Alf's Rehab & Tea
 

It's back! And they have started with the fan art section:

http://www.oddworld.com/?page_id=386

I've checked but apparently the other sections are still empty.


Here is what Alf said about it on Twitter:

This is great news. :D I don't see my drawing I posted about 5 years ago on there! Bastards!

Nice to see Oddish and myself made it to the punch. :D

Yeah I tough I recognized your art (and name) in there :p

They added the photos of my models I submitted! I'm really pleased, it seems they didn't add every piece people sent up, so to be chosen is pretty gratifying :)

I got an email back from Alf too, saying he thought my work was really good :D Sekto and Oddish, which artwork is yours? They're all awesome- did you guys get a reply from Alf too?

the 3 pics i sent are up there :-D

I like your paramite drawing!

Excellent. I wonder if they'll put up my poem if I send it in?

Put on the Kettle!

How do you send them stuff?

Those are all pretty damn great! Also, Michael, you're truly talented! :)

Hey Chumps!

Glad you've found the Rehab! There's still more stuff to come, but for now I hope you're all loving the fantastic artwork sent to us. Keep it coming, send it to alf@oddworld.com and it may be included in future months. If you've sent stuff long ago, we won't still have it, so send it again!

Your pal
Alf

Thanks Dynamithix!

It's a shame my new Abe model still isn't any closer to being finished than in the pic of his head, and that was taken a few months ago! :fuzsad: too busy with uni work at the moment. I will finish him eventually and I'll try to send Alf a photo of the final model ;)

Thanks :)
Blow the dust off of it though. It's ancient.
I need to submit some of my more recent stuff next month. The Maggie/Molluck sketch is the most recent. I whipped it up quicklike during my stay in Europe. :p

First batch of "Dear Alf" questions are up: http://www.oddworld.com/?p=422

Awesome! It's so sweet to have Alf's Rehab opening up again. Congrats to y'all who got your fan art on the official site! The only link not working now is the Fan of the Month.

Alf hasn't changed one bit on his travels.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I love the trolling Alf did with Munche and Gabbite. :p

Sweet, Alf is back!

I dunno - he actually answered some of the questions. You can't tell me that's alright.

Awesome! :D

Also, who's the guy behind Alf? Is he the same guy that used to run Alf's rehab & tea?

The guy behind Alf is Alf. Are you suggesting he's some sort of political puppet Ruler of Tea?!

Good read, I really missed those Q&A.

The prophecy of your name has been fulfilled!

Do you think Alf will allow screens of my Oddworld TF2 map?

Since y'know Copyright Valve and TF2 blah blah.

I dunno. Send it in to him and he'll decide.

It feels good having your name scribed into history, http://www.oddworld.com/?p=422

Lachlan Patterson for anyone who didn't know my name ISN'T Fred.

I love the response to your question.

"There will be no new content, however there may be some new content."

Personally I don't like Alf. He keeps ignoring all of my questions. Whereas Abe is cool who answers all my questions even the stupid ones. Like to add I am not a pest with questions either like some noob, e.g why is abe blue lol

Stop pestering him, you act like a naive ten year old. People have jobs and other lives. If your not asking stupid questions your probably asking ones that they cannot answer i.e. when is the exact date down to the hour Squeek's Oddysee will be released?

Pestering him? Hardly...I've asked 2 questions in the space of 3-4 months. Hardly as though hes swamped with questions..what like 5 questions a week from the entire world wide web. Oddworld press don't have to deal with thousands of questions in small spaces of time; like e.g. assassins creed or CoD. Alf/OWI would be lucky to hit a 100 questions last year, most of them oddbox related. You claim he can't reply, well abemudkon on twitter responds to everyones questions and gives simple answers such as the norm yes or no or I can't say. I have to admit my last post makes me seem like a snotty nosed kid but I can assure you I'm just passing judgement on Alf as a press related figure and trying to backup my point on why I don't rate him as highly as yourself. If what I complain about is too much to ask fine, continue to brown nose Alf.

Just wondering, what were your questions?

But Alf isn't a press-related figure. He is, and always has been, a figure to keep fans entertained.

He's just bitter because Alf won't talk to him.

I was asking about the speculation on MO maybe coming to psn, after years of it being said its 100% not happening to maybe. Would really like to play it to understand the full quintology.

Yeh I know, thats what I'm commenting on, just trying to brush the brown nosers away because hes not that much of a hero as much as hes portrayed for being this die hard fan commited figure when he barely responds and appears rarely in the press.

Correct :D

Paul, what can this humble Mud say? I'm sorry if you feel I've let you down. We get a lot more questions than you'd think, including a LOT of repeats! Yours must have gotten caught up in them somewhere. For the record, Munch won't be coming to PSN, it relies on too many Xbox-specific technologies.

Web 2.0 has really taken off since we first took a break from the radar, and we're still getting used to it. Hopefully you know that my usual gig is to release monthly Q&As, but under Web 2.0 that can seem slow, even rude. I was wondering what you dedicated folks on the forums thought about this.

You might have noticed the cheeky "Volume 1" label on the latest Dear Alf... These might become a more regular feature than they were in the old days. Alternatively you might think they're completely outmoded and I should just answer all questions as I get them. Let me know what you'd love to see, guys!

-Alf

I think a month is too long to wait Alf, try something like every fortnight if possible.

How come March is "Volume 1"?
Wouldn't it be February?

Dear Alf every fortnight sounds cool.

No, it's implying that there may be March Volume 2.

I would like fortnightly Alf installments. Every week would be too much and every month is a bit too slow in this day and age.

Oh yeah... :dead:

Do you reckon he'd do it every fortnight? I mean, he said that we don't know how many letters he gets so it seems that he might not be able to. But still. Its a possiblity.

I totally understand man. You guys are all busy with work etc, think I reacted the way I did because everyone was saying how good a PR head for oddworld you were and I had the bad end of the stick in my case. I think the added frustration is because certainly in my case, have waited so long on oddworld coming back and its all very slow news at the moment. As you can tell I have a poor patience compared to others on the site lol.

P.s. Thanks for responding to my question. Take back what I said :)