Well, it's officially release day in my time zone. Several have already hit eBay, so it's no surprise some people got theirs a little early...

I busted one cars so far...

??? Base sets. Lots, but not sorted yet
??? Parallel Set. Looks like I could have one, but not sorted either.

Quotable: 2 Sets (9) + 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9
The Houses: 2 Sets (9) + 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9,
Win Or Die: 2 Sets (5) + 1, 3
Shadowbox: 1 Set (6)

And the expected 24 autographs:

Richard Madden as Robb Stark (Bordered) Limited (Lower End)
Aidan Gillen as Petyr Baelish "Littlefinger" (Full-Bleed) Limited (Upper End)
Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy (Full-Bleed) Limited (Upper End)
Conleth Hill as Lord Varys (Bordered) Limited (Upper End)
Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen (Bordered) Limited (Lower End)
Elyes Gabel as Rakharo (Bordered) Limited (Upper End)
Esme Bianco as Ros (Bordered) Limited (Upper End)
Harry Lloyd as Viserys Targaryen (Full-Bleed) Limited (Upper End)
Ian McElhinney as Barristan Selmy (Full-Bleed) Limited (Upper End) x2
Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark (Full-Bleed) Limited (Upper End)
Jack Gleeson as Prince Joffrey Baratheon (Bordered) Limited (Upper End)
Jamie Sives as Jory Cassel (Full-Bleed) Limited (Upper End)
Jerome Flynn as Bronn (Full-Bleed) Limited (Upper End)
John Bradley as Samwell Tarly (Bordered) Limited (Upper End)
Julian Glover as Grand Maester Pycelle (Full-Bleed) Limited (Upper End)
Kristian Nairn as Hodor (Bordered) Limited (Upper End)
Maisie Williams as Arya Stark (Bordered) Limited (Upper End)
Maisie Williams as Arya Stark (Full-Bleed) Limited (Upper End)
Owen Teale as Alliser Thorne (Full-Bleed) Limited (Upper End)
Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane "The Hound" (Full-Bleed) Limited (Upper End) x2
Mark Addy as King Robert Baratheon (Full-Bleed) Limited (Lower End)
Michelle Fairley as Lady Catelyn Stark (Bordered) Limited (Lower End)

Overall, happy with what I pulled.

Since there are no Very or Extremely limited autos in the set, it's a bit hard to tell for sure what will be a "better" auto other than just anything in the "lower end).

I love the attention the characters get in the base set. Way to go Rittenhouse!

Ed

Nice start. Really looking forward to this one.

First Case:

Autos

Full Bleed:
Ian McElhinney
Rory McCann x2
Elyes Gabel
Jamie Sives
Julian Glover
Aidan Gillen x2
Mark Addy
Harry Lloyd
Alfie Allen
Jack Gleeson
Owen Teale
Isaac Hempstead-Wright

Bordered:
Jason Momoa
Emilia Clarke
Esme Bianco
Michelle Fairley
John Bradley
Richard Madden
Maisie Williams
Miltos Yerolemou
Elyes Gabel x2


Inserts
Shadowbox - 1 complete set, no extras
The Houses - 2 complete sets, 6 extras
You Win or You Die - 2 complete sets, 2 extras
Quotable - 2 complete sets, 6 extras
Case Topper #412/900

Still waiting for my Smallville boxes to arrive and now this has already been released AHHHH.

No Lena Headey busted yet out of those two cases, but an Emilia Clarke in both, so maybe that one won't be too hard to get.

My Case breakdown:

Bordered-Lower End Limited

Lena Headey
Mark Addy
Jason Momoa
Art Parkinson

Bordered-Upper End Limited
Alfie Allen x2
Esme Bianco
Harry Lloyd
Aidan Gillen
Jerome Flynn
John Bradley
Elyes Gabel
Julian Glover
Maisie Williams
Miltos Yerolemou
Rory McCann x2

Full Bleed-Upper End Limited
Rory McCann
Aidan Gillen
John Bradley
Jamie Sives
Owen Teale
Conleth Hill
Jack Gleeson

I ended up with 16 complete base sets, 2 complete quotables, 2 House, 2 You win or you Die, 1 complete Shadowbox set and 1 complete parallel sets. I was left with several base cards, 6 House insert cards, 6 Quotable cards, 2 You win or You Die cards, and 24 base parallel cards.

The case card was numbered 841/900.

