What Do You Want In The Museum Shop?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 24th, 2009
Curtis Christensen, the creator of the Bigfoot in the museum, has just donated several of the remaining members from his “herd of busts” – with 100% of the sales to go to the future of the museum. Thanks to Curtis for his generous support.
They will go immediately into the museum shop.
What else should I put in there? Time for your feedback.
Do you have a unique product that is very cryptozoologically-oriented, which you would like to have carried in the International Cryptozoology Museum shop? Have you been looking for an outlet for your personally made Bigfoot figurines, your Lake Monster replicas, or your Chupacabras teeshirts? Please contact me via this form.
As a visitor to the museum, what kinds of items would you like to find here, for purchase, as a souvenir, to pick up for yourself or a gift for someone else?
Please register your feedback in the comments below. Make your voice heard and assist in envisioning the future museum shop.
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Christensen with his creation…soon to be seen on Congress Street…
plushies and figurines. i have a preference for thylacines and water cryptids, so i’d love to see those.
i think really just about anything would make us happy
I agree with the plush stuffed cryptids. My son would love one. He is five, and he is totally hooked on Monster Quest. If I could get him a Bigfoot stuffed animal or something like that he would love it.
Books, yours and others, they’re very hard to find offline as I’m sure you and everyone else here as encountered. Also figurines of cryptids and various extinct creatures would be awesome! Oh and of course copies of the infamous postcard with the fish (if possible)!
I’d like to see a good selection of books and DVDs. I’d also like to see a selection of “sqatching supplies from both the crypto and standard zoology fields such as field notebooks, water bottles, map and compass stuff, casting kits, etc. Basically, I think a one-stop shop for preparing your own mini-crypto-excursion would be great. My kids would love it, too. Finally, crypto-themed board and computer games would be great.
I’m right up the road in the Bangor-area, so I hope to get down sometime.
Sea Monkeys!!
Sorry, Red Pill, other than humans, there will be no live animals in the museum.
I think you should carry the Cryptozoological Playset by Archie McPhee
Books would definitely be welcome…
As would T-shirts and DVDs.
Plush figurines also would be great. Coffee Mugs maybe??? They could say—”I hunted Bigfoot and all I got was this lousy Mug.”
The T-shirts could have something similar.
I saw the Cryptomundo hat and it was awesome. The logo of the ICM would be just as striking on a ball cap or even an Austrailian Trail hat.
Good looking outdoor gear is a natural tie-in with the museum and the exporation theme.
I would love to see anything thylacine. I’ve never come across a good figurine or plushie of one. They’re all poorly done. But I have to agree that anything would please us! I can’t wait until I can come visit the museum.
Remote control Lochness monsters (Takara toys makes these), Bigfoot house slippers, battery op goat suckers common at a lot of texas flea markets, maybe get funko to make some exclusive crypto wobblers, banks and force figures along the lines of the Foot stuff from comic con? Cryptid window clings to creep out the nosy neighbors, frozen Yeti pops, ropen kites, jersey devil wind socks,spring heeled jack jumping shoes, and last but not least Loren Coleman masks and Loren Coleman Brand cryptid hunting beards to wear when your on the track!
I’d suggest Sasquatch suits, except I’m not sure if that would be promoting cryptozoology or more fake photos?…
I think any sort of cryptozoology themed replicas would be a must. You could have more common, popular lines, as well as rarer collectible pieces for sale as well.
I also think that unique t-shirts should be made for the museum. I have on many occasions seen artwork here on the site that would be perfect for a t-shirt, and I gather I’m not alone on that. The hominid family tree for example, or the Swamp thing with the turtle perched on its finger. Perhaps some artwork such as this could be made into t-shirts with limited runs, before moving on to different designs. This would keep things different and also make the t-shirts themselves somewhat of a collectors items. Each t-shirt could perhaps have the cryptozoology museum printed tastefully on the upper back of the shirt.
Another idea, if I may, would be perhaps selling replica casts of different cryptid tracks.
I also agree there should be a book section, and maybe you could even have authors do signings at the museum from time to time as a publicity event and to draw in new visitors. Anyone who came for a signing is sure to want to take a look around once they are there.
What a great post! How about a plush sea monkey? Now I would go for that for my kids. That antler table in the top photo is really great too. Personally I liked all of the requests. Good luck with this, it’s a really amazing project!
I think a collection of crypto-inspired stamps would be great like those shown on Pib Burns site.
A wide screen HD TV should be in place on the wall somewhere to show classic clips from various crypto flicks like Legend of Boggy Creek, Legend Meets Science etc. The DVDs could also be on hand for sale.
Do it yourself track casting Kits.
Embroidered patches with the museum logo and other crypto subjects that one could sew onto there clothing.
Postcards of all things crypto.
Gummy Mongolian Death worms.
Chocolate Sasquatch uh…spoor? Maybe not.
I have some ideas for T-shirts I will send show you later.
If anyone out there has been hiding that one last actual photograph of the 1890 pteradactyl nailed to the wall of the Tombstone Epitaph, this would be a great time to have some digital copies made and sent to the museum also.
How about bigfoot trick or treat buckets and krampus christmas ornaments?
Great thread Loren! I’ve got to agree on just about all the others here, from books to plushies to replica figurines, clothes with logos or themed art, some outdoor gear, remote control toy cryptids, etc. Now I don’t figure it’s practical for you to carry expensive stuff like the digital trail cameras, but I do like the idea of museum branded ‘gear’- hats, scarves, bandanas, mugs, key rings, all the stuff you typically see in gift shops with the town and/or museum/shop logo/emblem/art on them. The books I figure (of course) could also tie in with the bookstore, building some recirculaiton of customers there.
I liked the idea of cryptid hunting equipment. Also there should be a variety of plaushies, DVDs, books and figures!
Loren,
Bill Rebsamen prints. Last time I checked he was out of art and into music. I know because I bought some of his original paintings and a bunch of his prints all of which remain on his computer. He can make them all sizes. Tried to convince him to do an ebay site.
Bill’s artwork is in tons of crypto-books and covers just about the entire crypto-world of animals. So maybe you two could cut a deal. Know from first-hand experience kids love his stuff. Adults too.
Personally, I think posters from Bill’s artwork would be a big hit at the Museum’s giftshop.