[Icehouse] RE: 9-Player Martian Coasters

[TheLoneGoldfish]

Good point about favorite colors.

Now what we need is a cartoon/tv show where you have mulit-colored heroes
who all play icehouse in their spare time... :P

-Evan

On 12/19/06, David Artman <david at davidartman.com> wrote:
>
> "As for making a separate product for xeno coasters, one counter point to
> that is that it would become a real pain to need to produce 2 versions of
> every pyramid product from here to eternity."
>
> I don't think this would be necessarily true; after all, Martian Coasters
> is the first (only?) product produced
> where the color of the squares is relevant to play. Even if there's other
> similar products (i.e. "branded"
> to Rainbow, with Xeno only indicated by a work-around like the MC arrows),
> they aren't so legion as to create
> an inventory nightmare.
>
> Or are you just concerned about introducing the precedent, which would
> haunt all future branded products? That
> is a fair enough concern.
>
> But LL DID decide to put out Rainbow-branded MC, so there's one precedent
> driving the other one: the first
> (only, if I am right) product with a strong orientation to one color set.
> (This is a long-winded way of saying,
> "Andy started it!") ;)
>
> Recall that there are 11 colors, and folks have "favorite colors" and so
> this really could be a product with
> legs, not just a gimmick that's a nuisance to produce and
> distribute/stock.
>
> Anyway, we'll see....
> David Artman
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