Box 2456 BT1 R2, 4, 5, 7, 9 C12 George's white shirt 275/600 P6 Umbridge's stationery 285/450 (variant with roses and top of cat's head)
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January 03, 2008, 07:46 AM
allender
Box: 24 packs of 8 cards, 10 boxes/case, 600 cases total Base cards: expect 2.01 sets per box on average, if collation were perfect
My case:
Case-Topper Crystal Card: Voldemort, totally clear. This is the only untinted crystal I've heard about. Rumor has it that Artbox made some clear versions for future sale or goodie-bag distribution. For the moment, I am assuming that I have the rarest item from the initial release!
BOX 1798 Base sets: 2, plus three extras BT3 - R1-R3-R5-R6-R8 C9 - Ginny's school pants, 118/600 Auto - Robert Hardy as Cornelius Fudge
BOX 5237 Base sets: 2, plus 1 extra; 1 misprinted BT2 - R1-R3-R4-R6-R8 C3 - Luna's school sweater, 464/475 Auto - Timothy Bateson as Voice of Kreacher
BOX 4038 Base sets: 1, missing 1 for 2nd, plus 1 extra BT4 - R2-R4-R6-R8-R9 C4 - Cho's striped sweater, 273/680 CFC7 - 067/260, cel: Voldemort with hands cupping face
BOX 4745 Base sets: 1, missing 1 for 2nd, plus 2 extras BT1 - R1-R3-R5-R7-R8 C12 - George Weasley's beige shirt, 426/600 P5 - Daily Prophet (with Seamus), 092/280
BOX 2263 Base sets: 1, missing 1 for 2nd, no extras, 1 damaged BT2 - R1-R2-R4-R6-R8 C7 - Ginny's green jacket (3-color collar swatch), 367/625 CFC6 - 218/260, cel: Weasley fireworks
BOX 5876 Base sets: 2, plus 3 extras; 2 damaged BT1 - R1-R3-R5-R7-R8 C8 - Luna's purple pants, 025/570 Auto - David Thewlis as Remus Lupin (redemption)
BOX 2938 Base sets: 2, plus 3 extras BT2 - R1-R3-R4-R6-R8 C13 - Fred and George's white and floral shirts (dual), 096/475 Auto - Jason Piper as Bane (redemption)
BOX 0663 Base sets: 2, plus 3 extras BT1 - R2-R3-R5-R7-R9 C14 - Voldemort and Dumbledore dual (material used to create), 171/185 Auto - Sian Thomas as Amelia Bones (redemption)
BOX 1259 Base sets: 2, exactly BT3 - R2-R4-R6-R7-R9 C11 - Lucius Malfoy costume fabric (material used to create), 077/625 P6 - Stationary <sic> from Dolores Umbridge's Office, 273/460 CFC3 - 075/260, cel: trio walking halls
BOX 3389 Base sets: 1, missing 3 for 2nd, no extras; 1 damaged BT4 - R2-R4-R5-R7-R9 C10 - Ron's school pants, 541/600 P1 - Cauldron from Snape's Office, 026/150
There are case clusters observed again for the combination of "high chase" in specific case options. Guesses on total numbers of autographs will be available when we get some more statistics.
January 03, 2008, 08:42 AM
charmedmad
do you mean this one jeff as that is one on the auction site for $60 bin so £30
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January 03, 2008, 10:34 AM
kbmum
I know of one other person who also has a clear case loader.
January 03, 2008, 10:39 AM
charmedmad
so they mustn't be that rare then must of decided not to keep them back.
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January 04, 2008, 10:20 PM
Dark_Angel
Busted two boxes this evening while watching the DVD of the movie. Box: 1812/6000 BT2 R2, R4, R5, R7, R9 Film cell: CFC7 095/260 Neville card w/ Bellatrix cells Costume: C4 Cho Chang (Katie Leung) Sweater variant (pink/mauve) 246/680
Love these cards! Now I want to track down a Natalia Tena autograph (Tonks)... and maybe a Hermione sweater card... This message has been edited. Last edited by: Dark_Angel,
January 05, 2008, 10:52 AM
allender
quote:
Originally posted by charmedmad: so they mustn't be that rare then must of decided not to keep them back.
But but, maybe they're more rare than the dual auto. I'll take the best offer as long as it's more than $2000.
January 06, 2008, 04:13 PM
Headless Horseman
My case in no particular order:
Props:
P2 Ministry of Magic Flying Memos # 206/435 P3 The Daily Prophet # 88/505 P6 Stationary from Umbridge's Office # 131/450
Costumes:
C3 Luna Lovegood # 384/475 C4 Cho Chang # 397/680 C5 Harry Potter # 267/275 C7 Ginny Weasley #573/625 C8 Luna Lovegood # 213/570 C9 Ginny Weasley # 407/600 C10 Ron Weasley # 42/600 C11 Lucius Malfoy # 479/625 C12 George Weasley # 450/600 C13 Fred and George Weasly Dual Costume # 52/475
Case Topper Crystal Harry Potter
Autos:
Harry Melling as Dudley Dursely Natalia Tena as Nymphadora Tonks Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange Kathryn Hunter as Arabella Figg (Redemption) Sian Thomas as Amelia Bones (Redemption)
If not for the Lestrange autograph I would say a very disappointing case. I must be spoiled but no low number props or costumes and over half my costumes are plain black piece of clothing.
At least I didn't get a Warrick Davis or Argus Filch autograph-lol.
____________________ "Rise up once more, my Dark Avenger! Rise up, my unholy Horseman! Come forth again through the Tree of the Dead..."
