I got to hold the original Myst Book prop!

[@EricAAnderson]

Absolutely LOVED having you and Brit over to visit and dig through our goodies!!! Let's do it again sometime!

[@punishedprops]

Thanks again, Eric! Yes, let’s do it again!

[@Cyan-Official]

What Eric said! It was a delight to have you both over to HQ to nerd out about Myst, Riven, and our prop goodies. 🩵

[@finickyfoxx]

I think I would've cried. I adore the Myst series. That's so amazing!

[@punishedprops]

It was such a cool experience!

[@DavidConradFlickchart]

Well, I will forever be searching for a Vol. 54 of Harper's Monthly Magazine now! There are some re-prints of it in different binding, but I'm going to look for this edition of it in every bookstore and antique store from now on.

[@punishedprops]

It’ll be a fun thing to keep an eye out for!

[@Kazuo1G]

My 200-year-old Myst book (from Myst V) is a Peterson’s Magazine Vol. 39 (January-June 1861). I even made some leather straps, metal bars, and it even has snaps to secure the book, like the game object!

[@punishedprops]

That’s awesome!

[@jeffzugale]

I’m drooling that you have TOUCHED THE BOOK, wow man that is crazy cool. 🤩👍👍

[@punishedprops]

I was like "shouldn't I be wearing gloves?!"

[@jeffzugale]

@@punishedprops RIGHT??!? 🤯

[@stevem8611]

That elevator panel is insane

[@punishedprops]

Yes! After the release of Myst, Cyan had the custom studio building made. They requested extra, fake buttons in the elevator to make it look like there’s tons of basement levels 🤣

[@katelinnett9020]

So much fun watching nerds geeking out! Has Adam Savage ever been turned loose in that vault? He would absolutely lose his sh*t!

[@punishedprops]

We kept saying that while we were there-I wish Adam was here!

[@MeatSim9]

The first question I managed to get right on Masterminds that NONE of the Masterminds did, was a Myst question. XD This is SO COOL!

[@punishedprops]

Ha! Excellent work :D

[@Korvorkian1]

God this is incredible to see having grown up playing the game and loving the books

[@punishedprops]

Oh man, I don't know what happened to my book copies--maybe at my parent's house.

[@steveslenderman]

The myst series was a so groundbreaking when released. Unlike anything else I had played as a teen when it released

[@mitchellradspinner4491]

I’m so happy for you this is a Myst series fan dream come true! Thank you for making this video even if only for reference it’s such a treasure trove.

[@punishedprops]

You're welcome! It was so exciting--we would have loved to stay longer and scour the place, but it was Riven Launch Party day and Eric was so kind to take time out of this day for us

[@theboardcrafter1336]

Great video😊 you should do a close-up hour long video of everything there.

[@punishedprops]

I agree! Rand poked in while we were filming and pulled a contact lens case off a shelf and said something like "oh, haha , here are Gehn's old contacts that the actor wore when filming Riven. Ew, whelp, back on the shelf!" His stories are incredible, but it was the company's day to celebrate the new Riven launch and we took up enough of their time already :)

[@mertz7305]

SO JEALOUS. AND so glad to got to see that in person!!! 😁

[@daylightsleeptight]

I haven't played Myst since like ninth grade on my family's ancient desktop computer. Watching this compelled me to immediately go download it so I can relive the adventure.

[@MDigitalProductions]

That's so amazing, one of my computer art proffessors worked on the original Myst! I gotta show them this!

[@M1ghty0m3ga]

Chuck Carter?

[@punishedprops]

That’s so rad!!!

[@aranayailyaris73]

Which combination of elevator buttons makes the lift turn sideways and slide into the hidden sub-basement?

[@punishedprops]

I was afraid to push the buttons 😆

[@NewbombedTurk]

I see Myst props, I can’t click fast enough

[@OriionCygnus]

Love seeing this stuff but as an Uru fan, that model of Ae'gura just out of frame on the right side is the ULTIMATE tease to me.

