Checking to see if there were any Tintin news online while I was hungry was definitely not a good idea. Tintin’s been many places before, but as far as I know this is his fisrt time to make it on a popcorn bag! I honestly don’t know what countries they’ll be selling all this in, but I assume at least France as it was Moulinsart that revealed these pictures. If you buy a bag of popcorn and a drink it looks like you will also get a free little Tintin accessory for your cell phone. I especialy like the glasses with the movie poster on them. That would make such a great souvenir! I doubt they’ll be selling them at the IMAX theater I plan to go to though.

At least some of those books we posted about recently will reach the people of France and Belgium, with entirely different covers. And they have new images on them!

Here’s the one about the wallets and the pickpocket. I’m not entirely sure what Tintin is doing. He looks like he’s thinking, trying to see something in the distance, maybe a car driving away. He almost looks like he’s squinting, or maybe he looks sad…The Thompson’s pose is familiar to us by now.

Nice new look at the Unicorn in the desert. I really, really want to watch this on a big IMAX screen, the mist and sails flying out at me in 3D, sailors firing cannonballs at Red Rackham and slicing at each other on deck…Every time I see a picture of the Unicorn, it looks so much like THE Unicorn, I get tired of looking at it on the cover of a book or on a poster. It’s literally Hergé’s ship cut and pasted out of the albums. I’ve SEEN it on paper before! Now I want to see it really SAIL…

The same could be said for the Karaboudjan. This doesn’t look like the Karaboudjan. It IS the Karaboudjan! And I can’t wait to see it come to life. Tintin fans, even if you for whatever reason dislike the look of the character’s in the new movie, I really think you should go see it and enjoy it for the sake of exploring in three dimensions the world Hergé drew. In my opinion, Weta hasn’t been given enough credit for how wonderfully they’ve recreated Hergé’s worlds. Marlinspike…the ocean…the desert…How many times did Tintin take us to those places?  Now Spielberg and Jackson are letting Tintin take us there again, at least once more…and it all looks REAL without losing, somehow, Hergé’s cartoonish style.

So many questions have been raised about Tintin: Who were his parents? Why did he only spend most of his time with a dog for the first books? Why doesn’t he ever answer to a boss or write a paper? I think the questions themselves are out of place, because the stories don’t really focus on Tintin but on his adventures, on the wonderful things he did in the exotic places he took us to. So of course it was important that Weta animate Tintin’s world right. In my opinion they could not have done a better job. So if you somehow don’t fall in love with the character’s, the storyline, the jokes, the action or just the fact that a movie this good is coming to IMAX, I recommend you go and see the movie just to take a look around the Karaboudjan or crash land in the desert. It’ll be worth watching again and again…

Ok, this is for those of you who live in Europe: how many of you have ever seen an incredible Asterix chess board and thought to yourself ”Wouldn’t it be awesome if they made a Tintin chess set?” I sure did, multiple times, and now it’s coming out. I’m a huge fan of chess, and have a few of these themed chess boards that, while not really practical when it comes to actually playing chess, are lots of fun to collect. Like the Unicorn model, these are being released in French kiosks piece by piece (come to think of it, it’s funny that both a Tintin model ship and chess set are being released ”piece by piece”…). I don’t live in France, nor plan to, so I probably will never own this…but it’s just cool that it’s coming out, and is plenty of fun to look at.

Of course, Tintin would be the King!

I’m curious who the other pieces will be. If this were solely based off of the books, I would make Rastapopoulous the other king, but it will most likely be ”Red Rackham” as he appears on the Karaboudjan. Maybe Omar Ben Salaad will be queen…

I think the Thompsons would have made good knight’s or Bishop’s, keeping the board in symetry. But it seems Thomson is a pawn. That actually fit’s his character a little better…

Source: www.tintimportintim.com

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Months ago we briefly mentioned that Gamelof was creating a separate game from Ubisoft’s videogames based on ”The Adventures Of Tintin”, this time for the iPhone and iPad (I assume it’ll run on other smart phones too…). Here’s our first look at the game:

In my opinion, this is the best looking shot of the three we’ve seen. Keeping in mind that this is for Smart Phones, this looks pretty good!  Stormy weather, sand blowing off the dunes, parts of the seaplane all over the place…seems pretty accurate. While this may be a minor detail, I’m not sure what to make of the characters sizes…even with the space between them, Tintin looks a little bit too tall…but in the end, even I don’t honestly care about that…

This is a kind of funny angle…but at least it looks good. Whoever designed the kitchen clearly put some effort into it, and Snowy doesn’t look half bad either.

It looks like the game will also be a platform, quickly ready to ”point out” where you need to go in case you’re not sure.  This must be somewhere deep in the Karaboudjan…but to me it kind of looks like the droid factory from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones…

Jokes aside, a few lucky guys recently got to try this game and gave it a positive review, saying it’s easily one of the better games coming out for iPads and iPhones. The game is primarily a stealth game, so Tintin and Snowy will use their wits to sneak around and go unnoticed rather than clobber everybody they see. I have no idea how much this’ll cost, but it will probably be fairly cheap compared to the Ubisoft games. I’ll definitely have fun trying it out and writing up a personal review for you all. Best thing about it for me is that since I’m in the US, this may be the only game I’ll be able to play while the movie comes out in Europe, since most everything won’t come out until December here. Unless of course they won’t let the US download or something, but hopefully they’ll be nice and won’t do that.

Thanks to Britto we have some more pictures to add to our last few from yesterday. There was a day that Tintin movie fans would practically live off of a handful of stills to not explode (and we all remember the years of not seeing anything at all…). Now we’re looking at bread bags, videogames and sticker books. We knew these were coming a long time ago, but here are the real covers.

