Artbox San Diego Comic Con Art Set - (boxed factory set of 45 cards)

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[Roz]

Along with a multitude of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Artbox don't seem to have forgotten us loyal HP fans for the SDCC.

They have released a 45 card boxed set of card sized art prints of Mary Grandpre's magnificent work in the HP books. Worldwide most prints of the HP books are not illustrated (I remember JK muttering that she didn't want to interfere with our imagination) - anyway - this means that a lot of people outside the US have never seen these prints, I haven't at any rate

So here's some pics...







Tom has them for sale up on ebay already although I thought the con was about a month away 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6187565174

[Morningangel-Iola]

Does that make us more imaginative than the Americans  

[Trey]

Wow they look great, im sooo getting a set!!!

[EmmasOneandOnly]

I'll be getting a set if I can find one

[Roz]

Does that make us more imaginative than the Americans

oi! Stop stirring

And no it probably just means that JK was probably outvoted in the States

He hee - I believe these are going to be in bookstores in the US - no such luck in the UK yet but you never know and Aus? Well you can keep on dreaming.

Ooh and in other news - this was initially going to be for the San Diego Comic Con - but now it's not... so maybe Artbox have forgotten us HP collectors after all (ha ha - NOW who'e stirring... that would be me ).

[EmmasOneandOnly]

Well, for Comic-Con or not I'm looking for one right now I've got to have one

[Roz]

Me too - Well Tom's the only person I've heard about that has these so you can either wait for his next listing, email him directly or wait til they turn up in your local bookstore

[EmmasOneandOnly]

I just e-mailed him Fingers Crossed on this one

[Trey]

Sorry, I snapped that one up quickly! Im sure that Tom will have more 

[EmmasOneandOnly]

This is looks like a great set. I can wait to get it. Now is the box one complete set or do you get spares and stuff in the boxes and everything?

[kbmum]

Ooooooh -- I love this set!  The illustrations in my books are black and white, so it's really nice to see them in color.  I can't wait to get this!

[EmmasOneandOnly]

I've ordered mine so I'm good Thanks for the details Roz

[Roz]

Oh the books have B&W illustrations, oh then this is cool even for the US folk

[Morningangel-Iola]

I have seen some of her illistrations on Markys and Sparkys stuff over hear. I think my diary has some colour illistrations too.

[ArwenEvenstar]

Had to order a set. Thanks tom! 

[EmmasOneandOnly]

Yeah me too Thanks Tom

[TOMUNIQUE]

THANK YOU!!

[mcgonagall]

I have ordered my set tooo

[allender]

Mine arrived today.  (Thanks Tom, yet again!)  Definitely kewl cards, though the box is a lot bigger than the cards.

Some of us over in the western colonies have indeed seen UK editions, because we wanted to see the text of Philosopher's Stone in the original language.  With the later books, they decided that Americans could handle words like jumper and trainers without having them translated. We still might have trouble with a hamburger bar, it's such a wimpy concept. (Just to mention a few that I recall. But why did they need to change "the apothecary shop" to just "the apothecary"?)

I must admit that I'm not as completist to get the GrandPré illustrated editions as I was for the Discworld Corgi editions, with the Kirby covers ...

[kbmum]

Mine arrived today, too.  I really like them, but it would have been nice if the cards were oversized to better see the illustrations.  I did notice something interesting, though.

The SS movie cards have a purple color theme and POA has blue.  This set has purple for SS, green for COS, blue for POA, orange for GOF, and deep blue for OOTP.  Maybe the colors in the art set represent the colors Artbox will use for all of the HP movie sets through OOTP.