Last week's photoshoot reminded me that there was one penguin thing that would've been even more 'involved' if it had happened. So let's take a look in the past, TAGAP 4 and 'what could've been'.

In 2020 I featured the waddling Christmas penguin robot from Lidl. Turns out these are semi-regular feature in Lidl during the holidays and returned to the shelves the next year.

I got an idea; to release the TAGAP 4 soundtrack – when it would be available – as a live action looped visualiser. I'd use all kinds of retro-imagery and filming tricks to create an army robot penguins marching across the screen in sync with the music. The idea was solid, plans were made and the penguins were bought.

My plan was to film this thing during the vacation days I've booked for TAGAP 4's release. As as sort of wind down from the launch madness by doing something 'practical' and instead of 'digital'.

But alas, during the week following TAGAP 4's release I finally got COVID. Considering I managed to avoid it all that time and especially during the final stretch of development, I can't even be mad. Still, all I could do during that allotted time was to crank out the obligatory launch week updates between coughing fits. I ultimately did the visualisers using the mock-album artwork – it worked out great that way, too.

That said, I still have the penguins.