Lonely Planet’s top 10 destinations for 2010

Lonely Planet is the most popular travel guide book in the world. Every year their editor will select some interesting title for the most fascinating place around the world.

Here is their list for the Lonely Planet’s top 10 destinations for 2010

Let’s see how many city we have in our user’s collection and what is the story about the icon and the city

l           EL SALVADOR

l           GERMANY

l           GREECE

l           MALAYSIA

l           MOROCCO

l           NEPAL

l           NEW ZEALAND

l           PORTUGAL

l           SURINAME 

l          USA

Germany

Germany is no doubt the most integral country collection in Starmugs now, thanks to our loyalty member Ecthelia(she has 92mugs on shelf) and Boris Nefedov( he has 6 mugs on shelf).we have cities as below

Germany

l           Aachen

l           Berlin

l           Cologne

l           Düsseldorf

l           Frankfurt

l           Freiburg

l           Hamburg

l           Heidelberg

l           Munich

l           Münster

l           Nürnberg

l           Ruhrgebiet

l           Stuttgart

l           Wiesbaden

l           Osnabruck

l           Bremen

l           Köln

l           Leipzig

l           Potsdam

l           Bonn

l           Kiel

l           Braunschweig  

The most popular one in Starmugs now for the Germany collection is the Bremen., the icon of Bremen is it’s famous Fairy tales “The Town Musicians of Bremen” In the story a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster, all past their prime years in life and usefulness on their respective farms, were soon to be discarded or mistreated by their masters. One by one they leave their homes and set out together. They decide to go to Bremen, known for its freedom, to live without owners and become musicians there. The story goes on to how they use their courage and wisdom to beat the bad guy and live a happy life in Bremen (see the whole story)

The one Boris has now is 2004 City Scenes collection Bremen.

MALAYSIA

We have mugs as below

l           Malaysia

l           Kuala Lumpur

l           Sabah

My favorite one is the Sabah mug,coz there is a very cute orangutan on the mug!

USA

Now we have 84 cities’ mug in Starmugs, The Most Popular of course is the NYC collection.
My favorite one is this
 The New York Special Edition NYC special edition

The icon the most famous symbol of NYC, “the Yellow Cab”

Which one is your favorite one? And do you have the cities we don’t have now?
Welcome to Starmugs and show your mug to friend around the world!!

Starmugs – Because You Can’t Have Too Many City Mugs

Or can you?  These collectible mugs from Starbucks are quite the hot item.  A whole network of trading and buying/selling is going on with these trendy coffee mugs.  You see, nearly every city Starbucks has a store in has a unique Starbucks mug to go with it.  So if you walk into the Starbucks in Atlanta, Georgia, you see an Atlanta mug.  In Fargo, North Dakota?  Yep, there’s a mug.  Salt Lake City, Utah?  Well, no, caffeine is illegal there.  OK, maybe not.  There’s a mug.

Starmugs is an online showcase where Starbucks mug collectors can show off their collections, hook up with people to trade mugs, and tell your fascinating mug stories too.

The site is apparently based in Taiwan and some of the help and other pages show that.  Going to the “About” page greets you with an extremely informative

We all Love Starbucks City mugs.Come and Join us FOR FREE!Let’s enjoy collecting these mugs!

That’s it, word-for-word, exactly as it appears.  The entire “About” page.  Obviously Starbucks mugs collectors aren’t interested in fluff like About Us pages.  They want the nitty-gritty, the goods, the core of the thing.  So they jump right in, sign up, and start showing off their awesome collections of coffee mugs.

If you’re really, really into those Starbucks city mugs, I guess that Starmugs is the place for you.  I’m still looking for a decent site for collectors of rare Star Wars left-handed light sabers.  Let me know if you see anything.  I’ve got a totally rad collection.

www.citymugs.com 

Starbucks Citymugs Asia Artsy Style

New member coming !!! This mug is from Cebu,Philippines,Asia Artsy series.Cool one!








http://www.starmugs.com/product.php?BL=detail&pid=179&guid=xyztghym_rd 

Starbucks City Mugs lover

Starmugs is a new site that was created with the main intention of providing apeculiar service. In case you consider yourself as a Starbucks City Mugs lover, this site is an online destination you should seriously consider as a valid possibility. In fact, the site aims to be the most important online place where you can find a varied assortment of appealing collectible coffee mugs.

The site is quite original and it gives you the chance to take a look at a map where you can find a number of mugs depending on the area of your choice. In case you give this site a visit you will be allowed to list yours up and show your mugs in a simple way. In addition to this, the system makes it possible for you totrade your mugs as well as to shareyour stories about them.

An original element you will be able to find on this site is the fact that you can join a Mugs’ lovers community that has started to use virtual currency they call Mug Cash in order to make their transactions. If you want to learn more about this site you will have to create your own account to be redirected to another page where you can start searching for your Starbucks’ mug in a simple way. Since this site works as a community, you will be allowed to meet people and make new friends in no time at all.

Read more: http://www.killerstartups.com/Social-Networking/starmugs-com-a-community-for-those-who-love-mugs#ixzz0VNPqhLRz

Comparison between Starbucks Citymugs 1994 collector series and 2008 icon(global) series

In 2008,Starbucks Citymugs had made a new colloection named "2008 icon(global) series" to compare with "1994 collector series".There are several features between these two collections.

1.Similar to the dutone process, there are only two major colors used in every cup.  Based on this principal, applying with variation of layers, and gradients on the background, then achieve the paint brush finish. 

2.The main designs are all followed the collector series of 1994.

3.Same as previous series, the graphics are imprinted at the front,  and the backgrounds are the city skylines with city names.

4.The difference between this series and the 1994's is - this series chose dark brown for the lettering as the 1994 series used black.

5.Only "starbucks" shown for older collections;  later on, "starbucks coffee" started to show.

6.What makes this series distinguished is the inner side of the cups are colored.

7. This series also comes with a mini cup collections as bonus gift, unlike previous single cups, they are tied with the country cups. (Although collector series for Asia used this approach too) 

8.also called global series 

Citymug,and theBurj Dubai!

Standing at a reported 818 m (the official height will not be revealed until next year) and consisting of 162 floors above ground, the giant tower - described as the 'jewel of the Gulf regions' - is an awesome sight to behold.
The tower will include 800 private apartments and an observatory 442 metres above the ground on the 124th floor - the highest public observation desk in the world. There will be a club on floors 144 to 146.
Sitting at the foot of the tower is the 500 acre Downtown Burj Dubai development, which when completed is expected to cost around US$20 billion, offering 30,000 homes and the world's largest shopping mall - the Dubai Mall - covering 836,000 square metres. The Burj Dubai Mall will have areas for leisure, including a world-class aquarium, fashion show arena, a souk and an ice rink.

source:http://dubai-tower.blogspot.com/

Citymugs also have Dubai mug in 1994,collector series.

The mug featires a Jambiya,which is an Arabic dragger.The Dubai mug sold more than 3000 dollars(GBP 2050)on eBay ,20 Apr 2009.The seller resided in Stone (Staffordshire), United Kingdom.data according to Starbucksman.

pic source from starbuckman

What is Jambiya?

“If you wore an expensive jambiya, you were considered a big man, and people would respect you more than they would the average person. The jambiya had great value to it in the past,” Mis’ead said.

source:www.yobserver.com/reports10012207.html