Fallout Merchandise

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alec

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Since a couple of months, Ghent has a "Shop for Geek" store. I went there recently to check it out and I was truly amazed by the amount of Fallout related items they sold. I know this is probably perfectly normal for young people today, but back in 1997/1998 the only Fallout related stuff you could buy were the games (and maybe, if you were really really lucky, some promotional stuff Black Isle had made for the launch of both games). There were like 20 Fallout Funko Pops, there were keychains, there were badges, there were mugs, they even had Fallout aprons for crying out loud.
If I'm being honest, I'm actually glad these things did not exist back then because I would have bought them. I would have spend a small fortune on them, and I would have regretted it years later. I am actually selling my big box copies of the first two games tomorrow and you know what: I'm looking forward to seeing them go 'cause I have a feeling that Fallout 76 fucked up the franchise for good or certainly for many years to come.
So what about you guys? Have you bought Fallout merchandise? Are you dusting it off on a weekly basis? Did you build a Fallout shrine in a shadowy corner of your bedroom where you sacrifice babies or iguanas?

I did buy one thing at that "Shop for Geek" store, though. This beautiful motherfucker:
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It's only 30x40 cm, but it came framed, so it was worth the €24. I'm going to hang it next to a picture of my asshole father and demented mother.
 
Hehehe. They were sold a couple of days ago. The buyer is picking them up later today. Plus: they're the Dutch versions (Dutch box and manual, English games).

You're joking, though, right? How can you not have a copy of the classics? People should just spontaneously send you copies for all the mod work you've done so far. It only seems fair.
 
I had my chances in the late 90's to buy them, saw them on the shelves of gaming shops...just never got around to it. Not owning the box sets doesn't soften my love of the games. What was the price for these little beauties?
 
I've got a few Fallout stuff like bobbleheads I got for free and some other stuff (all roads comic, fallout 3 art book etc).

But yeah, when you get to Fallout socks, that's when we should just give up and go home.
 
.Pixote. said:
I had my chances in the late 90's to buy them, saw them on the shelves of gaming shops...just never got around to it. Not owning the box sets doesn't soften my love of the games. What was the price for these little beauties?
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I got €150 for both. I think that's very fair seeing as how only the Fallout 2 one was in really good condition, the first game had notes in the manual and somewhere along the line I lost the cd case. I still have 4 budget versions of the games, often including Tactics, so I won't be missing them much.

I do think Vault Boy works well as a Funko Pop, though. Much better than most franchises out there, but they're like 20 years too late to convince me to buy one.
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Millim said:
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I'm jealous of that. I really wish I had money when New Vegas came out.

As for having a shrine of Fallout junk? I could picture some of the random merchandise my friend has gifted me over the years. Random Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, and Fallout 4 merch. I wouldn't normally buy most of it but hey, it's a gift, I'm not upset. I have some SPECIAL attribute pins and he recently got me a Repair mini bobble head.

People around me know that I like Fallout and I'm not going to go into a stupid amount of detail about video games no one else around me cares to understand an inkling of. As long the stuff isn't so cringey I can't use it in the comfort of my own home, I'm fine. I was really proud of my girlfriend when she stopped someone from buying me this sign.
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I would have taken it as a gift but I don't particularly care for it as nothing about it reminds me of Fallout.
 
Ive literally only ever seen merch directly related to 3, 4, & 76. Outside of an NCR t shirt one time I've never seen merch related to the classics or new Vegas.
 
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Nice poster, I think I'll add it to Mutants Rising. I built an underground train station that could use it.
 
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