Threadless - "It Would Have Been Cooler As A Van" Pop Culture Themed T-Shirt

While I don’t usually blog during the day, when I went to check out Threadless’ Hallow-Tees $10 sale I knew I’d have to write about this shirt. To be honest, I totally skipped over the “It Would Have Been Cooler as a Van” t-shirt at first glance. Thankfully, I went back to take a second look and was totally floored by what I saw. Basically, “It Would Have Been Cooler as a Van” re-imagines some of pop culture’s most well known vehicles as vans! This has got to be one of the coolest Threadless tees ever!

It Would Have Been Cooler as a Van by Brandon Ortwein

Like most pop art, the design isn’t overly complex. It’s just a fun idea that anyone could have come up with but didn’t! I’ve gotta give some serious props to artist Brandon Ortwein for following through on this one. The shirt features 21 pop icons from television and movies; some are animated while others have been in comic books and on the silver screen. Can you identify them all!?!

I’ve been able to identify a good chunk of these, but even The Blot can’t get them all. The top two rows are pretty obvious; you’ve got Back to the Future’s time traveling DeLorean, The Ghostbusters’ Ecto-1, the Dukes of Hazzard’s General Lee, Optimus Prime from Transformers, The Griswolds’ family station wagon from Vacation, and Speed Racer’s Mach 5. There are also shout-outs to Thomas the Tank Engine, The Blues Brothers, Grease, Maximum Overdrive and Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure included on this shirt. If you there are any you aren’t sure of, head here to see the shirt’s key.

The “It Would Have Been Cooler as a Van” t-shirt is currently on sale for $10 (regular price $18) on Threadless.com and comes in both guys and girls style tees.

Blood Red Rose Vampire by Josh Herbolsheimer

A vengeful Earth strikes again, and the Blood Red Rose Vampire is born! Sprouted from beneath the soil under a full moon, it comes to stalk the living! Beware it's coming, lest ye join its minions....


The Blot is still reeling that I missed out on getting a Green Hell Rose Vampire a few weeks ago, so thankfully Super7 is already releasing an all new colorway of one of my favorite vinyl figures. The Blood Red Rose Vampire by Josh Herbolsheimer will go on sale Saturday, October 24th at the Super7 online store and retail for $25 each.

Threadless’ 24 Hour $10 Halloween T-Shirt Sale

Starting at 10 am on Monday, October 19th is the Threadless Hallow-Tees $10 sale! For 24 hours only, every Halloween themed t-shirt in Threadless’ huge catalogue of tees will be on sale for just $10. Act quickly though, because the sale ends promptly at 10 am on Tuesday, October 20th.


While The Blot doesn’t know exactly which shirts will go on sale today, according to the image above these awesome “horror movie” themed t-shirts will be. Can’t we all use more wolfman and zombie inspired t-shirts in our closet? I know I do! And I have a sneaking suspicion all of these t-shirts will be selling out later today.

The Horde by Aled Lewis

In Case of Zombies by Olly Moss

A Day In The Park by Ed Pincombe

Dead Shred by Matthew Skiff

Hello In There by Ian Burns

Threadless’ Hallow-Tees $10 sale is for the next twenty-four hours, so act quickly. Where else can you get so many awesome designs for just ten bucks!