Now i must ask THAT question

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[Tea_and_Fruit]

What i mean is...

how many cases have been opened over the weekend in the UK?

100.. 150...200 ?

Several USA Dealer have opened too.

lets say 150 Cases

so a 5th of the printrun is now open.

I guess i am right when i say 90% of the in the UK opened Cases have 2 autograph cards and 10% have 0,1,or 3

Now we take a little look to the USA i have seen Case breakdowns for 25 Cases and 23 from them have 3 autos as minimum, most of them 4 or 5.

From my sight this is not LUCK or something.

I do not want to make panic i only want to say that there are more cases in the USA with more autos than in the UK.  

[kbmum]

Where have you seen breakdowns for 25 US cases?  All I can find are the ones from ztaylork and morenomark, and those total 4 cases.  Maybe they're on a different forum?  If so, please send the link.

[Roz]

Yes I have been discussing this with another forum member... there seems to be a highly secret 3rd card forum.... although I will look at them like this   I would like to see their breakdowns so I am happy for a link to be posted here  

[Tea_and_Fruit]

15 Cases were opened from a friend of my sister who lives in . He is also a small dealer so i trust his breakdowns. He asked my sister about UK breakdowns and so we find out that obviously there is a chance that the USA Cases more autograph contain than those from the UK.

Further 3 breakdowns from other collectors (I can not post a link I get the info from my sister) and the breakdowns from ztaylork and morenomark. (By the way great pulls)

Only which I wanted was to find out whether someone the same was noticeable.

I do not belive that Artbox make International and National Cases

[kbmum]

We should have a ton of information by the weekend, now that US distributors are shipping the boxes.  I just can't believe that Artbox would intentionally change the insertion rates for US and UK boxes -- it would be very stupid of them to anger Cards Inc. and all of the collectors in the UK.

[rns91294]

I agree.  Although they do make different cases for US and UK, right?  I mean, there are UK cards in the Uk cases that you can not pull in the US ones, just like last time, or am I wrong.  I fidn it interesting that many US boxes that had an auto also had a prop/costume and film cell card.  I just hope those cases aren't so good that they take away from the simple little boxes i bought

[Roz]

I agree.  Although they do make different cases for US and UK, right?  I mean, there are UK cards in the Uk cases that you can not pull in the US ones, just like last time, or am I wrong?

We only know for sure that the UK boxes were packed separately ... this is because they have a little slip in them (card sized) advertising the Lithograph set (we had one recently available in a competition on this forum donated by Chidgey's Collectables) and the Cards Inc plates (we have one up now donated by MPC and we have had one donated by Cards2Collectables in the past).

That slip isn't in the US packs... that tells us nothing about any extra autos or whatever, it just tells us that the boxes were packed separately.

RNS the "UK exclusive" cards were not inserted into packs but dished out to dealers when they bought their cases... so they should have been the same!

It wouldn't be clever to make 1/2 of your print run poor - the UK market is a growing market for trading cards... the UK public is mostly scared by the concept of trading cards (we all know they can be complicated) - they don't know what to do with them... "can we play a game with them?" "NO"

This baby market needs careful attention if it is to grow... this wouldn't be the way to do it! Let's see how it goes, remember the first 3 UK cases opened had a Ron and a Triple in - so it's just the way the cases break sometimes!!!

[rns91294]

Now I get it. I thought the UK exclusive card was found in packs!!!  Learn something new every day, huh?

I would think it be stupid for them to make one batch have less inserts in it, and I doubt they did.  I just think some cases were better packed than others.  Like the last run ()the original set), I bought one box that had three inserts.  A lot of people thought this was a really good deal for me.  It is probably the same this time around, some are good and some aren't great at all.