![]() You’ll also find six (6) illustrated “ Cuphead Funnies ” from your buds at Studio MDHR, single-panel comics starring Cuphead & pals in various side-splitting situations. YES, YOU HEARD THAT CORRECTLY!! You, dear reader, can adopt your very own string-adorned, fully operational Cuphead puppet, rocketed into fame by a series of shorts (like THIS and THIS) from our pals at the stop motion studio Screen Novelties, and fabulously replicated, with excruciating attention to detail, by the extremely talented artisans at Rici Marionettes, an absolutely legendary workshop in Prague. YOU STILL THERE!? Because this sundae only gets more yummy!īEHOLD the absolute wonderment that is Cuphead in Marionette form. Inside, you’ll find a whole heap of wonderful, including the complete Cuphead experience on disc/cart, which means you’ll be getting the original, sensational Cuphead, plus its flabbergastingly good DLC, The Delicious Last Course, packaged together with amazing interior artwork and an O-Sleeve that is oh so charming. This is no mere, run-of-the-mill game in a box situation - it’s a spectacle of spectacular proportions! Now, half a decade later, that Collector’s Edition is FINALLY here. The purveyors of premium pop at iam8bit (that’s us!) know that Cuphead deserves a Collector’s Edition like no other - one that dares to dream and lives up to the care, craftsmanship, and meticulous artistry that defines Studio MDHR ’s hand-drawn masterpiece. Heck, let’s call it what it really was, and remains to this day - a global, worldwide, international phenomenon unlike anything before!! 5 years ago, that particular pastime got them in a whole heap of trouble, and Cuphead became an instant indie darling. The versatile space’s function changes as it makes its way up from the waterline at Deck 2, to a fine-dining restaurant on Deck 5, to a chilled-out pool lounge and bar on Decks 14 and 16.Cuphead and his pal Mugman like to roll the dice. “At the same time we were challenged with how far forward the theater was, so we decided to make the stage house a part of the auditorium so the performers and the audience were in the same space.” Tom Wright, another longtime Celebrity collaborator, was the mastermind of the Magic Carpet, the iconic bright red gantry that features a tennis-court-sized moving platform. “We’re always trying to break the boundaries between the performer and the audience,” explains architect Scott Butler. Boasting the largest projection screens at sea-of which there are three set on an embracing curve-the Edge Theatre features four stages, rain curtains, and a revolving platform that raises performers some seven feet over the crowd there isn’t a bad seat in the entire house. Two of the ship’s other superlative spaces, its groundbreaking theater and industry-first moving platform, were produced by two Celebrity-and cruise-ship-veterans. ![]() The pièce de resistance in the space is a programmable chandelier that symbolizes a cloud presiding over the horizon where the ocean meets the sea. All steel beams and ribs in the space were simply painted white, with the occasional warm wood accent and up-light. Sanjit and I channeled that into our design, which inspired our unique approach in showing the craftmanship,” Joiun says. “This project was a very emotional one for me. ![]() It all starts at the Grand Plaza, where the Paris-based duo of Jouin Manku (responsible for the Jules Verne restaurant at the Eiffel Tower, no less) sought to celebrate the ruggedly handsome steel structure of the ship for a very personal reason-partner Patrick Jouin’s grandparents worked at Chantiers de l’Atlantique, the very shipyard that built Edge and the storied Normandy before her. ![]() Designed by Tom Wright of Burj al Arab fame, the Magic Carpet moving platform deftly moves from Deck 2, where it is a tendering platform, to Deck 5, where it is a fine-dining restaurant, to decks 14 and 16, where it serves as a bar and lounge.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |