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Bill Hunt
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posted 04-20-2009 05:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Bill Hunt   Click Here to Email Bill Hunt     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just got an e-mail - you probably did too. AB Emblem is making the C.O.L.B.E.R.T. treadmill emblem as an embroidered patch. It'll be available soon.

Voyager1975
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posted 04-20-2009 05:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Voyager1975   Click Here to Email Voyager1975     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I didn't think the COLBERT emblem patch was for real! With Steven Colbert's face on it riding the machine? Oh man, too funny!

Bill Hunt
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posted 04-20-2009 06:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Bill Hunt   Click Here to Email Bill Hunt     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That's the one. Now that's a keeper! Someone should send Colbert a copy of the patch once it's done. I'd bet money he'd mention it on his show.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 04-20-2009 06:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I would not be surprised to see the patch soon listed for sale from the Comedy Central website.

BMckay
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posted 04-28-2009 07:30 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for BMckay   Click Here to Email BMckay     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Kennedy Space Center Space Shop now lists the patch. (Note: This item will be shipped no earlier than May 18th.)

ShuttleDiscovery
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posted 04-28-2009 11:16 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ShuttleDiscovery     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
They've changed the face on that patch.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 05-09-2009 08:18 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Not sure if this is a prototype or final version:

Kevin T. Randall
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posted 05-22-2009 02:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kevin T. Randall   Click Here to Email Kevin T. Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Now for sale on eBay.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 05-22-2009 03:05 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
As well as through The Space Store.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 08-03-2009 07:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
collectSPACE: Sold out space patch no longer a common COLBERT collectible
Nearly a month before the payload it celebrates is scheduled to launch to space, a collectible embroidered patch has sold out, with no plans for it to be produced again.

From the moment it was revealed last April, the insignia celebrating NASA's next space station-bound astronaut exercise device was in demand, which might have been considered unusual if it wasn't for the fact that the design featured both the name and cartoon likeness of comedian Stephen Colbert, star of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" parody talk show.

Bill Hunt
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posted 08-04-2009 01:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Bill Hunt   Click Here to Email Bill Hunt     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ah yes... another strange and interesting tale in the world of patch collecting...

Robert Pearlman
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posted 08-04-2009 02:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Seems that the folks at Comedy Central liked the article: it's currently linked from the front page of ColbertNation.com.

The Colbert fan-run No Fact Zone also linked.

jimsz
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posted 08-04-2009 08:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jimsz   Click Here to Email jimsz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Interesting patch but another way for NASA to become a joke to the taxpayers.

dogcrew5369
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posted 08-09-2009 04:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for dogcrew5369   Click Here to Email dogcrew5369     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Purchased 3 COLBERT patches from Skyforce the day the sold out thread was posted. Received them yesterday. I guess haste doesn't necessarily make waste. I believe they took their patch off their site by Thursday. Skyforce must have had quite a few in stock when the news hit on the 4th.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 08-24-2009 02:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
From our latest article:
A few weeks after stores' existing supplies of the patch sold out, the once $5 souvenir started selling on eBay for as much as $180. As of the date of this article, of the few patches to be offered at auction, two had topped $100 in bids, with another was being sold for a "Buy It Now" price of $175.

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posted 08-24-2009 05:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MARKW   Click Here to Email MARKW     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Anyone who would pay over 5 bucks for that patch has had their cheese slide off their cracker!

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