# Right after Maniac Mansion shipped

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**Created:** [July 2, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/right-after-maniac-mansion-shipped/3827 "2019-07-02T21:14:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/right-after-maniac-mansion-shipped/3827/1 "2019-07-02T21:14:13Z")

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What did Ron Gilbert do after the release of Maniac Mansion? Right, he traveled to the Great Wall of China (pic included):

> **[Right after Maniac Mansion shipped](https://www.grumpygamer.com/great_wall)**
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> Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry

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**Author:** ![VillaVelasco89](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/villavelasco89/32/11227_2.png) [@VillaVelasco89](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/VillaVelasco89)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/right-after-maniac-mansion-shipped/3827/2 "2019-07-03T09:41:14Z")

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Making games by day - playing in Duran Duran by night

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**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/right-after-maniac-mansion-shipped/3827/3 "2019-07-03T13:17:27Z")

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I made that exact same joke 2 years ago! 😆

> [@LucasArts "The Adventurer" and Guybrush paper doll dress up game](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/lucasarts-the-adventurer-and-guybrush-paper-doll-dress-up-game/721/8):
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> That was right about that time he way playing the keytar for Duran Duran (there is so much wrong in this sentence!)

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**Author:** ![VillaVelasco89](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/villavelasco89/32/11227_2.png) [@VillaVelasco89](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/VillaVelasco89)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/right-after-maniac-mansion-shipped/3827/4 "2019-07-03T15:24:44Z")

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Haha! Great minds think alike

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**Author:** ![asterothe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/asterothe/32/550_2.png) [@asterothe](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/asterothe)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/right-after-maniac-mansion-shipped/3827/5 "2019-07-08T15:56:59Z")

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Amazing. So cool to see pictures like that of Ron.