Comments on: I Want Sam & Max Toys

By: wien

wien — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:00:23 +0000

But that’s just it, they’re not just making the games

No, but the quality of the games is a completely separate issue from availability of merchandise. I could make sweet, sweet love to Telltale for releasing the comics and the TV-series again, even sweeter if they released the above mentioned items as well, but their games just aren’t good enough. The art-direction, voices and scripts are just poor for a Sam & Max game.

By: marmite

marmite — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:46:27 +0000

Not quite toys, but you can make paper cube-e’s of them here.

http://www.cubeecraft.com/character024.html
http://www.cubeecraft.com/character025.html

By: Lu-Tze

Lu-Tze — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:58:39 +0000

Plushies.

By: JonathanStrange

JonathanStrange — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:42:24 +0000

But that’s just it, they’re not just making the games. They’re publishing the re-release of the old books, they put the original cartoon on dvd and have that for sale. Shirts and merchandise if you’re into that thing, they even got Purcell back into working on the fuzzy pair.

Look for yourself: http://www.telltalegames.com/store/samandmax-highway

Personally I always thought the show was stupid, but hell, that’s just me. Season 2 of Sam & Max however had a couple moments I really enjoyed. The games started out dry, and I didn’t really like the new voices at first, but after awhile they hit a good stride and I’ve grown to like it.

By: wien

wien — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:29:36 +0000

Yeah, I’m sorry to say this (having bought two seasons in the vain hope that surely they’d get it right eventually), but the new Sam & Max games just don’t capture the sheer fun and random, but intelligent, sillyness of the cartoons, TV-series or the original game. They’re fine games by themselves, but they’re just not proper Sam & Max.

EDIT: But a plush Max with a big fluffy gun would be awesome.

By: SPEEDCORE

SPEEDCORE — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:26:12 +0000

Id rather have Sam & Max sitting in a dust pile than getting made into a rubbish rehash.

I fell asleep finishing ep1.

By: JonathanStrange

JonathanStrange — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:07:26 +0000

Dislike Telltale all ya like, but they’re good for Sam & Max. Unlike LucasArts who just sat on the license and did nothings.

By the by, there’s an amazingly great hardcover Sam & Max book you can buy from Telltale and signed by Purcell. Really good quality printing, pretty much must have for any fan. Published by Telltale apparently, I can’t stress enough how cool of a book it is. Even if you dislike the games, you’ve gotta atleast admire that they love the name.

By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:48:33 +0000

Wow Chris, that’s wicked! I’d love to meet Purcell.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:35:37 +0000

I had a Sam & Max pin I bought from the old Lucas Arts store, back when they were still making adventure games. I was working in a Barnes & Noble in Marin County, California, and I wore the pin to work on my shirt one day. (This was late 1990’s.)

While I was working the register, a guy comes up to pay for a book. He asks where I got the pin. I said “Oh, off a website.” I started to explain who Sam & Max were, but he stopped me by saying “Yeah, I know. I created those characters.” It was Steve Purcell. Way cool!

By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:31:22 +0000

The Telltale episodes are brilliant. Perhaps the pop comedy is too America-centric for you to dig it (you are a Brit, right?).

By: dartt

dartt — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:09:46 +0000

I would adore a cuddly Sam and Max.

By: Xagarath

Xagarath — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:36:59 +0000

At least Sam and Max have some kind of figurines. Why doesn’t Silent Hill? And why in the name of all that’s tackily plastic is there not a Death’s Head figure?