last days are you can place your order and still have it arrive before Christmas, here is Fangamer’s holiday domestic shipping cut-off days for each shipping class.

First Class Mail	Dec-19
Priority Mail	Dec-19
Express Mail	Dec-21

For international orders, if you want it by Christmas, you have to order by Dec. 16th and order with Express international shipping.

Also, the mailroom is really backed up right now with a sea of orders. Please bare with us if you haven’t gotten your order yet, it is coming! The first batch of Snow Wood Hoodies are almost prepped to go out the door which was causing most of the backlog.

Lots of new/restocked merchandise, but first: holiday promo! Buy $55+ of merch and you can pick up a free Fangamer shirt! Click the image below for more information.

If you’re looking for some new merch to back up your Flogo purchase, fear not — we’ve got tons of new and restocked merch!

• Snow Wood Hoodies are restocked with a huge slew of updates! Most importantly:
  • New colors, weights, thicknesses, and styles
  • Custom-minted “Good Key” zipper pulls
  • Free SWBS lanyard comes with each sweater
• Bound Around (restocked with new colors)
• Chimera Pin Sets (our latest pin set)
• Minus Man Figurines (Limited edition of 20)
• Borange Figurines (selling the last 16 out of the original 100)
• Shirtness, PK Yomega, and Hometown Pins are now available for individual purchase!

Whew. On top of that, PK Yomega is coming in early, so we’re going to be busy shipping this stuff all week. If you want to hang out, you can drop in for our Officecam broadcast on ustream — we’ll be broadcasting every day this week, and on Friday our friend Jeff Benson (of EB Saga fame) will be flying in for a week to cohost Officecam!

Good times are pretty much guaranteed.

It finally arrives! A triumvirate of Omnitarian excellence:

• Dem Bones Shirts
• Starry Starry Pipes Poster
• Star Legend Pinset

Next weekend: new/restocked EB merch!

To all those Fangamers out there who rush ordered a Shirtness combo pack please send us photos of you and your shirt doing Awesome stuff from this Halloween night. We will post the most rad on the blog to share!

Send all photos to team@fangamer.com with the phrase “Awesomeness Halloween” in the title!

It’s a big day for us :D

The Awesomeness Combo Pack is ready much sooner than we expected, which means that Shirtness is finally being unleashed after months of research, design, and production!

Good news: if you’re dressing up as Ness for Halloween and don’t want to duct tape a shirt/hat together, we’re offering a Halloween rush for an extra $10! Place your order before 11:59 PM on Tuesday and we’ll get it to you before the festivities begin.

More good news: if you already bought Hatness, you can save a few bucks and get a combo pack without the hat :D

(As a side note, we’ve been preparing an SMRPG update for a while, but unfortunately we’ve hit a few last-minute snags with the shirt/poster production. We’re definitely going to be releasing it before mid-November though, so check back soon!)

supercommuter has launched their first album, and all the proceeds go to Childs Play! That’s so awesome that Steve took the time to make this awesome video… which explains why supercommuter is awesome:

Go buy their album/shirt!

We went to PAX on a mission: to show the world what happens when puny fanboys are transformed into mighty fangamers! But then we remembered that our presentational (and preparation-al) abilities hadn’t gotten any better since high school, so we ended up with this seat-of-our-pants THRILL RIDE. Gold star for effort? No? Well can we at least get our parking validated?

“Fangirls and boys, unite! Then suck it up and stop acting like fanboys — there’s work to do. Listen as we relay the decade-long sorrows and triumphs of a scrappy fanbase. Cackle at the futility of petitions, boycotts, and nerd rage; bask in the warming glow of community and the zen doctrine of “screw this we’ll do it ourselves”. Enter as a fan; leave as a warrior trapped in the doughy and misshapen body of a fan.”

