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xazothia wrote:Welcome to the derby. lol :P

I try to suspend my disbelief of plainly wrong submissions getting votes until they hit 25 or so. from 25-50 I say "umm..." and past 50 I tattle if I haven't already. Consequently, I haven't "effing hell?"-ed since Derby 100.

LMAO! Sounds like a good rule to go by ... I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. :D

thatrobert wrote:

... I'm speechless. But I feel fuzzy.

THANK YOU!

mjl9320 wrote:In an abstract sense, floating is a subclass of flying (one could say that a hot air balloon is flying). Therefore you could call this a flying island. The fish are clearly flying through the air, just as you might say a superhero flies through the air. The concept of flight is not limited to a bird flapping its wings or an airplane mid-flight unless you are a toddler who hasn't yet made this mental connection.

you are the one who stated it must be a superman pose not me. get it straight.

thatrobert wrote:

• Congratulations on winning a Best Loser Award!
  
• This is not SPAM.
  
• Your one and only gift is this crappy little badge in your shirt thread. Enjoy.
  
• A foxtrot above my head, a sockhop beneath my bed.
  

Hey, how nice!:D Thanks thatrobert!

I did the google search as you suggested, and I see your point.

In defense of my design:

1. It's multi colored (everything google image search threw up was mono-chrome)

2. I don't have the stem in the picture

3. None of the shirt designs show up when you don't include shirt in the image search (which is what I did when looking for references)

Given the fickle nature of the rejectionator, I've come to the conclusion you're better off submitting and see what happens then self censoring.

Just look what's happening in the fog right now. In my opinion the jet pack shirt should have bit the dust days a go, while the ET shirt was different enough from existing designs to stay. I have very little doubt there is personal bias at work when it comes to rejections.

Re: Your Time to Fly

Yes, this must be asked for the umpteenth time: Why is this shirt still not rejected for being similar to many others on many other sites?

Leahbh wrote:I would have been fine if the rejection was for the ET character, that one actually makes sense, but similar shirts exist is a stupid argument. Copyright? fine.

WOOT started this shirt thing with the intent on offering shirt that you couldn't get anywhere else. so to reject for similar shirts exist,is the very thing they are looking for. they just hire people that don't know what that is.

Re: The Joy of Flight... almost

emmakate wrote:Cutest. Thing. Ever. I love his huge eye peering out of the tree trunk.

Heh, thanks emmakate - the shirt is honored to be the cutest... thing... ever!:D

EclecticMuse wrote:... I'm speechless. But I feel fuzzy.

THANK YOU!

First entry and you get a BLA? Congrats! :D

Re: Sky Fishing

This is an amazingly good looking shirt.. I'm in for one!

Re: Flying fish

unimatrixZxero wrote:color combination is epic.

Wow, thanks unimatrixZxero.

SpastasticNomadic wrote:I don't. I really liked the yeti. Even if I was a bit of an Dr. Clayton Forrester and thought it was Bigfoot at first. :/ The polar bear is good, but the misconception of penguins and polar bears living in harmony down south drives me a bit nutty. For no good reason, I'll admit. Still, I haven't seen an rglee design that I haven't wanted on my turnips.

Even after all that rambling, GMV. I'll just tell myself the polar bear is on holiday. Yep.

The notion of polar bears and penguins getting along bothers you but the notion of a yeti throwing penguins doesn't bother you at all?

Re: Your Time to Fly

This is a cool shirt but I can't see how hasn't been rejected. I've seen a lot of shirts be rejected that were a lot more original than this one is...

DeadFrog wrote:A larger version can be viewed on my blog at deadfrogdesign.blogspot.com.

I have never really paid attention to the artist names on here, I usually just vote for the shirts I like lol. But I NOW KNOW that I have definitly voted for a lot of your art in the past. Please keep it coming, I love your work

Re: Escape Hatch

I wish there was a button for "I'd want two or three"!

NEED THIS SHIRT> NEED

Re: Lite Coke Mint O's = Rocket Version 2

why was this rejected?

ChefRAZ wrote:WOOT started this shirt thing with the intent on offering shirt that you couldn't get anywhere else. so to reject for similar shirts exist,is the very thing they are looking for. they just hire people that don't know what that is.

it's not similar to the other shirt!

Re: Your Time to Fly

What I find most funny about this situation is that if this were a Ramy or Seki shirt, people would be FREAKING. OUT. "this is unoriginal and disrespectful blah blah blah whine whine whine reject NAO!".

Sachmoe64 wrote:Although it looks very simular to the P-40 Mustang, it is actually based on the British Spitfire. Thanks!

Just so you know, the P-40 is the Warhawk. The P-51 is the Mustang.

