I have been fortunate to have been sent a box of these cards for review
(and if you remember we have been lucky enough to be sent plenty of Wallace and Gromit goodness to share out between forum members in our latest competition, so hopefully we'll be trading these to make as many full sets as possible).
This is a snippet from the official sell sheet:
This is very much a retail set (no props or autos), but it's certainly very inventive.
Each box contains 50 packs with a face value of 99 pence per pack). There are 3 different sub-sets to collect:
1) A 60 sticker set
2) A 45 trading card set (5, 9 card puzzle sets)
and
3) 18 Peel off PVC stickers
The breakdown of our box was fair:
One full set of the trading cards (distributed as 2 per pack)
This consists of:
One full set of Were Rabbit puzzle cards
(another almost full set missing number 9)
Two full sets of Veg-B-Big puzzle cards
Two full sets of Victor Quartermaine Puzzle cards
(and a spare 1 and 5)
One full set of Giant Vegetable Competition puzzle cards
(spare 1x2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7x3, 8, 9x2)
Two full sets of the Anti Pesto Puzzle cards
(spare 1x2, 3x2, 9)
One full set of 60 stickers (distributed as 3 per pack or 2 in a pack where you receive a PVC sticker)
12 PVC stickers (from this box it seems that they are distributed one in 4 packs)
(10 different, 2 duplicates: 1, 8, 9, 10, 11x2, 12x2, 13, 14, 15, 16)
I'm very pleased with this - it's a great set (well the source material is such great quality that it's always going to put a smile on your face) and I like the way it's been done, the PVC cards really take me back to my youth - and for that matter so do the stickers, and I was pleased to get a full base set of the trading cards and the stickers and over half of the PVC sticker set.
This set has certainly whet my whistle, I hope Cards Inc will go ahead and make a 'Full Monty' card set with autos/props/sketches and maybe even a spare splodge of plasticine trapped in a card like the Sorcerer's stone (PLEASE don't break up a Wallace.... or a Gromit figure ... maybe something more mundane - some of the plasticine grass or something
)
Pictures to follow tonight
There's an official storage album available for this set:
http://www.thecollectorzone.com/product.asp?pid=6032
