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Hi Everyone!!  I am back from the Philly card show and have some great info for everyone.

First of all, I finally met Tom (Tomunique).  He had a great display with many of the gorgeous Wizard of Oz sketch cards on display that we have seen on his website.  It made me even more excited for this set, as the cards in person are even nicer than anyone could imagine.  There were so many colorful sketches and I have never seen so many colored sketches for a set before.  This should be one of the nicest sets we have seen.  The promos for the set are just amazing with so much color.  The set is expected to release around the second week of May.  I wish you all could have seen the sketches, as I truly can not explain how nice they were :)  The set is almost sold out, so if you have not pre-ordered your boxes/cases yet, I recommend you do it fast.  It was great to finally meet Tom and I hope he comes to more shows in the area.

Here is a photo of Tom (on the left) and his associate Mike, who helps Tom Jr. run their other booth at the show selling all sorts of goodies. 

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Artbox was also there for the first time and it was great to finally meet Mike and Kay.  I saw 10 autograph cards on display at the table (not yet signed), and some samples of the costumes/props, but they did not yet have material in them.  The autos are:

Both Patel sisters (separate cards)
Barty Crouch Jr
Harry Potter
Dumbledore
Cho Chang
Fleur
Madame Maxime (a costume of hers too)
Ginny Weasley
and one more...guy...older...can't remember who  :-\

Hermione's dress and McGonagal's Green Yule Ball costume are just material used in the making of.  There will be more like this because WB is now wanting to keep the costumes in full.  So they get what they can...  There will be two death eater dual costume/auto cards in the set as well. A prop of the wrapping that Ron's robe comes in.  Cho's Yule Ball dress.  Oh, I know, you want to know what the quad looks like, huh?

Well, it is very nice.  There is one swatch in the center of the card that is divided in to 4 little pie pieces, one for each costume. Then the autos, with the actors picture, one next to each swatch.  Much nicer than I thought it could ever be.  And who is this card of you ask?  The four champions :D

They also have the coin set (chest set) that is coming out soon, which is in a nice box with 38 larger base set cards, and 4 coin cards.  In the picture, you can see the black box they will come in.

They will also be having a CoS set, and another all coin set AND a memorable moments set (which is from all 4 movies and will contain costumes/autos/props), all coming out this year.

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Inkworks was also there again.  They will be having another Charmed set coming out in May (called Destiny) and it will be the last set for Charmed they do since this is the last season.  They are also coming out with a LOST season 2 set, which may contain props, but I am not too sure on that one. There is also a new Family Guy set coming out, and Firefly will be coming out as well.

Rittenhouse had a great display of props that will be put in to upcoming sets.  There is a Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek set coming this Spring as well.  I know there is someone else on this forum that may be able to better go over the details with what was on display, as I do not watch the show the props were from and don't even know where to begin :-\  Sorry about that.

Well, there you have it!

Wow what a day Sara!

Could the 'older guy' signer be Barty Crouch Snr, by any chance?

I really don't think that is who it was :-\

In the pcture, if you can see it...he is the middle auto on that top full row.  I need to watch the movie again to be sure :-\.

Thanks for posting all this great information Sara! ;D  And it's great to finally be able to put faces to the names we talk so often about here. ;D

Could the old guy be the Riddle's old Gardner?

Does anyone know a place to order the Wizard of Oz boxes/cases?...
What are they going for $$$?
How about costume/auto/sketch cards odds...Hobby/Retail...any help would help!!! Thanks. :o=

We have a thread about the WOZ set.  You need to contact the distributors/dealers listed on the Breygent web site to get price quotes.  They probably could also give you the odds on the various insert cards.

http://www.theyakshack.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3716.0

I said he was an older guy, but not as old as the Riddle's Gardner.  Funny how I can't remember this one autograph :-[

Were you able to take pictures of them? I mean, everybody, if you wanted too?

The cards you mean?  I asked, and they were not really comfortable with it since they were not finished products.  I completely understand and respect that.

