WotC has a plan for their D&D archive. What is it!?

[haakon1]

D&D museum

Traveling museum for cons, and at the SciFi Museum in Seattle for its first stop?

Or permanent museum in Bellevue, WA (where WOTC actually is, as a I understand it) . . . the Doll Museum in Bellevue just shut down, so there's an available museum building . . .

The alternative, for books at least, is to redo all the scans to get really high quality electronic versions.

Also good.

 

[haakon1]

We-ell, considering Seattle already has a rock'n'roll museum and a science fiction museum perhaps this ain't as big a stretch as it might first appear.

Alas, it does not appear Paul Allen is a D&D nerd, just a software, music, and sci fi nerd.

You'd think at least a few tech billionaires would be D&D nerds, but perhaps (A) D&D nerdom is incompatible with tech-billionaire-dom due to competing time demands, or (B) D&D nerdom is slightly too recent for the current phase of tech billionaire museum building -- maybe when the Google or Facebook nerds get to be Paul Allen's age (mid 50s?), we'll get a D&D museum, so another 15-30 years?

 

[Dire Bare]

Just imagine if someone had forgotten to pay the storage bill and the whole lot ended up on one of those Storage Wars type shows.

I never watch those shows, and I hate the commercials for them! But I'd watch that episode!

What did your cat have to say about it...?

Henry said, "Yeah, man, that's pretty crazy." But I think he was just humoring me as cats tend to do.

 

[Fifth Element]

I never watch those shows, and I hate the commercials for them! But I'd watch that episode!

If you can ignore all the macho posturing and just focus on the items themselves, they can be interesting.

 

[Lanefan]

Or permanent museum in Bellevue, WA (where WOTC actually is, as a I understand it) . . . the Doll Museum in Bellevue just shut down, so there's an available museum building . . .

I thought they were in Renton, just south of Seattle close to where the I-5 and I-405 meet. They certainly were ten years ago...did they move?

Lanefan

 

[haakon1]

You're right, Lanefan, or were last time I checked.

It's Paizo that has a Bellevue address.

Both Renton and Bellevue are on I-405. I'm about a mile off it.

 

[Orius]

“I traded my Bullywugs of the Bog for it,” Bart said.

I remember those, I had them when I was a kid. I got them at Toys R Us. I had some evil wizard action figure guy and a storybook narrarted on record about some knight who went into a dungeon looking for a cure for his sick king or something.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Given WotC's reputation for laying off employees, I say they're going to use this stuff to motivate quality people to apply to work there. Check out the article by Shelly Mazzanoble.

"After one year as a full-time employee, you get a rare Shambling Mound and Treasure sack."

 

[Scribble]

Given their relationship with Penny Arcade Child's Play maybe?

 

[Agamon]

I'm waiting for someone start a thread questioning Mearls' current motivations given his interest in the Dallas RPG....