Dinosaurs, Upper Deck Style

February 08, 2015, 04:30 AM

Scifi Cards

From the February Newsletter...

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Dinosaurs
Upper Deck
May

In an obvious move to cash in on the new Jurassic World movie, Upper brings us a set of Dinosaurs cards. It’s actually a pretty complex set, and will be tough to collect. A word of warning, the retail packs have a dinosaur figure and base cards, nothing more. The hobby set looks like this:

100 Card Base Set
25 High Number Sea Creature Short Print Cards (1:2.4 Packs)
25 High Number Ice Age Creatures Short Print Cards (1:2.4 Packs)
Canvas Mini Cards
30 Dinosaur Stickers (1:4.8 Packs)
3-D Lenticular Cards (1:6 Packs, 4 Rarity Levels)
60 Age of the Dinosaurs Patch Cards (1:24 Packs, 4 Rarity Levels)
Dinosaur Sketch Cards (1:24 Packs)
Rare 2, 3, and 4-Panel Sketches
Rare Autographed Parallels numbered to 49
8 Predators of the Sea Shadowbox Cards (1 in 2 boxes)
Audio Booklet Cards (Velociraptor, Saber-Toothed Tiger, Pterodactyl, others)
RARE Oversized Authentic Fossil Relic Cards

Megalodon Tooth
Wooly Mammoth Molar
Raptor Tooth
Giant Auroch Upper Thoracic Vertibra
Cave Bear Jaw
Triceratops Tooth
And many more!

5 Cards Per Pack / 24 Packs Per Box / 8 Boxes Per Inner Case / 16 Boxes Per Master Case

Looks like fun, but stay away from the retail unless you like base cards and plastic dinos.

Ed

February 08, 2015, 09:39 AM

John Tirohn

This could be a fun set. Any mention of a release date?

February 08, 2015, 05:15 PM

Bill Mullins

So who is supposed to sign the autographs?
Noted Paleontologists?

February 08, 2015, 06:57 PM

Ryan Cracknell

While retail doesn't have sketches, fossils or the sound cards, some configurations have the Shadowbox and stickers as well. Plus there's a lunchbox that's part of one configuration.

February 09, 2015, 01:11 AM

Scifi Cards

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Originally posted by Ryan Cracknell:
While retail doesn't have sketches, fossils or the sound cards, some configurations have the Shadowbox and stickers as well. Plus there's a lunchbox that's part of one configuration.

That would be interesting. I was told there were only 2 SKU's for retail, none of them being traditional packs.

Ed

February 09, 2015, 01:11 AM

Scifi Cards

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Originally posted by John Tirohn:
This could be a fun set. Any mention of a release date?

That would be May.

Ed

February 09, 2015, 01:51 AM

Ryan Cracknell

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Originally posted by Scifi Cards:
quote:
Originally posted by Ryan Cracknell:
While retail doesn't have sketches, fossils or the sound cards, some configurations have the Shadowbox and stickers as well. Plus there's a lunchbox that's part of one configuration.

That would be interesting. I was told there were only 2 SKU's for retail, none of them being traditional packs.

Ed

Here's the info and sell sheet for the lunch boxes: http://www.universaldist.com/p...tible-box-82363.aspx

And 2-pack blisters: http://www.universaldist.com/p...blister-8111210.aspx

February 10, 2015, 02:21 AM

Scifi Cards

Thanks Ryan!

Seems my retail supplier either is just lazy or the US and Canada will have different products. I'm guessing the former.

Ed

February 10, 2015, 12:44 PM

Ryan Cracknell

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Originally posted by Scifi Cards:
Thanks Ryan!

Seems my retail supplier either is just lazy or the US and Canada will have different products. I'm guessing the former.

Ed

I won't call your supplier lazy but I have seen the same sales materials posted on US-based sites as well.

May 15, 2015, 10:52 AM

H_Toser

We have some further information on the blog today about Upper Deck's Dinosaur series. Our writer Rudy Panucci went to Toy Fair and recorded a video with Upper Deck talking about the new series:

A Second Look: 2015 Upper Deck Dinosaurs

There's much more about the series inside the new Jun/Jul issue of Non-Sport Update as well along with a sidebar about Upper Deck's new board game.