You know, maybe the auto was of Fudge.......again, not sure of that though.

Cedricks dad?  

I don't know why I want to say that it did look like him if I can remember correctly, but didn't he just sign in GoF?  With going to Beatlefest the very next day, I knew I should have wrote everything down :-[

Kelly,

We've already had a Cedric's dad auto,

Sara,

I still would love to see them, guess you have to go to see them ::)

I know, we tried.  I wanted to get a picture of the quad card to share, but it wasn't the actual card.  They had binders on the table with colored photo copies of the front and back of the some of the costumes and props, but not all.   But don't worry, in about a month, we will all get to see what all of them look like ;) It's getting exciting!

Key word there is "month" :rofl:

Could it be Mr. Weasley??

It could be a minor character from the Quidditch World Cup scene, or something like that.  I'm surprised that there are no autos from the Weird Sisters.

Key word here "Sisters".....blatently overlooked by the filmakers  ::)


Big thanks to you, Sara for so scrupulously reviewing your visit to the show!!!  Very informative and exciting!   ;D

The props on the Rittenhouse table came from various Bond movies - including the Tarot cards Jane Seymour's character used. Frankly, that was the first time I had seen them myself, so I don't remember what else was in the case, and I spent all of about 5 minutes at the Rittenhouse table *lol* I was a little busy with a certain charity event which raised $2500 for ACTOR. It was exciting, but very time-consuming. I'm going to have to seriously reconsider my participation in future events.

Thanks though to everyone who stopped by to give me a brief reprieve (and TALK to me!!) - there were times when I thought I was going to go insane :)

I don't think trading cards would suit either Radiohead or Pulp (the weird sisters)

Daniel Radcliffe on meeting them


Did you enjoy meeting the members of Radiohead and Pulp who appear in the film as Weird Sisters?
“Radiohead and Pulp are very much my kind of music! Pulp were just fantastic. They were both fantastic, but obviously very different bands. Radiohead, actually, I wasn't that into until about this year when I got into them in a major, major way. OK Computer is starting to become one of my favourite albums. But I was very excited to meet them. I think what I did with Jarvis Cocker, though, because I was so excited to meet him, was I just stood there, smiled a bit stupidly, and made really cheesy jokes. I can't really remember because it's all a bit of a blur. I was so overwhelmed at meeting him. I've been a Pulp fan for quite a long time because my dad was a Pulp fan.”

Did you get to pogo to The Weird Sisters during the ball scene?
“No! Mike did say to me, many many times, if I wanted to be in the scene I could be, but in the end I wasn't because in that scene Harry's a bit of a wallflower, so he just sort of sits somewhere else and sulks. There is always somebody like that at a party; normally it's me.”

Oh I wish it was but sadly the actor that plays the part, Eric Sykes, is nearly blind so I doubt if he would sign cards.  He is a British institution and if he did sign .... well I think most Brits would be over the moon  ;D

Could it be Lucius Malfoy - Jason Isaacs?

I dont think anybody would forget him ;)

I think it would be Fudge because he's in the movie twice, each time for about 10 seconds of screen time :P

Well at the risk of sounding like a UK Actor groupie, Robert Hardy would also make my day  ;D  Just as another possible maybe how about Timothy Spall?

I think I would have definitely remembered if it was him :)

How about the actor who does Barty Crouch Sr.? I may have missed it.

Roger LLoyd-Pack

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Lloyd-Pack

Don't you think that male sisters couldn't be any weirder?

*sigh* That is so very, very sad. Part of what was so cool about the Potter costume cards (well, to me anyway) was that they were screen worn and not just material used in the making of. Oi vey.

