Yeah, providing they use nice images, they said in the piece the original pixel images would be used rather than the more modern Team17/d3T images so that's a step in the right direction.
Yeah, though that seems to only apply to GB Eye's line-up at this point.
Barring another art-style change we don't yet know about, I would imagine that Gaya's plushes, keyrings, and so on, will be based on the current designs. I was never fond of the variant used when Team 17 worked on the PSP port/remake, because the lemmings were made to look a bit like weird little beaky bird-people! That said, the tweaks made to the design for d3t's work on Lemmings Touch made that design cuter, and I'm fine with that one being used for this.
Personally i'm looking forward to the Gaya merchandise, recently bought some Bubble Bobble plush and mug by them at EGX and it's good quality, not cheapest for sure, but i'd rather pay a little extra for quality than something that would come un-stitched in 6 months.
I have the Bub plush, myself, and I'm really impressed with the quality and likeness, too. They were definitely the best choice of manufacturer for this.
That said, I do hope that, if the Lemmings plushes have sound modules in them, that they don't make the bizarre decision to place them in the arses, like they did with the Bubble Bobble ones, haha!
And yes some proper figurines would be great, I'm there's plenty of designs in the first two games alone to be getting on with!
Exactly.
Actually, that's another hope of mine for this merchandise line - I'd like to see a return of the Tribes!
Anyhow, I have a small update, that's been added to the bullet-point list in my first post. I've gotten confirmation that
Gamerabilia (one of my favourite companies to deal with for buying video game-related merchandise, as they're marvellously helpful) will be carrying the complete line-up that's been confirmed so far.