SwagDog and Blizzard team up to offer custom t-shirts with guild and toon info

by Mike Schramm Aug 11th 2008 at 5:30PM

The BlizzCon tickets are slowly (and unsurely) being sold, and the first few lucky buyers have been linked to a "BlizzCon Exclusive" from SwagDog.com -- apparently they've teamed up with Blizzard to offer real-life versions of your guild tabard on a t-shirt, and folks who attend BlizzCon will get their pick of the first shirts off the presses.

Note to Blizzard and SwagDog: feel free to send the royalty checks over to me whenever you want. The bad news is that they've eschewed the idea of "t-shirt as tabard", and instead it looks like they're making a custom-printed shirt for everyone, so it'll have not just your tabard on their shirt, but your guild's name, and your character's name and realm, race, class and faction as well.

As neat as these are, I think I'd like something a little more subtle -- all that text and the icons muddy it up a bit. But otherwise, definitely seems like (assuming the prices and shirt quality are respectable) a fun way to show off a little guild and toon pride.

Tags: blizzard, blizzcon, blizzcon-tickets, character, custom, design, guild, mike-called-it, swagdog, tabard, toons, tshirts, tweet-this

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, WoW Social Conventions, Virtual selves, Guilds, Blizzard, BlizzCon

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jlpknights82 Aug 11th 2008 5:49PM

Wow. That is the ugliest t-shirt I've ever seen outside of an Iron Maiden show. I think I'll pass. :P

tripp Aug 11th 2008 6:47PM

Bruce Dickenson would stomp your guts so hard your anus would scream for help because your face would be too much in awe of how metal the moment is.

Also, the shirts are ugly.

jlpknights82 Aug 11th 2008 5:50PM

Wow. That is the ugliest t-shirt I've ever seen outside of an Iron Maiden show. I think I'll pass. :P

jlpknights82 Aug 11th 2008 5:51PM

WTF double post? *pokes it* Anywho I'll add that I agree. I wish they'd just make subtle, colorful, visually simple guild tabard designs on t-shirts. Just a crown with some leaves on a shirt! Is this too much to ask? LOL. Maybe. MAYBE my guild name. Though I'm not sure I want to walk around with a shirt that says "Elitist" on it... (Hey, I didn't name it!)

Tychon Aug 11th 2008 5:57PM

What if you want to purchase a real guild tabard and wear it over your real "armor" everyday... even when you "reitemize" for the next day you could throw on your tabard and represent your guild!!!

ok that would be pretty lame.

Tib Aug 11th 2008 6:29PM

My guild has a bunnie head on a pink tabbard. There is no way I'd want to be seen wearing that outside the game. Inside the game I just say our gm has issues.

Ichthus Aug 11th 2008 6:37PM

It's a shame I can't get these by Dragon*Con where a big group of our guildies are going to show up.

nickydaewoo Aug 11th 2008 6:54PM

Are they going to let people order these that aren't going to be able to make it to BlizzCon?

byron Aug 17th 2008 4:12PM

Sounds like not..

I would love to totally customize one though.. Is it so basically you just input your characters name and it does everythign for you? Other then the like, shirt type, color crap? Or can you like totally customize? Thats what I would do cause i'm guildless v..v

jeppe Aug 11th 2008 7:47PM

T-shirts...hmmm...that's a bit nerdy, isn't it :)

Adhe Aug 25th 2008 11:00AM

Well I get extra nerd points then because I really, really want one even though I think my guild tabard is ugly. Then again, I was in line at the movie theatre the other day and someone with a Horde t-shirt walked by and I almost yelled "FOR THE ALLIANCE" so there's already something wrong with me. The only reason I didn't is because my bf would have walked out in shame...and I wouldn't have blamed him.