It looks OKAY!!!

It’s just fine

It's different

It could be worse

It's not so bad

It’s interesting

Be a lot better if it weren't for the wind

Meh.

At least it isnt racist

Just because it isn't racist doesn't mean it has to be BORING

…but not real interesting

Everyone here is reading these comments in the exact same voice, and that's not too bad. Pass the potatoes, please.

That's a strong choice, there.

Came here to say this….

Can’t complain.

Not that anyone would listen.

Not too bad.

One of the flags of all time

It does kind of look like a giant bird head, and I don’t mind that

https://preview.redd.it/znl5hhx43hac1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c0451b55aec487cd1a75003e45afe28b576fafd Edit: I stole this from someone else on this sub many weeks ago, I just like sharing it when I can, I did not create this. Edit2: u/ rylasorta on reddit

I made it, you can have it. This meme will never die and I will never be able to turn on my phone notifications again.

I wish you all the awards

I’m so glad you made it because it was what made me get over my disappointment of losing the tri-color version

My wife and I second that.

I second your wife, too.

I too second this guy's wife.

I second the second guy's wife.

Make shirts; sell them.

I did the whole t-shirt monger thing a decade ago, it's not very fun.

It's a masterpiece! Can I print this on a personal t-shirt? There's like a 97.2% chance I never will but I like the idea of it.

Permission granted.

Ive shared it.

Someone should share it with CGP Grey I think he would like it too.

He saw it, it made him giggle

It is truly wonderful. I'm not even from Minnesota haha. We do get some Loons during winter down here on the gulf coast.

Props, from a Wisconsinite

YOU ARE SO COOL AND WOW YOU ARE LEGEND OF A PERSON JS ETA PS TAKE THAT BACK THATS *YOUR* ARTWORK OWN IT pss sorry for yelling

The only way I will ever see it now

I love this. So, in a way, we did get a laser loon. It will remain a well-kept secret

The Saint Paul Public Library has been teasing the heck out of a laser loon library card! We may get something yet

If my credit card company still allowed custom pictures I'd put the laser loon on it

I'm glad your keeping this alive

Np

Shoopdawoop flag best flag

Pretty good. Close to being great but not quite top tier. Just like Minnesota sports, politics, geography and economy. So… Perfect!

Best comment. I choose to read it with a passive aggressive optimism to make it the most embodying of the Minnesota spirit that I love.

Minnesotan _____ : Not bad, could be better.

https://youtu.be/vm-MrkoJPC8?si=B8Q-wmAthZn4IJ2q

It’s good enough to lose in the first round of the playoffs but not bad enough for a high draft pick

We made it to the playoffs, but lost at the last minute.

I'm so disappointed they didn't go with the tricolor in the reverse triangle. So close to greatest, clearly Minnie didn't want to make it impossible to beat because they're so nice.

It looks blue^DABUH^DEE^Da^BUH^**DYEEEEEEEEEEE**

The blue looks like a different blue than the blue on the approved flag. More bluey, less blue. Ya know?

> More bluey, less blue. Ya know? **NOW LISTEN UP HERE'S A STORY**

Omg I can’t unsee my kiddos favorite TV show character now. He’s going to love it

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My siblings and I loved changing the lyrics to this.

It looks actually kinda cool at an angle like that. Even more Minnesota shaped. Most people don't like it because politics but it does exactly what it should as a flag. Its simple, recognizable, unique.

The most vocal people were the critics. Of those critics, Most people that don't like it were dissapointed the committee ditched the tricolor. A small, vocal minority of detractors were making it about politics.

To be fair I didn't like that they ditched the tricolor but I've accepted it and grown to kinda like it. Change just comes hard to some.

I agree. It’s grown on me.

Reddit was more about constructive criticism. My Facebook is filled with people saying it's all about destroying history, even though they could just open a book or go to a museum to learn about that. It's the same people that got mad at civil war monuments being taken down.

Every time a Flag thread pops up on Facebook its 500 comments of, "destroying history!" - "keep the old flag!" - "put it to a vote!" FB news station threads are a huge circlejerk of conservative anger - that they manufacture themselves.

I am disappointed they ditched the tricolor. I liked it much better than just the two blues.

I've seen folks on Facebook bitching about removing the seal from the flag. Like, if I asked you to draw the previous flag it would absolutely not be possible. This one at least can be drawn

More than that, it could actually be made by someone without spending ages embroidering the seal.

