Holiday Rush and Production Update

As you might imagine, things get a bit nuts this time of year. But since I'm up late and can't sleep anyway (and am working on some future products, one of which is rendering a file right now) I though I would at least update on some things.

First of all, Project Mercury should be back in stock next week. This is one of our best sets, and the price of the set will be increasing after the first of the year, so if you have been holding back on this set, now is the time to get it.

We just have a couple of items to get back in stock and then shortly after the first of the year we'll have everything in stock (except for the pre-order items, of which we have three at the present time). Apollo 11: To The Moon, which is in production and next, The Cape, which we're working furiously upon, and Space Shuttle: First Flights, which I believe is going to be a set comparable to our Mercury set, but even better with the HD content.

Within the next few days I will share with our blog readers some test stills from some of the animation on the Shuttle set. We are looking deeply into the development of the shuttle, including everything from the Sanger Silverbird through von Braun's Saturn Shuttle to Dynasoar, through the various proposals in all the phases leading up to the final choice. As part of this examination we are using CGI to bring these proposals to life. In the next few days I will share some stills from some of these realizations in bringing these astounding possibilities to life.

More soon....

Comments

[rickl]

I wholeheartedly agree that Mercury is one of your best sets. Maybe it's because of my age, but I'm still fascinated by the early pioneering days of space exploration. I still have some old tattered copies of Life magazine from that era.

I'm also looking forward to the other forthcoming sets you mentioned.

But I'm curious about some projects you announced awhile ago, but haven't mentioned lately:

1. Individual mission sets of Mercury and/or Gemini. You released Freedom 7, but nothing since. Are you still planning on releasing other missions? If so, it would be nice to expand them to include additional material that was not on the original Mercury set. Particularly in the case of Faith 7, which I feel got a cursory treatment on Mercury.

The still photos on the Freedom 7 disc were good to look at, but in the future it would be nice if you could put them on the discs as individual TIFFs or JPEGs so we could download and print them, or use them as computer wallpaper. (I'm assuming that they are in the public domain.)

2. Sets of individual rocket families, such as Atlas, Titan, and Delta. Are you still planning on doing that eventually? Those would really be nice. And I still think Atlas deserves a 3-disc set, like The Mighty Saturns. The V-2 could have 2 discs; one of the German launches and one of the American launches at White Sands and Project Bumper.

The possibilities are endless. Hey, I'm just trying to keep you employed. :)