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RIX TINS
Rix Tins, the makers of fine tin products, have thrown their hat in the ring and will produce some merchandise based on Futurama. The product line will consist of similar items from their Simpsons line such as wastebaskets, playing cards and tin coasters. Similar to their counterparts the Futurama playing cards will be released as both a tin holder and a tin can to resemble a can of Slurm. Besides the can of Slurm none of the other scheduled items will be show specific, although if you look closely you may be able to pick up alot of these products from the coasters within the show..
Rix Tins has provided pictures of their tin case playing cards, coasters and a sample of the playing cards faces on their website. The playing cards looks like alot of fun as there are at least 16 different types of graphics used on the face cards including the Joker cards. No word yet on wether the playing cards scheduled to be released with the Slurm can will be the same or will differ in any way.
This is a signficant release of merchandise I feel because for the first time Futurama merchandise will be released that has more of a practical use. Items that are things that could be found in any household such as a waste basket or coaster or even the playing cards. This also marks the first time that similar products based on the Simpsons precluded items being developed for Futurama from the same company. It will be interesting to see how these do when released and could open the door to a variety of cool stuff based on Futurama!
For discussion on this visit the Futurama Foundation and also visit Grant's Toys who has these up for pre-order on his site. A special thanks to Grant from Grant's Toys for breaking this news at the Futurama Foundation. Also check the Toy Fare 2002 page for a picture of the tin coasters.

COASTERS

The first of the merchandise from Rix Tins has arrived. They are a set of 4 metal coasters and all feature themes of beer with Bender as the main focus. The coasters come in a neat little storage tin with an image of Bender on the front.
While I like the images and text to the coasters I think they could have went one step further and incorporated some more themes from the show into the graphics. Things like Mom's Old Fashioned Robot Oil and Slurm would have went nicely with the Olde Fortran Malt Liquour themes and would have been more in line with the show. As it is you can find at least a couple of these references in the show but you have to look for them as they are really background stuff.
The good news is that on the back of the packaging it lists this set as Series 1. Hopefully this will mean many more series to come and the aformentioned request of Mom's and Drink Slurm type graphics.

TIN AND PLAYING CARDS

Well, the first set of playing cards have begun to arrive now from Rix Tins. I say the first set of cards because on their agenda is a Slurm can with a set of playing cards inside which I think will be the same as these cards. We shall wait and see as they are supposed to be out in August.
Now on to the first set. The tin is nice - I like the graphics and it contains two sets of playing cards decks. The cards could be removed and the tin used to store other little memorabilia of Futurama like the tin clickers from RocketUSA or things like the promo buttons given out from the Bongo Comics Group at various conventions. The artwork on the face cards is great and features a good portion of all the Futurama characters and not just Fry, Leela and Bender. Morbo, Hermes and L'rr amoung others are featured as well. The graphics on the number cards is really well I thought. They have a very old classic feel to them which I really thought added character to the overall appeal. The only thing that was odd was that there was no packaging at all. I guess the tin is the packaging but all it comes in is a plastic slip case. The slip case has no tag or any other graphics on them. Although this is a complaint it is a minor one and should not detract from the overall appeal of the tin and playing cards.