CAR - new cover

[chr15lynn]

Great job....well done!
Thanks.
 

[Whaleyland]

I forgot that I changed my old domain so all my old links are dead. I have yet to restore that server, but is has given me an opportunity to update the CAR cover from a few months back anyway. Here is my new cover draft which includes Spielbox 6/09 for Der Tunnel expansion. I believe all the other expansions I included on the old version. This link shouldn't die like the last one.

[Whaleyland]

New copy of the cover updated:



Updated include the new sleeping guy in the top-right corner, a new version of the Crop Circles circle which has been moved over and enlarged slightly, a new version of the BC&B expansion without the HiG logo in the corner, the removal of the HiG logo from the corner of the WoF expansion, the addition of Spielbox 2010/6 magazine in the top-right Spielbox bunch, and the moving of Games Quarterly to between the two Spielbox Almanacs. Let's see what happens next! I suspect one more mini-expansion, which will go in the top-left, but I'm out of room for more large expansions.

[CKorfmann]

Where'd the sleeping guy come from?

[Whaleyland]

Where'd the sleeping guy come from?

The corner of the box, apparently. I didn't notice him forever but he has been there all along. I admit, it was rather weird going "wait, there is a guy sleeping under a tree on the Carc box?" All German editions include him but he's not present on English editions:

[Novelty]

Could you include another line of magazine covers above the currently spielbox line int he top right?  Would it fit?

[Whaleyland]

Could you include another line of magazine covers above the currently spielbox line int he top right?  Would it fit?

Yeah, another line would fit but I'd probably place them above the Catapult and Tower first. Three could go above the Catapult and another two above the Tower. But by then, I'm pretty sure HiG will have another two or three large expansions, and that's a whole different problem.

[Novelty]

The Wheel of Fortune logo can be resized to the same size as the others and that might give you space for at least one more logo there, if not two or three more... maybe...

[Scott]

Excellent work as always.

[Whaleyland]

So, a new problem has developed with the release of these two new expansions: The Entourage and Carnival have no covers at all! Carnival only has a little fireworks thing inside the rules booklet, while Entourage is completely transparent casing with a no-art rules sheet. The only place I can think to grab some art for that expansion is from the display case, but that's going to be difficult. Any ideas? I was thinking maybe using the Anniversary Logo to count as The Celebration expansion:

In fact, perhaps that graphic should just count for both. Looking at the display boxes, the art is all recycled. Perhaps there is something new on the back of one of them, but the fronts are all old. Any other suggestions?

[CKorfmann]

This looks appropriate I think.  Sooner or later, we'll run out of room for everything.  I'm not convinced that the cover needs to be inclusive of 100% of the content, but I also recognize that may not be a popular opinion.

[Whaleyland]

I figure as long as I can do it without making it look TOO cluttered or small, I might as well include everything. But yes, at some point there may just be too much. Perhaps clumping the baby Entourage expansion with the inclusive Celebration expansion all under the banner of "10th Anniversary Expansions" may be for the best.

[mjharper]

Perhaps clumping the baby Entourage expansion with the inclusive Celebration expansion all under the banner of "10th Anniversary Expansions" may be for the best.

I'm inclined to agree :-)

[Whaleyland]

Actually, I was thinking you could do the same thing in the rules document itself, since both expansions are quite small and neither require a high degree of FAQs. Indeed, Celebration seems to address the only FAQ I can think of for that expansion, and Celebration is pretty straightforward.

Edit: Okay, here's the new cover. I had a few minutes. It is identical to the old one except I added the Anniversary logo to the top corner and moved Crop Circles to next to the Tower. It also replaced the Crop Circles image (again) with the stamp from the cover above. Good quality find, btw, Novelty. That's the nicest Carcassonne cover I've seen in a long time. Anyway, image above is updated and here's another copy just to clarify: