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Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Topps)

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November 15, 2003, 03:09 AM
angeleyes777
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Topps)
Well, we just tore through 3 cases here at my house, and here's the condensed result. Sorry, no box by box breakdown, but I did keep the autos separated by case:

Case 1 Autos:
Arwen x 1
Bilbo x 1
Denethor x 2
Faramir x 1
Figwit x 1
Sam x 1
Theoden x 1

Case 2 Autos:
Aragorn x 1
Bilbo x 2
Denethor x 1
Faramir x 1
Figwit x 2
Pippin x 1
Sam x 1
(One box had both Figwit & Bilbo)

Case 3 Autos:
Aragorn x 1
Bilbo x 1
Faramir x 1
Gollum x 1
Pippin x 1
Saruman x 2
Theoden x 1

Prismatic Foil Cards (All 3 cases together!):
8 complete sets
1/10 x 6
2/10 x 5
3/10 x 12
4/10 x 12
5/10 x 7
6/10 x 9
7/10 x 4
8/10 x 4
Anyone missing 3s & 4s with extra 9s and 10s?

Box Toppers (all 3 cases!):
12 sets of 2 cards each

Interesting breakdown on the foil cards and 2 auto cards that never showed up at all (Eomer & Taylor). Here's the combined auto list for all 3 cases:

2 Aragorn
1 Arwen
4 Bilbo
3 Denethor
3 Faramir
3 Figwit
1 Gollum
2 Pippin
2 Sam
2 Saruman
2 Theoden
0 Eomer
0 Richard Taylor

"I live in my own little world, but it's ok, they know me there."
November 15, 2003, 04:58 AM
Charstar
Wow, You had two Saurmon's in one case way to go!
We will post in tomorrow what we go in our first case! Must sleep sometime!

Good morning to those who are reading this after you have woken up!
Wink Have a wonderful day! Big Grin

I'm not so bad once you get to know me!........Mr.Smith
November 15, 2003, 12:12 PM
Paradoc
OK, my eyes are sore, but here are my breakdowns:

First, ALL my autos came from Frodo packs, even when there were two autos per box. The autos were evenly spread between both stacks and at various levels within the stack. I the box I had with two autos, one was in each stack.
ALL my foils were in Aragorns, and I had three foils from each stack without variation.
I had one boxtopper in all boxes.

Now, onto the cases/boxes.

First, I opened 6 boxes from one case:
Autos:
Gollum
Arwen x 2
Sam
Eomer
Figwit
Boxtopper 1 x 5
Boxtopper 2 x 1
2 full foil sets plus extras.
Also, I know that the other two boxes from this case both had Richard Taylor autos in them.

First Full Case:
Autos:
Eomer
Richard Taylor
Sam
Arwen
Figwit
Aragorn
Bilbo
Pippin
One box had 2 autos (Figwit and Aragorn) and one had no autos.
Boxtoppers 4 of each
3 full foil sets plus extras

Second Full case
Autos:
Denethor
Theoden
Figwit
R. Taylor
Bilbo
Eomer
Arwen
Saruman (from my last box!)
Boxtoppers 4 of each
3 full foil sets plus extras

Total autos
Saruman
Theoden
Denethor
Aragorn
Pippin
Gollum
Bilbo x 2
R. Taylor x 2
Sam x 2
Eomer x 3
Figwit x 3
Arwen x 3
Faramir x 0

I've got two more boxes arriving next week, and will post those results then.

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November 15, 2003, 01:50 PM
robwaddle
Case No 2 of 2

Box 9

Topper 1
Gollum Auto
Foils 2 - 7

Box 10

Topper 2
Richard Taylor Auto
Foils 1 - 5 & 10

Box 11

Topper 1
Arwen Auto
Foils 1, 6, 7, 9, 10 (only 5!)

Box 12

No Topper
Gollum Auto
Foils 4 - 9.

Box 13

Topper 2
Figwit Auto
Foils 1, 6 - 10

Box 14

Topper 2
Pippin Auto
Foils 4 - 9

Box 15

Topper 2
Sam Auto
Foils 1 -3. 8 - 10

Box 16

Topper 1.
Faramir Auto
Foils 1, 2 6 - 9

Grand Totals

7 Topper Sets
7 Full foil Sets
9 Autos and 7 Dups
God knows how many base sets .

I'll be posting auto trades soon & foil trades slow time.

