#im still searching for more images of this merch

[muttgirl]

Vintage Hole amplifier knob pendant necklace

[bluepoodle7]

#Househuntedgame #Johndoegame #JohnDoe#MaisonTalo #BodyPillow #Merch #HouseManMerch

Found more Uncanny Valley merch and I wonder where you could get the Maison Talo keychain and the button.

The bootleg John Doe wig.

🦊 FOX 📼 on X: "YES made it to the big time baby, those over seas cosplay sites are finally making weird cosplay products based off my game fuck yeah https://t.co/wja9PusrD4" / X

advertising the illness (hannibal) 😪 /// (tags) #CapCut #itabag #itab... | TikTok

Found these cool Maison Talo John Doe art on a notebook.

"House Hunted Maison Talo" Journal for Sale by tuperwherez | Redbubble

"John Doe " Journal for Sale by BunnyCat185 | Redbubble

Found this cute handmade Maison Talo chibi plush.

If you look at the Reblogs there is a handmade Maison Talo plush which is a fan made plush since I tried to google image search this plush with no results.

Cozzy--cove made the plush and made a cute John Doe plush that I wish was on their page to be easily relogged by fans which are both cute.

I just know the objectum community prob love these two sillies 💯 – @cozzy--cove on Tumblr

UCV fashion poster: Maison - John Doe Game - Posters and Art Prints | TeePublic

All images not mine but links are there.

#House Man Merch – @bluepoodle7 on Tumblr

A Maison Talo Manga from the @kaifei29 artist who made this House Hunted video .

🦊 M O R T l S F O X 📼 on X: "Got these amazing books in the mail today from @/kaifei_29 !!!! the love and care put into them is jaw dropping ;o; im so overwhelmed with joy that a game i made could inspire something so absolutely beautiful! #househunted #househuntedgame https://t.co/giNDpviWzP" / X

【House Hunted | 手书】ド屑 - YouTube

House Hunted | NAKISO ド屑 Maison Talo × YOU ( ос @kaifei29 ) на русском - YouTube

Some fan merch that I liked from @Maison1963_0508

https://x.com/Maison1963_0508/status/1863124118960558523

https://x.com/Maison1963_0508/status/1859180056389849435

Found a cool custom chibi Dom Hus charm I want from @WildSebbyWolf.

https://x.com/WildSebbyWolf/status/1840914919052497404

The Bitterandrotten artist who made the charm arts.

https://x.com/bitterandrotten

Found a video of someone who owns the Maison Talo and yousona art book that the same creator of this House hunted video. This person only shows the merch that comes with this book.

一个you＆老房子的挂件捆绑教程（？）_哔哩哔哩_bilibili

The website with this Maison Talo manga.

微博

The double sided John Doe Charm from Eldritchtea.

Eldritchtea - Etsy

The Maison Talo charm with art from @Junjomonstah of Maison Talo tied up by his own lure cord.

I love this artist's artwork of Maison but the artist deleted it all and this artist made Richard Everyman that was in Househunted 1/2 or 2 that game was deleted by the Mortisfox.

Also a John Doe squishy.

https://x.com/GoTouchGrassNow/status/1572648788589793281

These Mortisfox handmade John Doe Regular Guy Doeballs plushies.

https://x.com/mortisfox/status/1512671538603966464

https://x.com/mortisfox/status/1512671538603966464/photo/1

This custom Heim Baile with a Yousona as a custom charm.

Glam_Rock_Chica on X: "I got my first custom key chain with me and hiem on it I accidentally got 3, apparently I wasn't expecting that it was only expecting one lol #hiembalie #househunted2 https://t.co/lfGKvmAEtD" / X

Some Heim Baile pins.

Glam_Rock_Chica on X: "@Junjomonstah thank you so much I'm so happy that I got them and ty for the free pins and also random video I found on tiktok lol https://t.co/rY19RS88iK" / X

I still wonder what a Maison Talo plush from this artist would look like.

I'm still holding out for a House Hunted Game fan that requests this plush someday to this artist when they are not busy.

I hope the blood, bright, burning red blazer is removeable to see the undershirt.

John Doe 15,7 40 Cm Plush Toy A Fan Toy From a Big Fan of This Indie Horror - Etsy

The chibi Maison Talo plush.

https://x.com/Maison1963_0508/status/1838795316453347767

https://x.com/Maison1963_0508/status/1824410962134438150

https://x.com/Maison1963_0508/status/1824410962134438150

[meat-wentz]

Hi there I was wondering if you knew of any way to identify authentic vintage FOB merch from fakes/reprints, I only ask because it seems like you have a collection of vintage FOB shirts, sorry if this question is directed to the wrong blog ❤️❤️

yes i do have some pointers!!!

investigate sellers. if a deal looks too good to be true it probably is, make sure the seller looks legit and has legit reviews if any reviews. if a collector is getting rid of their collection, there’s a really good chance all of their stuff is legit and they will note any boots or reprints, so i always check a seller’s page to see if they have a series of similar listings (could be say a bunch of fob and clandestine stuff, or even just an experienced merch reseller who has tons of band listings) and if they are i know i’m probably in the clear. a lot of times the opposite is also true! someone might just have a holy grail piece they’ve kept in their mom’s garage for 20 years and decide to finally part ways with it, most often this will be the only listing of that band + other listings of high school clothes or other clothes they’re selling, etc. i’ve found more of the latter than the former, for really good prices! you can also ask questions about the piece, like if there’s a back print, if i can get a pic of the tag, if i can see details (zippers, closeups on design, ink wear).