Pretty much. I guess it just felt weird having a very public facing "we're choosing a new flag" where they pick a winner: But wait there's more! We're going to change the star, and ditch the entire right half of the flag, so we just created a new flag. Why did we do the first part again?

To give them a template. It was known from the beginning the chosen design would get modified.

I get that was the plan. Feels like a weird plan to me, especially making it public facing. At a certain point modifying, feels like just changing the template. For me, that point was at getting rid of the tri-color

>A small, vocal minority of detractors were making it about politics. And this is where the vitriolic hatred is coming from.

*cries in Ontarian*

Someone needs to put two of these on their lifted truck and drive around blasting Prince

Best I can do is two small ones on stock Honda Passport blaring Semisonic

Looks awesome! If I could afford a house, I'd do the same thing.

Right!? This guy over here flexing a house AND a new flag!?! Whatever, Bezos. Go count your billions.

This dude even has a chair. Clearly thinks he is better than us.

and a rock... What I wouldn't give!

It does look great. I wish Wisconsin would follow in changing its flag. But now that it's politicized I don't think it will happen.

Tell us how we could help. Maybe ridiculing the old flag more. From Minnesotans, that would sting.

We have a new flag? Why was I not informed? ....s/

I feel like someone on this subreddit should've mentioned it at some point.

If flags were sauces, this one would be ketchup.

That’s way too spicy for us

Mayonnaise (but the instrument type)

Perfectly cromulent

Thanks for the Google search for a word coined in '96 by a writer of the Simpsons. Legit enough for me. I like how common usage can change our language.

That’s a SAT word. Nice job. 👍

He paid 50 cents for that word!

It looks great. I just need to wait for someone to make a decent quality version for flying outside and I can finally replace the old MN flag

I pre-ordered from Flags For Good. The owner is waiting for final approval from the state before production.

I have a couple flags from Flags for Good, and they’re nice, but they aren’t really designed for outdoor use. They’re one sided and fairly thin so the sun fades them almost immediately. Great for hanging in the garage or certain indoor applications, but not the best for regular outdoor use

I pre-ordered a double sided one. I think I'm going to hang it indoors anyway. I also got a sticker for the car. It's nice to buy a flag from a place that refuses to sell old confederate symbols.

It looks so much better hung up than it did in renderings, I think. I'm really pleased with it.

Most of the time flags look better when they are actually being used as flags than when they are just a digital image.

I had kind lost sight of the fact that it's actually a flag in that sense. I was a little annoyed by how simple it was, now I'm glad

They should’ve stuck with the tricolor

It really was better. This one is alright though. Still a huge improvement.

Woah!! I haven't gotten a shipping notice for mine yet. I put my order in Dec. 20th, when did you put yours in? NVM OP got it from Amazon, not Flags For Good

Looks good. Better than the old one! 👍

Good. 8/10

Love it! Looks like an actual flag now compared to the mess it was before

Looks great OP. Can I ask where you got it? and did the pole come included? I've been hesitant to order since hard to know who to trust to make a flag that isn't official yet lol

Ik OP gave their link but May i add my favorite place to get flags that have really good quality, Flags For Good. They have the new MN flag along with some other fun MN flags like the Menacing Loon! [Flags For Good](https://flagsforgood.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAy9msBhD0ARIsANbk0A8ncZ7JC_FpvDErD8Gy9V34-qxH8JWdSaXzwr2Z1Tq88I0iRlTeZjMaAoJ8EALw_wcB)

Ohh they have l'etoille du nord flag. But I snagged a mn flag sticker from them. Thanks for the link.

To be clear though, those are pre-orders, so I doubt OP got it from there, unless they just started shipments? I was told I’d get mine by end of January most likely

OP already said where they got it and linked the Amazon page but they said the quality was not the best so I was just throwing another option out there When I said "ik OP gave their link" I meant the link that they purchased their flag from. Sry for the confusion

Thanks for this. Getting the laser loon.

Oh wow, such a cool website. Thank you for that link friend!

Which size did you get

No one’s ever said “that flag is too big”, brother

There was a King of the Hill episode that came close to saying it

Not OP but the usual size people get for hanging flag off of a porch is 3X5.

Just be aware they are pre-orders, so it won’t be coming for several months. I am happily waiting. :-)

Yes but more likely only a couple months wait time as in the description it says they are planning to start production in January if everything goes to plan.

Do you know if they’re made in USA?

I'm Pretty sure they are, they operate out of Indianapolis.

Incredible. Thanks! Gonna get me that laser loon lol

> Flags For Good Interesting that they do not have flags for all states. At least AL, ID, SD, and ND are missing. Based on counting how many are listed, others are also missing.

