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« Reply #281 on: November 13, 2006, 07:06:06 AM » |
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No even better than that the next M.M. cases will sell for $100 a piece and contain only one costume card of Gregory Goyle's black robe at a 2000 print... worth  Oh about $3.00 on the open market... what a bloody deal I can hardly wait !!!!!!!!!!! and by that time Radcliffe/Watson/Grint siggie/cards will have already caught up to the number of times Warrick Davis has already signed...HEY AT LEAST YOU ARE GETTING UPDATES A HELL OF ALOT FASTER THAN Artbox gives them !!!!!! |
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« Reply #282 on: November 13, 2006, 07:45:21 AM » |
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please please no don't give them any ideas please
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« Reply #283 on: November 13, 2006, 07:57:29 AM » |
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« Reply #284 on: November 13, 2006, 07:59:30 AM » |
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I hope this doesn't look too confusing but I am actually quoting this from the Box Breakdown thread.
Maybe I should have been more specific about the lousy comment as I wasn't just referring to the autos, props and costumes. The distribution of foils was far too regular - I had three boxes with exactly the same foils in them. I know I have some boxes I won't be able to make one full base set from. The actual packs were running in order with duplicates on top of each other ie pack one had, say base cards 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 40, 43, 50 and the pack directly below and the pack opposite it in the box had exactly the same cards in the same order. Now for a case or box buyer this doesn't matter but what about the poor little kid who has saved all their pocket money for a couple of packs? Oh look mummy I got exactly the same cards :'(
I totally agree they should have done more different cards so that there were not so many duplicates.
Sorry to snip some of the good quotes, but I agree 100% with the last comment. If they had planned the set better, they could have avoided duplicate autos and costumes within a single case. I am also quite annoyed that there are only 5-6 varieties of cases, as far as the autograph pulls are concerned. Box and case breakdowns can be used to get hints on the total numbers for cards if they aren't announced ... they aren't supposed to be a method of predicting what cards are in the last few boxes of a case after you've opened the rest. On another forum, a correspondent said he didn't know whether to open the final box of his case (the resin box) or to auction it off, saying he hadn't had any auto or costume dupes so far. But it would have been pretty easy to predict what high chase cards were in that final box. I posted my case breakdown and somebody said "Hey, it's eerie, Anna got the same big cards, down to the by-box distribution." And now, except for the collation, so did you! But on the other collation ... considering we got exactly the same high chase in our cases, your collation experience was nearly the opposite of mine. I got the pair of coin cards in every box. Seven boxes had two complete base sets, with the other three, only one to a few short of a second set. And the full case collated very well for the base cards, with 24 complete sets out of 10 boxes. The foil distribution varied, ranging from 4 to 7 copies of each number in the case. Sheesh, they seemed to have been able to "get it right" some of the time, and made a mess of it with your case. I suspect that Artbox has been bringing out so much more product than they used to, that they've started to use some "untested" packaging factories. Make sure you give them the box numbers when you contact them about the no-coins and other flaws and maybe (just maybe) they will weed out the problem areas. |
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« Reply #285 on: November 13, 2006, 08:01:14 AM » |
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No even better than that the next M.M. cases will sell for $100 a piece and contain only one costume card of Gregory Goyle's black robe at a 2000 print... worth Oh about $3.00 on the open market... what a bloody deal I can hardly wait !!!!!!!!!!! and by that time Radcliffe/Watson/Grint siggie/cards will have already caught up to the number of times Warrick Davis has already signed...HEY AT LEAST YOU ARE GETTING UPDATES A HELL OF ALOT FASTER THAN Artbox gives them !!!!!!  I can hardly wait for that either! I mean, i only got a DC4 out of a $80 box and no coin cards!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome that was!!!! |
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« Reply #286 on: November 13, 2006, 09:47:31 AM » |
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« Reply #287 on: November 13, 2006, 06:07:04 PM » |
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A dc4 card that was a gold mine..in one of my boxes although I didn't have any trouble getting the 2 coin cards that I'm selling for $6 I also got a single costume card of Goyle I think off the top of my head, selling for $3........that $80 box was a fantastic investment |
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« Reply #288 on: November 15, 2006, 02:43:48 AM » |
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On a happier note for the last couple of weeks have been trying to figure out what the writing on the 25 case swatch said....being totally convinced it said " find out"............but have come to realize that it actually says BIRD BITES....as in P.S. The Bird Bites Do you see it too ??................Mo  |
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« Reply #289 on: November 15, 2006, 02:46:11 AM » |
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Yes, that's what is says! That's a great part of the prop.  |
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« Reply #290 on: November 15, 2006, 02:46:50 AM » |
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« Reply #291 on: November 15, 2006, 02:52:48 AM » |
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wow, that is awesome! it's great that the letter can be heard in its full form in the film, even cooler if you have a card that has part of the writing!!!
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« Reply #292 on: November 15, 2006, 03:03:44 AM » |
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Congrats, it's sooo awesome. |
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« Reply #293 on: November 15, 2006, 03:10:36 AM » |
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WOW!  That's so cool!!!!  |
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« Reply #295 on: November 15, 2006, 03:24:02 AM » |
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I think i saw an auction earlier that had the "H" from Harry
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« Reply #296 on: November 15, 2006, 03:26:07 AM » |
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It had "Har" from Harry. And i should have bought it, i had the chance and decided not to do. Now i regret it a bit. :'(
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« Reply #297 on: November 15, 2006, 03:38:14 AM » |
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There's loads of writing on that little paper. I wonder why we don't see more swatches with writing?
Thanks for the photo, Tower!
I'll be doing a replica prop of it one day!
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« Reply #298 on: November 15, 2006, 04:13:30 AM » |
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i was wondering the same thing. I've only seen pieces with bits of writing, none with more than a few words. It's definately an amazing prop though. I wonder who will find the piece that says "Sirius"
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« Reply #299 on: November 15, 2006, 04:15:22 AM » |
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I'll bet that the "Sirius" and "Dear Harry" swatches were either sent to Warner Bros. or kept by Artbox.
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