[@PossumMedic]

Cool! I remember sitting on my dad's lap playing Myst, 11th Hour and Full Throttle 🤘😝 Thanks for the vid! :D

[@steprockmedia]

Cool stuff, Bill!!! Glad you're having fun and sharing that with us!

[@punishedprops]

Thank you! It was such a cool experience!

[@mattgamer]

Amazing. I know how much work it is to film and edit all of this. Thank you for sharing!

[@OnBleeckerStreet]

Fascinating!!

[@EvilTedSmith]

Great video Bill.

[@punishedprops]

Thanks Ted!

[@libbyspaur605]

So jealous! Bucket list stuff for sure!

[@punishedprops]

We want to go baaaaack

[@spaghetti016]

Incredible. Thank you for sharing this.

[@punishedprops]

You're welcome!

[@Saavik256]

So awesome! I have the first Myst somewhere still, but no idea where. I started playing it so many times but I was a kid back then and it was so confusing to me.

[@ladytoxie]

Wow those costumes are even more beautiful! Wish i could have seen those up close.

[@punishedprops]

We gotta go back and do a whole video in the costumes.

[@ladytoxie]

@@punishedprops yes please! The aesthetic of Myst/Riven and Uru is so my jam. That would be a deep cut of a cosplay to make, and I'm quite tempted 😍

[@Electronidus]

I wish more games would bring back live action cutscenes to video games like Jedi knight dark forces 2

[@punishedprops]

Oh yeah what a classic!

[@whatskrakalaken1940]

Super kewl!

[@lanesteele240]

Myst was so hard and easy at the same time

[@mitchellradspinner4491]

Finally gonna go buy a Harper’s book and make my own now that I know which date is correct!

[@punishedprops]

Nice! Good luck with your search!

[@jerikagoddess]

Hello from Spokane!

[@punishedprops]

Hellooo!

[@LilacMage]

I love the style and atmosphere in the myst game. Sadly I am really bad at pusle solving...

[@benjultz]

Did you happen to see the Riven decriptive book while you were there? I've been wanting to make a replica of that one for a while now.

[@Kazuo1G]

That's a 1950s Websters Dictionary, I believe. The Riven Trap Book is also "Omar Khayyam, A Life", by Harold Lamb.

[@zigorously]

Every single prop is so gorgeous, so glad you got to see 'em! Anything else you 3D scanned besides the pipe?

[@punishedprops]

We didn't want to take up their time, so I scanned the Myst book but forgot to scan anything else, haha.

[@zigorously]

@@punishedprops That's still pretty neat! I hope the scan came out well!

[@MissMerc]

I just checked the copy of Harper's that I bought as a Myst junky years ago because I'm THAT girl... Volume LIV, December, 1876, to May, 1877. I'll catch you guys later, I'm going home.

[@missunperceivable]

I still lament my little child self not having the money to get the replica of Catherine's dress and vest from the pamphlet.....

[@hylianjean]

I lamented that too, for years and years, until I found one fan (sadly he has passed away) who had a purchased dress and vest in his extensive memorabilia collection. For as beautiful a job as Museum Replicas Ltd did with the props, their reproduction of Catherine's costume didn't attend as well to detail. The fabric pattern was turned sideways, so the hand-embroidery was wrong, the fringe was a strange choice, no aging or weathering that I could see.. it just looked like a disappointing imitation. Granted that's all from a couple of photos of it hanging on the back of a door, but finally seeing it did make me feel a lot better about having to make my own, which turned out so much closer to the original than the merchandise version would have been! Hopefully that eases your ache a tiny bit?

[@buildingthemagic]

So… when can *we* see those scans? ;-)

[@punishedprops]

I ended up only scanning the Myst book--it was pretty dark where we were filming. I'll see if I can share the scan somehow.

[@JonMadsen70]

:)

[@_SurferGeek_]

Riven was a huge hit but I'm not sure it was a full return on investment considering the rumors of astronomical production costs and seeing how crazy they went with the props and costumes, it's not surprising.