It Has Just Come To My Attention That Lore, In Fact, Has A Fiddle. I Believe This Has Enhanced My Original

it has just come to my attention that lore, in fact, has a fiddle. i believe this has enhanced my original post tenfold

data and lore violin duel. send post

wait. wait. hold your horses. wai t.. .

Jon.... is actually being a cartoonist in this strip??? in the year of our lord and saviour sans undertale 2024, Jon is being a CARTOONIST??? he hasn't done that in AGES!!!! holy shit!!!! i shit you not, i literally have not seen a single strip where he actually sits down at his cartooning desk and draws something in SO LONG!!! i am genuinely so happy that the strip hasn't forgotten that Jon is supposed to be a work-at-home cartoonist after all!! yippee!!!

oh yeah and Garfield speaks too that's pretty cool

i literally just posted this 5 hours ago and it already has 300 notes. what the heck

after seeing the new TDAC episode i predict Gummigoo will be on the Sexypedia within hours. mark my word.

i was trying to remember the “live long and prosper” motto from star trek and for a solid 10 minutes the only thing i could think of was “live big and die”

here are images from a listing of the Apptivity Sensei figurine from 2012, produced by Mattel. according to the back of the box found on this listing, this figure would interact with the HD version of the Fruit Ninja app, which, i believe, were exclusive to iPads at the time. there are also other figures that were made for iconic mobile games, such as Angry Birds and Cut The Rope.

(1st listing archive) (2nd listing archive) (2nd listing screenshot)

additionally, there is also a variant of this figure i found on a Verge article (archive) that shows Sensei with an angrier expression, and i believe that this variant is a prototype using an early design because of the different platform, the much shinier finish compared to the final product, the different (and sloppier) paint job, and the fact that i can only find this variant in the form of photos on display, which are always prototypes before the actual toy goes into production. there is also no indication that this is a separately sold variant of the smiling Sensei figure. this is definitely an early concept.

the interesting thing about prototypes is that they can eventually turn up in thrift stores if they are not thrown away or destroyed, so i wonder, where could this figure be now? i hope it still exists, it's a very interesting piece of Fruit Ninja history.

this is also similar to the Fruit Ninja FX figurines which would be sold later, which had a similar element of interactivity to them. the available characters were Sensei, Katsuro and Truffles. i found a listing for the Sensei figure on ebay as well (archive).

(they're kinda similar to Skylanders figures, aren't they?)

finally, i found a musky old photo of a couple of fruit figures from a Spanish website, but unfortunately the listing had already disappeared and wasn't archived. i'll talk more about these if i find another listing for them.

P.S. i realised i forgot to paste the link for the shirt archive in the last reblog lol. here it is.

i was archiving a bunch of stuff on ebay and found this Fruit Ninja handheld that's very Tiger Electronics-like and i thought it was interesting because i've never seen it before, so here's some images from the original listing (archive) (screenshot)

i might start a reblog thread with a bunch of obscure-ish Halfbrick products i find on ebay because the documentation of these old products is important to me and they're just really interesting.