Remember those “Londinum” posters in QMx’s Blue Sun Travel Poster sets that turned out to be spelled wrong? The ones they offered at the San Diego Comic Con anyway? Now you can order one of them for your very own!
A funny thing happened on our way to Comic-Con International 2007 in San Diego. It seems a certain Mr. Joss Whedon – you know, that fellow who created a little thing called Firefly and Serenity – found a small problem with one of our preproduction Blue Sun Travel posters the California Browncoats were selling at the show. The hitch? Well, in Joss’ own words, posted on Whedonesque.com:
“Wow. Those are extremely cool. Masterfully designed.
But it’s ‘Londinium.’
But they’re really great!”Needless to say, we brought production to a screeching halt. We then changed the final version of the poster to include the second “i” – but not before some of those preproduction sets made it into the hands of a lucky few Browncoats.
Some of you have taken issue with this. You’re just a bit miffed that you can’t get the “One -Eye” Londinum art print anymore. Well, we aim to fix that with 1,000 numbered prints of old One-Eye. We’re introducing these at a very low price for a numbered limited edition: just $19.95. Same 17″ x 22″ size and same high quality, 100-pound, satin finish paper as our retail travel posters.
The plates have been destroyed – when these are gone they’re gone forever. So get yourself a copy of our favorite mistake before they’re no more.
Head to Quantum Mechanix and check ’em out. If you’re interested in getting one of the original misprint sets with all the other posters plus the Londinum one, TFAW.com has a few left. And if you haven’t gotten your set yet with the corrected poster, stop by QMx or TFAW.com.
Although a warning about ordering them via TFAW (and I say this with great hesitation, since I’m still trying for a job over there, all the more now that I’ve been unceremoniously laid off from my current job): I know one person who ordered the misprint set from them… and got the other set delivered to them instead.
Has your friend contacted them? I’d be willing to bet TFAW.com would swap ’em out.
And good luck!
They must have, because I asked last night and today they say they have “Londinum”.
I ordered a set straight from QMx (when I ordered the new ship papers), and it came with both Londinum and Londinium.
Needless to say, I was quite pleased.