I’m personally of the opinion that this is something of a scam, but I’ve gotten enough emails about it in the past few weeks that it seems time for me to put it online.  Previously I’ve talked about role playing games, and video games, but this is the first time anyone’s brought up a board game.  A webpage is purporting to sell a board game called Cobras in the Cockpit based on, well, let’s let them explain it:

Imagine all the creature movies you’ve ever seen that featured snakes. And imagine all the action movies you’ve seen that were set on planes. Now, imagine all of these movies were magically spliced together into one fantastic airplane-full-of-snakes movie. That would be the most incredible movie of all time…. That great, mythical movie is called “Cobras in the Cockpit…” This game is about that movie. At the same time, it’s a parody of all the snake movies you’ve ever seen, plus all the airplane movies you’ve ever seen. This game can be all of those things. It’s that good.

In this game, players control the snakes, driving passengers, flight attendants, and pilots into a frenzy, and blowing up the engines, until finally the whole plane is in chaos. This probably isn’t what real snakes would do if they got onto a plane, but these aren’t real snakes… they’re movie snakes!

They’ve even got a snazzy logo and mockups of the board:

So, with all this cool stuff, why do I think it’s a scam?  Well, they’re taking orders (and money) now, and yet they aren’t ready to ship the game.  They don’t include any contact information, email or phone, so there’s no way to find out about your potential order or to complain if it doesn’t ship.  I’d be very reluctant to give my payment information away to a webpage that doesn’t provide any contact information or any sort of assurances that their product is ever going to actually be produced.

Ok, now, of course I don’t KNOW it’s a scam.  They’ve clearly put a lot of work into the site, and into the concept of the game itself (rules, strategies, etc.).  If they want to get in touch, I’d love to hear more about their progress in actually creating a sellable product.
Anyway, check it out if you’re in the mood for a board game.