Today in #Wingnut we were admiring the box designs of the blue stripe era.
LETS. OPEN. THE. FLAPS!!!!!!!
Impress your loved one with this Fun Fact Flap(tm): the Prophecy Gold box incorrectly identifies the alien cruiser as MARLIN-class. There was a renaming pass on most of the Nephilim ships late in development and Marlin became HYDRA in the final game.
The artwork for this callout is repurposed (and mirrored) from this Wing Commander Prophecy print ad!
The renaming; the original names are still used internally-
Skate cluster - Tri-Ray
Lamprey shield killer - Siren
Barracuda corvette - Skate
Triton transport - Leatherback
Hydra cruiser - Marlin
Leviathan carrier - Osprey
Kraken ship killer - Narwhal
Tiamat dreadnought - Tsunami
When I did Star*Soldier for Wing Commander Arena I snuck in a little joke about this on the World War I-style spotters guide poster. See how there are two cruisers but one is upside down! This is the kind of joke only I find funny and no one else ever notices. Next to this is the original poster we were trying to reference; I wanted it to be this but with a Wing Commander Prophecy in-game text feel.
Three blue strip boxes for Ultima Online!
ParadiseRegaind pointed out that the Ultima Collection had a marble box too.
And Sergorn Dragon points out that the regular Ultima Ascension doesn't have the stripe but it does have a pretty elaborate multi-page flap! I never realized this, I'd only ever owned the Dragon Edition.
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