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AdderXYU wrote:similar shirts were proven to exist, though, so...

Look, if you're panties are in a bunch because this is less like said shirt than the rocketpack is to other rocketpacks, I'm with you. Woot is proving why people are so malcontent with them on that move. But it is still a viable rejection made no less viable for what has gone unrejected.

I think this shirt is just as bad as the rocketpack (which has awful physics) in terms of similarity. This one contains silhouettes, the same objects, same color scheme, osv. as the other shirts. At a glance, the referenced shirts could easily look like this one.

The rocketpack is just a bland overused idea that was never appealing in the first place.

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

Our Movie Genre!!! Please please please let them make this one!!!!!

EclecticMuse wrote:Got My Vote, I think.

Took me few days of reading here to catch what it meant.

AH! Thx! ^_^

Re: Red Flew

Don't suppose there's a chance this one will make it...I'd definitely buy it!

I still love this design. It's funny enough that people can see it and get a kick out of it over and over... I don't find too many of those shirts here anymore so I hope this pops up elsewhere.

Re: Your Time to Fly

tough call, yeah similar shirts exist obviously, but this one looks nothing like the other existing shirts. and also fire.

Re: The Joy of Flight... almost

BellaWolf wrote:Our Movie Genre!!! Please please please let them make this one!!!!!

I don't think that's going to happen based on the votes and time left (unless it gets an Honorable Mention and gets another chance), but thanks for your enthusiasm!

Re: Grandma's Gonna Be Mad

I love it, I love it, I love it... I would wear it everyday without a doubt. I'd probably buy 10. Just so all the people I am around are in the same shirt also...
Please make it into the fog.

PopeYmir wrote:I think this shirt is just as bad as the rocketpack (which has awful physics) in terms of similarity. This one contains silhouettes, the same objects, same color scheme, osv. as the other shirts. At a glance, the referenced shirts could easily look like this one.

Of course it uses the same elements it's referencing a famous movie scene!
And this shirt is far more clever than the one that already exists.

This leaps into the vacuum I really wanted to buy this shirt too. Screw all ya'll ivory tower types, this is an awesome shirt.

whoa!!!! insane!!! in the membrane!!!

Re: Sky Fishing

Very nice. Reminiscent of Terry Gilliam.
GMV

arparham wrote:Why would you want to induce vomiting with Ipecac?

OOPS! thanks for pointing that out. I meant dramamine. It's aweful when a person gets opposite substances confused...

Josephus wrote: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.

Thank you I didn't think about it when I finished, originally the penguin was in a different position and I used the shear and rotate tool to move him. I need to watch that in the future.

Re: The wrong type of wings

YOu need to win this so I can buy several for my caffiene-addict friends! GMV!

Re: Simple Owl

I missed this one, D1. I like it. It's neat how the space between the lines make it look like different shades of grey.

Re: Your Time to Fly

This shirt's in the fog and so, apparently, not rejected. The execution is great and I like it far better than any of the other rocket-pack shirts referred to here. So - execution and salability works. That's no crime. Good job - GMV!

roofdiver wrote: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.

If you scroll up to the first post, you can see my explanation of "flying," the last bird is supposed to be taking off in flight. I agree that it's not as clear as I would like it to be. I think I failed in the execution of the idea, rather than in the concept.

paigeg wrote:This shirt's in the fog and so, apparently, not rejected. The execution is great and I like it far better than any of the other rocket-pack shirts referred to here. So - execution and salability works. That's no crime. Good job - GMV!

OK, so I continued on my journey through the entries and saw FAIL was rejected because it was similar to existing shirts. Errrrmmmmm.... Just ignore me. I apparently know nothing.

Re: 99 Luftballons
go to threadless. or just type in, "99 red luft balloon" in google images and see what ya get.

you get the same title with an entirely different image and style. All of the following bands have a song titled 'Sunday Morning'

1. Velvet Underground
2. No Doubt
3. Maroon 5
4. Earth, Wind And Fire

Same title, different experiences. No different here.

Re: Leonardo Da Vinci's cat

This is incredible! Please get into the fog, I dont want to have to wait for an honorable mention derby to get this.

Blackfox19765 wrote: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!".

For artists, so much rides on the name you build for yourself. Ramy and Seki have not taken care of their name(s) so people have less patience with them. To my knowledge, Blammoed has not done anything in the past to tarnish her name, so it makes perfect sense for people to cut her slack.

bbbrob wrote:It's supposed to be one of those old planes.

Why does the plane have a Rutter?

spinachwrap wrote:This design is lovely, the colors are great, the concept is beautiful and I would really like to buy this...

But whenever I look at the fish all I see is that the number of fins is wrong and they don't have gills and augh my brain it hurts.
It's like seeing a cat with 8 legs or a human with 3 arms and a missing nose. *twitches sadly in fish biologist corner*

(1 dorsal, 2 pectoral, 2 pelvic, 1 anal, 1 caudal, if anyone other than me cares)

In this genre of art I think sometimes one needs to suspend one's disbelief. That being said, if I think about it too much it troubles me that the fins are scaly. I think that might be part of what makes people think that they aren't fish.

I do love the shirt though. Would love it more if it had the title. The title just adds and enhances that extra dimension of meaning and emotion.

