Ingredients to make a Spartan MarkIV replica helmet:
- A whole shitload of Chinese people working for under a dollar and hour
- Some heavy ass plastic
- 2 years of prep time
That’s right. For two years the production team of Microsoft, headed by Craig Carlson, have working relentlessly to bring us a replica master chief helmet. It’s been an incredibly strenuous process, but in the end it’s gonna pay off. Trust me.
In an interview, done by bungie.net, Craig quoted:
Building 36,000 helmets per week in a six day week, equals 6,000 per day, 3,000 per 10/hour shift, 300 per hour which all translates to one every 12 seconds. For final FPP (once the Game disk RTMs and we can complete the final production into the Helmet packaging) we will do 40k per day, roughly 20k per 10 hour shift, 2,000 every hour, which is one every two seconds. It may take 10 seconds a unit, but in this case we will need five lines to carry this out.
He also states that during the last 69 day, he and many of his American co-workers had spend over 43 days in China. Thats kind of a shit load of time away from family, friends, and goofy Obama youtube commercials.
So in the end, I must say: Dear Chinese factory workers, Craig, and others, we salute the shit out of you for sacrificing your life, as in working 10 hour shifts for 2 years strait, so that the American gaming public can get a badass spartan MarkIV helmet with our Halo 3 copy for an affordable slave labor price (11/1/07)! Also, I’d seriously appreciate if you sign my MarkIV. You don’t even understand how happy I will be if it is signed, so please do it. Thanks! Actually if you write,
“To Joe. Your blog is kickin rad! May peace and the happiness of many concubines and spring rains bless your diving residence. Sincerely and with much love, for and eternity, -Glick Ming Jow”
Oh yea, that’d be freaking tight as hell. I’m now begging you to write that. Thanks again.
Now please excuse me while I attempt to beat, the impossible, TMNT 1989 over XBLA… I swear to god it’s impossible. Oh, and if you are into reading alot of boring text and are interested in bungie slave labor, you can read this. For Pricing and more Legendary Edition halo information, click here.
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Fantastic post Joe!
To Joe. Your blog is kickin rad! May peace and the happiness of many concubines and spring rains bless your diving residence. Sincerely and with much love, for and eternity, -Glick Ming Jow
haha thanks kids
So you can update your website and stuff (which kicks ass) but you can’t get on mutant ninja turtles so we can beat it?
THE HAPPY GAMER.COM FOR LIFE
DUDE FUCK YOU MAN THIS IS RICHARD FUCKING SAFRAN AND YOU SUCK. HALO SUX XBOX 360 SUX NINTENDO SUX. SONY RULES!!!11/11!!1!!!!1111!1!!!!! PS3 FOR LYFE BITCHESSSSSSSS
Dear Joseph Hertler,
Hello Joseph this is Ms. Davis. I must say this article is very FUCKING AWESOME INDEED. I was on 3 pills of Tylenol when i read this fucking shit and i must say i was fucking laughing my ass off in the office of LOHS. I fell out of my fucking chair reading it. and the high of the pills kicked in, i was on the floor and felt massively heavy and couldnt get up for hours. so i just took a nap on my bony ass.
i just have to say tnmt 89 is fuckin hard. by the time i had beaten the game i had to have died at least 50 times. fuck that.