Ok, did I sound like I was tired of movie art? No way…”Full-color movie art inside” still excites me…

There’s a shot of Thomson’s face looking right at us. He seems much happier than most of the other times we’ve seen him (I think it’s the eyes that completes the look by the way…). But that makes total sense to those of us who know what’s pictured here…way to put spoilers on the cover of the book!…

”In a BOAT?”…Aaaah…classic scene…

Here’s a different cover for the book we saw yesterday. I’ll admit, I only noticed the bald guy in the back with the letters out of the way…

I used to love these books! If ever there was a place for fans to collect images from the movie…each one of those pages is probably entirely covered by an image of one of the beautiful locations in the film, and there are pictures of over 100 characters/whatever they may be.

Last but not least, a novel based on the film. If ever there were a place to get spoilers, that’s it. I’m perfectly comfortable just waiting until the movie comes out and not knowing the story in THAT much detail, thank you…but maybe your kid would like it. And if you collect Tintin books, I think this is only the second Tintin novel ever to be sold.

We’ve already covered some German ”learn to read” books that we found on Amazon, but their covers so far only had the shots from Empire. Some similar English books will also be available, with brand new images. Lets check them out:

Here’s another look at the Tintin we saw in our last post, and another shot of the Karaboudjan’s interior.

These images are brand new. I wonder what Tintin is reading? Brussels looks cool in the background…in fact it really looks like that part is a photo.

Wow, that’s kind of a funny face for Snowy…meanwhile Haddock is doing his best at looking dramatic…Tintin is again very focused.

I really don’t know anything about how good the actual books are, but I support anything that teaches kids to read, and if it has Tintin in it, even better. Tintin could suddenly become the hero of millions of little kids, and it’d be nice if some kids who would otherwise be bored by some of the new ”learn to read” books coming out these days would get an interest in reading because of it.

Wow, there have been lots of screenshots this week! But these are the only ones so far to have two screens…introducing our first look at the 3DS version of ”The Adventures Of Tintin”.

My first impression: the top screen looks just about as good as the rest of the videos we’ve seen. The bottom screen does not…It looks like Captain Haddock just met Microsoft Paint…I’m personally not a big fan of movie games that take the incredible looking characters from an animated movie and change it to kind of cheap looking cartoonish concept art a step under what we see on Cartoon Network. But this doesn’t look like the whole game will be that way…just the bottom screen. It reminds you of your objective and shows you stats, data, etc. Looks a bit too infantile for my taste.

According to the site these are from, this is set in a small island around the British Isles. Could there be a bit of the Black Island in this movie too? It wouldn’t be the first time Weta created apes, THAT’s for sure…

Waaaaaht in the world? Who’s in the scuba suit? Haddock? It looks just like the one in Red Rackhams treasure…By the way, Allan’s looking kind of weird in that photo…

Yep…the Bird brothers somehow make it in the game…I have to admit I’m not impressed with how this looks. I’ve seen lots of other games with a system just like this, reading slides forever. I guess I shouldn’t expect too much from a 3DS game…

Anyway, what we’ve seen so far doesn’t really tell us much about how the game will look like in 3D. Maybe we’ll see more in the future.

source: www.tintimprtintim.com

I at least had never heard of Pitch, but apparently it’s a company that sells packaged breads and pastries in France. And they’ve partnered up with Tintin. The publicity for Tintin in France seems to be going well. Check out their themed site here.

Here are some screenshots:

There it is: the image of Tintin that was blurred on the Meccano sets. Here we have a dynamic, very, very focused Tintin…

Here we have Captain Haddock in EXACTLY the same pose in the WETA figurine, because WETA used this digital character’s pose as their mold. If you are in France, you can win a grand vacation to…Belgium, the land of comics. It truly is the home of Tintin, I recommend you go.

There’s Tintin on a motorcycle, the same one you will be able to buy a figure of him on. Again, Tintin is very focused…I’m not quite sure what to make of his face here…

In every bag you can get one of these stickers. Look at the egyptian theme…so far everything we have seen of the dessert has only looked like Morocco, not Egypt…but there are hyroglyphics on the wheel at the bottom and on the page in the back. Could a little bit of ”The Cigars of the Pharaoh” be in the film?

As always, the Thom(p)sons look AMAZING…it even looks like Thompson is half way through saying ”to be precise…” Here we can find some great new wallpaper sized images of Tintin for your computer! The most interesting is a real fun one of Tintin screaming.

I love his face! And I love how Snowy can’t watch…I seriously can’t wait to watch this whole scene…

Not much new to see here, but I like what I see.

The old Empire shot touched up. I’m curious as to how Tintin will get rid of his blue sweater. It makes sense that he’d take it off due to the heat, but it’s such a classic look…I wonder if he’ll wear it again after this scene.

Aaah…the beautiful old Tintin poster converted into a wallpaper. What a great idea!

Found in France on a plastic bag (I think with some kind of chocolate chip brioche in it…). While a bit wrinkled, I still like Tintin’s face here. It’s really incredible just how much a different expression changes Tintin’s look as a whole so much. There’s a fairly big difference between his face at the end of the first trailer, in the posters, the Empire shot, in that shot while he was reading and here. As a result, he looks better in some more than others depending on how Tintin was ”frozen”. Yet all are clearly Tintin. It just goes to show you how expressive the faces in this movie will be. I think this is one of his better poses. If anybody in France or the UK sees anything like this, I’d love to post pictures.