Re: Up, Up and Away

I'm crossing my fingers that this breaks 100 votes before noon. *wish wish wish*

Re: Maiden Voyage 2: Night Flight

I just noticed this one for the first time--this is such a VAST improvement on the sketch you posted in the pre-derby thread! The colors really bring it to life. And I love the moon. Well done!

bvillarreal wrote:Looks like you're a talented artist - here's a link to some helpful submission guidelines for next time:
http://shirt.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=1946963

thanks for the info, you look to be talented also.

mrwednesday wrote:1st sentence

For myself I think rejection is a matter of opinion. I don't think I've personally posted saying any shirt should be rejected that ends up in the fog. I leave that for a woot determination. I can't put my finger on their consistency for rejection. I lean more towards inconsistent but they are human....

mrwednesday wrote:They aren't just here for the win.

I had a conversation with friends this past weekend of money versus pleasing people. Ramy and Seki have bad raps with a group of people over the internet. At the same time they're making suitcases of bills. From some numbers I ran on their sales they make tons of bank for the work they do. I can't see them, or even woot, changing their polices and becoming more strict unless sales drop. If Ramy and Seki are going to pull 3k shirt sales in a day that's really good for them and woot. So they're pleasing that many people versus a very small(in comparison), yet dedicated, minority. You can't please everybody, although bootsboots is doing a better job of pleasing people with her fish shirt.

Re: Your Time to Fly

cools

I absolutely love this shirt. Any chance you would release it somewhere else if it doesn't go into print with woot?

Re: Weapons Upgrade

Awesome, good luck!! I'm in for 2!

Re: Your Time to Fly

After all the comments about similar shirts existing, I went looking. While there were a whole bunch that came up with the search, most weren't jetpacks on the back of the shirt. Like pictures of people wearing jetpacks.

Of the shirts that were supposed to be jetpacks on the back of the shirt, one looked like air tanks and little else and one looked like a spaceship rather that a jetpack. There were none that you'd put side-by-side with this one and say that they reminded you of the other or that they looked similar in design. Yes, they were jetpacks, but there are also a multitude of shirts with trees on them, and tree shirts don't get rejected just for being trees. They need to look similar in terms of execution.

Honestly, I went out looking for the billions of shirts that look just like this one, and I was ready to say, "oh yeah, I've seen that before," but I didn't find what I was looking for. Of all the shirts I looked at, only one was close to this in style, and it's a shirt that's up for voting. So the shirt doesn't exist, yet. And the rule is about similar shirts, not similar potential shirts.

Maybe I missed a bunch of shirts somewhere that look really close to this one, but even though I was looking, I couldn't find them.

Obviously, the "similar shirts" rule is subjective, but I'm not convinced they were wrong to leave this up.

EclecticMuse wrote:I just noticed this one for the first time--this is such a VAST improvement on the sketch you posted in the pre-derby thread! The colors really bring it to life. And I love the moon. Well done!

Thanks, I appreciate it. I really enjoyed coloring this version.

EclecticMuse wrote:I'm crossing my fingers that this breaks 100 votes before noon. *wish wish wish*

I'm seeing 102 now. Congrats

mjl9320 wrote:Q.E.D.

i removed my favorite because it might help you focus. just because someone wears their favorite sports teams sweatshirt doesn't mean they care if another person likes it. it was my favorite, so i supported it, pretty simple concept....for most people.

i was merely stating a point that a floating islnd has no more to do with flight than a cat hanging out in clouds. YOU are the id10t that said it would only be on theme if it was in a superman pose. none of the elements on this shirt are in a superman pose.

i already said i liked the shirt, you are the pea brain that spun everything. and watching the films does my user name have to do with anything? i have purchased three times as many tees as you at least in waaaaaay less time than you. so don't even try saying my account is to garner votes.

you sir are the one who needs to work on mental connection.

Re: 99 Luftballons

Pretty cool. I have this song as my ring tone. I did it because we had an oral exam in German and we wanted to make the teacher laugh. It worked and we got a 100% on the exam.

Re: Given to Fly

I was sorry this never got more attention. Maybe we'll see these rain dudes sometime in the future.

[quote postid="3558324" user="dmaz"]There is no way i would not buy this

HalfWheat wrote:After all the comments about similar shirts existing, I went looking. While there were a whole bunch that came up with the search, most weren't jetpacks on the back of the shirt. Like pictures of people wearing jetpacks.
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scroll up the thread.

asmadasrabbits wrote:scroll up the thread.

The one on the cat is close, but I didn't find the shirt for sale anywhere. It could be a one-off iron-on design or maybe it's from a obscure site I didn't find. The threadless one is the next closest. But still different. As different as the multitude of tree shirts or bunny shirts or penguin shirts or cat shirts that don't get rejected.

The last one is still a jetpack...maybe. But it's a very 2-d design while this one has a 3-d feel to it. Completely different execution.

"Similar shirts" is a judgement call by Woot, but I can see why this wasn't rejected. I'm not saying they were wrong or right, just that I can see the reasoning behind it.

mjl9320 wrote:your username is jabberjaws13

If you're going to use that argument, might as well apply it to yourself. You'd be 9,320 years old. That would concern me more than if jabberjaws were 13. :P