Get your Christmas list ready - FIRST GLIMPSE - The Brand New Crystal Maze Board Game!!

Friday sees the last episode of the current series, and then it's the long wait until the Christmas special. We all know what Christmas means: promotional tie-ins. Last year we got the book packed full of games to do at home and information about the series so what are we getting this year?

Much like I always fawned over in the back of the Argos catalog after the original series 2, this year will see the release of a board game.

Designed by Rascals, the game will see players of all ages taking on puzzles and challenges to collect crystals, earning time to collect gold tokens in the Crystal Dome at the end of the game. It even comes with an accompanying app to download to function as a timer with authentic music and sound effects from the show, (witty put-downs from Richard Ayoade not included).

Other future licensed items in the future are set to include apparel, nightwear, and underwear.

A little YouTube project

At the back end of last year, I knocked together an alternate intro sequence for the current incarnation of the show but in the style of the original: A montage from the series set to Forcefield by Zack Laurence. And since there's only one left from this years run, excluding the Christmas Special, I thought I'd get Windows Movie Maker fired up and, in between a lot of swearing at my doorstop of a laptop, get a new version done.




And if you haven't seen what I made for last years series...

Crystal Maze Merchandise Update!

I received an email this week from Bulldog Licencing, they confirmed to our blog that brand new Crystal Maze Merchandise is in full production as I write this.

A brand new Crystal Maze Board game is currently nearing final production and will be available on the shelves to purchase from many retail outlets as of end of September/Early October. The rest of the merchandise will soon follow thereafter.

With regards to The Brystal Maze Gromit, he is still on display near Bottleyard Studios for another 2-3 weeks until 2nd September, so get down there to check him out, he is awesome. I visited the Gromit Shop at Cribbs Causeway at the weekend and asked if they plan to release a minature version of the Maze Gromit, like they have with other designs. Apparantly an online poll on the Gromit Unleashed website will determine what additional minatures get the go ahead for release, so get voting for The Brystal Maze Gromit please.

I am aware they will be Exhibiting all of the Gromit Statues in the Cribbs Causeway mid September, and then shortly after auctioning them all. I would love the Maze Gromit, but expect he will reach between 15-30k at auction for charity.

This week we see the Vikings team on Channel 4 take on the Maze.