GOBLET OF FIRE UPDATE NEWS!!!

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[kbmum]

I have to say I am not keen on another broomstick / wand prop.  They are so rotten hard to store.

Artbox listened to those complaints, too.  SS had very thick cards, but most of the ones for GOF could fit in screwdowns.  In fact, I put most of my GOF inserts in 9-pocket pages.

[Sharon]

Absolutely, this is why I do think Artbox do listen to some of the things we ask for.  By producing most of the cards in the same thickness the collectors were happy and I would imagine they were easier to manufacture. 

I am still loads of GOF missing but all the ones I have are also in normal pockets.  The one card that really bugs me is a wand card from SS.  It is absolutely gorgeous but it is just siting in a little box because it can't fit in the binder!

I hope they do film cells again for the update, I think they are really nice.  I would also like to see dual costume cards for all of the champions and possibly Hagrid / Madam Maxine 

[Rich65]

I'm just worried that by letting word about Daniel Radcliffe signing out now they are hoping to produce another big print run maybe not like Azkaban update but maybe 2-3 times as much as the first GOF set.
I so hope I am wrong about this.

[beckham1]

Rich I totally agree with you on that concern, I think I had mentioned before, but why tell us the Daniel is going to sign so early?  They have always kept it a big secret who the big auto's are going to be.  Well at least I can't remember ever knowing until it was down to the wire who the big signer or signers were.  Heck look at GOF, we weren't even sure Ron was in the set until we could find an auction for one. 

Also even with Harry being in the set we should assume that it will be 100 or less again.  So the more cases the harder this card gets to pull.  And we saw how hard Ron was in GOF, I think we only had to YSer's pull the Ron

[mcgonagall]

maybe just maybe although harry is a big signer maybe hagrid or mcgonagall or someone else new is signing tooo


we can only hope

[beckham1]

I would say we should get at least another really nice signer in the set, at least based on previous sets we have always had at least a couple top notch signers.

[rns91294]

I bet they are telling us early just because we constantly complain they never give us enough info.  Maybe they finally realized that we want info before we diecde to order.

[kbmum]

Or, maybe they want to hype the set to sell as many cases as they did for POAU.

[Tower]

I bet they are telling us early just because we constantly complain they never give us enough info.  Maybe they finally realized that we want info before we diecde to order.

I wish, this is the reason. 

[Anna]

Or, maybe they want to hype the set to sell as many cases as they did for POAU.

And I hope this isn't the reason.

[beckham1]

I think we all would be in agreement that they won't make that many cases again.  However, how many is too many?   That is the magic question.  I don't think there are as many HP collectors as there was when POAU was coming out.  I think many people abandoned their collecting of HP after that.  Some of you probably know that to be true.

I think 800-1000 cases would sell out no problem (after all even POAU sold out from Artbox), the issue to me is then your spares become worthless in trade or sale.  The market just gets way to flooded.  Of course the Dan auto will be fairly expensive regardless.  To be honest I really don't know what I would do if I pulled a Dan auto?  Would I keep it?  The big ?  And Artbox always says there are very limited cards just like they did with GOF. 

I thought they were cool, but not as nice as part of the Stone, and I know some of us were really disappointed with the props.  Basically limited doesn't = good or impressive from a collectors perspective.

[rns91294]

I agree with you Dave.  I would love to get my hands on a SS prop for a good price.....but the ones in GoF just weren't as interesting.  I like the Quidditch program for the variaty of the swatches, and because it at least deals with the Quidditch World Cup, something I like a lot, so to me, that was the best prop from the set, but none of them really had a lot to do with the movie, whereas the SS was the title of the movie......I think past incentive cards were better as well.  The Platform ticket, the Whomping Willow.... versus the trophy in GoF that we saw for 2 seconds in the movie (hope you didn't blink). Although, you didn't see the Platform ticket long, but it is the entrance to the train, and I think that is a big part of these movies as well.

I think they shoudl only habe 800 cases at the most, but nothing more than that.

[HPfamily]

Look what I just found!!! 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Harry-Potter-Goblet-of-Fire-Update-Factory-Sealed-Case_W0QQitemZ6250109195QQcategoryZ73570QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

What's a QUAD CARD?

[ferdinand_the_yak]

What does this seller know that we don't? :

[mcgonagall]

costume and auto on the one card by the description the person is giving

[HPfamily]

Is there any other sets that have something like this? I'm curious what it looks like!! 

[Tower]

Hmmm. I know Dual auto and Dual Costume. And i know Triple Auto. Quad must be more. A Dual Auto and Dual Costume in the same card?      

[Tower]

This link isn't very helpful. 

http://www.sfcu.org/online/quad_faq.shtml

[HPfamily]

 

OOOH!! Can I pull a Quad card that can pay my bills? 

[ferdinand_the_yak]

Maybe a quad card will have a dual swatch similar to the Walt/Michael dual costume from Lost plus 2 autos?



I think beckham1 said that there are sports cards with 4 autos on one card... I can't remember if there were quad cards with autos and costumes though.