Number of POAU cases???

[Guest]

[The Razzer]

all the HP sets have had a definate number as to how many cases were produced................
....except POAU.

with costume cards numbered above 2,000 and there being 24 costume cards in total, just how many cases were distributed around the wolrd???

any one have any idea?

[beatles99]

750 cases I believe...but could be wrong on that

[Roz]

I heard somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000

[beatles99]

Man not even close what release was I thinking of

[Roz]

Maybe my brain's befuddled, it's pretty late here

[The Razzer]

if they had 172 whomping willow cards and each one was given with 25 cases thats 4,300 cases!!
43,000 boxes, no wonder they only inserted 2 autos a case.

i suppose i should of done the sums in the first place and answered my own question.
but saying that, with 30 PTL thats 750 cases for POA when there was only 500.

so i think a round 4,000 cases of POAU sounds about right.

[Tower]

You've said it to yourself, you can't calculate that way. For example, MM had 50 of the 25 case incentive (would mean 1250 cases), but there were only 375. They always produce much more case incentives.

We never heard a confirmed number of POAU cases. I remember a number a bit less than Roz does. I thought, it was anywhere between 2200 and 2500.

[allender]

We never heard a confirmed number of POAU cases. I remember a number a bit less
than Roz does. I thought, it was anywhere between 2200 and 2500.

I agree with both of you, using this math:

Usually the total number of props or costumes or cels is 10-30% above the number
you would expect if every one were put in packs, where they plan for more to cover
damaged cards and replacements.

The sum of numbers of Hobby props is 7680, at 3:case = 2560 / 1.20 = 2133 cases
Total number of cels is 8100, at 3:case = 2700 / 1.20 = 2250 cases
Total number of Hobby costumes is 19,191, at 6:case = 3198 / 1.20 = 2665 cases

This hints that the "overage" was bigger for costumes, and there couldn't have been
more than 2560 Hobby cases if each one had 3 props. Probably the total was somewhere
in the 2250-2400 range. The 3 case toppers were reported somewhere as 900 each, and
that would fit the same overages as the cels.

But don't forget there were Retail cases too, with one costume per box. I don't
have notes saying how many boxes per case, but assuming 10:

Costume total = 5378 at 10:case = 538 / 1.20 = 448 Retail cases

So for Hobby and Retail combined, we're talking in the neighbourhood of 2700-2850 cases.