January 07, 2008, 07:17 PM
Victory_is_Mine!!
Here is my brothers case. I was starting to get this deja vu feeling when I helped him open it, and then realized why. I had seen this same case break posted on here saturday. (Honest Jeff, we did open a case ourselves, we didn't copy your case break.)
Box 4564: C9 Ginny, Fudge AUTO
Box 987: C3-Luna, Kreacher AUTO
Box 3877: CFC7, C4-Cho
Box 5104: c12 George Weasley, P5 daily prophet
Box 443: C7 Ginny 3 color variant, cfc6 film cell.
Box 2744: Lupin AUTO: C8 luna
Box 5657: c13 weasley bros, Bane AUTO
Box 2144: c14 Voldemort-dumbledore, Amelia Bones AUTO
Box 3352: C11 Lucious, P6 Stationary, cfc3 cell.
Box 1564: c10 ron weasley, p1 cauldron prop.
Case topper was hermione.
We have opened at least a case of every product that has been made, and maybe I wasn't paying attention, but I did not know that cases could have identical items in every box, across the board?!? This kind of takes the randomness out of a product if you know they work this way.
When he pulled the first autograph, I jokingly told him you'll probably get these 4 in the rest of the case. He didn't think it was too funny when I was right. Some cool cards for sure, but we have opened somewhere around 15 sealed cases of potter products, and have yet to pull any of the 3 main kids, and I was seriously hoping for the bellatrix auto for my own collection.
January 07, 2008, 07:41 PM
Batman
I got the exact case, also. Artbox should be embarrassed by this, what a bunch of ****. Yes, that probably is harsh, but after paying $600 for this case, I feel I have a right to vent.
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January 07, 2008, 08:53 PM
Headless Horseman
quote:
Originally posted by Batman: I got the exact case, also. Artbox should be embarrassed by this, what a bunch of ****. Yes, that probably is harsh, but after paying $600 for this case, I feel I have a right to vent.
You are a very harsh person.
____________________ "Rise up once more, my Dark Avenger! Rise up, my unholy Horseman! Come forth again through the Tree of the Dead..."
January 07, 2008, 09:07 PM
Batman
Just wait until this weekend!!!
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January 07, 2008, 09:15 PM
Headless Horseman
Why, what is your wife doing?
____________________ "Rise up once more, my Dark Avenger! Rise up, my unholy Horseman! Come forth again through the Tree of the Dead..."
January 07, 2008, 09:42 PM
kbmum
Case clusters have been showing up for many of the recent Harry Potter releases. Jeff has been keeping track of this, so he can add a lot more to the conversation. I may not be remembering correctly, but I think the clusters started when Artbox sent card production and packaging to China.
We've also been seeing cases that have fewer than five autos. In the past, there were five autos, 10 costumes, three props, and three filmcards per case. For OOTPU, there are boxes that have only one premium insert instead of two, and most of the time, it's the autos that are missing. There could have been a packing problem or maybe Artbox didn't have enough autos to insert five per case. What's interesting is that the odds used to be printed on the packs. They aren't for this set.
January 08, 2008, 07:13 AM
allender
Yeah, V-I-M and Batman, that was exactly my case too.
Clusters may have been around even longer before we started noticing them. They became apparent when I was collating all of the case and box breakdowns, trying to estimate the numbers of autographs, and patterns emerged.
Pretty much, there have been three trios of CFC cards. Within each group of Cel combinations are about three clusters where the autos, costumes, and props are all the same, with a few straggling variations. (Numbers for cards don't always divide nicely by three, etc.)
I feel a bit nervous talking about case clusters because they it could make it somewhat easier to cherry-pick from cases, but I think everybody knows that Artbox will usually try to balance the scarcest cards.
I try to gather statistics on about 10% of the print run ... it gives better statistics. So if anybody doesn't want to post their details, but still has totals for their boxes or cases, I'd be delighted to accept emails that can add to the base of the "research". I'll even try to answer the emails, though some people know I've been away from the card collection so frequently recently, I'm seriously behind on emails, and for that I apologize!
January 08, 2008, 07:26 AM
allender
quote:
Originally posted by kbmum: We've also been seeing cases that have fewer than five autos. In the past, there were five autos, 10 costumes, three props, and three filmcards per case. For OOTPU, there are boxes that have only one premium insert instead of two, and most of the time, it's the autos that are missing. There could have been a packing problem or maybe Artbox didn't have enough autos to insert five per case. What's interesting is that the odds used to be printed on the packs. They aren't for this set.
I've seen 19 full-case reports so far, and 15 of them fit the usual distribution pattern of 10-5-3-3. Four of them were missing 1 or 2 autos, but three of those were for "our" case, where the Lupin redemption card was missing and there was only one high insert in the box that had the C8 card. The fourth was a real problem, because it only had 3 autos, 8 costumes, and 2 CFCs. It was also from the CFC 3-6-7 big cluster.
Out of 3.4% of the boxes, it's averaged one autograph per 2.18 boxes.
There must be some clustering for the people who are reporting, too. Seven of the 19 reports so far are the "same" case, four with all five autos and three with the Lupin missing. And there's no breakdowns yet that reported finding the Cubison or Trinder triptych autos.
January 08, 2008, 08:13 AM
tevans333
Well you can add me to the list, I also got that case a few time Here are my 5 cases:
Originally posted by tevans333: Well you can add me to the list, I also got that case a few time:
Aw, I only saw one of that one. But your fifth case is the only one that we haven't seen before. There have been 11 case types out of the 23 reported, so it's kind of spread out.
Your case fall into clusters J, H, E, A, and K (the new one).