# Wishes for a Thimbleweed Park successor
**URL:** https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103
**Category:** General
**Created:** [September 6, 2018, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103 "2018-09-06T13:55:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@VillaVelasco89](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/VillaVelasco89)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/41 "2019-03-01T14:55:23Z")
I’d love to see them make a new game within the Maniac Mansion universe, just as Thimbleweed Park was. New setting and new story but set in the same timeline. Has the potential for an entire canon.
Just please don’t sell it to Disney if it becomes successful! 😃
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### Author:  [@yrface](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/yrface)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/42 "2019-03-01T23:04:56Z")
> [@VillaVelasco89](#):
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> I’d love to see them make a new game within the Maniac Mansion universe
Even just the occasional reference to other characters in the universe would make it more fun.
Like when Leonard mentions his cousin Bernard. I wouldn’t consider that an “annoying in-joke” since it just goes by you if you don’t get the reference, but if you do it enhances the experience.
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### Author:  [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/43 "2019-03-02T13:51:10Z")
You mean, like cousin Sven?
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### Author:  [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/44 "2019-03-02T14:34:11Z")
> [@yrface](#):
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> I wouldn’t consider that an “annoying in-joke”
Isn’t it annoying they called it “annoying in-jokes”? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/45 "2019-03-03T08:26:14Z")
Aw, I even find it annoying they call them “in-jokes”… 🙄
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2019, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/46 "2019-03-03T10:43:28Z")
> [@Ema](#):
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> Aw, I even find it annoying they call them “in-jokes”… 🙄
Yep, references to past games are hardly in-jokes. Stuff only common LA/TTB Staff would know. That would be in-jokes.
That may friends, was an annoying nit-pick. 🤓
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### Author:  [@VillaVelasco89](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/VillaVelasco89)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/47 "2019-03-06T13:42:11Z")
I know a few people who have played Thimbleweed Park without any knowledge or experience of Maniac Mansion or previous LucasArts games. They said they hardly noticed any in-jokes or references to an “inner circle” of fans. Nothing that wasn’t easy to grasp, anyway.
Too much is made of “annoying in-jokes”. Think it’s a term used by people who secretly want the game to be more exclusive 😃
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### Author:  [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/48 "2019-03-06T15:59:52Z")
> [@VillaVelasco89](#):
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> They said they hardly noticed any in-jokes
Isn’t the default for the in-jokes option OFF?
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### Author:  [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/49 "2019-03-06T16:37:32Z")
They’re (annoyingly) disabled by default. Although there is a bit of a lack of spacing. It seemed like they were compressed into the first half hour or so and then mostly just disappeared.
Or would there be no Edna otherwise? Point still stands regardless. And you could hardly get rid of the kitchen and the library…
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### Author:  [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/50 "2019-03-06T19:25:33Z")
> [@Frenzie](#):
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> Although there is a bit of a lack of spacing.
Half an hour sounds exaggerated, i.e. too short, but it’s right that you discover a lot of the environment at the beginning, e.g. the town, which has a lot of in-jokes.
Also many people experience Ransome’s flashback rather early and there are a bunch of in-jokes there.
IMHO the spacing of in-jokes is OK, what needed getting used to was the 4th-wall-breaking so early on.
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### Author:  [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/51 "2019-03-06T19:54:35Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#):
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> IMHO the spacing of in-jokes is OK, what needed getting used to was the 4th-wall-breaking so early on.
NB I wasn’t saying I was bothered by them, quite the contrary. It’s just that they seemed to taper off after a while, basically after the beginning. Which I guess was closer to 3 hours in reality but felt like half an hour. 😉
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#):
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> Also many people experience Ransome’s flashback rather early and there are a bunch of in-jokes there.
But those aren’t the kind I imagine those who complain must be talking about, unless Ransome was the one doing in-your-face stuff like talking about Sierra games. His spectators are in-jokes you wouldn’t even notice if you didn’t know them. Same kind of stuff for the hamster.
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### Author:  [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/52 "2019-03-06T19:58:32Z")
Aw, come on. 🙄
This whole “annoying in-jokes” thing is annoying itself.
TWP was designed for US.
We, hardcore hidden fans, who remained silent for years.
We, 40+yo people with a partner, children, a good job, a lot of important things in life (travels, friends, hobbies, family…) and yet we think one of the most important things we have in our life is a stupid computer game we played when we were twelve.
This beeping TWP game with its beeping annying in-jokes is beyond anything we dared to dream all these years. It belongs to us. So, beep off everybody else.
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/53 "2019-03-06T21:50:32Z")
I always maintain the apt name of that option would have been “devs being passive agressive”. But that would probably have awoken false expectations.🙃
> [@Ema](#):
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> e, 40+yo people with a partner, children, a good job, a lot of important things in life (travels, friends, hobbies, family…)
Now you´re just being offensively exclusive. 😏
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### Author:  [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/54 "2019-03-07T12:45:05Z")
Depends on which boolean operator you use.
It was intended to be “OR”.
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### Author:  [@yrface](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/yrface)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/55 "2019-03-08T17:05:35Z")
> [@Ema](#):
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> It was intended to be “OR”.
Or why not state-of-the-art XOR logic used by MucasFlemm™
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### Author:  [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/56 "2019-03-09T13:57:53Z")
Because THAT’s exclusive! 😊
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### Author:  [@VillaVelasco89](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/VillaVelasco89)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2019, 11:09am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/57 "2019-03-12T11:09:04Z")
Ah, that sounds familiar, I seem to recall seeing an option like that. It’s been a while since I played it. Sounds like a good excuse for another playthrough!
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### Author:  [@elenahitomi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/elenahitomi)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2019, 6:05am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/58 "2019-03-20T06:05:09Z")
I might disagree on this one (hope we’re still friends lol!)–I already like how the animation and the design was made in Thimbleweed Park. Maybe because I grew up playing Monkey Island 1 and 2 and I would want to keep that “nostalgic” feel that way. Unless! The next adventure games would let players have this “switch” to change from classic retro style to retro 3d? What do you guys think?
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/59 "2019-03-20T09:27:36Z")
Which type of graphics is “retro 3D” from your point of view? [Cel Shading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel_shading)?
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### Author:  [@elenahitomi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/elenahitomi)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2019, 9:28am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/wishes-for-a-thimbleweed-park-successor/3103/60 "2019-03-20T09:28:51Z")
It can be 👍 – oof that would be tedious, though. Worth the shot.
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