Looney Labs Icehouse Mailing list Archive

Re: [Icehouse] Monochrone Stashes - LAST CHANCE TO BUY

  • FromCarl Worth <cworth@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • DateWed, 01 Aug 2007 08:21:55 -0700
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 02:13:55 -0400, "Jason Ramboz" wrote:
> Well I've been meaning to grab a few more monochrome stashes, so I
> guess this gives me an excuse! I just put two in my cart, then
> realized that this means I'll have enough pyramids to finally play
> Volcano, and snagged a set of volcano caps too. Your fiendishly clever
> merchandising system wins again, Loonies!

Yeah. And then you'll want to go buy that Volcano board too. I just
got mine a couple of days ago and it's absolutely gorgeous! A bright
white surface under the pyramids really shows off their color well.

Meanwhile, I've been playing Volcano with 5x Xeno + 1 gray stash for
the caps. This is really not ideal as it requires using a set of
opaque nests which is a nuisance in the game. So Volcano, together
with the Treehouse packaging, is giving me incentive to complete a 5x
Rainbow collection as well. Fiendish! But very fun. :-)

I've been intentionally buying my Treehouse sets from a local store
which currently only gets one or two a week. So that's made the
process slow, but I hope to be able to get my 5th set tomorrow. And I
am glad that this is making the store owners take notice of this
little game.

And yes, it has wandered from a dusty corner at the back of the store
to right up by LCR at the cash register. Hurrah for Treehouse!

-Carl

PS. Oh, and then I'm going to have to go buy 3 more Rainbow Treehouse
sets to cut my own travel Binary Homeworlds set. With so many great
games, these pyramids must be doomed to become a commercial success at
some point.

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