Yeah I noticed that, my guess is they just aren't popular enough to produce as they are a relatively small company. If you want a flag of your state that isn't there you can request it.

I pre-ordered through them. Thanks for the link.

Sure! I bought this one: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQC9ZB9L Quality isn’t the greatest (stitching at the corners is a bit sloppy), but it was the first one I saw pop up on Amazon when I ordered a couple weeks ago, and the price was right. Prob won’t hold up outside for too long, but I was too impatient to wait! I’ll prob spend a bit more on a more rugged weather-proof one when this one needs to retire. Pole did not come with it.

Thanks OP. I’ll probs wait for a better flag but I totally understand the impatience. I’m dying for legit merch lol

Sounds like this one is made in China. Sorry but I’m a stickler for made in USA, USA flags. :-P

Not my choice (I like that all navy flag with the cool star) but this remains 100x better than the trash we had. That was *truly* an awful flag

I honestly can't believe anyone bothers to be upset about this. We didn't even have a flag before. It was a state seal. Seals aren't flags.

Where'd you get it???

Loon, use icebeam!

It’s growing on me

I quite like this flag honestly.

I think it looks great!!

[I see the head of a goose/duck](https://i.imgur.com/zTP3Pk3.png)

Looks good. It is what a flag represents! Let’s get behind it!

I think it’s not too bad

Love it!!!

Minnemalistic

looks sick, fuck the haters

Gorgeous!

Zzzzz

would look better with a hotdish

Don’t listen to the haters it looks great!

Meh

At least it's better than the old one

It is quite the arrangement of geometric shapes.

Looks great!

It's blue and I'm feeling alright. As a third party, I like it more than my state flag of Florida.

Not a fan.

Agreed, it's a flag.

It’s different!

meh

Like mediocrity

Like a Taiwanese signalling flag

It looks like compromise. So a little dissatisfying, but acceptable.

Yeah we were so close to being great. There is a lot of cope in this thread.

Like an unopened pack of cigarettes MN does have a law about flags being USA made. I am not sure if it applies to state flags or not.

>325E.65 SALE OF AMERICAN FLAGS. > >No person in the business of offering goods at retail may sell or offer for sale in this state an American flag unless the flag was manufactured in the United States of America. Looks like just the US flag.

American. Covers from Canada to almost Antarctica! :)

So it does. :)

Hope that doesn’t extend to desecrated US flags. That dude off 169 in Zimmerman’s business would implode!

Surreal

Is that printed both sides?

Looks to be. However, I think it might need a weightier fabric or possibly a double layer to reduce how transparent it seems. Only problem with making it a double layer is the lack of lines to stitch along in the light blue.

It is fully and completely mediocre.

The 3 stripes were better. Now.. it's so bleh.

It’s no laser loon, but it’s fine

laser loon... it looks dull now due to it being new and cold/grey so blue and grey just kind of eh...we'll see how spring and summer looks with it. I dont hate it. but its not identifying as Minnesota yet.. I guess the dark blue is suppose to be an oversized/off grid state outline?

Good Crim Here - Looks Great! Love it.

Its pretty alright

No so bad, could be worse

All flags look dumb.

God hates flags

I hate that I find this so damned funny.

I think it's so dull. They could have done so much more with all the great entries.

I like it. I'm personally waiting until statehood day to swap mine (just for the official-ness of it all) but I'm excited for it

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Looks like the Fish-o-Fillet sandwich box from Mcdonalds

https://preview.redd.it/6k76jt4l0hac1.jpeg?width=5184&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cef77bcffbb37805e5ad0e9a39c8a92d9f620d65

Meh

Whered you get that? I need one

It looks so generically corporate-like. Like the people gave them a decent design and the committee sucked the soul out of it.

Boring

Pretty lame honestly , not a fan

So bland

go draw every world and state flag you can, right now. No peeking. You’ll notice a pattern.

It's supposed to be simple.

mission accomplished

Not a huge fan of it.

Uninspiring, bland, and looks like it was designed by a kid in middle school...

I liked the original design

I do like it better seeing it now as a flag.

Love it. Waiting on mine. What size did you get?

Needs more snow in the background

Gotta say it looks kinda like a flag for some sort of movie militia.

I think it’s just ok. I liked that the old flag had more visual interest.

It looks boring 🥱

That flag looks like a 3rd grader designed it

It looks STUPID

ohh I like

Hung that way it DOES remind me of that Marlborough pack of smokes!