First there was the college-ruled cartoon Trogdor, then the Trogdor video game, next came Peasant's Quest (in which you must attempt to defeat Trogdor for burninating your thatched roof cottage), now there's a trailer for the Peasant's Quest feature film (via Metafilter).
All I can say is, thanks to The Thing That Walks Like a Man, I had a Trogdor t-shirt before he sold out.
I am so hacked off, I can't get the damn thing to load...grrrrr...
Burnination! I'll be damned if I'm giving Trogdor one more second of my life. I played that damn Peasant Quest for 6 hours straight when it came out.
I think the Homestar Runner site is self-sustaining; they make enough scratch so that the Brothers Chaps do it full-time. Items like the Strongbad email dvd blew out, and they've had to go back to press more than once.
The "Peasant's Quest" trailer is great--re-live your favorite moments from the game! And regarding that trippy Kerrek footage...to quote Count Floyd, "Ooooh--SCARY!!!"
TTTWLAM, that's my question. Somehow I doubt there are that many net-geeks out there buying that many T-shirts and DVDs to afford the time they take to produce the sheer volume of content (SB Emails, games, other toons, etc.).Either that or I vastly overestimate the amount of time needed to throw one of those things together.
(Net-geek here with the SBE DVDs and giving the girlfriend a The Cheat hoodie for valentine's day. What's up with the cheat getting so many chicks?)
Considering that Homestar and Co. have been name-checked on the Buffy tv series, Conan O'Brien, and other hip, mod, with-it, and boss media outlets, I think there are plenty of fans that fall outside of the broke-ass net geek demographic.
Homestar (more accuartely, Strong Bad) is HUGE.
I have several of their tees, and have given some as presents...I, uh, also have the DVDs. Shut up.
dun na na na NAH! Trogdor!
The CGI in the featurette seems top-notch. Gollum has nothing on Trogdor.
I want to know if T-shirt/goodie sales are really keeping homestarrunner.com afloat. It definitely seems to be a full-time gig. Are we sure they aren't running dangerous canadian medications to our nation's senior citizens between Strong Bad Email updates??