Love your Spacing TTC Buttons? Now buy the OFFICIAL ones!!

[299 bloor call control.]

This is just embarrassing.. for the company behind it and for the TTC. It's a blatant attempt to rip off Spacing's subway buttons and and horribly bastardized attempt that it.

http://www.legacysportswear.com/ttccatalog.asp?category=Accessories&product_type=Buttons

Check out their "new" website too:
http://www.legacysportswear.com/

 

[299 bloor call control.]

I think it was better when they didn't try. The website and the products are just... ...
..

 

[299 bloor call control.]

From their FAQ:

Question ...
Who is Legacy Sportswear Inc. ?
Answer ..... Legacy Sportwear is a full service, marketing and design manufacturer and distributor of quality sportswear and promotional products.

Question ...
Why is Legacy Sportswear producing souvenirs for the City of Toronto and the TTC ?
Answer ..... President, Rick Ferri believes in a personal commitment and dedication to any given project.

so using stock merchandise and slapping the TTC logo on anything and everything is "commitment and dedication"?

When the City of Toronto requested tenders for the project, Rick really wanted to be involved and make a contribution to this colourful and fun project.

none of the products are that colourful.. they are fun though... to make fun of.

Question ...
Does anyone else make souvenir products as well ?
Answer ..... Legacy Sportswear is the sole licensee of the official TTC souvenirs. Legacy Sportswear worked hard to win the contract and met certain conditions imposed by the City of Toronto and the TTC regarding quality of merchandise and Canadian content regulations.

uhh.. quality, eh? we should call David and Adam up on this one.

 

[ShonTron]

Spacing's buttons are $1 compared to Legacy's $2. And they have the complete set - they grace my cubicle wall!

They are bad. I just don't get some of them - like Kennedy or Bloor. And why not even use the TTC font?

 

[299 bloor call control.]

Well, the Bloor one is obviously of people standing on the platform watching and waiting while train after train goes by full.

 

[JasonParis]

That plane at Downsview gives off a lot of exhaust!

Wow, those are bad.

 

[fiendishlibrarian]

Ok, so the use of the original 1950s red/yellow subway signage is *one* mitigating factor here...

 

[ShonTron]

The only mitigating factor, to be precise!

I can't wait for them to complete the set. What would they do for a station like Midland? Rotting cardboard?

 

[Jonny5]

Hmmmm.....

I don't like how "Toronto's Underground" is written on it. I don't actually want that anywhere on TTC stuff. The remaining elements of the design are okay, but many of the choices of station graphics don't work.
I don't understand the Bloor graphic. Is it supposed to be that "Move down please!" sign?
St. George is good.
The rest I can make sense of, but could be much better.

 

[JasonParis]

It can't be said enough, but where the heck is the TTC font? It should be the most obvious thing to the designer of these buttons.

 

[ShonTron]

That's assuming they had a "designer".

 

[scarberiankhatru]

I can't wait for them to complete the set. What would they do for a station like Midland? Rotting cardboard?

And tumbleweed for Ellesmere!

 

[ShonTron]

A stucco-clad McMansion for Glencairn, so that one's easy.

 

[BobBob]

The skydome/CN one looks like some kind of mosque, and what's with the "toronto underground" ?? Who calls it that? These are just... there are no words.

 

[voxpopulicosmicum]

Effin' brutal. Looks like they were designed by a person whose only sense is hearing.

How are companies like that able to stay in business? Was the tender to which their FAQ refers heavily weighted towards pity as a determining factor?