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Alright, the time has come. We've almost finished shipping all of the RTP and CT Fanfest merch, so tomorrow we're cramming the whole office into the newly-renovated Screamin' Banshee and heading to PAX! If your order wasn't placed on/before Saturday, we'll resume shipping when we get back in mid-September. As a consolation prize for those of you who have to wait for your packages, here is the burden to which you didn't add:

Somewhere, a postal worker thanks you.

So much going on! Here's the latest in convenient list format:

• Tons of reprints and restocks!
  • Hatness (now comes with a free "Fightin' Crows" felt pennant)
  • Smaaaash! (red ringers restocked, new blue ringers)
  • Chronometer (black and silver restocked, new brown shirts)
  • Question (cranberry and gold restocked)
  • Les Enfants Terribles (asphalt and navy restocked, new red shirts)
• We've been working like crazy to prep and ship the CT Fanfest Combo Packs and Reformat the Planet DVDs. We got the final shipments in today, so combo packs start shipping tonight!
• Speaking of combo packs, Christopher Beaumont of Cubeecraft hooked us up with an amazing Nuisance Cubee and a papercraft Bit Boy template, both of which are shipping as packing slips for CT/RTP orders!
• We leave for PAX this weekend and are pretty much packing up the entire office, so orders placed after noon on Thursday (Aug 26th) will not ship until mid-late September!
• Rather than spending a ton of money renting trucks to get us to PAX (and any other conventions we hope to start attending...) we bought a truck! I'd ask for opinions on what we should paint on the side, but I'm worried that the Screamin' Banshee might hear...
• Speaking of PAX, we're going to have two new products exclusively at our booth -- a shirt and a pin set inspired by one of Jon's all-time favorite video games. Visit us and be one of the first to see it!
• The MOTHER 3 Fanfest wraps up this Friday! Tune in half an hour early (8:30 PM Eastern) to catch our weekly Officecam show, during which we'll be giving everyone a first-person iPhone view of how insane things are at the office...

We're proud to present a project that our friends at 2 Player Productions have been working on for years: the first edition DVD release of Reformat the Planet, a full-length documentary focused on the rise of the chiptune music scene. Our prolific designer Jon Kay has spent his summer designing the packaging, menus, and a slew of supporting merch, all of which we're now offering for preorder!

• REFORMAT THE PLANET 2-disc DVD
• Bit Boy Shirt
• Pixel Pulse Poster
• Chipbender Pin Set
• Blip Festival Bundle which includes:
  • Blip Festival 2006 DVD
  • Blip Festival 2007 2-DVD Set
  • Blip Festival 2008 2-CD Set (which has been on repeat here in the Fangamer office for the past several months)

We're planning to start shipping this stuff towards the end of the month (which, incidentally, is right before we pack up to head to PAX Prime 2010) so get your order in soon!

As planned, the Fangamer office has been in full swing since we got back last week. We're pretty well caught up on the backlog and are preparing to begin shipping our CT Fanfest combo packs in a few weeks! In the meantime, we've been working hard on our next preorder campaign (which should be launching very soon).

A reminder that we're out of the office until about August 5, at which point we'll begin shipping again.

Thanks again to everyone who helped make our Chrono Trigger Fanfest a success; get yourselves ready for the MOTHER 3 Fanfest which we hope to start sometime around August 6!

• After a few technical hiccups this weekend, the Pipe Vault reprints are shipping! We hope to get most of them shipped out tonight.
  
• The Nuisance Plushies will be restocked tomorrow night at 9PM Eastern (when the Fanfest usually starts). Feel free to watch us on USTREAM or just hit up the Chrono Trigger Fanfest page if you want a shot at grabbing one! We'll be broadcasting with our friends from Ubsey Movies, catching up on Chrono Trigger and maybe watching some more bad movies or Goosebumps episodes.
• We will be out of the office starting this Friday (July 23), and we won't be back until August 4. If you're looking to pick up some merchandise, get your order in before Thursday or it won't ship until early August!

After months of painstaking design and planning, we are proud to announce our first Fanfest Combo Pack (which also comes in a womens variety as well)!

• Gate Keychain
• Timewing Schematics (Poster)
• Magi's Tower (Shirt)
• Fiendlord (Pinset)
• Chronometer (Shirt reprint)
• Avarus (figurine handmade by Camille Young)

If you've gotta have it all, we've thrown together a CT Fanfest 2010 Combo Pack which not only nets you 12% off, but also a free Nuisance pin!

Also, we want to draw attention to the fact that Avarus is the first preorder campaign we've ever held for any handmade item, much less one of Camille's figurines. They generally sell out in a matter of hours, so this is your chance to get one without racing against the clock!

Our Chrono Trigger Fanfest is well underway! Regardless of whether you're an old fan or a newbie, it really is a blast to play through the game with the rest of the community. Join us!

Want to win a Ness Figurine? This is the easiest it will ever be! Check out our official Fangamer blog for more details on how you can win one of Camille's custom Ness figurines.

The Pipe Vault garments are "in line" at the belt printer's shop! We expect the shirts to be finished by the 14th, so we'll be working hard to get them shipped on/around the 16th. We'll send an email with more details soon!

IT'S OVER! We donated $9,021 to ACT Today thanks to the insane efforts of The Speed Gamers. There are no more words, only shirts. Good work, that's some great community~

As promised, we've got a video into which Steve has poured the requisite amount of time, blood, sweat, tears, and fireballs:

Our second promise has come to fruition as well: we're proud to announce our first-ever revamped fan event, the Chrono Trigger Fanfest!