Rob

"He drew a deep breath. 'Well I'm back,' he said."
November 15, 2003, 11:55 PM
ManInTheIronLung
My First Case:

Box 1

Topper 1 of 2
Lee Auto Thumb Up
Foils 5-10

Box 2

Topper 2 of 2
Aragorn Auto Thumb Up
Foils 1-4,9,10

Box 3

Topper 1 of 2
Arwen AutoBig Grin Big Grin
Foils 3-8

Box 4

Topper 1 of 2
Bilbo Auto
Foils 1-6

Box 5

Topper 2 of 2
Eomer Auto
Foils 1,2,4,9

Box 6

Topper 2 of 2
Sam Auto
Foils 1-6

Box 7

Topper 1 of 2
Aragorn Auto Big Grin Thumb Up
Foils 1,2,7-10

Box 8

Topper 2 of 2
Gollum AutoBig Grin
Foils 5-10

Happy Overall! Clap Clap


November 16, 2003, 12:27 AM
Charstar
My First CASE! Big Grin
Box 1: 2 of 2 Arwen 3-8

Box 2: 2 of 2 Figwit 2,3,3,5,8,9,10

Box 3: 1 of 2 Faramir 5-10

Box 4: 1 of 2 Sam 1-6

Box 5: 2 of 2 Theoden-(Black ink) 1,6,7,8,9,10

Box 6 : Both 1 & 2 Richard Taylor 1,2,7,8,9,10

Box 7: 1 of 2 Denrthor 1,2,3,4,9,10

Box 8: 1 of 2 Theoden-(Black ink) 1,2,7,8,9,10
Also had one pack that had 13 cards in it Big Grin
No extra auto's though !
Very happy will all of our pulls!

I'm not so bad once you get to know me!........Mr.Smith
November 17, 2003, 11:38 AM
gimli
hi i thought you may be interested i have just finished compiling all my base sets and I had 63 out of 3 cases that was 21 per case that works out at over 2 and a half per box and i was left with one set that was 4 short otherwise i only had about 150 spares which is great compared to the two towers I have over 1500+ left from that set
November 17, 2003, 10:00 PM
ADVLOGSYS
Purchased Two box's today from my local card shop opened 1st box got 4 chase cards in ever pack and no auto, second box got 3-4 chase in 25 of the 36 pack and 1 auto. has anyone had this happen to them before?
November 17, 2003, 10:10 PM
Charstar
It might explain why some people got no Foils in their boxes,

Are we talking lots of extra autos, or lots of extra foils???

I'm still dreaming of opening a pack it only has autos in it!

I'm not so bad once you get to know me!........Mr.Smith
November 18, 2003, 02:35 PM
Andro
My case
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(Box 1)
AUTO: ARWEN
PRISMATICS: 8,9,10,1,9,10
(Box 2)
AUTO: DENETHOR
PRISMATICS: 4,5,6,7,8,9
(Box 3)
AUTO: FARAMIR
PRISMATICS: 1,2,3,8,9,10
(Box 4)
AUTO: GOLLUM
PRISMATICS: 2,3,4,5,6,7
(Box 5)
AUTO: THEODEN
PRISMATICS: 1,2,3,4,5,6
(Box 6)
AUTO: FIGWIT
PRISMATICS: 1,2,7,8,9,10
(Box 7)
AUTO: BILBO
PRISMATICS: 1,2,3,4,9,10
(Box 8)
AUTO: DENETHOR
PRISMATICS: 3,4,5,6,7,8


2 EXTRA BOXES I PURCHASED
(Box 1)
AUTO: ARAGORN
PRISMATICS: 2,3,4,6,7

(Box2)
AUTO: GOLLUM
PRISMATICS: 1,2,3,8,9,10

5 sets of the 2 card box toppers.

Cheers,
Andy.

Please see my trades list in the trades section. Thanks.

Cheers,
Andy.

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." - Bilbo Baggins - Lord Of The Rings
November 18, 2003, 10:51 PM
Thao
quote:
Originally posted by Charstar:
I'm still dreaming of opening a pack it only has autos in it!


Oh, that would be the best dream of all!! Forget dreaming about acing all my exams, a dream where a box of RotK cards had all autos, wow, that'd be something special.

Can't wait to see my 2 boxes. Just hope that there's no funny stuff with it, and it has a good amount of foils (6 on average per box I take it), and any one auto in each box. That'd be nice.
November 19, 2003, 12:14 AM
richscards
Opened 6 boxes today, got 5 Autos:
Taylor
Eomer
Figwit
Arwen x2

Prismatics: 3 full sets

Boxtoppers: 2 sets and two #2's

Will revise once I hear how the other two boxes break when they reach their respective owners.

Rich

My Want List
November 19, 2003, 02:39 AM
janscards
Hi we have just finished breaking 12 cases,didn't have the time to do a box by box breakdown,but here is the overall breakdown.

