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== Petrol Safari and Ink Preferences ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' The Petrol is one of my favorite colors. The ink is so good, too. Like, the Petrol ink is, it's top-notch. That's a good blue-black, Brad. That's my blue-black that I own and love.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's a great ink. And right now, according to retailers, there is no ink available to order. That doesn't mean it's coming or not coming. But right now, these pens are released or are going to be released, like, this week, I think, the All-Stars. But there is no matching ink, and I'm going to, yet. Like, we just don't know. Like, we don't know. There's no definitive answer one way or the other. But if it's not available right now to go on sale in conjunction with the pens, I would think it's not going to happen. But I wouldn't put it past Lamy to just do something later, right? And they've reused ink colors before. They're obviously reusing this model, this model color this time. So could there be ink? Maybe. If they're not launching it in conjunction with, I kind of think it's not going to happen, though. But I would love it if there were ink because Petrol is a great ink, as you mentioned. And this metal or aluminum All-Star is lilac, not dark lilac. And dark lilac was the famous ink that they released back in the day when they did these for the Safari lineup. Well, we're going to keep mentioning that this is kind of a do-over colorway.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I look forward to the original Safari one that they'll come out with and that All-Star fans can expect in 2029.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Wow.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So usually these announcements, a lot of times we get to do them at the same time. So I don't know where the Safari announcement is, but I would imagine it's coming in the next month or so. They get these out in the beginning of the year.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's going to be so good, Brad, that they need to get some space.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, you saw last year's, and you know that's not true. I don't know. You know Safari can catch some L's. Like, I'm a realist Safari lover, Myke. I'm a realist. Like, I call it how I see it. And, like, sometimes they lose. It's just more times than not they win. And I think they're in for a challenge this year.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Strawberry and cream?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was strawberries and cream, yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, that wasn't good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. That was a little weak in the design department on that one. But then again, we are doing rehash colors in the All-Star. So what do you expect?

'''Myke Hurley:''' 2021 was a banger, though. The actual Safari colors, like the orange and green. I bought both of those. That was a banger, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That was one of the best. That was probably been the best in, oh gosh, probably a decade.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I would like to make a request to one of our many wonderful pen blogging listeners. Someone should make a gallery of all of the previous releases as far back as they can go for both Safari and All-Star. I think that would be good. Just so you can see it going back through time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I'm sure there's probably some kind of resource out there. I used to follow back in the Flickr heydays. There was an account that did that and had all the limited editions on all the pages. But I haven't looked for anything like that. I bet we could find something pretty quickly. Some kind of...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Google wasn't helping me just now.