The Yak Shack Forum

oh daammmnnn girl...that is a hard decision!!! Its up to you really, it depends on if you really want the autos or if you are willing to keep it and sell it later on...will it be cheaper to buy the autos you want on fleabay or open the box and try your luck at the autos, that I think is really what you need to look at... what you want out of the box, and is there a cheaper way of getting it...

What are the chances of pulling a JRD and a Gandalf out of it... they are the 2 I really want and they are the most expensive... typical :P

Maybe a Frodo actually :)

Aaaargh!!!! :-\

chances are slim for those 3 autos, but there still is a chance  :-\ im confused too...someone else please help Jo out here, im not much help!!!

Oh I wasn't wanting all 3 in there... that would be plain greedy (_{but it WOULD be lovely}). One of the three would be OK!

Its just that I have a few FOTR autos already and it would be a pain to have doubles :P

haha no i didnt mean that, i meant to say 'chances are slim of pulling one of those 3 autos'

ill help you out

send it to me :)

 :rofl:

OK... ;D

What Auto Cards were you able to pull from the Hobby Boxes and which ones from the Retail Boxes?  If you know what cards are available from your Hobby Box it might make it easier to decide to open it or not.  I do not know the answer to this as I started collecting with The Fellowship Update set. 

The FOTR autos I want most of all are Elrond (retail) and Gandalf/Frodo/Gimli (all hobby)

I already have Aragorn, Arwen, Galadriel, Boromir (not in packs) and Legolas (retail only and coming soon hopefully) so doubles of Aragorn, Arwen and Galadriel would be irritating, but Ebay could take care of them. And of course i can sell base sets for $50 on fleabay ;)

The only IF is that if I pull a Sam or Pippin I will be very very very annoyed :P >:()

ok so 3 that you really want you could pull...(Gandalf, Frodo, Gimli)
3 that you already have but could sell on ebay for a good price....(Aragorn, Arwen, Galadriel)

so that makes 6 good ones...

and only 2 ones that you wouldnt want..

so there are triple the autos that you would want compared to what you dont want....(does that make sense?)
also what about Ian Holm as Bilbo, I thought he was in there too??

Bilbo I wouldn't be too enamoured of either....

So want: Gandalf, Gimli, Frodo
OK with: Aragorn, Arwen, Galadriel
Don't really want: Sam, Pippin, Bilbo

I have my fingers crossed for 2 autos in my 36 packs :o=

See, that's one thing that is better with the LOTR hobby boxes over the HP ones - more packs to open :D

Or maybe I should start a sealed box collection? I've got the hardest one already :D

the FOTRU is hard to, sealed!
but i would open it, i was watching a box a week or so ago and went out forgot it ended or I would have gotten it, if i get one I will open it, just because!

would be fun, I duno I have all the autos :P

I would sya open it, use the force FTY!

It wouldn't take much of the force to get me to open it... I thought about keeping my TT hobby box sealed and lasted 30 min :rofl:


You know we are insanely jealous already, right? ;D

LOL I like Jas a lot. but this one we disagree on ;) Keep it sealed, and buy a FOTRU, TT, TTU, ROTK, ROTKU and Trilogy, the last 3 should be as cheap as Chips :D

The first 3, unfortuantely, are not :P

And you forgot FOTR retail - which is also 1. Rare as hens teeth and 2. (see notes for FOTR and TT boxes)

No no, you can skip retail ;)

:-X

But... but... *the indignity of incompleteness overwhelms FTY as she falls crashing to the floor, FOTR box in her arms*

But that would mean I have to buy ROTK boxes... oh the horror

He hee - any set without Legolas is a set not worth having huh?

Exactly! ;D

But what are the chances of me snatching up a retail box for cheap huh? ::)

Then that means I have to get retail TT and ROTK ::) It just gets worse! :P

Ooh no! Definitely not retail TT and ROTK, after all there was nothing different in them!

Besides Jo, if you buy FOTR FOTRU, TT, TTU and the others does that just add to the temptation to open them all... or are you "archiving" ;)?

Actually, I think the more I get, the less likely I would be to open them because I know it would be near impossible to get more sealed ones especially FOTR retail - how many of THOSE have we seen for sale recently? With a partial set, I would be thinking - well, I ain't going to get the rest - it's either sell or open!

I would love to archive, but that is for completists like Jas - I would be too tempted to open them to add to my collection - for a completist, opening a box won't get them something they haven't got already!

I have learned that I cannot have sealed, unopened boxes in my house. They call to me, demanding to be opened and eventually I succumb. It's a weakness, I know, but it's so much fun to open them!

I also cast my vote to open your box Jo!   :)

Outvoted ;) let us know how you get on Jo

I was just saying open it, I opened all mine, imagine if there is a gimli and gandalf auto in there.. how would you feel buying one of each then having a box with them :P

Box prices are dropping I lost a box when I wasnt home for 200.. thats alot cheaper then the sandandy prices of 3-500 a while ago :)

I would just say open it try your luck have a blast opening it and see whatya get, when I had sealed boxes I needed one more and I said why? I need these and these autos and I am buying them! and they could be in there :P

Totally up to you, I duno what a box would be worth to you later, are you gonna keep it sealed forever? maybe worth a fortune later on down the road may not be.. who knows, it all depends on a few things one of them being the hobbit.

your call :)

either way whatever you decide is the wrong choice, you should have sent it to me already :) jk :)

wouldnt get something I dont got already? :P I was looking for a box just to play around with, I havent open cards in a long while, OCA( opening cards anon ) has helped me I am still going to meetings but i want to open !! If I were to get a box and say I pulled a auto.. hmm lets say frodo, I would personally burn it for all the trouble that little hobbit caused me! no seriously I would keep a pack pulled auto anyday over a bought one, except the case of one auto :P

The hobby set would be so easy to get really, but then you look at retail and retail boxes are easy to get besideds one! and like you said I havent seen one in foreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever! even sealed update boxes arent as comman as before as people pull the costume and sell packs.

I would say if you want one of every box hold onto it. it is a tough call and easier for me to say open it then keep it but then again you could have a good or bad box there, or what about a hot box?!

now I know I have been no help at all, I wrote a book and you are all thinking wtf!?
Sorry  :rofl:

Thanks for the advice :)

I was surprised at how *cheap* I got it for given that the last 2 in the PG were for $300+ so it might be worth the gamble. Like Joanna, I have an allergy to sealed boxes. For me it's like - what's the point? Topps made these boxes to be opened... what use are they sealed (except to sell in the future... but there is no guarantee they will go up in price!)?

And yeah - theres almost no chance of getting a master set of sealed boxes anyway and I don't fancy paying through the nose for a FOTR retail box if it does come up cos I already have the auto I want most from that set already! And if I DID open the box and found nothing, I think I would trade in all my cards and give up the hobby ;)

If only there were hotboxes... I wouldn't even have this issue! That's why I'm not going ot buy PoA original boxes to 'keep sealed' cos I know I will crack easily ;D

If you come across a spare FOTR Frodo, don't set it on fire - send it my way - it will save the cost of that match and I'll pay for postage ;)

Sandandy has a FOTR hobby US only now as well if anyone is getting pack itchy fingers! *cough Jas* ;)

So what card was in the box or is it still sealed? The suspense is killing me.

A Galadriel and Bilbo both of which have gone the Ebay trail :)