BLUE SUN SHIRTS

POSTED BY: alex157
UPDATED: Friday, January 16, 2004 05:18
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ALEX157

Friday, December 12, 2003 5:17 AM (P)

Does anyone know what the trademark status is on the Blue Sun logo? (probably fox I am presume) because I own a screen printing business, and if there is enough interest, I would love to pump out some shirts to bolster support for the series/film.....

PS- the DVD is truely a masterpiece.....

EMBASSY

Friday, December 12, 2003 5:30 PM (P)

The Blue Sun logo was put up on the Fox website with the message, "Enjoy!" in fairly high resolution sometime last year. Over the summer, I had made about 80 shirts with the logo, which are in the hands of various browncoats here and there. The logo was single color single side printed in blue via silkscreen on a Hanes Beefy-T or equivalent shirt, in a light gray color.

I charged ten bucks a shirt, and we wound up raising about 100 bucks for the homeless vets of Santa Barbara county. I wear my Blue Sun shirt to the gym all the time, where beautiful women swoon and men throw me thinly disguised glares of envy.

The shirt is featured prominently in Succatash's "Welcome to FireflyFans.net, you refugees of the official board" video, which you may see here: http://www.strangefinger.com/official-board-fans2.mpg

Embassy

I used to think the brain was the most important organ. Then I thought, "Hey! Who's telling me that?"

FLAMBE

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 4:56 PM (P)

Woah... good video.

DITHER

Friday, January 2, 2004 5:38 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by Embassy:
The shirt is featured prominently in Succatash's "Welcome to FireflyFans.net, you refugees of the official board" video, which you may see here: http://www.strangefinger.com/official-board-fans2.mpg

Aren't the prospero boards the official ones? I've seen Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin and Mark Sheppard post there.

MRGREEN

Saturday, January 10, 2004 3:38 AM (P)

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Woah... good video.

Indeed. Best Firefly fan film. Ever.

GAIJIN

Saturday, January 10, 2004 6:27 AM (P)

It's not there.

Thanksgiving is a sham. But it's a sham with yams...it's a yam sham.

SERGEANTX

Saturday, January 10, 2004 7:12 AM (P)

http://www.cafeshops.com/foetuswear.9299924

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

KERNELM

Saturday, January 10, 2004 8:03 AM (P)

There's also this cafeshop:
http://www.cafeshops.com/bluesunstuff

TRAGICSTORY

Saturday, January 10, 2004 1:02 PM (P)

Any chance of finding NON-Cafeshop blue sun stuff? Only because I am not very happy with thier quality.

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WINTERFELL

Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:10 PM (P)

I say go for it.. anyone who wants to make shirts should do it.. there's little chance you'd actually start mass producing them (10's of thousands) and even so, i doubt any one at fox/mutant enemy would care.

on a side note... anyone ever going to make some black t-shirts with logos on them (firefly/bluesun/whatever) ???

some of us have pale skin and blond hair and wearing white does nothing for our complexion