Autos.
FARAMIR 12
ARAGORN 6
SAM 7
GOLLUM 8
THEODEN BLACK 4
THEODEN BLUE 6
BILBO 8
FIGWIT 9
ARWEN 7
EOMER 7
R.TAYLOR 4
PIPPIN 7
DENETHOR 7
SARUMAN 4

48 BOX TOPPERS SETS
52 PRISMATIC SETS

Overall we are very pleased with the breakdown.Still got 3 cases left to break at a later date.
Must go as we have over 200 basic sets to collate and get in the post by tomorrow.
November 19, 2003, 05:13 AM
batmancity
this is the first time that i bought sealed boxes for the lord of the rings sries by topps and i must say that i was not disappointed ! Here is the breakdown :
From the 2 boxes i was able to get 4 base sets and 1 set missing 12 cards, 1 complete set of prismatic foils and 2 extras. As for the autograph cards, i was really anxious because i'm not used to buy boxes like that. I had high hopes and when i opened the first box, i was really disappointed to get a Richard Taylor auto. Don't get me wrong, it was cool but i wanted to get autographs from on-screen characters. Anyway, on to the second and last box. I cracked all the packs and no auto after opening 35 packs !!!! The last pack was my only chance to get one and guess what i had....a Christopher Lee/Saruman auto card !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dance Dance Dance Dance
I'll be posting my needs/haves soon in the trading section.

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November 19, 2003, 05:49 AM
SteveL
Just finished breaking my case:

4 sets of box toppers
4 sets of prismatics with 8 spare.

Autos:

Figwit
Aragorn (x2)
Gollum
Saruman
Eomer
Theoden
Pippin

(If anyone's got a spare Arwen or Bilbo to swap for the Aragorn, let me know)

Pretty pleased with this. I haven't collated the base sets yet, 'cause I'm going to wait until after I see the film!

Steve
November 19, 2003, 06:02 AM
janscards
quote:
Originally posted by SteveL:
Just finished breaking my case:

4 sets of box toppers
4 sets of prismatics with 8 spare.

Autos:

Figwit
Aragorn (x2)
Gollum
Saruman
Eomer
Theoden
Pippin

(If anyone's got a spare Arwen or Bilbo to swap for the Aragorn, let me know)

Pretty pleased with this. I haven't collated the base sets yet, 'cause I'm going to wait until after I see the film!

Steve


Hi Steve
I have a bilbo to trade for your aragorn.please mail me at the following address:

[This message was edited by janscards on November 19, 2003 at 09:12 AM.]
November 19, 2003, 05:46 PM
Triple-Frog
Finished opening my two cases,now have severe headache from sorting the basic sets Smile.

The two cases yielded 36 basic sets,7 box topper sets and 2 extra 1 0f 2's,7 foil sets and 25 extra cards,and the following auto's

Case 1 Arwen x 2 Drool Drool
Aragorn Smile
Figwit
Sam
Bilbo
Pippin
Theoden (Blue Ink).

Case 2 Saruman x 2 Dance
Richard Taylor x 2
Gollum Smile
Arwen (can't get enough of Liv Big Grin)
Sam
Bilbo
Pippin
Eomer
Faramir

Three of the eight boxes in the second case had 2 auto's Elephant Sheep.

Both sarumans had a second auto (Arwen & Sam) and the third dual auto box was Bilbo/Eomer.

Very happy with the Breakdown,I am not usually this lucky.Hope I have not used it all up for when I get my Alias case Smile.
November 20, 2003, 03:31 AM
Rita
Hi,
finally got my two boxes

BOX 1
boxtopper 1 of 2
Gollum Auto Smile
Prismatics 3,4,5,6,7,8

BOX 2
boxtopper 2 of 2
Sam Auto
Prismatics 3,4,5,6,7,8

Overall, quite happy, as knowing my luck, I could have easily pulled a box with nothing in it! Big Grin
November 21, 2003, 02:35 PM
dis68
& I got my one box

boxtopper 1 of 2
Bilbo Auto Smile
Prismatic foils 1,2,3,8,9,10
Plus 2 complete sets

As with ALL the other Topps Lord Of The Rings sets, very good looking cards
November 21, 2003, 03:49 PM
LesleyW
I was in two minds whether to get the ROTK set or not, but ended up getting two boxes from Ebay.

Box 1
Box Topper 2/2
Foils - 1,2,3,4,5,6
Auto - Aragorn Big Grin Big Grin - very pleased

Box 2
Box Topper 1/2 Big Grin usually I end up with the same box toppers
Foils - 1,2,7,8,9,10 Big Grin complete set of foils between the two boxes
Auto - Eomer Smile I'm pleased it was a different auto to the one in box 1 and different to the ones I've had from FOTR and TTT, but his auto has definitely got worse.

Lesley