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No one has started a thread yet for The Golden Compass, but you can in the Trading Card Sets section, if you'd like.

Done! And it can be found at the following link: http://www.theyakshack.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,5526.0.html

Clocks, no I don't know much about the film the Golden Compass nor do I have any of the promos. I've seen some on eBay and they look great. Please do start a thread, I should look up the story in Wikipedia - are they based on books?

If you check the above thread, I've wrote a little bit of information on the series there for you, hope that's of some help!

[THE GOLDEN COMPASSPREMIUM TRADING CARDSRELEASE: NOVEMBER 2007 PRODUCT CONFIGURATION: 9 CARDS PER PACK 24 PACKS PER BOX10 BOXES PER CASESRP: $1.99 PER PACK Collector AlbumSRP: $19.95 per albumRATIO FOR INSERTSTruth Telling Set of 6 Lenticular Cards (1:9)Lyra's World Set of 6 3D Lenticular Cards (1:9)Fight to the Death" Set of 6 Cards (1:7)Daemon Forms Set of 3 Cards (1:23)Other Worlds Case Loader Card (1 per Case)]

This is following on from the following thread: http://www.theyakshack.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,5514.0.html

This autumn sees the release of the first 'His Dark Materials' story to the film medium and unsurprisingly therefore in to the trading card arena as well.  (Information that was requested about the book/film series can be found below the trading card information)

Inkworks have announced the new Trading Card Set for 'The Golden Compass' to be released in November 2007.  The Inkworks press release and set specifications are as follows:


The Golden Compass
Premium Trading Cards
Coming November 2007!
   
This exciting fantasy adventure is set in a parallel world where people’s souls manifest themselves as small animals, talking bears fight wars, and children are mysteriously disappearing. The film is based on the first book of Philip Pullman’s best-selling, award-winning trilogy, “His Dark Materials.”

Inkworks captures all of the action and amazing worlds with a 72-base card set.  In addition, collectors can look for several different levels of randomly-inserted bonus cards including:

TRUTH TELLING - Six lenticular cards featuring the alethiometer (the Golden Compass) that helps Lyra find her missing friends during different stages of her epic journey.

LYRA’S WORLD - Six 3-D lenticular cards share the fantastic world that Lyra lives in.

FIGHT TO THE DEATH - Six cards capturing the amazing battle between the fighting bears Iorek and Ragnar.

DAEMON FORMS - Three cards that utilize flip technology to depict Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards) and her daemon animal form Pantalaimon, Mrs. Coulter (Nicole Kidman) and her daemon Golden Monkey, and Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig) and his daemon Stelmaria.

OTHER WORLDS - One case loader card.

THE GOLDEN COMPASS
PREMIUM TRADING CARDS

RELEASE:  NOVEMBER 2007

PRODUCT CONFIGURATION:   
9 CARDS PER PACK 
24 PACKS PER BOX
10 BOXES PER CASE

SRP:    $1.99 PER PACK

Collector Album
SRP:   $19.95 per album

RATIO FOR INSERTS

Truth Telling Set of 6 Lenticular Cards (1:9)
Lyra's World Set of 6 3D Lenticular Cards (1:9)
Fight to the Death" Set of 6 Cards (1:7)
Daemon Forms Set of 3 Cards (1:23)
Other Worlds Case Loader Card (1 per Case)

One thing I'm not sure of, is if the Inserts are individually numbered or how many exist of each.


Series Information:

As a question of it was asked in the thread linked above, 'The Golden Compass' (the title of the first book/film in the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy, although in the UK the book is titled 'Northern Lights) is based on an original work by the British author Philip Pullman.  The trilogy has seen massive worldwide sales as well as fame, talk, controversy and critical/award winning acclaim.  It is no suprise therefore that the book series has a very large international fanbase and the film's should do well to.  One should be able to buy the books from most bookshops and all online retailers.

The story follows a young girl named Lyra in a world like ours, but different in many ways and it is (as you may have guessed) mainly fantasy based.  Like the Harry Potter series, 'His Dark Materials' seems to be enjoyed by all generations and both genders.

A follow up book to the trilogy was released a few years ago, called 'Lyra's Oxford' and Pullman has also announced that two further follow up books are to be released ('Once Upon a Time in the North', which was just announced very recently and 'The Book of Dust', which has been talked about for years now!).  Pullman has stated a possible release date of 2008 for the first yet to be released follow up.

Thank you for the replies both of you, much appreciated!

It was not a HP related set that I searched for, but I was wondering if there was an exsisting thread for the new 'The Golden Compass' series coming out in November from Inkworks.  I had quite a good look in the Trading Card Sets section (where I would expect to see it perhaps?) but couldn't see anything about it there.

On the HP (and more introductory) note, I've just started to get very interested in Trading Cards again and in particular the HP sets.  Managed to get three boxes recently although annoyingly I didn't pull anything of much interest or get any nice varients!  I shall keep trying though of course. 

Thanks again for the replies!

I was just attempting to search for a particular card series, to see if there were any exsisting threads about it before making a new one.  I used search and it came up with no results.  I didn't think anything too much of that but I thought I'd just check to see that search was working in proper order.  I wanted to try something obvious, so I tried to search for the word Potter but that yielded no results as well!!  I then searched the word Harry, same result and last I tried 'the' and of course, no results were returned either!

I can't see that this search problem topic has been talked about in the 'About the Forum' section yet and apologise if it has, but then again I can't search for it!  :'( 

Not sure if this is just a problem on my end or if others are having mishaps of a similar nature?

(My first post by the way! )