i'd buy tons of black ones though. hail...

~~~Robb of Winterfell~~~~~
~ http://winterfell.org ~~
~High Fantasy Heavy Metal~

TRAGICSTORY

Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:51 PM (P)

Well, these designs are mine ( http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=13&t=2042) and I don't really plan on doing anything with them as I have no real clue even where to start. But I am looking into it to weigh the pros and cons.

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"Societies are supported by human activity, therefore they are constantly threatened by the human facts of self-intrest and stupidity." --Peter Berger

ALEX157

Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:51 PM (P)

We can print them on any color shirt- if I can get at least 36 people that ask for them, I will print and ship them out-

MUDDER

Saturday, January 10, 2004 6:41 PM (P)

i would definitly be interested in a tan shirt with the blue sun logo, and i can garauntee my bro would too.

MORGANRHYS

Saturday, January 10, 2004 7:01 PM (P)

How much would the shirts be? I'd love to get one for my wife, and one for myself, of course.

ALEX157

Saturday, January 10, 2004 8:28 PM (P)

We can make the shirts for $8 each plus shipping- this would be on heavy weight 100% cotton short sleeve T's- colors- Tan, Brown, Black, Grey ect- of course we can do white also So now We need only 33 more dedicated fans...... :)

PHLEBOTININ

Saturday, January 10, 2004 8:42 PM (P)

Count me in for two shirts, possibly three! I'm thinking brown, too, but maybe a few colors.

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TSHETZ2

Saturday, January 10, 2004 8:43 PM (P)

I'd love at least 3....please!!!!!!

WHOODAHN

Saturday, January 10, 2004 10:48 PM (P)

Put me in for 2 shirts.

ALEX157

Sunday, January 11, 2004 12:10 AM (P)

Everyone who wants the shirts, please e-mail me directly with quantity, size, and shirt color, as soon as I get at least 36, I will respond with the time table for printing (about 6 days) and then you can send me shipping info ... and we will all be looking shiney
alex0157b@yahoo.com

LEEH

Sunday, January 11, 2004 1:48 AM (P)

Alex157--any thoughts about doing a design other than Blue Sun? I have one of the Blue Sun t-shirts that Embassy made, and it's cool, but part of me doesn't really like wearing a logo that is associated with evil corporate stuff (even fictional evil corporate stuff). Plus I look crappy in pale blue.

I just bought an iron-on t-shirt from Cafe Press that has Firefly/Serenity on it; it's a nice design, but cheap quality. But it's nice to have the ship on the shirt. I'd love a silk-screen version, and maybe on the back, "You can't take the sky from me" or some such.

Thoughts? Or is everyone just dedicated to the Blue Sun approach?

MAKEROFPATHS

Sunday, January 11, 2004 2:24 AM (P)

I think the issue is more about copyright and trademark breaches than choice. Blue Sun logo seems to be free of encumbrances, as seems to be indicated on the original Fox TV site.
There was a point in the late fall in which ME prez Chris Buchanan volunteered it was considering some souvenir products. That will probably coincide with a Mutant Enemy web site.
But, I'll speculate that the Universal movie will delay some of these Firefly logo products.

ALEX157

Sunday, January 11, 2004 3:25 PM (P)

I was trying to find some other logo/ ect to print myself- for variety and all- I really loved that show, so if anyone can find anything else to print, and there is interest, I will print that also- we have an 8 color press, so we can print close to photo quality stuff- like pictures of the serenity or the charactors, but would need to find out about copywrite for that - otherwise, if you can think of any other logo type stuff- I will look at the DVD's more closely- I would be glad to do them- someone on this site seems to have the serenity logo from somewhere on/in the ship- says "serenity" on top of chinese charactors which I assume say the same thing- I would like to get a graphic of that I could print......

LEEH

Sunday, January 11, 2004 6:12 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by alex157:
I was trying to find some other logo/ ect to print myself- for variety and all- I really loved that show, so if anyone can find anything else to print, and there is interest, I will print that also- we have an 8 color press, so we can print close to photo quality stuff- like pictures of the serenity or the charactors, but would need to find out about copywrite for that - otherwise, if you can think of any other logo type stuff- I will look at the DVD's more closely- I would be glad to do them- someone on this site seems to have the serenity logo from somewhere on/in the ship- says "serenity" on top of chinese charactors which I assume say the same thing- I would like to get a graphic of that I could print......

I guess the folks at cafepress.com are flying below anyone's radar, copyright-wise, and probably just haven't been "caught" selling FF merchandise; we're less likely to be in that situation, if FOX is monitoring this site. (I can't imagine Joss caring if we print logo stuff, but I can imagine FOX being nasty greedy assholes--gee, I wonder why I feel that way?)

I like your idea of the logo on top of the chinese characters. I'd go for that!

MORGANRHYS

Sunday, January 11, 2004 6:46 PM (P)

Ok, one more dumb question before I email you w/ my order. Is the brown a dark brown, or more like a tan? (jayne like and all)

ALEX157

Monday, January 12, 2004 2:08 AM (P)

I will get it as Jayne as I can- although his was pretty worn- so I won't try to recreate that... :)

SNIPER

Monday, January 12, 2004 2:22 AM (P)

How about with the knife cut down the middle? ;)

I might be interested in purchasing some, if you can take a check...

SAINT JAYNE

Monday, January 12, 2004 3:21 AM (P)

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Originally posted by Sniper:
How about with the knife cut down the middle? ;)

Is that like pre-ripped jeans? Kids these days...

SNIPER

Monday, January 12, 2004 12:40 PM (P)

Well, I was joking, but i guess it would be essentially the same. hehe...

ALEX157

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:48 PM (P)

I have 22 potential orders as of today, just to keep everyone posted..... Also- would anyone be interested in the ship logo if I can find it- it is the word "SERENITY" superimposed over the Chinese charactor for the same- let me know...
Alex

MUDDER

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:36 PM (P)

I would like to see what that would look like before i said i would order one. But definitly interested.

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Why are we still discussing whats already been decided?!

WINTERFELL

Wednesday, January 14, 2004 5:42 PM (P)

I'd love any firefly related merchandise... i guess my main question is could you itemize what you are offering? Example:

(whatever logo) in (list color) on (color of tee) for (X price)...

or is this pretty much whatever we want, we can have?

should i e-mail you for this info or sumthin?

~~Robb of Winterfell~~
~ http://winterfell.org ~
High Fantasy Heavy Metal

ALEX157

Friday, January 16, 2004 5:18 AM (P)

OK, now I have enough interest to run the blue sun logo shirts- it will be the blue sun logo, in (blue) on primarilly the Khaki shirts, but I have some folks that want White or Black shirts with the blue logo, so I will print them also - (the machine does not care what color shirts are being sent through) I have been keeping a list of everyone who has e-mailed me at alex0157b@yahoo.com, - anyone else, please let me know- we are planning to print next week....

Alex