1. Chronometer shirts have been quietly restocked. If you were hoping for a black shirt, now’s your chance!
2. EB’9X has been redesigned and re-released, in case you weren’t paying attention at the end of the EBFGP!
3. Steve (our one-man mailroom) has caught up on all shipments and we will not be shipping any packages until September 9! So if you place an order now, you’ll need to give us at least a week to get it in the mail. We’ve been preparing for our PAX panel ever since the end of the EBFGP, and with the entire team flying into Seattle tomorrow we’ll be unable to get packages shipped out until next Wednesday.
4. Are you gonna be at PAX? Check out our ‘Fanboy Stigmata’ panel this Friday at 7:30 PM (Pacific time) in the Wolfman Theatre and you might get your hands on our latest pin set! Even if you can’t be there, we miiight be broadcasting the panel live on USTREAM. If not, we’ll definitely toss it up on YouTube, so check back here for details. You can also try to catch us before or after the show and challenge us to a thumb-wrestling contest. Any and all survivors of the ordeal get a free Fangamer business card for their trouble ;D

If you’ve placed an order in the past few weeks, you might have noticed that our shipping has been VERY slow. We apologize profusely, but it’s for a good cause — we’ve finally moved into our new office, and are currently burning our way through the queue which has built up in the meantime!

Here’s a quick video in case you didn’t see the original pre-move-in video

And in case you’re bored in front of your computer on these hot summer nights, every evening this month we’re streaming EBFGP events and random Fangamer Office-cam goodtimes:

One last announcement: new merch coming soon! We’re reprinting the EB9X and improving everything in the process — new colors, new shirts, new printing process (smooth, lovely waterbase prints instead of that chunky silkscreening). On top of that, we’re going to be releasing merch for a new franchise soon as well :D

Here’s a hint: it’s one of the three best SNES RPG’s ever~

Hey folks, I’ll try to keep this quick, but we’ve got four awesome announcements. Here they are, in order of excellence:

• Fangamer/Starmen.Net will be presenting a panel at PAX 2009! If you’re going to PAX, pencil us in — we’ll be speaking from 7:30-8:30 PM on Friday, Sept 4 in the Wolfman Theatre. Our panel will be a multimedia event for the ages. Seriously though, if you’re an EarthBound fan you should seriously check it out. More details later, but one thing is for sure: we’ll have a lot of cool swag and memorabilia to check out, including Meeellla’s figurines from the MOTHER 3 Handbook :D
• Fangamer is moving into its first office this week! One year after my house was first invaded by boxes of t-shirts, I’m totally pumped to announce that we’ve nailed down an office here in Tucson after a month of searching. It’s a short-term gig, but we’re going to make the best of it. There will be many pictures and maybe even a permanent mailroom-cam coming soon :D
• The EBFGP is underway! In case you’re not familiar, the EBFGP is a yearly event in which the EarthBound fans at Starmen.Net get together and play through EarthBound together. Every gameplay point is being hosted live by community members, and the last gameplay point (on August 23) will be hosted by yours truly at the new Fangamer office :D
• MGS preorders are finally shipping! We’re hoping to have them all shipped out by Thursday morning. We got the dogtags, and while they’re not exactly how we wanted them, we decided it was better to get the orders shipped out than wait another couple weeks to redo them. Unlike the dogtags, the shirts are perfect, so enjoy!

Of course, due to all the stuff going on right now (and especially the advent of the new Fangamer office), shipping is going to be a little slow around here. Sorry in advance for the delays, we’ll be working as fast as we can to catch up!

We’ve got an email sent out to all our preorder customers, but as a more public notification, we’ve got to delay the shipment of the MGS-inspired merchandise for a few weeks due to some issues we’re having with the dogtags.

Long story short, they weren’t up to our standards, so we made our most serious Solidus face and sent them back to the drawing board. The company is telling us they’ll be done by the 27th, but we’re going to play it safe and say that it’s more likely they’ll show up the following week.

We’ll email everyone as soon as their orders ship, but in the meantime the shirts and bags have arrived, so we’ve posted a few pictures! You can see the super-expensive embroidery on the Special Forces Bags and the Les Enfants Terribles Shirts, whose pictures turned out particularly well thanks to Camille!

If you have any questions or concerns about your order, email us and we’ll get you taken care of. Thanks for your patience!

We’re officially taking our Metal Gear Solid merchandise out of preorder and into the store at large!

• Les Enfants Terribles Shirts
• Special Forces Messenger Bags
• Solid Pin Set

The shirts, bags, and tags are arriving this weekend, so the preorders will begin shipping on Monday (Tuesday at the latest). As a way to thank our preorder customers for their patience, we’ve come up with a pretty cool packing slip just for the MGS orders :D

Steve has been working like crazy and has almost caught up on the orders. The preorders will be keeping us busy this weekend, though, so forgive us if processing is a little slow for the next week or so~