I may need to faint and sell the Yak Shack along with my dog (don't have one - will a stuffed one do?), my boyfriend (yup got one of those - any bidders?) and the family silver to get his auto ;D

Does this boyfriend of yours do the dishes, vacuuming, dusting, and yardwork? ;)

Does he clean the pool as well? >:D :rofl: :rofl:

Sorry Mark 0:)

...and most importantly does he make a good cup of tea?...  :P

I agree Roz, Eric Sykes's auto would be phenomenal - a real 'must-have' card!! ;D

Oh and if you plan on auctioning Mark, I think you'll get quite a few bids for him judging by the interest shown on here!! :P :rofl:

Yup, he's as domesticated as they come (but needs to grr, or stretch in a manly way very occasionally whilst doing these tasks :rofl:), and he irons like he's from the 1950s and his life depended on him having the neatest flatest shirt at work  :rofl:


As yet this is something the Yak6000 is untested for :P. But I do fully intend to test this someday ;D


What a silly question :D would we still be together if not?  :rofl:

But I think now after being quite this rude to him, I'd best go and make him a cup of tea myself ;)

I was in the cinema watching this for the first time with my brother next to me when he nudged me and looked at me, his face lit up with excitement and said "oooh it's Eric Sykes" ;D I think if he signed and people in the UK outside the trading card world got wind of it - well... it would be out of any of our price ranges :(

So, what would be the opening bid on this auction?  Or, would you do a BIN, Roz? :rofl:

I hate to admit it, but until GOF, I'd never heard of Eric Sykes :-[.  It amazes me that his autograph would be so sought-after.  I'm not saying anything bad about the actor, just that he isn't very well known on this side of the pond. :)

Whew! I'd been sitting here wondering if I was the only person who didn't know this Eric Sykes. I feel sooo much better now :) 

It's just like the POAU set, when a lot of people went crazy over the Dawn French auto.  Most people in the US had never heard of her.

Don't get me wrong, I love Dawn French, but she's a current star, Eris Sykes is a legend.

It's like the difference between Orlando Bloom and Sean Connery, hmm no, more than that, Connery isn't quite there. It's hard to explain but I'm sure you get the gist of it. A lot of Sykes' stuff was on TV and actually I'm a bit young myself to know his best stuff, but that's why you haven't heard of him :)

He used to do some super stuff alongside Derek Guyler and Hattie Jacques! ;)
I think it's fantastic that he's worked in this film so late on in life which will hopefully give him a bit of money to make his life comfortable!

Here ...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843059/

and here ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/talent/s/sykes_eric.shtml

... just so those of you who don't know much about it can check! ;) ;D

I was really lucky and went to see one of the Sykes shows being filmed when I was a little girl.  Of course then the highlight for me was Hattie but looking back I am so pleased I saw him in the flesh.

I think it is quite funny how many of the HP stars we in the UK consider major players but our US Shackers have hardly heard of - we had this discussion on another topic about Julie Christie.  The HP films really are a who's who of every British acting legend.  I was surprised Dawn French isn't that well known in America.  Have you heard of Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous)?  They are one of the UK's leading comedy partnerships.

But Jules you have made me really sad - do you really think Eric needs the money?  That would be just so awful  :'(

I used to watch Absolutely Fabulous and knew Jennifer Saunders from that.  But there was nothing here in the US to make the connection to Dawn French.

Same here, I loved watching Ab Fab, but I wasn't aware of Dawn French's connection to Jennifer Saunders either.

If you ever watch another ep - it will say in the credits something like "Jennifer Saunders courtesy of French and Saunders" ;) not that it makes a difference but it's just integral to how it works ;) I'm not an Ab Fab fan tbh.

I hope Sykes doesn't need the money either, I hear the HP films don't pay so well - and there's a TONNE of British acting legends that haven't been in the HP films yet ;D ;D so I hope the 7th book has a lot of characters :rof:

I sincerely hope Eric doesn't need the money either! :-\
Don't you remember Maggie Smith saying that the money she was getting for the films was her pension money!? ;)

You're right though Roz - they keep casting these fab people so there's hope for the films yet! ;) ;D

Maggie Smith?? Pension??

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Yes, quite!! ::) :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :P