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« on: January 09, 2006, 05:55:42 AM » |
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I couldn't find anything about the case toppers for GOF, my question was did we ever determine how rare the Riddle Tombstone case topper is?
I only pulled 1 in 7 cases and as we know John only had 1 in his cases (right?). It would almost seem that there is no more than 100 and maybe even a bit less.
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LikORish-Spider
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« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2006, 09:30:36 AM » |
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Correct, I got one Grave Yard Scene in 19 cases. I sold one I suppose it was a Dragon too. One was missing, see below.
I sent 2 cases to Australia and they were opened by the Aussie Agriculture Inspection folks. One case was opened from the top, the other from the bottom.
The one opened from the bottom did ok, but the one opened from the top was returned without the Case Topper envelope. It must have fallen out onto the floor. Since the cases were opened I wouldn't have attempted to re-sell them as factory sealed, so I opened boxes myself.
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beckham1
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« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2006, 10:44:26 AM » |
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That sucks that they opened one of the cases and lost the friggin case topper, the one that I got from you had one of the dragon toppers.
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Tower
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« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2006, 03:47:12 AM » |
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I can be so happy that i got one of each case topper in my 3 cases, this time i had really much luck.  In the last set (SS) i had 3 of the same.  |
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Roz
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« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2006, 03:50:03 AM » |
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Wow that was lucky Thomas.
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beckham1
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« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2006, 03:53:21 AM » |
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John why did those cases get returned from Oz? Do you think it is fair to say there are less than 100 of these case toppers?
I would even think less, but who knows. That would make it one of the rarest of all the cards in the set, certainly undervalued.
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HPfamily
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« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2006, 03:56:07 AM » |
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I can be so happy that i got one of each case topper in my 3 cases, this time i had really much luck. In the last set (SS) i had 3 of the same. I also was as lucky to get one of each in my cases!!  |
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Tower
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« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2006, 03:58:00 AM » |
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How many cases?  |
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HPfamily
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« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2006, 04:02:44 AM » |
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Three!  |
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« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2006, 04:06:03 AM » |
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I got lucky enough to get a BIN on eBay for only $25 when the set first came out.
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« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2006, 04:06:09 AM » |
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While it doesn't make up for the missing auto and film card from my case, I guess I should be glad I got the Riddle Grave case topper (if only because it looks the coolest of the three GoF case toppers  ) |
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rns91294
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« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2006, 04:10:02 AM » |
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Only thing is that i noticed this one tends to show more of the little marks the case toppers get because of the darker image. Although, it is pretty cool. My fav is still the wanted poster from the orignal PoA though.
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beckham1
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« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2006, 04:22:15 AM » |
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Only 1 in 7 cases for me.
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rns91294
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« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2006, 04:36:08 AM » |
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1 in 7
1 in 19
1 in 3
1 in 3
That is 4 in 32 cases, or an average of 1 in ever 8 cases. 600 cases divided by 8 is 75. So 100 or less sounds about right to me. wow, this card is way underpriced.
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Sharon
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« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2006, 01:36:15 AM » |
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I only had one case but got the dragon chasing Harry one. I did pick one up on Ebay fairly cheaply though. Maybe some clever person can work out a way of setting up a topic where all the owners on the Shack can register there card (without seperate posts). That way we can see how many people on here have a Riddle Grave Card (just in case we have more than 100 ourselves ). |
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« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2006, 05:06:29 AM » |
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I think I got the best percentage: 1 case, 1 Riddle Graveyard scene. |
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« Reply #16 on: January 20, 2006, 02:44:00 AM » |
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Yeah,t hat was very lucky of you.
That would change my numbers to 1 in every 6.6 cases, or 90.9 cards for the 600 cases.
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« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2006, 07:31:59 AM » |
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I finally got around to checking the reported breakdowns, and surprisingly the Flying Dragon is showing up "light" too.
Out of 26 specific cases (I think it has all/almost all of John's, but case-topper reporting was pretty spotty elsewhere. I saw box breakdowns from 50 cases, so I only noticed the case-topper for half of them):
14 Breathing Dragon
7 Flying Dragon
5 Graveyard
But the price guide shows 29 auctions for Breathing and 39 auctions for Flying, so I think we just don't have enough stats. There are 17 auctions for Graveyard, which would predict about 120 Graveyards in 600 cases. So there may have been a few more than 100 of them, but not many. 250/250/100 wouldn't surprise me, nor would 225/225/150.
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LikORish-Spider
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« Reply #18 on: January 21, 2006, 08:53:27 AM » |
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I suspect that the reason that the Grave Yard Scene topper has had so many auctions is because it fetches a really good price.
I suspect that there are only 100 of them and 250 of each of the other two. Of course, Artbox never tells.
John
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« Reply #19 on: January 21, 2006, 05:02:02 PM » |
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Or maybe 300 (Breathing Dragon), 200, 100. But i agree, there are not more than 100 of the Graveyard scene.
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