I don't believe I've ever heard of that Christmas carol, so no wonder I couldn't place anything. But, you are quite right! Here is the Christmas carol you speak of, and it matches! Note, this is only the first verse.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Ev'rywhere you go;
Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.

I guess this perfect example used by Max would sum it up nicely: Sligs were exactly the same as well. But I guess with the game being 3D, we sort of expect a greater range of diversity. Sligs was fine, they had to wear the same garments, they were provided with them - same with Mudokons, etc, etc. Glukkons were dressed different, though. But the enemies in Stranger don't have that excuse, they can wear different garments. Still, it isn't too much of an issue with me, now.

Alcar...

Hehe well that diden't happen It so happens that the day after I posted that post I recieved my card in the mail. It was address to my old address but there was a yellow sticker on it stateing my new address and to notify the sender.

I forgot before I moved I went to the post office and filled out a change of address form so anything that went to my old address 2906 altimatically is sent to my new address 4457.

But I love the card its so cool! Mann I am so glad I made my reservation of the game back in June. I was lucky I went to Game Stop and they said my reserved copy is still there. I even saw the mockup box of Stranger. It looked soo cool I also noticed something strange I went to another Game Stop that is in a local shopping mall and this was after I found out the release date as being January 26th here in the States. They told me that the game won't come out for another six months. Now thats wrong I understand OSW is confirmed for January 26th right? My guess is not all game stores know yet of the release date.

I am certainly glad I diden't go to that one but still the card is so nice I will add it to my ever so growing Oddworld collection.

is the signature of Alf orignal red on youre card?>?
on mine it is silver:p

indeed, mine is silver too, I think we Dutch are special :p

btw, mine is written by another alf :fuzconf:.

I can't scan it, but maybe you can???

off course:p
just joking,
but i wonder the colours bechause maby its an effect from the scanner or something like that...

OR MABY ALF USED 2 PENS TO FILL IN ALL THE CARDS:p

Mine is signed in Red... and I live in Belgium
anyway I don't think that realy matters

maby if we ask alf he says :

gold - 1st
sliver - 2nd
red - 3rd
:p:p:):p:p

anyway somebody has other colours??

I have one signed in silver, and two signed in red. Don't ask me why I got three cards, because I don't even know myself.

i have 2 bechause i signed up 1 time and then i relized i was forgotten my family name and did it again:p

ps the 2nd was messed up by the postman so i looked in the law book to see if killing the postman was against the law...

you guys have ceveral cards?

I only have one...
and my sister too, so basicly there are 2 at my house, but only one for me

I wish I had brothers and sisters so I could get multiple cards. *sigh*

Guys, you can email Alf and ask him to delete your incorrect account. When I changed my POP3 email address, I simply did that... and then we never received any emails after that, hehehe.

It's good to get cards though I didn't. And so.... *moves cursor slowly to adress bar to register muahahaha*

So that's how the card looks like, lots of Grubbs.

I feel stupid now, because I just got it in the mail.
I must have signed up a long time ago.

My brother signed up for The Fan Club before I did, so we had to share the First and Second Stranger cards...as well as the stickers. But this year we each got our own Stranger card. His was signed in red, and mine in silver.

-oddguy

if you look good you can see flags in the picture:p
is this the red army??

I recieved my card yesterday ... thank you to OWI.

I should get my brother to sign up so that we can get more than one. :P

Abe Babe...

LOL

Mine came yesterday!! I was so happy :D I must say, I liked last year's cover better, but this one was something entirely different so it's cool.

Mine was signed by Alf, which was a change from previous years, was this the same for anyone else?

~Miss Odd

Yep, Alf signed everyone's card. Which is absolutely fantastic, not only because it is then personalised-ish (:p), but it shows how much dedication they have. That's a lot of work to do, even if we estimate how many people are signed up for the commODDities club.

Alcar...

I know, it was such a nice touch :)

The fact Alf sings them all shows how much they realy care for their fans...
Realy Oddworld Inahbitants is the Game Compagny that cares the most about their fans. At least I don't know any that care more.

Now I'm really excited to get mine :D. It'll probably come after Christmas though (If it comes at all), seeing as I signed up today and I live all the way over here (England).

That signature isn't a scan! With so many fans, Alf went through lots of pens...that's why the different colors.!

lol, thank you for the explanation AA ;)

Yeah thats we call old fasion hard work! If you look at it tilted you can see it isn't scanned, you can see the pen strokes of the permanent marker. I for one am thankful we get cool cards (everyone on My unoffical Oddworld magizine team got one including this months newbies). And look at Alf's great work into the signatures, they arn't scribbled on there it clearly says Alf. Thankyou Oddworld Inhab, (Of couurse needless to say I have an article in the UOM (unoffical Oddworld magizine) about it called "Did you recieve the Odd this Christmas?" Is the tea still 25% of the classic ground tea this month Alf, cause I would like a cup.

I just received Oddworld Inhabitants' happy Hol-ODD-days email. This email includes the Bolamite live ammo picture though, where as the card doesn't :p Don't know how I realised this... I must spend too much time on this stuff.

Anyway, BIG thankyou to Alf, Alf's Assistant, and the OWI Crew!

Alcar...

Then what is that spidery dude on the card called? ;)

-oddguy

EDIT:

Hey...I just checked my e-mail and I didn't get anything from OWI. :(

i just got mine today :) unfortunatelly(sp?) im in seattle... while the card is in bakersfield :'(

Hmmm... Well, then maybe it wasn't the Bolamite! But there were only seven on the actual card :p So one of them was missing :p

And don't worry, Max hasn't received his email from them yet either.

Alcar...

Does everyone that registered on the OWI site get one of these emails or is it only the mods of the forum?

Everyone who registers on the Oddworld Inhabitants website. The Oddworld Forums are independant of Oddworld Inhabitants, they just happen to very kindly come over and represent themselves through Alf or Alf's Assistant :)

So you should receive an email. But I don't know about the card, as you mentioned you registered after the cards had arrived. So they'd already been sent :(

Alcar...

What?! The eight Live Ammo types are on the card.

http://www.oddworldforums.net/attach...achmentid=2567

From left to right:

Boombat, Stunk, Chippunk, Fuzzle, Bolamite, Stingbee, Surgebug, and Thudslug.

Phew! I was feeling left out. I hope Max and I get our e-mail soon.

-oddguy

Oh. My. God.

I... Actually thought there were seven... My eyes, they've deceived me.

Alcar...

Hey...just got my "Happy Hol-ODD-days" e-mail. So happy. :happy:

The funny thing is, either the card went slow through the e-mail, or a fan relations person was working at night. Either way, OWI is dedicated. I appreciate it muchly! :D

-oddguy

I have it also:)
Wow OWI is realy doing their best to get fans and keep them fans:p

I am lucky enough to get the card and e-mail, everyone who didn't will get an e-mail, you will. I think it is a way to make up for the people that didn't get the card so nobody is left out. Smart thinkin guys, smart thinkin

I still haven't gotten my email yet... I'm starting to get a bit worried here...

You know if by some sort of accident you don't get one, I would be kind enough to e-mail you a copy of mine even though it just wouldn't be the same it is the least I could do

didn't get it either... or perhaps they didn't changed my mail adress I asked them :s
ah anyway I'll wait for it :D

I didn't ever get my email. Xav and I will just have to struggle on without it.