The base & insert collation was spot on. I'm not happy with the doubles and though I'm not happy with limited lower end cards I received (except Lena) when I do the math it appears I got what I should should have. So not bad.

I know it's still very early in the breaks but I'm noticing a pattern with some of these cases. So far I've seen at least 5 different cases which featured the same 3 autographs being the "biggest" hits: Richard Madden, Michelle Fairley and Emilia Clarke. Maybe it's just a coincidence though.

Well I can't wait to see what I get, looking at all the autos listed on ebay is killing me

I was also able to make 16 base sets.
I'm one card short of a full parallel set (#4). Perhaps it's mixed in with one of the base sets. I have to go back and check.
It also worked out to one full shadowbox set, and 2 sets of each of the other inserts.
I had a relatively small stack of doubles left over, but that's fine.
Overall, 5 lower limited autographs so I'm pretty pleased with that. Hopefully Logan's correct and my next case will have a Madden, Fairley and Clarke, as well as a Headey and Coster. By the box, here are the break downs:

Box #4389
Art Parkinson as Rickon Stark (Full-Bleed) - Lower
Aidan Gillen as Petyr Baelish "Littlefinger" (Bordered) Upper
8 Parrallels
Q7,Q9
H4,H7
SP4
Shadowbox - Daenerys Targaryen

Box #3488
Miltos Yerolemou as Syrio Forel (Full-Bleed) Upper
Kristian Nairn as Hodor (Bordered) Upper
Q3,Q8
H3,H8
SP5
Shadowbox - Tyrion Lannister

Box #3489
Conleth Hill as Lord Varys (Bordered) Upper
Julien Glover as Grand Master Pycelle (Full-Bleed) Upper
Q1,Q4
H1,H5
SP2

Box #7383
Maisie Williams as Arya Stark (Full-Bleed) Upper
Jack Gleeson as Prince Joffrey Baratheon (Bordered) Upper
Q2,Q6
H2,H9
SP3

Box #0410
Jerome Flynn as Bronn (Full-Bleed) Upper
Jamie Sives as Jory Cassel (Bordered) Upper
Q6,Q9
H2,H4
SP3
Shadowbox - Jon Snow

Box #1415
Charles Dance as Tywin Lannister (Bordered) Lower
Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark (Bordered) Upper
Q6,Q9
H2,H4
SP4

Box #5371
Kit Harington as Jon Snow (Bordered) Lower
Jerome Flynn as Bronn (Full-Bleed) Upper
Q3,Q5
H3,H6
SP1
Shadowbox - Cersei Lannister

Box #6441
Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo (Full-Bleed) Lower
Ian McElhinney as Barristan Selmy (Bordered) Upper
Q2,Q5
H6,H9
SP1

Box #0411
Conleth Hill as Lord Varys (Full-Bleed) Upper
Mark Addy as King Robert Baratheon (Bordered) Lower
Q3,Q4
H3,H8
SP1

Box #9430
Miltos Yerolemou as Syrio Forel (Full-Bleed) Upper
Elyes Gabel as Rakharo (Full-Bleed) Upper
Q7,Q1
H5,H7
SP2
Shadowbox - Eddard Stark

Box #2410
Esme Bianco as Ros (Full-Bleed) Upper
Ian McElhinney as Barristan Selmy (Bordered) Upper
Q8,Q4
H8,H1
SP5

Box #8422
Harold Lloyd as Viserys Targaryen (Bordered) Upper
Jamie Sives as Jory Cassel (Full-Bleed) Upper
Q5,Q2
H6,H9
SP3
Shadowbox - Robb Stark

Second Case:

Autos

Full Bleed:
Alfie Allen
Ian McElhinney
Rory McCann
Maisie Williams x2
Harry Lloyd
Mark Addy
Jerome Flynn
Art Parkinson
Miltos Yerolemou
Jason Momoa
Aidan Gillen


Bordered:
Emilia Clarke
Elyes Gabel
Esme Bianco
Harry Lloyd
Conleth Hill
Jamie Sives
John Bradley
Aidan Gillen
Kristian Nairn
Isaac Hempstead-Wright
Michelle Fairley
Jack Gleeson



Inserts
Shadowbox - 1 complete set, but the Daenerys is damaged
The Houses - 2 complete sets, 6 extras
You Win or You Die - 2 complete sets, 2 extras
Quotable - 2 complete sets, 5 extras
Case Topper #153/900

Here is my 3 case break...

