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Take A Shot At Two New Pieces of Merch

You miss every 35% shot you don't take, so grab this stuff before it's gone for good.

We've got three new things in the store! First up is the

You Can't Beat 35% Shirt and Mug

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"Fate loves the fearless," as someone once said. For the boldest among us, life is lived on the edge, making risky bets and seeing if they pay off. Ask out the prom queen or king - at the prom! Invade Russia - in winter! Shoot at that alien - with a significant chance of missing! Some of us tremble in fear before the horrifying power of RNG; others simply square up against the vagaries of fortune, cast their die, and hope they pop a 20. Here's to remembering that you miss 100% of the 35% shots that you don't take.

This item is available exclusively for pre-order and will not be restocked in the future. Pre-orders will end on September 3rd, so order before then if you want one of these shirts or mugs! All of these items will ship in mid-September. Check out Men's Shirts, Women's Shirts, or the Mug!

If you don't get the reference, here's a recap!

By request we are adding a new kind of shirt for this pre-order. You will have the choice of a Next Level shirt at $24 or a Gildan shirt at $20. Most of you are probably familiar with Gildan shirts; these are going to be a bit thicker and weightier than the type of shirts that we normally use. If you're into that kind of thing, feel free to try that variant out; we'll collect feedback when these start getting delivered and see how people feel about them.

Challenge Coins

The history of challenge coins is a long and storied one, full of interesting details like “no one really knows how they started” and “Maybe it was the Romans? Dunno!” At Giant Bomb, though, we live in the now, and are happy to present this 10th Anniversary Challenge Coin to viewers new and old.

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Emblazoned with our logo on the front and Luchadeer on the back, alongside reminders of the venerable nature of our site itself, this coin will mark you as a very dedicated fan of Giant Bomb. Not necessarily a better fan, of course, than someone who can’t produce this coin when challenged with the special code phrase. We’d never say that the possessor of one of these coins is “better” in any way than someone who does not carry one on their person at all times.

Of course we’d never say that.

These coins are big, clocking in at 1.75” across, ⅛” thick, and weighing in at 1.25 oz. If you’re using the metric system, it’s...well, it’s a big-ass coin. They are made of die-struck iron with a brass plating. There may be some variation in color due to the brass!

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matsemann08

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Plain black t-shirt with white text?

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Yikes... that shirt...

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Those coins are pretty dope. Probably costs about $200 to import to Canada these days, though.

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"DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!"

"YES! NEVER DOUBT ME!

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I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR HAVING THE NORMAL HEAVIER SHIRTS AGAIN! I am seriously excited because I haven't ordered a shirt since you guys switched to the thin stretchy material ones. I am so looking forward to this option being added to existing shirts, I have quite a few I had to skip and I'm looking forward to picking up the back catalog of shirts!

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Sweet arcade token

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live in US. Ohio. why is cheapest shipping option for shirt and coin by ups ground for 20 some dollars!?!?!?

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@dkbomber13: Not sure. I'm in GA and there's a USPS option for $3.50.

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i've got a septum and a opening night Infinity War coin on my desk, now I neeeed that gb coin..... but that mug is so good

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I love Giant Bomb shirts... but this feels extremely lazy and bad. I mean come on, this is cafepress bad. If this was $5 I could understand, but $20... bad form.

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@rorie I live in Maryland, and the cheapest shipping option I have for a coin and shirt is $21.86, is there anyway to get a cheaper shipping option?

Edit: After further review, it only makes the shipping 21$ if I pick a Gildan heavy cotton shirt. If I pick the Next Level unisex, the shipping drops to about 8.45. Strange.

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Very happy I can explicitly choose Next Level now! Love their shirts.

However, like other commenters, I'm pretty disappointed by that shirt design... :/

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I have to add to the chorus of shirt/mug disappointment. There could have been a good shirt/mug from that moment but that one just isn't it and feels like a really lazy design. :/

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@parsnip: Military thing, whoever doesn't have their coin has to pay for a round of drinks. Never known anyone to actually use them for anything other than decoration though.

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Gotta be the worst shirt design ever, nothing indicates that this is a Giant Bomb shirt in the slightest. Any t-shirt printing shop could do that in 10 minutes

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Love the coin! looks like high quality. Great work guys.

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@rorie: is the explosive content shirt coming back?

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Since the shirt is a riff on that iconic image of Jeff (you know the one), it would have been fun if it was the same pose but with Dan's or The Abomination's face instead.

This is in no way a demand for a better shirt, just a fun idea I thought of.

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Not quite the Ka*ye of t-shirts...

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Aw man, it really looked like the coin had the drawing off Jeff on it during the UPF.

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Coin looks neat, and $2.63 shipping to the UK is pretty good (keeps it under the UK customs threshold too!)

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Love it! 35%! Hilarious!

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Cool coin, must buy for me

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IN for coin. Thing looks like a beaut.

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Love the 35% shirt. Papa bless dumb in-jokes.

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10 year old me, who used to collect coins, screamed at me through the fabric of time and space to buy the challenge coin.

So I did.

I cannot promise that I won't try to use it to PLAY POGS

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Gonna put that coin on a chain, yo.

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Considering the fact that "pouring one out for homies no longer here" goes back at least as far as the ancient Romans, "coining up" starting there isn't ENTIRELY far-fetched.

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cool design, btw

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Gotta be the worst shirt design ever, nothing indicates that this is a Giant Bomb shirt in the slightest. Any t-shirt printing shop could do that in 10 minutes

Nailed it.

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Look, man, they are taking their their 35% chance to see if that shirt will actually sell.

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Yeah look, I love GB and everything, but that shirt design is just poor.

Bring back the Space Neon Lobsters shirts, plz.

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This pains me to post, but that t-shirt design kinda stinks of racing to catch a meme before it's forgotten in 2 weeks

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@rorie when do pre-orders end for the coin? It's only mentioned for the shirt/mug.

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Maybe the, uh, simple shirt design is intentional? Looks a bit like the original "You can't beat 100%" font...

If that's the case, though, they should have just gone all in with a picture of Jeff's face (or Dan's in the same expression) or some sort of red shirt.

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I like that the shirt has no context and just looks like any old shirt. I like to imagine people's brains taking a moment to catch up, rather than seeing a cartoon design and just thinking "Oh, it must be a reference to something." It's something everyone can enjoy. The simple nonsensicality is funny to me; I'd be tempted even if it wasn't a Giant Bomb shirt.

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Not a fan of this shirt design but please bring the Gildan shirt option to older shirts! Coin looks solid

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Clever. This shirt takes the heat off the title of the Mass Effect feature for 'Worst thing on Giant Bomb' XD

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@parsnip: US Presidents have their own coins designed (they are ceremonial and not real currency) and hand them to people they think are deserving. It's done discreetly and often people who get them don't talk about it. Kinda like some secret presidential hero's club.

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Whenever I see a new store post, I just get sad that I didn't get the Contra Dan/Vinny shirt.

Then every time they do a video, I get sad because that awesome shirt is in the back of every GBE video.

In conclusion, I wish that shirt design was available for a day or two.

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I guess the tall shirts didn’t sell that well?

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After all the cool graphics that have been on GB shirts this design just looks terrible.

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You know, I wish I could buy Whiskey Media shirts again...I had to throw away the roller coaster one and it broke my heart.

That “35%” shirt is some Red Bubble nonsense lol.