"dont know what your getting"

[shajaki]

when i was younger i collected comics and superhero cards. ive got every marvel universe set, masterpiece and spiderman set out there including their chase cards. i spent mad amounts of money trying to complete those. but those days are over.

 

and then i see things that takara is doing. with wstf, pvc's, minicons and such. if they were released overseas in that manner, i might have given a damn about minicons. those chase ones were all shiney and neat. and theres no telling what rediculous amount of money i wouldv wasted if they were released in such a fashion. i guess what im trying to say is that if hasbro released them like that i think theyd have made some good money off that. that and theyd have my intrest.

[Hot Rod]

i guess what im trying to say is that if hasbro released them like that i think theyd have made some good money off that. that and theyd have my intrest.

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and lost mine.. i hate trying to find chase figs and seeing them show up online in other people's collections.

[ErikB]

that kind of selling never went away, it just seems to jump around in format a lot. Now you have CCG's (collectible card games) more or less an upgrade from all those card sets we saw during the early 90's. I think the gumball toys are still the greatest example of this, ya walk by, see a neat piece of junk and say..."I want that." Next thing you know you've dropped $3 and have 12 very off the wall items. Blind selling is rearing again with some recent SW mini-statues or are they bobble heads??? I'm not sure, but it is coming back, as are grab bags in local comic shops lately.

[shajaki]

i guess what im trying to say is that if hasbro released them like that i think theyd have made some good money off that. that and theyd have my intrest.

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and lost mine.. i hate trying to find chase figs and seeing them show up online in other people's collections.

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but thats whats fun about it! that sigh of releif after opening countless boxes to finall get the one youve searched for! i missed that.

[shajaki]

that kind of selling never went away, it just seems to jump around in format a lot. Now you have CCG's (collectible card games) more or less an upgrade from all those card sets we saw during the early 90's. I think the gumball toys are still the greatest example of this, ya walk by, see a neat piece of junk and say..."I want that." Next thing you know you've dropped $3 and have 12 very off the wall items. Blind selling is rearing again with some recent SW mini-statues or are they bobble heads??? I'm not sure, but it is coming back, as are grab bags in local comic shops lately.

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i hear ya. but im just bringing it up for nostalgic purposes. trading cards that sell these days are all games though. and if every tf gets a head start in japan, i thought their selling techniques mightv rubbed off a bit. id have bought them. i was just wondering if anyone else enjoyed this sort of thing.

[Blitz]

if they sold the Micronbosters idd be all over them like a rash

[Drewbie]

I would've bought a minicon booster, but I would chase a chase figure.

[Tripredacus]

that kind of selling never went away, it just seems to jump around in format a lot. Now you have CCG's (collectible card games) more or less an upgrade from all those card sets we saw during the early 90's. I think the gumball toys are still the greatest example of this, ya walk by, see a neat piece of junk and say..."I want that." Next thing you know you've dropped $3 and have 12 very off the wall items. Blind selling is rearing again with some recent SW mini-statues or are they bobble heads??? I'm not sure, but it is coming back, as are grab bags in local comic shops lately.

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trading cards that sell these days are all games though.

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Negatory. There are also sports cards, which is probably the oldest running system of random packed items. You don't want to know how much money I spend on hockey cards.... more than TFs I can tell you that.

[Edgewise]

Blind packing can motivate some to buy, but can also stop others from buying.

 

What I would have like to have seen instead of micron boosters or instead of the minicon two packs is just take a bunch of the minicon molds and thrown in whatever random color plastic they got laying around and sell them singly(but not blind packed).

 

It'd be like a challenge to get X-many different color versions of your favorite mold, and see if you can assemble a cool looking star saber from random repaints.

[JCurwen]

i guess what im trying to say is that if hasbro released them like that i think theyd have made some good money off that. that and theyd have my intrest.

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and lost mine.. i hate trying to find chase figs and seeing them show up online in other people's collections.

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Agreed. No fun at all.