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Jan

The New Year Brings New Opportunities

categories Shirts and stuff, Twilight Books    

Has it really been over two weeks since I last posted anything?  Holy Crap, I guess things have been a bit busy.  I do hope that everyone has had a safe and happy Christmas and New Year.  For us, fortunately, things get to slow down a bit and we can have a break.  But not for long.  Let’s see, where to begin?

New Character Slogans Now Available For Immediate Delivery

I suppose the first thing I should mention is that we finally have the new character slogan shirts up on the site.  Renesmee and Rosalie now join the rest of the crew with their own shirts, which you can find at the following links:

Renesmee for Juniors

Renesmee for Women

Rosalie for Juniors

Rosalie for Women

Also available is the new Edward Fan Club design, "Humor Me" with the famous apple in an outline.  We decided to differentiate the two apples because (a) we felt it would add a certain value to the design if there was a slight difference, (b) making slight differences in designs happens a lot in the themed t-shirt industry, and (c) it’s going to make it a heckuva lot easier to differentiate the two when we are pulling them off the shelves to fulfill orders.

Edward "Humor Me" for Juniors 

Edward "Humor Me" for Women

Those who suggested the slogans can expect to receive their new shirts soon.

New Products For 2009

I keep mentioning this, and for some reason things keep getting pushed back.  We do have plans for some new products coming early this year.  We have approved The Host designs that we are working to get into production.  The only hold up here is the graphic that goes on the backs of the shirts, which is taking more time to get the right "look" for than I expected.  Now that the character shirts are released, I can devote much more time to this issue and get these shirts on the web site.

We also have a line of Dave Barry shirts getting ready to hit the printers.  If you don’t know who Dave Barry is, shame on you get over to his web site and get to know him.  He is quite possibly the world’s funniest guy.  And by the term "funny" I mean funny in the way that is not only laughable, but also makes you think.  I do not mean "funny" in the way of, say, Kevin Federline’s music career, which was just plain laughable.  Dave Barry is a humor writer, and has spent a good portion of the last 30-years of his life writing stuff that made us laugh so hard that we’d fart and tear up at the same time.  Well, at least that’s what I did.  Others in the room were tearing up as well, but I don’t think for the same reasons.  Anyway, I highly recommend reading his stuff.  Dave is one of my heroes.

Finally, in regards to new products, we are developing our own line of stuff that isn’t related to Twilight or Dave.  Some of you have seen some samples of these ideas in the form of my cartoon character, Howard.  Howard is a computer, and as such, has a very logical view on life.  For example, he has logically determined that there are several very good reasons why computers do not play football; quarterbacks being just one of them.  In the same venue, computers do not make good soccer players, basketball players, hockey players, or boxers.  I’m sure you might be able to imagine why, but soon there will be shirts that demonstrate these reasons visually.  I, for one, hope that you like them.

Twilight Teez Appearances

Twilight Teez will be attending several of the big Twilight-themed entertainment conferences coming up this year.  Below is a list of conferences at which we will have a vendor booth.  We’d love to see you all, if you can make it to any of them.

ComiCon Phoenix 2009 – January 23 -25: The first of these conferences is already nearly upon us, and we just barely received word that we will be able to attend.  The Phoenix equivalent of the big ComicCon (in San Diego) will be the biggest of all the converences we’re attending.  This is going to be a major test for us.  The largest gathering that we have ever been involved with to date was the Eclipse Prom back in May of 2007.  There was only 1,000 people at most in attendance.  ComiCon Phoenix will have somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 to 7 times that number, and maybe more.  ComiCon Phoenix will also have several very big names in sci-fi attending, including Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Brent Spiner (Data from Star Trek), Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi), Gil Gerard and Erin Gray (Buck Rogers and Wilma Deering), and several others too numerous to mention.  I have absolutely no idea how we’re going to handle it, but we’ll do our best.

AccionCon 2009 – April 3-5: Acciocon is going to be about 1/3 of the size of ComiCon Phoenix, but it’s going to be AWESOME!  First of all, Twilight Teez is the primary sponsor for this event.  Second, Summit Entertainment is on-board to promote the event big-time (last I heard, anyway).  Third, it’s in Orlando, FL – home to such incredible attractions as Walt Disney World, Gatorland, and – I am not making this up – home to the World’s Largest McDonald’s Restaraunt.  On top of all of this, Orlanda is where my wife and I spent our honeymoon.  We stayed in The Polynesian Resort at Walt Disney World.  I made it a point to be in the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular, and we enjoyed many of the other attractions.  I look forward to being able to revisit it again, 14-years later, with my wife and my oldest son.  But of course, the big thing is ACCIOCON!  Did I mention that TWILIGHT TEEZ IS THE PRIMARY SPONSOR?

Summer School in Forks: A Twilight Convention – June 25-28: This is going to be a much smaller event than either of the previous two, but we are looking forward to it big time.  Mainly it will be our opportunity to FINALLY visit the place where it all happened – fictionally speaking, of course.  Some of the activities being planned are a prom, Kaleb Nation (The Twilight Guy) is going to be there, and a bunch of other things.  The video below is a good source for more information.  As is their web site (provided in the link above).

 

 

TwiCon 2009 – July 30-August 2: I think that this might be the big one that most people are waiting for.  At least, it’s the one I hear most people mention.  This will be in Dallas, TX (yes, in the United States).  We are a sponsor for this one, too, but not in the same vein as we are for AccioCon.  There is a very large cost involved in being a sponsor, and we could only pick one of the two to fork (ha ha) out that amount of money.  However, we will definitely have a presense at this one.  There’s going to be a lot to do here, and it’s going to be totally AWESOME!

So there you have it.  Four major conventions this year, and we are so stoked about them all.  In fact, we are so stoked that it is impossible to stoke us any more without having some kind of major bursting of something.  We look forward to seeing everyone who can come, and for those who can’t, well, sucks to be you we are sorry.

-Brian