there are lots of indexes of tags and their approximate date information available out there, gildan for example can be less identifiable because a lot of merch and bootleggers still use gildan as their go to, but gildan’s had a long history of different tags, and if you’re able to find a good resource on what, say a tag from 2004 looks like, you’d be able to see if it matched the tag you’re looking at or if that shirt was printed last week. there are some more easily identifiable tags from the time period like bay island tags are always typically a dead giveaway you’re dealing with authentic merch. tags CAN be faked but it’s not typical for items like merch. another good sign for printed tags is if there’s wear on the tag itself former, real soft, sometimes blank or fading, etc, you just wanna see this thing has been used and abused. lots of people cut out their tags but if you can see any wear on cut tags (lots of soft, loose, threading, obvious it’s been through years of washing), that’s a sign you take if there’s no tag.

item wear. much like the last point, i usually look at items that have been very loved. darker colors will fade, so if im dealing with black shirts i often look for a fade as well. ink will crack over the years, so i always keep an eye out for any cracking or wear and i always like to see if the ink looks a little TOO intact and flexible. ink is not ALWAYS the most reliable way to clock a fake, but it’s a tool you can use.

have a good sense of what merch from the era looked like, if you can follow merch archives or go in the waybackmachine and look at the merch store or follow collector accounts, there’s a good chance you will probably be able to find the design you’re looking at. fob has very distinct logos for each time period so if i see an infinity on high logo on a futct keyhole im like alright that’s not real. they have stylistic moments that adhere to their albums really well. tttyg era merch has a lot of bitey commentary and usually darker colors, more big and bold designs. futct has a whole lot of gold and red and deer and on the other side of the spectrum bright colors and a kind of 70’s-ish almost high school sports-leaning font and theme.

the plus side is i haven’t run into a whole lot of fob fakes! a dead giveaway is if the photo looks funky like it was snagged from off the internet or you’ve seen a pic of that shirt floating around, (you can always reverse image search and see if that photo was snagged from somewhere else!), i like when i can tell a photo was actually taken in someone’s house or space, walls, hangers, carpets, on someone’s bed, it’s just a good way to see someone is a real person. another dead giveaway is if you see multiple sizes and a low price of $24.99 for a shirt you know is super rare, that’s a fake and that is some weird internet swindler who most likely won’t even give you a decent print of what they’re advertising they have. i also appreciate sellers who list measurements, talk about the fit, just give more information than a “BLACK SHIRT 100% COTTON.” fob do have some weirdos on eBay who’ve been selling these bogus reprints, but for the most part i haven’t seen them anywhere else.

so many bootleggers are cool and they will not try to trick you into thinking you’re getting an original print. bootleggers will give you the information about what kind of shirts they will be printing on, what kind of ink they will be using, how long their print runs will be, etc, they will make it explicitly clear that this is a bootleg design, AND they will most likely give you one that’s killer in quality. i own a BUNCH of boots of certain designs im sure will never see the light of day again, at the end of the day i will prioritize my desire for a certain design over authenticity (and also support legit, cool bootleggers who are making sure these designs don’t get lost to time). there are certain pieces i won’t budge on my requirement that they be authentic. at the end of the day it’s your collection and you get to make the rules!

[dulcevenganzaa]

so earlier i saw the pencey prep poster by gerard, and it got me thinking about the typography used here:

[The font above is obviously a modified version of the original used for style purposes]

because it's a familiar style and honestly it reminded me of the typeface used in the bullets cover so i did a quick search and i was wrong, it's actually a font named Bodoni Poster Compressed

but still i was like, huh, where have i seen that before? oh right.

[Black Parade Logo, 2006 | The Black Parade Is Dead merch, 2007 via MCR merch archive by /onlydressthatway]

but anyway i was still curious about the bullets font and after digging and comparing a bunch of typefaces i came to a conclusion:

the typography used in the cover and the cd design is: Latin Extra Condensed. These are the references i used for my search:

[Src: Left: Image via Amazon Music / 2015 LP Re-issue | Right: Image via Genius / Unknown year re-issue]

i also added the original Latin Condensed bc this is most likely where the extra condensed version comes from imo and there's the added fact that there's an unspecified amount of variations of the bullets cd [2002 (record release), 2002 Version, 2007 (russian?) version] and the print quality changes from issue to issue and in turn it makes the typography look thicker and/or thinner. im still pretty set on the extra condensed tho.

[Booklet from the 2007 re-issue]

one interesting thing is that they started to use a different font for new merch and articles related to bullets in recent years, the new type is a font from Adobe named Birch

[Left: MCR Official website; middle: Hot Topic Bullets Exclusive; right: Exoshop X MCR collab]

here's a quick comparison, both typographies are pretty similar, but birch is slightly thicker

[Above: Birch; below: Latin extra condensed]

as an addendum, the mcr logo that's on the bullets cover is a heavily modified serif type font and if i were to guess super quick i'd say it's bodoni but i can't confirm that, yet.

anyway that's all i have for now. follow 4 more design investigations.

went down a little design rabbit hole just now