In one week we'll begin playing through Chrono Trigger as a community, with a different Fangamer community member hosting every gameplay point live. Best of all, we'll be taking preorders for our next wave of CT-inspired merchandise -- it's gonna be a good time. More details next week!

(Also, please note that you can now order a misprinted Pipe Vault shirt at a $3 discount. Enjoy!)

What a week! :O

• We've donated $6,240 to ACT Today thanks to our faithful customers and The Speed Gamers' amazing community -- and there are still 15 hours to go in the marathon! We'll post a final total tomorrow.
• There's been a misprint issue with the first run of Pipe Vaults. Luckily we found a way to turn lemons into lemonade: the misprint has the potential to raise $1200 more for charity! Read the email for more details. If you bought a Pipe Vault shirt and you want a misprint in exchange for another $3 to charity, just email orders@fangamer.com and we'll get it taken care of! Additionally, anyone who requests a reprint will have their shirt shipped out next week (or earlier), regardless of the delay we posted on the product page.
• Due to the insane number of Pipe Vault shirts we've sold in the past week (over 600!) we're going to be very slow on shipping for at least the next week or two. Sorry!
• We're finally restocking Hatness sometime around July -- and the Awesomeness Combo Pack along with it! More news in a few weeks.
• We have an awesome pre-announcement coming out tomorrow, we'll probably do it during Officecam at 8:30 PM Eastern.
• Steve's currently compiling the greatest video of all time. We'll post it on the Fangamer YouTube Channel late tonight and feature it on Officecam tomorrow.

In case you weren't already aware, we're 48 hours into our latest charity partnership with The Speed Gamers: the Mario Marathon! We're donating 100% of the profits from our Pipe Vault shirts and more than half of the profits from our Power Up Combo Pack, and thanks to the flood of orders we've already raised about $3500 for ACT Today!

New Stuff includes:

• Power Up Combo Pack
• Pipe Vault Shirt
• Question Shirt
• Plumber Pin Set

Working though the night (and following morning, and afternoon), Steve has completed this sweet packing slip compilation video. All of the packing slips you are about to see are by Greliz. all of em

Amazing right? Packing Slips are just one of the small touches of awesomness that Fangamer adds to your order. Every time you order something you get a Packing Slip drawn by an artist from the community. What, are you saying YOU want to draw Packing Slips? Learn how right here!  

The Special Forces shirts have arrived! In two different colors, men's and women's sizes, front and back print and our first arm print too! This is one shirt that has a lot of quality put into it, even the custom packaging. On top of that, there is a FOX UNIT pin, one's white metallic and the other in 24K gold plated that comes with each shirt colors. Check it out, before LA LI LU LE LO... 

Strap the C4 to the pigs, ma!

We're inundated with inventory so were instigating an inconceivably immense summer spectacular saving-strava-GANZAAAA!

• First 50 coupon customers get a free Patch Pack!
• Spend $25, get 10% off w/ coupon FIRESALE-ALPHA
• Spend $50, get 15% off w/ coupon FIRESALE-OMEGA

Proffer your porcine payment prison and reap the ripe rewards of our doughy desperation!

BUT WAIT! Still craving amazing savings? Coupons cant curb the crushing curmudgeonry of your miserly money malfeasance?

• We're selling off our stocks of Pandoras Happy Box, now $17!
• EB9X? More like EB-BUY-THIS-NOWWWW! $17!
• Want a Flinter? Heres a hinter! It's $16!
• PUNKBOARDS PUNKBOARDS PUNKBOARDS! Now $43!

Within one week without warning we will quietly quash this quid pro quo! Go go go! Sale ends Friday!

(The music in the video was by the AWESOME Señor Saturno, by the way. We're working on something with this web-famous musician, so expect something later this summer!)

Our good pals over at Ubseymovies have put together this commercial to let you all know the important points of the PSI Rockin'shirt. Things went.... pretty well and I think they drive the point home of this shirt's awesome power! enjoy! :D

 

EDIT: It's over! Three MOTHER/EarthBound games beaten and $10,669.24 raised! Great job everyone! You can keep donating if you like until May 12th.

We're teaming up with The Speed Gamers again for another super action-packed MOTHER Marathon!  We'll be donating 100% of the proceeds of all Smaaaash shirts sold during the marathon to the Susan G. Komen foundation.

You can pick one up here!

The Speed Gamers are again raising money for Susan G. Komen! This time it’s one MOTHER of a marathon.

Friday, May 7th @ 6PM CST the Speed Gamers will play MOTHER 1, MOTHER 2/EarthBound, and MOTHER 3 for 48 hours straight. Their initial goal is $10,000, but they hope to raise $20,000. Given past success, such a goal could be possible with your help.

Fangamer is sponsoring the event with a new shirt revealed at the start. Purchase the new shirt during the marathon and 100% of the new shirt’s proceeds go toward’s their goal. Prizes, commentators, and a good time will be had by all. Watch the full MOTHER trilogy be played and help kick in a few bucks for a worthy cause.

UPDATE: Steve is staying home, so orders will ship normally! Yay! :D

PSI Rockin, one of our most popular shirts, has finally been reprinted in a slew of new colors! Enjoy :D