Sorcerer's Stone set; odds, pictures and box/case breakdowns

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[allender]

morenomark, that's only nine boxes.

[morenomark]

Hey, you're right.

Box #6340

Box Topper:  BT4
Autograph Card:  Devin Murray/Seamus Finnigan
Costume Card:  Argus Filch’s Coat -- 66/360
Foil Cards:  R3, 4, 5, 7, and 9

Thank you, Jeff Allender, Master of Checklists.  Love to get your take on Artbox's "progress".

[allender]

Love to get your take on Artbox's "progress".

I don't know if my take means much, but it's looked to me like Artbox has been watching carefully. When they got the Potter franchise they could see the huge popularity of the LOTR sets by Topps, and it wasn't a mistake that they patterned a good part of the design on that phenomenon. I was telling myself that HP had the same sort of crossover potential as LOTR, and on that fact alone I figured it would be hot enough to spring for more than a case for myself. And that thought was confirmed when they even hired Gary Gerani to design and write the set. When POA was successful beyond their dreams, they overdid it for POAU, but there wasn't quite time enough for them to see that Topps too had overestimated the demand for ROTK and ROTKU and needed to change directions for Trilogy.

POAU was a much bigger endeavour than they had ever attempted. They had to find additional printing and packaging job-shops, and there were problems with collation and even quality in a few instances. But with TSS, they seem to have noticed all of the earlier issues and haven't repeated "mistakes". So it looks to me like they are entitled to make some reasoned (but unsuccessful) marketing decisions, come up with a dud or two from time to time, but they adapt quickly for the next releases. Now they need some help with their website.

Okay, I'll add a bit of "odds" info. Data are in on only 11.8 cases, and it will be better when gimli makes a dent in his supply, but I'm tracking the frequencies of autos so that we can get an estimate of their numbers. So far I see 60 autos from 118 boxes, distributed as:
   8 - Hart
   7 - Flitwick, Lewis
   6 - Rawlins, Somerville
   4 - Youngblood
   3 - Bank Teller, Enoch, Fearon, Herdman, Murray, Phillips
   2 - Cleese, Hurt

I'm guessing the groupings are something like 750, 300, and 150 each. A bit early to make indelible conclusions, though!

J

[Roz]

Great to see you Mark, it's also one of the greatest cases so far (for autographs)

Well done!

[beckham1]

Case 1 Breakdown

Owl Case Topper

Autos
Ray Fearon as Firenze
Warwick Davis - Bank Teller
Warwick Davis - Bank Teller (again)
Warwick Davis - Prof Flitwick
Leslie Phillips - Sorting Hat

Costumes
Hagrids Shirt
Filch's Pants
Oliver Wood Sweater
Nevilles PJ's Variant (small piece of bear not one I have posted)
Harry PJs (2 nice stripes)

Props
Wizards Candy
Restricted Section Books
Wand Box
Daily Prophet
Cake Box

Film Cells
3

Total inserts 5@auto,prop, and costume 3 film cells

18 Total inserts

[grecopa]

That's a costume breakdown that I would like to get.

[Morningangel-Iola]

I opened two boxes today

3064/8000

I got a BT3 Box Topper, head to head
and a Wizard candy card, looks like Lik' spiders pic in wizard candy thread

3664/8000

I got BT1 Box Topper, Gryffindor vs Slytherin
Hagrid Shirt
Flitwick Auto (my first auto!!!!!! )

I am a happy bunny so far. One more box to go but I am trying to finish typing up my assignment first and that can be my reward

[kbmum]

Nice pulls, Dawn!  Now you need a filmcard in your last box to have one of everything!

[Morningangel-Iola]

No film card in last box.

4728/8000

BT1

R 1,3,5,7,9 (all odd numbers)

Filch costume

Firenze Auto

Quite nice . I wasn't really looking for a Flich so I'm not sure if I will keep it or not it might grow on me

I should be putting the pics up on my site soon.

[kbmum]

I wasn't all that thrilled to pull Hagrid's shirt and thought I might sell it.  But, I've found that it's growing on me.

To be honest, it's too soon to make a decision whether to keep it.  It's hard to do a trade when many people don't have their boxes/cases yet, and we don't know where prices will go on eBay.

