We have finally added a gear store to our website. We are hoping to offer some really fun stuff, and try to spread the word about our games at the same time. We are currently adding many of villagers from Virtual Villagers...stay tuned!

Here is the link: www.cafepress.com/lastdayofwork

Wow!

Wow nice! That Virtual Villagers mousepad looks exellent. Ironic too that i've been looking for a new mousepad :P

Great work guys

Carla, the gear store looks great! It seems like you've already gotten a good start on the VV section.

As I don't know what you've got yet on the Fish Tycoon section (as it isn't done lol), I don't know if you've already thought of it or not, but have you considered a charm line? Small charms of each of the 441 fish, in color, that people could easily buy and attach to their existing bracelets? By now, you're probably thinking of the Italian charms but I was thinking more of the more typical dangling charms, heh.

You could even sell a bracelet on the site that's geared for adding FT charms, also. You, I think, would have to find a metal bead manufacturer, those that specialize in making metal charms, and talk to 'em about it but I'm sure you could probably do something like that.

I know that the Crimson Comet and Speckled Leaffish would sell quite well. In fact, I have a couple of ideas for those two - the Crimson Comets would go well with the fuschia or rose crystals, and Speckled Leaffish with the tanzanite crystals, in some of my beadwork designs (I run a small business, Catweaver's Beadwork).

I must say I feared that the goods may turn out a little 'tacky' but that my fears have not been realised!.In fact I may even buy something!( That is very unusual for me)
well done!

Hmmm... I can't see the page at all. Even when I allow cookies. I'm not getting any security warnings, so I'm not sure why I can't see it.

Do you have popups allowed?

Hmmm... I thought so, but I'll check. I know I have my settings to allow everything on LDW site, but maybe not for others.

Thanks Carla, that will probably fix it.

Dang... nope. I tried both IE and Firefox, both with pop-ups allowed. There can be only one culprit left to try... The mother of all culprits... NORTON. lol!

Brenda, did you try just typing the address in IE?

Otherwise, since I am sure you can browse the web, why don't you go directly at www.cafepress.com and then type in ldw in the search box.

lol! Well, of course I didn't try that! That would have been too easy. I'll ...eh.. try that right now. (blush)


Edit; yeah... that did it. Thanks Carla

Hahaha Was that a Blonde Moment J/K

lol! Yes, indeed it was. I seem to have a lot of them lately.

<--- Must be some of that hair around my ears is growing inward.

<----- Me too! (but I'm only a little dog, so I'm also not sure which end my brain is on, lol!)

I like the Coffee Mugs but They are one sided, can you put one up that has the logo on one side and VV or FT on the Other????

I am afraid that we can only put a logo on one side, but I will inquire with cafepress and see if it's possible

Carla, just so you know, I was able to finally view the LDW logo items, but ran into the same blank page problem when clicking on the link to other items. I can only assume it is my computer's Internet Security is blocking yet another type of script somewhere there.

I keep my security pretty tight, but I allowed all I could to see the LDW gear. But, as many other's here seem to be able to see all links, then perhaps it's nothing to worry about, and is just a "My Computer" thing. I'm only reporting it to you so you know what some computers encounter trying to view your neat stuff.

I figured out how to get a LDW Logo and a Villiager on a coffee Mug you make one graphics thats elongated with White space in the middle so it wraps around the mug as one image but looks like two when it's placed on the mug...(thats how other companies I've spoken two are doing it)....Just incase you wantted to know...

I think the addition of charms would be a terrific idea. I know that Joan Rivers has a line of egg charms for necklaces and bracelets, and although they are a little pricey, they are very nice. She sells through QVC, so you might check their website to research the idea. I would be very interested in the charms, especially if they were nickle free as I am allergic to that metal, and if you added crystals, I do not know if it would be more expensive or less, but my mind is racing with the sort of charms you could come up with for the Villagers.

well not really

I noticed there were no gc items.Ha! We love you guys and what you do with your games, but were you afraid we would burn any tees with the gc???????? Of course if VV2 is going to be gc free, hey there is a good slogan for the new game,(GC Free!!) then perhaps that is why there is no gc items.?

I never noticed this thread before...is the shop still open?

Yes, the shop is still open. You will find LDW and Virtual Villagers items available for purchase there.

Oh, sweet! There should be a big "Huh?" across the back or "Oh!"...well the ideas could get pretty funny. I liked the charm and mousepad idea too...

Anyway, it's great and I'm glad to have found out about it. I'm off to start counting pennies

i love the fish tycoon ideas!

Awesome!

I'd like to see Virtual Villagers jigsaw puzzles!

I like the vast array of T shirts available - one suggestion I have though...

Is there any way of choosing which specific villager + outfit you have on it (and including all the choices from all three villager games)? I can't imagine it'd be much different than printing the T shirts as they are. Or maybe at least doing some kind of poll so people can register interest for specific villagers.

I'd buy one if they had one of my favourites on it, so far it doesn't exist!

Also, there's not much variety of product! I know LDW is a game making company, not a merchandise company per se, but if you're going to have a shop, have a full one and not a half hearted one (that's mainly just a T shirt shop!).

I'd love to see models of the villagers too...

Just a couple of suggestions, I don't know if they're viable but I just thought I'd put it out there!

I like that idea. Going back to VV1 and making a puzzle of the GC "Making a Party" could be a fun challenge. :alugh:

Jigsaw puzzles,id like that.Dolls would be nice to.

I like all these ideas.
Will there be any Plant Tycoon merchandise coming out? I didn't see any in the store.

Have you considered keychains? These items are smaller which means they are easy to carry around and can easily remind someone of their game.

a site sold me a T-shirt printed with a picture that I may send them. I chose the pic of Isola.

To day I received it:

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(sorry, my photo isn't very good...)

Very nice T-shirt

I like the tee shirt, laurence .

Laurence I ordered from Fuji photos a mug and mouse mat and got the pic of my villagers on them.

That's awesome Ann.

I especially like the mouse pad. I think that is really cool looking.

Wow!! I like it!
That's a very good idea, Ann! And I agree with Gamey, the mouse pad is really good!

Thank you I was pleased the way it turned out.

What are the copyright laws for doing that with LDW images?

wow.. nice place!

JUST MAKE SOME TOYS OK??? I mean, a playset...or dolls...

Also, the VV products only include villagers from VV1.
Maybe the LDW company can make something like this:
1. On "VV Products", there could be 4 buttons, 1 for each VV.
2. We could choose Male or Female.
3. We would choose the heads and clothes (I mean 2 arrows, left
and right, on each body part for us to click)

The LDW store doesn't seem to have been updated for several years. Maybe they haven't made as many sales as they'd like? Perhaps the inclusion of more up-to-date merchandise might cause more people to use it. They might advertise it better on the main site and in the forums here as well.

If the store is updated as mentioned above, I think there should be gear specific to the Virtual Families series, as well as the Virtual Villagers items.

Wow, these look great! Just wondering, who are the villagers on the tshirts/ mugs? Are they from an actual village, or are they just the drawings?