World of Blue - Archived Forum 2007-2022

Welcome! I thought i would start a thread to focus upon the merchandising of Twin Peaks worldwide as well as all aspects of collecting and preserving our favorite show. We don't usually think that most prime time U.S. television shows will produce the range of products that Twin Peaks eventually produced (For the longest time this seemed to be the exclusive grounds for cult British shows like Doctor Who or The Avengers)
However, as soon as the show started to create a buzz i'm sure product ideas started to buzz in the minds of Mark Frost and various money minds at Lynch/Frost and ABC. I thought we should start off looking at the initial products offered around the first season.

-Soundtrack cd
Sort of a no brainer here. This sold well and i'm not sure why a further volume was not offered sooner.

-Luara Palmers Diary (Book)
Story information wise, it might be the most crucial piece of merchandising released to date. Written by Jennifer Lynch

-The Autobiography of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper: My
Life, My Tapes (Book)
Written by Scott Frost. Exerpts from Dale Cooper's diary starting when he was a child

-Twin Peaks access guide to the town (Book)
An amusing guide to the town.

-Twin Peaks Behind The Scenes: An Unofficial Visitors
Guide to Twin Peaks (Book)
An all-around guide to the series up to half way through the second season.

-Diane ... The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper (Audio cassette)
Audio passages culled from Cooper's microcassette recorder.

-Twin Peaks Card Art
A set of 76 trading cards in a box. I will post more detail about this in an upcoming post.

Much more to come including remaining U.S. products, worldwide releases, original screen used props and lots of pictures. Do you have something unique like an original prop or autographed item? Let's see it!

From my private collection. This is the orginal screen-used spider cage that Windom placed over Leo's head in episode 28:

Hey all. Over the next few weeks, I'm going to go through and clean this entire thread so it can remain as sort of a Twin Peaks collectors museum. It will make it a lot more fun to look through.

One thing you can all do for me is the following:

1. When posting items, post the pictures straight to the board using the attach feature. This way if images are taken down at external sites, then there won't be a blank spot where your picture once was.

2. Try not to post links unless you are giving credit to someone for their photos as again, these links can become stale after time leading agin to a broken link.

Commenting is OK, but keep in mind that since I am trying to keep this thread as a "Collectors Museum", I will be doing a semi-regular cleanup on this thread.

-B

Three full cans of Japanese Georgia coffee. The characters on the side are Cooper, Shelly and Ken S.:

Very rare in-store Japanese poster promoting the home video release:






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Here's a few from my collection:

FWWM Crew Jacket (back closeup of logo)


FWWM Lighter that Sheryl Lee gave to cast and crew after filming


I'll see if I can get pics of my Cannes program. Actually, I remember someone online made a PDF of it once. If I can find it, I'll link it as it is a beauty!

Nice ones Dugpa! Speaking of gifts from cast to cast, here are some others i know about:

-Bookhouse Patch (Gift from Kyle to crew after series wrapped)
-Inlay button (Gift from Lynch to crew after series or FWWM, i'm not sure)
-Pink and Black Cloth Flyer (Given to key cast and crew after 90-91 season)
-Yellow and Black Cloth Flyer (Given to key cast & crew after 90-91 season)
-Dr. Jacoby Christmas Card (Hand colored and signed by Russ Tamblyn to select cast an crew)
-TP cast and crew sweatshirt. Gift from Lynch/Frost productions to cast & crew. Looks like a high school class sweatshirt - says TP '89

Japanese card game:

From my private collection. This is a tie that Dr. Jacoby wore thru the first season. Signed on reverse. It was purchased at a charity auction in the early 90's:

wow, Jerry -just wow.

Thanks Audrey!

From my private collection. 'Flesh World' original screen used prop magazine. This is a copy found in the box Andy and Lucy are looking through:

Promotional playing cards handed out to select staff at station TBS in Japan (The first in Japan to broadcast the series):

German Twin Peaks eye patch:

Here is the FWWM Cannes Presskit availale to download in PDF format. It took me almost 4 years to track this one down and now thanks to the good folks at DavidLynch.de, you can download it for free.

http://davidlynch.de/britfwwm.pdf

-B

Not sure how rare these are but I found them in a book store as they were "the Men of Twin Peaks" and "the Women of Twin Peaks" plastic bookmark cards.