-Cheers

BillyBcool wrote:I like it. Batman meets Fruity Pebbles.

Yum and thanks!

alliecatn1 wrote:Love the colors!!

Thank you, alliecatn1!

@whalen25, I definitely will.

HalfWheat wrote:I agree that the penguin and the background don't quite fit together. You could have worked this into two shirts. One with the penguin, which would probably have needed something else going on, and then another with the airplane concept.

Not sure what the penguin would have needed, but considering all the other penguin shirts, it would have to be something different that what was submitted earlier.

The only problem I have with the planes is that they look like stock artwork that you just arranged on the shirt, which probably wouldn't get a whole lot of votes if it was all you had going on with the shirt. And even as a background element, people would be more impressed if you drew the planes.

If you did draw them from scrath, then there's something about the style than gives them that "stock art" look that's not as appealing as something that's a little less precise, so maybe that's something to consider for the future.

Txs I will take that into consideration as my full time job requires me to draw exactly what I see I some times find it hard to get out of that mind set. Yes I did draw the planes took me quite a while too so thanks for saying they were precise I do take that as a complement

SailorButterfly wrote:First entry and you get a BLA? Congrats! :D

Thanks! :D *happy dance with you*

Re: Diet Coke Mentos = Rocket

I like the idea! kind of fell apart in the execution though..

billratio wrote:why was this rejected?

Are you serious?

42Wired wrote:Change "Coke Lite" to "Cola Lite" or "Diet Cola" and I think you'll be fine.

I still think "Cola" is a little too close ... the "Mintos" definitely is.

Re: Your Time to Fly

i am really amazed that this hasn't been rejected.

radiomode wrote:Somehow it didnt surprise me. The only time I didnt get rejected were the time I didnt have any chance of winning.

Let's see if I can get this someway printed.

Let's not.

andersca81 wrote:I love this design. If you print it somewhere else I must have it. I'm sorry it's not doing better in this derby. Sometimes I think people don't scroll through the actual submissions before voting.

Thank you, andersca81, I will let you know!

sleemo wrote:Thanks! Fingers crossed for breaking 10 votes...

i did it!

Re: The Sun's Not So Far

I think Icarus should be white if you're going to have the design on a navy shirt. You're probably going to have to re-sub anyway because of the gradient around the sun.

Re: Progression of flight

The curve in the strings between penguin and balloons bothers me. That line has to be completely straight if the balloons are supporting the penguin.

Change lite coke to Cola lite or somethnig, and change mentos to mintys/o-mints or something. You can suggest a brand without copying it completely.

Never EVER expect Woot to explain anything about how they pick what stays and what goes. They won't do it, it's like speaking to a stone wall. I've tried to email them about things, reporting things, complain here. Nothing. I'm convinced the staff will never do anything more then stamp "rejected" on shirts and move along.

I think I need to wear this shirt next time I fly some "wanna-be VIPs". I can just imagine the looks I'd get when I greet them and tell them I'm the pilot!

kenney9226 wrote:Oh, dear friendly neighbor from the North, I direct you to the historical archives of the shirt derby, way back to derby #15: time travel souvenirs.

You will see that in that week I managed to pull a Marty McFly and return with my winning entry from future derby #387: six packs, with the following triumphant entry:



If you do further research, you will note that at the time I lied about actually winning that derby and that I actually only came in second place. This was even more proof that I brought this back from the future, as at the time of derby #15, only the top vote getter was being published, and second and third place entries were not printed.

Clearly, my trip back from the year 2014 was no joke, as I bought this shirt that was a second place winner on Saturday, December 27, 2014, waited at my home for the smart post delivery, and came back to November 2007 to show everyone my triumphant souvenir from my time travel.

Inspired by my knowledge of my eventual victory in the future, I continue to enter the shirt derby.

Alert readers will also realize that with my obvious proof of eventual shirt derby victory, those who claim that 2012 will be the end of time are clearly proven wrong as well.

Thank you and have a super day, everyone!

i want to see a picture of you wearing that shirt. you owe it to me after i read all that.

asmadasrabbits wrote:i am really amazed that this hasn't been rejected.

I'm telling ya someone at woot has a kid that wants this shirt

Dracomorrigan wrote:Yeah I'll keep that in mind for anything I do in the future. It's not as detailed as I would have liked, though. Oh well. Next time.

This is pretty funny, I like it =) Good luck! gmv =)

Re: Stay Grounded

It bothers me that this shirt is doing fairly well and no one has even mentioned that it doesn't have much to do with fight. Yes, I know, birds can fly. But these birds are singing and getting electrocuted so where is the flight in that? Seems like another boots design that, cute as it may be, was shoehorned into the derby theme.