World of Harry Potter 3-D, trading cards from Artbox

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[gimli]

you can't blame him for that after asking them not to and shipping them early so they had them by the release date, i would be very angry and would only send them at the earliest so that they arrive on release day for those that did that

[ferdinand_the_yak]

That's just plain stupid violating an agreement with Tom (goose-egg, hand-biting etc.). Now those people have jeopardised the early shipping deal they had. More importantly, they've screwed over everyone else who DID do the right thing.

If I was a seller, I'd spend the extra few days sorting out what I had and making scans and getting auctions ready to pounce at 0:01 on the 15th

[gimli]

my auctions are already uploaded to ebay and begin automatically listing a 12.15 AM on the 15th

I never got official word on the release date so when i heard I emailed artbox to check it isn't difficult to get it right

[Bitsy]

Yeah, I really don't understand why people wouldn't respect the release date and rules. I mean, people might be upset at Artbox, but have respect for Tom--he's so great.

[sweinar2005]

Well I don't recognise any of the violator's Ebay IDs so it could be a case of ignorance and they just assumed if they received it they could post it. But I won't make excuses for them.

So for those of you that already have yours in hand any insight on my favorite topic - the variants.

[bush360]

Howdy

I am really looking forward to seeing all the breakdowns everyone has got, I wont get my cases until Monday unfortunately.
Will people begin to post breakdowns and scans a UK 12am as we are a couple of hours before you Shackers in the US or will the US Yaks wait until theire own 12am. 
Yeah OK I am a little excited. 

[gimli]

I will post scans of my pulls at 12 am if i am still up as here it will be the 15th

[canny19]

Just saw some images on 
Look REALLY GOOD 

[ferdinand_the_yak]

Hi all,

I think it best if we all go by US times for this (by US, I mean California - Artboxland) just in case. The last thing we need is to get in to trouble with Artbox regarding release dates.

According to my useful (read: googled) time zone converter, when it is 12 midnight in LA, it will be 8am in the UK. I'll unlock both the breakdowns and scans/comments threads at that time - feel free to post away then. Here's the time zone converter I used for anyone else who needs to check times: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

Obviously, when people post cards on Ebay is up to them. However, posting breakdowns/scans/photos etc on the Shack is off limits until midnight LA time.

Thanks for your cooperation

[Bryanjs14]

pretty sure my three boxes went out with the post man this morning so fingers crossed they come today. Will definetly post scans when the thread is unlocked tomorrow morning.

[Bryanjs14]

Well, I just broke my 3 boxes and while I cannot say anything about the cards I pulled, I don't think I will get in trouble for saying the following:

The packs are easy to open (thank god)
The cards are a little stinky...I washed my hands after opening the packs lol
The 9 Card Puzzle set is B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. I wish Artbox would offer it as an uncut 9 card sheet.
I was very VERY happy with my pulls. No Radcliffe, but still very pleased 

Can't wait to see everyones breaks in less than 24 hours!

[allender]

Dang, midnight in Artboxland is 3 a.m. where I sit. I hope people will forgive me if I don't post the first case break. (I have a day job ...)  

However, my scanner is hopeless with these cards. I can do card backs if anybody needs them for completeness.

People have been talking about how to value the base sets, so I'll share the observation that they're likely to be tougher than we thought. Half of my boxes provided no complete base sets and four others provided only one. The problem is, it was the same card (#24) that was short in every instance - replaced by extras for #34. It looks to me that somebody slipped a digit when they were collating, since the rest of it was near perfect. (The few extras from each box added together to give a good near-set 21 over ten boxes.)

I've already seen an auction for "set minus one" but it was a different missing number. So I don't know whether any card will be short-printed across the whole print run (I suspect not). If everybody's experiences are similar to mine but we have different missing numbers, we'll need to arrange a swap-meet to get us all out of our shorts.

Of course, when I saw which number was shorted, I knew that they must have used that card for 24 Season 4, 24 Season 4 Update, 24 Season 5, and 24 Season 5 Update.  

[allender]

Two more observations, based on arithmetic.

Some of the costume cards are numbered to 500 or 600. I doubt that they intended to make cases that had dupes for costume cards, and there's only 400 cases. I suspect we can predict some of the items that will be in San Diego goodie bags if such things are distributed. If you reduce all of total-run numbers to a maximum of 400 each, you still are slightly above 4000 when you add them all together. (Only one of the prop cards is numbered above 200, or 1:2 cases, and it's #-of-225.)

With 12 autographs in 400 cases, I assume that the "plan" was to have one Radcliffe or dual autograph card per case. If those four average 100 copies each, there's only enough room for an average insertion of about 200 copies for the other eight. Therefore, the "common" autos are going to be scarcer than they usually are -- or they're all very rare except for a couple.

[potter]

I have been very lucky so far out of all the boxes I've sorted ive had 2 complete base sets from all boxes 

[kbmum]

My box had one base set and one card shy of a second set.  I'm missing card #4.  I had a hard time sorting the cards.  The color of the ink and the typeface were really hard to read.

[potter]

I know what you mean, I tried getting my mum to help me sort out a base set, she found it really hard to see the numbers on the back and when I checked through the set to make sure it was correct she duplicated a few numbers  so in the end it was quicker to do it myself 

[gimli]

I think you will quickly see that some autos are more common than others with 3 in particular being the most common

[potter]

I think you will quickly see that some autos are more common than others with 3 in particular being the most common

Yes! I wonder which 3 they are  with 1 being a redemption card

[gimli]

This is what i think the order will be rarest at the top and in groups
Just my opinion but i may be very wrong

harry (redemption)

Cedric and Krum
Vernon and Dubley
crabbe and goyle double auto

lupin
he who must not be named (redemption)
station guard

Fred Weasley
George Weasley

Filch (redemption)
Fudge

Flitwick

[Bryanjs14]

NO WAY GIMLI!
Are you trying to tell me the Warwick Davies as Flitwick is going to be EASY to get? I think your numbers are off