[Anna]

Here's the breakdown of my 4th case.

Case 4

Case Topper – Neville

Box 1 #0446
BT3 – R3, 4, 5, 7, 9
Restricted Section Library Book 295/485 (Brown)
Adrian Rawlins as James Potter

Box 2 #6220
BT2 – R1, 2, 3, 6, 8
Oliver Wood’s Sweater 045/300
35mm Hedwig Delivering Nimbus 062/397

Box 3 #1092
BT4 – R1, 3, 5, 7, 9
Practice Broom 109/450
Devon Murray as Seamus Finnigan

Box 4 #7324
BT1 – R1, 2, 4, 6, 8
Female Hogwarts Students Skirt 198/510
35mm Voldemort Revealed 031/397

Box 5 #4338
BT3 – R1, 3, 5, 6, 9
Joshua Herdman as Gregory Goyle
Wand Box 725/842

Box 6 #7653
BT2 – R2, 4, 6, 7, 8
Hagrid’s Shirt 556/710

Box 7 #2283
BT4 – R1, 3, 6, 8, 9
Restricted Section Library Book 383/485 (Green)
Luke Youngblood as Lee Jordan

Box 8 #7942
BT1 – R2, 4, 5, 7, 8
35mm Wizard Chess 039/397 (1 pack only had 2 cards)

Box 9 #1201
BT3 – R1, 2, 3, 6, 8
Wizard Candy 271/538 (Lik ‘O Rish Spiders)
Alfred Enoch as Dean Thomas

Box 10 #0314
BT2 – R2, 4, 5, 7, 9
Male Hogwarts Students Costume 628/750

Case 4 Summary
4 Costumes, 5 Props, 5 Autos & 3 FilmCards (1 costume short)

[ronov]

think its from FIZZING WHIZBEES

[Roz]

Wizard Candy 082- 538 (EES Swatch) Anyone know what kind of candy this is from?

I second that!

Fizzing Whizbees! I have the exact same swatch (pretty much) as a Fizzing Whizzbees card!

[rns91294]

Anna: Sounds like your pack with only 2 cards in it was missing a costume!!

Beckham: Can you post a picture of your Harry's PJ's?

Thanks.

[thor]

Here is my breakdown of the 4 boxes I got:

My box breakdowns:

Box 1 (4161/8000)
Box Topper   BT1
Foil Cards   R1 R3 R6 R9 R8
1 Prop Card: Wand Box 482/842


Box 2 (2694/8000)
Box Topper BT4
Foil Cards   R4 R9 R5 R7 R2
1 Prop Card: Cake Box 417/490
1 Cinima FilmCard Hedwig Delivering Broom (cell Gringotts Goblin at his desk)  074/397


Box 3 (5030/8000)
Box Topper BT1
Foil Cards  R8 R9 R6 R3
1 Costume Card: Harry's Quidditch Cloak (their is a big crease on the side of the cloak like it was bent and not flatened right)  404/410
1 Mathew Lewis as Neville Longbottom Autograph card


Box 4 (4562/8000)
Box Topper BT3
Foil Card  R6 R8 R1 R4 R2
1 Prop Card: Practice Broom  279/450

[Anna]

Anna: Sounds like your pack with only 2 cards in it was missing a costume!!

That's what I think happened also.



Congratulations on you pulls thor!   A variant costume and 3 prop cards - my favorite type of cards!

[thor]

Congratulations on you pulls thor!   A variant costume and 3 prop cards - my favorite type of cards!

Thanks!

 I do love the prop cards 

[mcgonagall]

wwwooooohhhoooo my  box has arrived thank you tom

will let you all know what i got soon

[Trey]

wwwooooohhhoooo my  box has arrived thank you tom

will let you all know what i got soon

oh YAY!!! That must mean that our case should arrive today or tomorrow. Apparently large packages dont come in our regular morning mail here at work, Aust post deliver them at any time during the day  dont worry, I have our receptionist on the look-out and as soon as it arrives she will ring me  Definately post soon to let us know what you got 

[blackcat20]

shouldnt be too far away, my single boxes arrived yesterday, and i only ordered them on Friday....im waiting on that phone call Trey