New Pre-Order: Starburst (by request) PLUS commodoreHUSTLE DVD set!
August 18th, 2010

Posted by Jeremy

After a six-week process, I’m happy to announce that we have a winner for our first ever T-shirt open call. That winner is Kyle Nichols (Vigafre), whose Starburst design pleased crew and fans alike to net him a design buyout, and us an awesome new shirt … which I’m also happy to announce you can pre-order right now over on the LoadingReadyRun store. While we normally offer only one colour variation for the ink on our shirts, we’ve opted to offer two versions this time, so keep in mind when you order that you will have to choose both a shirt colour and an ink colour.

As of today, you have 26 days to pre-order this shirt. Assuming it gets 50 pre-orders, we’ll print a run, and ship shirts out to everyone who ordered them. If not, we’ll refund everyone’s money and try a different design. Pre-orders also get a free starburst button to compliment the shirt, which you can see over on the store page.

Huge thanks to everyone who participated in the open call, it’s been a wild ride.

In other exciting news, the long-in-process commodoreHUSTLE DVD is complete, and being printed as we speak. We’ve decided to open up orders for this as well, with the caveat that we will not be shipping them until after PAX, when the Starburst pre-order closes. We are primarily opening orders early to allow folks who pre-order the new shirt to combine shipping, though that shouldn’t stop you from ordering one now, even if you don’t want the shirt … you’ll just have to wait a couple weeks until we have them available to ship out. The Hustle DVD includes all eleven episodes, the epilogue, commentaries, bloopers and bonus features.

Both these items have been a while in coming, and it’s great to be able to finally get them out to all of you :).

Open Call: 24 Hours of Voting Remain
August 16th, 2010

Posted by Jeremy


Just a friendly reminder that there’s just under 24 hours remaining to vote for your favorite among the three finalists for our T-shirt open design competition. As far as I’m concerned all the horses are still in this race, and your vote could make a difference.

Even though we’ve been super-busy at Anime Evolution all weekend, our goal is to start the pre-order as soon as possible after the polls close, so stay tuned for some exciting merch news in the very near future :).

Let the best shirt win!

Which do you think should be the next LRR T-Shirt Pre-Order

  • Starburst (42%, 587 Votes)
  • Rocket (31%, 436 Votes)
  • Die (26%, 367 Votes)

Total Voters: 1,390

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64 Robots are happy.
August 5th, 2010

Posted by james

To all those that pre-ordered our new poster, you have made 64 various robots very happy. I’m happy to announce that we had enough pre-orders to go ahead and print a run of Alex’s hilarious 64-Robot poster pair.

We will be sending them to the printers in the next couple days and should be on track to ship them out to you all by sometime next week.

In related merch news, the entry date for the redesigned logo shirt came and went late last night and we had a lot of great entries. We are currently narrowing them down so we can get them up on the site and ready to be judged and voted on by all of you!

Open Call: Design a T-Shirt – Final Day
August 3rd, 2010

Posted by Jeremy

This is just a quick reminder that you have a little over 12 hours left to get your designs in for LoadingReadyRun’s first ever T-shirt design open call. Whether you’ve been working tirelessly on the design, or this is just the first you’ve heard of it,  now is the time to pull the trigger and get the chance to have your design worn by LoadingreadyRun fans. Full details here. Best of luck to all entrants!

Open Call: Design a T-Shirt
July 13th, 2010

Posted by Jeremy

Please read this entire post carefully

Over the last few months, we have gotten an increasing number of emails asking us to “please do a shirt like [x]”. This is cool because it gives us some clues about what you want, but it’s a bit hard to manage, as it gives us no indication of how badly you want it or it what quantities. It might be easier, we have thought on occasion, to just let you design a shirt yourselves… so that’s exactly what we’re going to do.

Today, I’m happy to announce the first ever LoadingReadyRun T-Shirt Design Open Call, through which we hope to solicit a tonne of t-shirt designs from from you, the LRR fanbase. From that tonne of submissions, we will choose the designs that we like the most and put them to a public vote right here on the blog. The designer whose shirt is most supported  will be offered a contract, the short version of which is: we buy the design for $200, and that shirt becomes our next pre-order item.

Here is the part you need to read especially carefully

Submission guidelines:

  1. For this open call, we are looking for a variant LoadingReadyRun logo shirt–that means the logo should be the focus of the design, though you can interpret that as you like: you could construct it out of buildings, imply it in negative space, create it out of ascii symbols, whatever you like. You can have other things on the shirt besides the logo, providing the logo stands out and draws the eye. I’m including both bitmap and vector reference files for you to work with here.
  2. Four colours, maximum; front only.
  3. No copyrighted material except our logo. I like the Pac Man ghosts too, but we can’t put them on a shirt.
  4. No hatespeech: we’re Canadian; it’s illegal up here…also it’s really inappropriate anywhere.
  5. This is not a contest, it is a job offer. We reserve the right to turn down any submission, and might decide that no submission meets the necessary requirements for what we’re doing. We also reserve the right to tweak the winning selection to best meet our needs.
  6. We will not use your design unless it is chosen through the selection process. If your design is chosen, we will provide you with a form to sign that sells us ownership.
  7. Your submission must include the following:
    • Your name and email address
    • a pdf, png, jpeg, Adobe Illustrator or Flash file illustrating your design
    • a separate pdf, png, jpeg, Adobe Illustrator or Flash file illustrating your design as it would appear on a t-shirt.
  8. Assuming you understand and agree to the above, please send your submission to [email protected] no later than 11:59 pm PST, August 3, 2010.

Thanks, everyone, for your interest! We think this will be a fun experiment, and look forward to seeing your submissions :D.