I decided early on to take the same approach on marketing B5 as
was taken with Calvin and Hobbes (my favorite strip) by its creator: do
either nothing or as little as possible for the first period of the
show. Don't become merchandise driven. Concentrate on the story, on
doing your *job* right, then later worry about the fringes. So I've been
dragging my feet on this. But if and when we get picked up, I'll likely
expedite this a bit. The main one that has been approved so far has been
Compton's CD Rom of the B5 universe, mainly because I can also see a lot
of educational use in that one, how a show is made and how you create an
SF universe, which makes it an exception in my view.

jms

The CD rom will cover EVERY aspect of production, from start to
finish, giving the user a firm idea of how a show is assembled. I want it
to be VERY detailed.

jms

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Never said I never wanted to do *any* merchandising...what I've
always said was that I wanted to do a little, here and there, adding a
bit as we go along, but doing so gradually, so we could control the
quality of the items, to make sure that fans didn't get stuck with
crummy stuff.

Mainly, I approve to merchandise anything that I think is either
very cool, or which I'd like to have myself.

jms

{original post had no questions}

We're actually doing a few small things via the B5 fan club. We
just Friday took delivery of our first batch of t-shirts made in-house:
they have the B5FC logo on the front left breast, and come in three
colors...one in black with white lettering saying "No boom today, boom
tomorrow, there's always a boom tomorrow" black for Ivanova's mood...a
white one (for the angelic seeming vorlons) with black lettering, "We
have always been here"... and a grey t-shirt with "We stand between the
darkness and the light" (the grey here is obvious).

We should be releasing these shortly.

jms

(blocked) asks:
> How are we going to order these, if we don't get to see the web
> site?

I'll post the info when we're ready to go. FC members
generally get discounts on all B5FC merchandise.

jms

{original post had no questions}

Yeah, they're fairly discreet, and kinda classy.

jms