h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

i seem to remember kids tv shows always having lots of merchandising available.....would we be able to get stuff through whatever system they use for relitivley small orders?


towel, digital watch, id cards......we SO need a voting feature on this site!
FABT

As for URLs, is it just me, or is it a pain now that it's bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2 rather than just h2g2.com?

Yep, but we have no choice. When typing, bbc.co.uk/dna works at the moment!

Mind you, typing h2g2.com still works at the moment as well, but we're not supposed to be using that

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Well, since you (didn't) ask,

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf417encode/

and then

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf417decode/

to decode it.

Its free too - but it would probably require some modification to output correctly to your system.

All I want is a mouse-mat - everyone else has the plain, boring blue ones
I wanna H2G2 mouse-mat!!!!

Wasn't there a merchandising thread somewhere somewhen?
I'd like to think that if enough people were to put there names down as definate buyers at a given price, then the beeb would make some things. Never known them to turn down a profit.

A quick flick through google gives the prices for custom mouse mats as...

1-99 , £9.99per mat
99-249, £3.30per mat
250 - 499, £2.03per mat
500 - 749, £1.61per mat
750 - 999, £1.49per mat.

these prices include vat and shipping to a single uk address, so futher postage would have to be taken into consideration. But, given that a mouse mat is light it wouldn't take more than a couple of quid to post it globally.

And I'm sure that the beeb would be able to get them done even cheaper than there prices. If not... we could possibly do them ourselves. Would that be in breach of house rules?

Natalie says they must be the most expensive mouse mats on the planet if you only want a few!

We're (still) looking into it, so Don't Panic!

Still? I'm sure teh merchandising threads started up back when there was only one skin flavour

You can't rush some things.

Yes you can, that way you get more in

I know the Beeb like to to take their time over some things, but this could get ridiculous!

Perhaps should get some made up and shame the beeb into inadequancy?

Not a very good idea! Then we'd have to spend time chasing you down.

Just like the two blokes that imported fake tweenies...

Chasing us down? For getting Post mouse mats?
As far as I understand the rules, we wouldn't be breaking them

So what's this about fake tweenies? D'you mean there are real ones?

We like chasing people!

Apparently a couple of guys imported about 300,000 fake Tweenie dolls (I thought the real ones *were* real!! ), and put them in arcades in those crane games. Cnn't find a news story on it though. That's what happens when you live in Norfolk.

So if we printed our own mouse-mats - why would we get chased?

I misunderstood what Pastey was saying, I didn't realise that he meant The Post.

Pardon?