Just got home from work to find that my "Prince in Hawaii" box had arrived. Very nicely produced and packaged. The box is like a big purple fabric covered hat box and has a form-fitting foam interior, in which fits, (from the bottom up), the book, the tour book, the weird-ass poster, the CD, a bundle on incense,and then the t-shirt. When you take the lid off the box, you are hit by the smell of the incense find a sprinkling of purple silk flower petals on top of the t-shirt. Really nice presentation!

Now to look at the book...

i wish i could fork over a hundred bucks for nice packaging.

and i'm not just knocking the NPGMC hatbox experience thing, either. i'm a big ol' packaging whore - give me a die-cut digipak with pop-up illustrations and fold-out posters and i'm in heaven.

but i can't pay that much for stuff i either already have or just plain wouldn't want anyway. good on ya if yer enjoying it, though.

Didja hang that anonymous white baby up over yer toilet yet?

I'm just impressed as heck that they didn't shove this out the door on the cheap. Packaging whore + book whore made this a "scrape up the money and get it" for me! The book is very nice and will go nicely alongside my old Sacrifice of Victor hardcover.

Told my wife I was gonna get the creepy poster framed and hang it in the living room. She wasn't impressed.
[Edited 10/28/04 15:32pm]

100 GreenBacks right?

What the hell is the deal with that freaky poster anyways?
Any ideas, speculation, or inside info?

squirrelgrease said:

it's someone's kid.

squirrelgrease said:

Well, a large percentage of Prince's audience are now in their mid 30s with kids (strange but true!). Prince seems to be really targetting this audience at the moment eg. no cursing, laid back sounds on NEWS at Musicology, the "nostalgic" aspect of the tour etc...

As far as whos baby it is... I don't know?

theblueangel said:

Anxiety said:

PRINCE'S?!

PurpleHazel said:

erm...the kid looks like a damn von trapp. try again.

PurpleHazel said:

That was my first thought. Reminded me of the crying baby sound at the end of Xpectation. Is Prince being coy?

I downloaded the CD single in this set for 77cents, so Im happy.

i sent 'em ten bucks for the cinnamon girl single, and i'm happy as a clam. new audio, new video (yeah, i know it was on mtv, but now i have it on snazzy sounding CD - i'm a geek like that), and a great sounding copy of united states of division! (see previous geek comment)

candyperfume said:

Have you looked at that baby? If that's Prince's kid, the mother and father for darn sure aren't Prince and Mani.




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Well I know the blueangel is going to make fun of me but I bought the box set.I am as skeptical as everybody else and the weird ass baby picture is just downright creepy.

However the box and the book are very cool. The inncense is awesome I want to buy more however at $10 a pop its a little over priced.....


now everybody say it SO IS THE BOX!!!!!

squirrelgrease said:

It's an employees kid

DiamondGirl said:

Why would we want a poster of this child?

Lil1, don't let my dumb ass keep you from posting positive experiences! Although I'm glad to hear you find the baby creepy.

Which Paisley employee's spawn is it? My vote goes for PeePee9. It's a trixie baby poster, whee!!

theblueangel said:

The baby picture is just down right weird but the box turned out to be pretty cool. I had to have the cd version of live Controversy even though I had already downloaded it I collect Prince cd's and my collection would not complete without it.

The book was very cool and it already had a sticker price of $49.95 the incense was a very good suprise it smells awesome.

So I have to say I'm happy, I don't wear concert shirts so that will probably stay in the box along with that weird ass baby poster

So, y'all hate babies? Jeez. The box deal is VERY nicely presented. Incense is the bomb too.

Fucking HATE babies!!

Oh damn, Im late for work and I can't find my shrunken baby head keychain, DAMN IT!!!!!

theblueangel said:

theblueangel said:

LMAO You sound like me, I don't care for children either. Whenever I go somewhere I have to deal somebody's damn whining baby, the movies, an expensive resturant, a Hawaian Prince box . I have a line I use with my clubbin' friends that I could go to a titty bar and there will be some screaming baby behind me

theblueangel said:

deepabove said:

How does not seeing the value (artistic or otherwise) of a poster of some anonymous baby equate to hating babies?

can someone post the pictures? i want to see them for free.