CASE 1
BORDERED
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Lower End)
Richard Madden (Lower End)
Art Parkinson (Lower End)
Alfie Allen (Upper End)
Elyes Gabel (Upper End)
Jason Momoa (Lower End)
Jerome Flynn (Upper End)
Julian Glover (Upper End)
Maisie Williams (Upper End)
Miltos Yerolemou (Upper End)
Owen Teale (Upper End)
Rory McCann (Upper End) x2
Lena Headey (Lower End)
Mark Addy (Lower End)

FULL-BLEED
Aidan Gillen (Upper End)
Conleth Hill (Upper End)
Ian McElhinney (Upper End)
Jack Gleeson (Upper End) x2
John Bradley (Upper End)
Kristian Nairn (Upper End)
Owen Teale (Upper End)
Mark Addy (Lower End)

CASE2
BORDERED
Charles Dance (Lower End)
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Lower End)
Art Parkinson (Lower End)
Aidan Gillen (Upper End)
Alfie Allen (Upper End)
Harry Lloyd (Upper End)
Ian McElhinney (Upper End)
Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Upper End)
Jack Gleeson (Upper End)
Jerome Flynn (Upper End)
Julian Glover (Upper End)
Miltos Yerolemou (Upper End)
Owen Teale (Upper End)
Kit Harington (Lower End)
Mark Addy (Lower End)

FULL-BLEED
Art Parkinson (Lower End)
Conleth Hill (Upper End)
Elyes Gabel (Upper End)
Esme Bianco (Upper End)
Jamie Sives (Upper End)
Jerome Flynn (Upper End)
Kristian Nairn (Upper End) x2
Maisie Williams (Upper End)

CASE 3
BORDERED
Conleth Hill (Upper End) x2
Emilia Clarke (Lower End)
Elyes Gabel (Upper End)
Esme Bianco (Upper End)
Harry Lloyd (Upper End)
Ian McElhinney (Upper End)
Jamie Sives (Upper End)
John Bradley (Upper End)
Kristian Nairn (Upper End)
Maisie Williams (Upper End)
Michelle Fairley (Lower End)

FULL-BLEED
Aidan Gillen (Upper End)
Alfie Allen (Upper End)
Harry Lloyd (Upper End)
Ian McElhinney (Upper End)
Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Upper End)
Jerome Flynn (Upper End)
Julian Glover (Upper End)
Jason Momoa (Lower End)
Maisie Williams (Upper End)
Miltos Yerolemou (Upper End)
Rory McCann (Upper End)
Mark Addy (Lower End)

Couldn't be happier...pulled all 49 pack inserted autos out of my 3 cases!

Opened one box:
Conleth Hill as Lord Varys (Bordered) Limited (Upper End)
Conleth Hill as Lord Varys (Full Bleed) Limited (Upper End)

A little disappointed, the same and yet not the same!

quote:

Originally posted by John Tirohn:
Opened one box:
Conleth Hill as Lord Varys (Bordered) Limited (Upper End)
Conleth Hill as Lord Varys (Full Bleed) Limited (Upper End)

A little disappointed, the same and yet not the same!

yes, that shouldn't have happened, the two autos should always be different actors

quote:

Originally posted by tangent:

quote:

Originally posted by John Tirohn:
Opened one box:
Conleth Hill as Lord Varys (Bordered) Limited (Upper End)
Conleth Hill as Lord Varys (Full Bleed) Limited (Upper End)

A little disappointed, the same and yet not the same!

yes, that shouldn't have happened, the two autos should always be different actors

I would imagine when you're filling 9500 boxes it's bound to happen. It would mean less randomness if they had to sort everything so it could never happen. We'd end up with cyclical boxes instead of near-random.

Ed

Got my box today - #4730 - here's what I pulled:

1 base set 72 cards - the base cards are really nicely done, I can't wait to sit down and start reading the backs. Half the set is character cards, so you can keep track of the extensive cast.

28 extras, 8 Parallel. The parallel cards are garbage, at least mine are, all of them were cut off center, by as much as 1/8th of an inch, cutting into text on back.

2 house cards - H5, H7

2 Quotes cards, Q1,Q4
1 You Win or You Die SP2

2 autos
Full Bleed Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy
Framed Conleth Hill as Lord Varys

1 Shadowbox - Cersei Lannister
This is my first shadowbox card, I really like it.
Overall a great set, although could have done without the parallels.

