Snakes on a Plane Paraphernalia Pack

The Snakes on a Plane Paraphernalia Pack is a set of clothes and object files created specifically for use in The Sims 2, that seek to promote the film Snakes on a Plane.

Description
Time to kiss those snakes goodbye! Well, that is, unless you like snakes. Either way, you can now create dining booths and airplane interiors that use the same Surf-One Luau II pattern seen on Flight #121.

There are two types of seats in here: First Class (Orange) and Coach (Blue.) These are approximates of the seats that featured in the 747 of Snakes on a Plane. Just like the movie's plane seats, these seats are patterned after the Luau II surf board designed by Hawaii-based company Surf-One.

Four T-shirts of various snakes from the movie [are included in this set]. These shirts include the snakes MiHiTi ("Mile High Taipan,") Scarface (Radar-Crippling Pit Viper,) Peanut (Kid-Biting Cobra,) and Kong the Burmese Python.

Surf-One® Luau-II seats

 * Jucuster's Last Stand Dining Booth recolors
 * Orange (first class) (260 KB)
 * Blue (coach) variety (260 KB)

T-shirts

 * Kong + poem
 * Male (283 KB)
 * Female (118 KB)


 * MiHiti + poem
 * Male (283 KB)
 * Female (119 KB)


 * Peanut + poem
 * Male (282 KB)
 * Female (118 KB)


 * Scarface + poem
 * Male (283 KB)
 * Female (118 KB)

Requirements
The T-shirts are base game-compatible. The seat recolors are for the Jucuster's Last Stand bar seat from Nightlife. As such, that expansion is required. Players are encouraged to have University and Nightlife installed.

Making of the seats
The seats were developed first, with their files made ready for export to Mod the Sims by February 2nd of 2007. They were engineered by way of using SimPE to clone the Jucuster's Last Stand night booth from Nightlife. Pursuit of this project existed as early as September of 2006; but was delayed due to issues with the PC being used as Dozerfleet Main at that time.

The development of said seats around that time in February corresponds with work being done on assignments for a graphic design class at Ferris State; the end results of which have no surviving copies to the present day. However, this was also around the time that the spring 2017 Philosophy 216 class was wrapping up discussion of the Bhagavad-Gita, and began exploring Plato's Five Dialogs, regarding the lead-up to the execution of Socrates. Further slowing development time down was work being done for a biology class, as well as for a sociology class.

The seats were made by way of doing Google searches regarding the plane seats in the movie, and that pattern on them. It was revealed that the pattern belonged to the Hawaii-based company Surf-One, and was dubbed the "Luau II" pattern.

Making of the T-shirts
The T-shirts were developed later that same year, around March 10th-12th of 2007. This means they were submitted for approval to Mod the Sims mere days before the "Thoughts on Candide" essay was submitted to class. The snakes' production names were revealed in a documentary short on the making of Snakes on a Plane. This insight was incorporated both into the T-shirt CC and into the development process for a TV series pitch for Snakes on a Plane: The Animated Series - which drew the attention of the at-the-time popular blog site Snakes on a Blog.

The author of that blog was flabbergasted than anyone would propose an entire animated series modeled after the movie - let alone one that built so much lore upon the original film's premise, or that formatted its genre and content by using The Real Ghostbusters as a template.

Distribution
While eventually removed from Mod the Sims, the seats enjoyed a decent shelf life there of a few years - albeit, with very few downloads. The shirts were rejected for upload. After a few years, the two SoaP CC sets were reuploaded to Utterly Sims on Tumblr, before being taken down again. In June of 2020, the were re-uploaded to their current home on the Dozerfleet Labs Blogger, under the DzMD banner.

Trivia

 * In one scene in Ciem, as Candi is waking up from a nightmare, she is seen wearing the Kong T-shirt from this paraphernalia pack.


 * The snakes' names are production names given to them by the puppeteers.
 * The exception is MiHiTi, which was given that name by Dozerfleet. MiHiTi is simply an abbreviation of "Mile-High Taipan," in reference to the taipan that attacks Kyle and Kelly while they are having sex in the plane's lavatory.
 * Kong was actually played by a real life Burmese python named Kitty.
 * Peanut and Scarface were elaborate puppets, carefully filmed and lit to look and move like real snakes. Only on really fast occasions, when necessary, were they replaced with CGI models.  Very few real snakes were ever used for actual filming.


 * This paraphernalia pack is inspired by the fact that Miriam Flippo in Despair Gerosha and every version after it has a Snakes on a Plane T-shirt.
 * While Miriam has the "Snakes + Plane = Snakes on a Plane" equation shirt that became a meme during the film's initial promotion in 2006, Candi has the Dozerfleet-made Kong T-shirt.
 * Both girls sneaked off to watch that film, which was of curiosity to them in 2006. They were only 7 then.  But they waited a few years to watch it, because that was also the year that Stan and Shalia Flippo were murdered by the Hebbleskins.  The girls were too busy mourning their parents to watch movies that Erin banned them from seeing.  But after seeing it, they went through a phase, and started wearing nostalgic SoaP T-shirts.
 * In Cataclysmic Gerosha, this is still canon for Miriam. Candi was too into being Ciem at that point, and training for what she believed was her role in life as the "Gifted Flippo" to care that much about a movie from 2006.
 * Both girls, due to the neglect they faced from Erin and abuse they faced from SCALLOP, developed emotional and psychological disorders - made worse by psychological sexual abuse they endured at school from teachers and peers alike.
 * As such, they both became obsessed with sex, and eventually became sexually active. This distraction became another problem, as it made Candi irresponsible and reckless in her duties as Ciem while Miriam became a prostitute.
 * However, only Miriam maintained her love of Snakes on a Plane - even after going to prison for helping the Purge-Flare.
 * Candi in Earth-G7 never became attached to the movie at all. Oddly enough, she never even watched most superhero movies, and she was one!  She was more interested in shows like CSI and Forensic Files, though it's debatable if this ever made her all that good at being a detective.  While Candi was locked up, she became more interested in conservative radio than in most films.


 * This paraphernalia pack, along with the Cast of Inception Character Pack for The Sims 2 made in 2011, later inspired the creation of a Cast of Sharknado Character Pack in 2014, which would also include remakes of T-shirts from the promotional materials for Sharknado 2.
 * Sharknado 2 even mocked Snakes on a Plane in its opening, with the first 5 minutes of it essentially being Sharks on a Plane.
 * Snakes on a Plane is hardly the only time that the early 90s script Venom (not to be confused with the 2018 film or its main character) was adapted / ripped off. Tail Sting, from 2001, was essentially Scorpions on a Plane.  Elements of bad writing from Tail Sting were later recycled by The Asylum, makers of Snakes on a Train and Sharknado, for use in their Lavalantula film series.


 * A Snakes on a Train tribute pack for Sims 2 was considered by DzMD, but was scrapped.


 * This Snakes on a Plane pack also inspired one of the recolored objects that feature in The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff. The game's Stack of CDs is cloned, and the cloned CD stack object includes a copy of Snakes on a Plane: The Album, by Fueled By Ramen Records.