Sister Sacks

by Crazy Ivan

The idea that Myachis would one day be collectable was born early in the company's history.  At first there was no choice but to make each new series from new fabrics.  By the time Myachi Man sold through one batch it would be really hard to go back and find the same fabrics so he just naturally began choosing new colors, designs and textures every few months.

The notion of the "sister sack" wasn't far behind.  It made sense that when we found a good fabric we would try to reuse that same fabric in a different color.  That linked certain sacks together in "families" and we found that people who had one or two Myachis from a "family" usually wanted the others.

Examples of Sister Sacks can be found even in the earliest Myachi series.  The Slick Black and Slick Blue, the Red and Purples Swirls, the Yellow and Orange Wetsuits... the list continues throughout the timeline of Myachi series.

Often times sister sacks come out together.  This was the case with sacks like the Purple Haze and Red Stripe or the Blue and Red Crushes.  Other times they come out in consecutive series.  The Leopard Lime followed one series after the Punk Pink Leopard.  The Crystal Flame came one series after the Fire Ball.

There have even been a few "Sister Series".  Twice in the past Myachi has released two different series at the same time.  The first time was the 2.1 and 2.2 series.  In the entire series there were only two complete sister sets.  The Lemon Head and the Twizzler both appeared in the 2.1 and the Bubbalicious and B'Zooka Joe crossed the two series.  There were also a few sister sacks in these series that related back to previous Myachis.  The Purple Reign was a sister to the Crouching Tiger and the Brick in the Wall II was a throw back sister to one of the first series sacks ever made, the Brick in the Wall I.

The next simultaneous release took the whole sister sack thing to another level.  The 3.0 and 3.1 series were sister series all the way.  Each 3.0 sack had a counterpart in the 3.1 series.  The Black Beard for the Red Beard, the Crimson Tiger for the Bengal Tiger, the Wavy Blue for the Wavy Orange, etc.  It even saw the return of the two most infamous sister sacks of all time, the Black Butter and the Slater.

The popularity of that release prompted us to do another full blown sister series the next time around, but this time we shoved them all together in one big 12 sack series.  The 3.2 series (and the subsequent 3.2x series) consisted of 6 pairs of sister sacks.

There actually hasn't been another full blown sister series since the 3.2, but sistering sacks has become pretty commonplace since then.  Each new series will have a few sistered pairs and many series go back and offer sister sacks to previous Myachis.  The 5.0 offers the Tidal Waves, the Lumberjacks and the Shedders.  The Night Rider sisters the Guatemalan Black and the Ripped and Zipped is the sister to the Stacked and Packed from 4.5.

Of course, each new series also offers some tantalizing possibilities as well.  The Hound's Tooth is so awesome it will almost certainly have a sister sack in a future release.  A fabric similar enough to the General could make an awesome future release.  And, of course, like everyone else, I'm eagerly awaiting a sister sack to the old Hardcore Cammo...