I finally got my case today and I think I have to be in the running for the worst case of Game of Thrones opened yet. I was only able to make 1 set of any of the insert sets since I was shorted a You Win Or You Die Card. Here is the list of my 24 autographs:
Full Bleed
Jason Momoa
Jerome Flynn
Alfie Allen
Elyes Gabel
Art Parkinson
Mark Addy
Rory McCann
Miltos Yerolemou
Aidan Gillen
Maisie Williams
Ian McElhinney
Esmo Bianco

Bordered Autos
Jack Gleeson
Kristian Nairn
Maisie Williams
Owen Teale
Aidan Gillen
Elyes Gabel
Conleth Hill
Jamie Sives
John Bradley
Kit Harrington
Harry Lloyd

I don't think I have seen another case breakdown that I wouldn't have traded mine for. I think it might be time for me to quit opening any boxes and just buy master sets. I know I should have done that for this set.

quote:

Originally posted by Bacall1:
I finally got my case today and I think I have to be in the running for the worst case of Game of Thrones opened yet. I was only able to make 1 set of any of the insert sets since I was shorted a You Win Or You Die Card. Here is the list of my 24 autographs:
Full Bleed
Jason Momoa
Jerome Flynn
Alfie Allen
Elyes Gabel
Art Parkinson
Mark Addy
Rory McCann
Miltos Yerolemou
Aidan Gillen
Maisie Williams
Ian McElhinney
Esmo Bianco

Bordered Autos
Jack Gleeson
Kristian Nairn
Maisie Williams
Owen Teale
Aidan Gillen
Elyes Gabel
Conleth Hill
Jamie Sives
John Bradley
Kit Harrington
Harry Lloyd

I don't think I have seen another case breakdown that I wouldn't have traded mine for. I think it might be time for me to quit opening any boxes and just buy master sets. I know I should have done that for this set.

Aside from your missing You win or die card, thats a pretty good pull, no doubles on the autogrpahs Dosnt look like you got a lot of doubles on your bordered vs full bleed either.

Love the Kit, Maisie, Addy, Gleeson, Momoa, McElhinney, Alfie.

Third Case:

Autos

Full Bleed:
Elyes Gabel
Jamie Sives
Esme Bianco
Maisie Williams
Kristian Nairn
Miltos Yerolemou
Harry Lloyd
Alfie Allen x2
John Bradley
Jerome Flynn
Art Parkinson

Bordered:
Jerome Flynn
Alfie Allen
Emilia Clarke
Miltos Yerolemou
Charles Dance x2
Isaac Hempstead-Wright
Ian McElhinney
Owen Teale
Harry Lloyd
Kristian Nairn
Conleth Hill


Inserts
Shadowbox - 1 complete set, no extras
The Houses - 2 complete sets, 6 extras
You Win or You Die - 2 complete sets, 2 extras
Quotable - 2 complete sets, 6 extras
Case Topper #040/900

So what are the top pulls so far for the set, Emilia Clarke and Lena Headey autos (excluding Bean and Dinklage of course)?

quote:

Originally posted by Sidewinder:
So what are the top pulls so far for the set, Emilia Clarke and Lena Headey autos (excluding Bean and Dinklage of course)?

Yes, the top pack-pulled autos appear to be the 7 actors who only signed one style card (bordered). Emilia Clarke and Lena Headey have separated themselves as being the 2 biggest hits. Then I would say in close order are Kit Harington, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Michelle Fairley followed by Richard Madden and then Charles Dance. That's just going by the sale prices.

Bought two boxes and they arrived today. I was pretty excited to get them -- I honestly cannot remember the last boxes I was able to afford to buy -- but the reality was... not so good.

Box #1 -5457
Quotable Q4 and Q8
Houses H1 and H8
You Win or You Die SP2
Autographs -- Alfie Allen full bleed and Owen Teale bordered

Box #2 -497
Quotable Q3 and Q8
Houses H3 and H8
You Win or You Die SP5
Autographs -- Kristian Nairn full bleed and Alfie Allen bordered

Honestly, maybe the most disappointing box break I have ever had. This is only the third time I have purchased multiple boxes of a product, and probably the last time. I really did want an Alfie Allen autograph card, and was excited for the first one... and gutted when I saw the second one. I feel bad about it, but this terrible break has soured me on the entire set. I purchased three cards on eBay right after breaking these boxes, and a few hours later, I regret it. It's silly, I know.

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