Man, it's amazing how much can change in a month. I went from not even caring about this game to definitely pre-ordering it. Damn, October can't come fast enough.

I'm pretty certain the sketches I saw were from Media Molecule themselves and were from before the game got tied to Sony when they were just kicking around ideas. I agree a Mario based Sackboy is not likely (never say never and all that), but it shouldn't be an issue because unlike the levels all the Sackboy options are being generated by MM, you'll just get to choose the bits you want in order to customise the look of yours.

Then again, people have made some impressive approximations in Soul Calibur IV's character creation kit, so you never know.

Can you pre-order this guy on Sony's online store? Is that the idea?

I wouldn't hold my breath. People will find ways to do anything. And with the sheer amount of customization and DLC I expect from this title, I expect it to be possible.

After all, Mm isn't making the characters, the users are. It's not their fault if the users are very good with the toolset.

Yes. If you watch one of the earlier dev presentation videos, they show how you can add bits and bobs as well as apply any of the stickers on your character (meaning you can essentially paint colors and shapes on your character. A shirt or a tie for instance, without adding an actual tie "item"). One of the developers gets too happy stick little spring flowers on the level and manages to stick one on his sackboy's head.

Your sackboy is just a sackboy. Whether you make them male or female is all down to watch kind of clothing, eyes and additional items you attach to them.

I've been playing the internal code at work and saw a workmate of mine had made their sackboy look like a devil and attempted to create a level that's supposed to look like hell (only cute). We were unable to apply stickers to the ground (and thus unable to color the scenery red), but hopefully that's different in later code.

That was kind of my point in saying that look at what people have done with the Soul Calibur IV character customisation stuff. Since people can play with the look of their Sackboy I imagine we will most certainly see versions covering all sorts of famous characters, and not just video game characters.

However, Mm will be providing the full costumes, like these pre-order ones and stuff like the Hellghast (from Killzone) ones that made an appearance previously. I was saying that Mm themselves won't be making ones based on other characters like Mario. What the community comes up with though, well that's a different matter altogether. I can't wait to see.

Q: Damn you for getting your hands on this already. :p

I look so much forward to this game. The new article in Edge just added to my enthusiasm. The level creator sound absolutely stunning, and I can't wait to createmy own pseudo Mario levels, with added puzzles!

Holy shit Q, that seems to be a huge potential for in depth customization. I only hope they provide a bunch of parts for it. And I think they will. This game is <3

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This is the old video I was talking about. They've changed it a bit since then, but the customization should be the same.

Not sure if they removed the ability to use your own images for stickers since then because HAHA PICTURE OF PENIS

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OH MY GAWD.

I WANT TO PLAY THIS NAO.

I hope they don't remove the sticker thing though, it'll kill off huge possibilities of custom texture on objects. Also lol GFF stage comin liek wut

I believe the last thing I read they said they weren't planning to remove it, but they've built in a quick system for reporting dodgy/offensive stuff easily. That may have changed though.

Yeah I read about that. Pretty much you can make obscene levels but you can't share them or you risk getting reported. You can give those kinds of levels passwords so only your friends can play them. Something along those lines.

Yeah, they set that up to help prevent infringement. What happens is if you share that level, someone can flag it and it'll get reviewed within like, 12 hours of the flag being raised (like someone reporting a bad post on GFF). If the Sony mod deems the level inappropriate, the level's removed, deleted, and I think the user gets some sort of infraction, like a warning to other player's about that player's custom levels.

I'll just make an Xbox 360 level where you have to hop over flashing red rings.

Would I be infringing.

News site launched.

Little Big Planet News

Go there and spam the comments asking for real Sackboys.

Just posted on their site as LordNihlus. Apparently the Sackboy plushies are quite in demand. I wasn't the only one requesting them.

Speaking of plushies, have anyone seen some patterns for them? I've seen a lady who's knitted one, but I thought I'd try my hand at making one myself...
Brown mutant sackboy comin liek w00t...

Sackboy needs to become Sony's official gaming mascot. The marketing markets itself to the market!

As far as I know, no one ever got the pattern. My friend said she could make it though so we'll see if she does.

If Sony even began to consider this, it would turn this generation's console wars around.

Well, we'll see what I can do. I'm going to buy some metres of some knitted-like fabric and experiment with it. All results'll end up in my journal.

(And I'm planning to recreate the first levels of Super MArio Bros., complete with a mechanical Bowser. Yeah!)

So EBGames/Gamestop has the Kratos sockboy skin for pre-orders anyone have any clue who has the Nariko one avilable?

I was sad it was a in-game skin model and not a plushie :(

Since Amazon has the strategy guide thingy, I imagine the other three items will be split between Best Buy, Circuit City, and probably Game Crazy or something.

As much as I loathe pre ordering things from GameStop, I cannot resist the lure of having a Kratos Sackboy in my game.

Unless we get further news on the other pre orders, I think I will be pre ordering from GameStop.

Gametrailers - LittleBigPlanet - Dream Trailer


Still my favorite trailer of the game, even with all the new stuff coming out of Leipzig's Games Convention.

Definitely a day one purchase for me (should probably preorder it), though I should buy that PS3 too.

With every new video I see from this game the more the possibilities seem endless
Gametrailers.com - LittleBigPlanet Sackzilla Trailer by Boringman54

Now I really can't wait to see what people can come up with