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* ColbertBump: Blinx is now widely known as the profile image and branding of [[https://twitter.com/PoorlyAgedStuff Poorly Aged Stuff]], a Twitter account [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin that is what you expect]]: stuff that is [[HarsherInHindsight poorly aged]].
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* ColbertBump: Blinx is now widely known as the profile image and branding of [[https://twitter.com/PoorlyAgedStuff Poorly Aged Stuff]], a Twitter account [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin that is what you expect]]: stuff that is [[HarsherInHindsight poorly poorly]] [[HilariousInHindsight aged]].
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* ColbertBump: Blinx is now widely known as the profile image and branding of [[https://twitter.com/PoorlyAgedStuff Poorly Aged Stuff]], a Twitter account [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin that is what you expect]]: stuff that is [[HarsherInHindsight poorly aged]].
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* InvisibleAdvertising: Blinx 2 had very little marketing or coverage from Microsoft as they were focusing on all their time and money advertising ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'' and ''especially'' ''VideoGame/Halo2''.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Blinx 2 was released one week after ''VideoGame/Halo2'' to little fanfare, resulting in the franchise's early demise.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Blinx 2 was released one week after ''VideoGame/Halo2'' to little fanfare, resulting in the franchise's early demise.
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** As already stated, Blinx was supposed to be Microsoft's answer to characters like Mario and Sonic. Master Chief's popularity derailed that.
** Blinx was originally designed similarly to the fairy tale character ''Puss n' Boots''.
** Blinx was originally going to be purple.
** Blinx was originally designed similarly to the fairy tale character ''Puss n' Boots''.
** Blinx was originally going to be purple.
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** As already stated, Blinx was supposed to be Microsoft's answer to characters like Mario and Sonic. Master Chief's popularity and the franchise's overall unpopularity derailed that.
** Blinx was originally designed similarly to the fairy tale character ''Puss n'Boots''.
** BlinxBoots'' and was originally going to be colored purple.
** Blinx was originally designed similarly to the fairy tale character ''Puss n'
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** ''Blinx 2'' was going to give the Tom-Tom gang realistic weapons.
** The ending to ''Blinx 2'' hinted at a third game, which never came to be.
** The ending to ''Blinx 2'' hinted at a third game, which never came to be.
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** ''Blinx 2'' was going to give the Tom-Tom gang realistic weapons.
weapons, but was changed back to cartoony weapons in ordered to secure an E-rating.
** The ending to ''Blinx 2'' hinted at a third game, which never came tobe.be due to the game's failure and the closure of developer Artoon in 2010.
** The ending to ''Blinx 2'' hinted at a third game, which never came to
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** Blinx was originally going to be purple.
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** Blinx was originally designed similarly to the fairy tale character ''Puss n' Boots''.
** Blinx was originally going to bepurple.purple.
** Some art implied Blinx was also going to use his sweeper to suck up enemies like in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''.
** An unused level called "Dimension X" was cut from the first game.
** ''Blinx 2'' was going to give the Tom-Tom gang realistic weapons.
** The ending to ''Blinx 2'' hinted at a third game, which never came to be.
** Blinx was originally going to be
** Some art implied Blinx was also going to use his sweeper to suck up enemies like in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''.
** An unused level called "Dimension X" was cut from the first game.
** ''Blinx 2'' was going to give the Tom-Tom gang realistic weapons.
** The ending to ''Blinx 2'' hinted at a third game, which never came to be.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As already stated, Blinx was supposed to be Microsoft's answer to characters like Mario and Sonic. Master Chief's popularity derailed that.
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** As already stated, Blinx was supposed to be Microsoft's answer to characters like Mario and Sonic. Master Chief's popularity derailedthat.that.
** Blinx was originally going to be purple.
** As already stated, Blinx was supposed to be Microsoft's answer to characters like Mario and Sonic. Master Chief's popularity derailed
** Blinx was originally going to be purple.
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* StillbornFranchise: The series came to an abrupt end when the second game underperformed compared to ''VideoGame/Halo2'', so Microsoft showed no further interest in continuing. In 2015, the trademark for ''Blinx'' was abandoned, leaving it buried.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As already stated, Blinx was supposed to be Microsoft's answer to characters like Mario and Sonic. Master Chief's popularity derailed that.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As already stated, Blinx was supposed to be Microsoft's answer to characters like Mario and Sonic. Master Chief's popularity derailed that.
