I notice others posting breakdowns for products whose release dates were months or even years ago so maybe a thread to put all such breadowns might be a good idea. I'll start with the boxes of Buffy Reflections and Buffy Connections I just opened.

Reflections:

Portrait of a slayer cards- S3 and S6
Slayer's Journal- J3 and J4
Autograph card- A3 Armin Shimerman (Principal Snyder)

Connections:

Slayer's Circle- SC8 and SC9
Heartbreaks- HB4 and HB5
Pieceworks- PWC-3 (Willow's Top/Tara's Skirt)
Parallel cards- 24

Very happy with reflections, getting any auto from that is a big deal
Not so happy with Connections. The breakdown was fine, I got what I expected but virtually every single card in the box has a dinged corner, varying from small to extrememely mushed. Luckily the pieceworks card was one of the very few to be undamaged. Normally damaged cards don't bother me much since I just send them back and Inkworks quickly sends the replacements but the cost of sending a whole box worth of cards isn't cheap so I might just send in the damaged inserts and whatever singles which would make up a set with my existing spares.


I should be adding a season 4 box breakdown any day and hopefully a season5 box in the near future.

Willow : "A doodle. I do doodle. You too. You do doodle too."

[This message was edited by xSaBx on November 12, 2003 at 02:35 PM.]

I'll chime in with Angel Seasons One, Two, and Three since I've been cracking boxes like a madman lately. Here's the latest from each series...

Angel Season One:

Dark Avenger - DA5 and DA6
I Love LA - LA5

Angel Season Two:

Box Loader - A2L-1
City of Angels - CA4
Angel Heart - AH1
Autograph - A7 (Charisma Carpenter)

Angel Season Three:

Box Loader - A3BL-1
Prophesies Unfold - PR1, PR2, and PR3
Triangulations - TR2 and TR3
Pieceworks - PW1
Autograph - A22 (Laurel Holloman)

I'm thrilled with the pulls from Season Two and Season Three. Particularly Season Two -- a Cordelia auto and an Angel Heart card in the same box (jump for joy). Season One has been disappointing, but not in an unexpected way. It's amazing to see how much Inkworks evolved their ratios in the span of a year!

I'm expecting a case of Season One so hopefully I can add a better box breakdown soon.

Regards,

Paul Russell

"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand things with alloys and compositions and things with...molecular structures." -- Ash, Army of Darkness

A case? Sweet. I bought a box not long ago from a dealer who had quite a few listed at $39.99 BIN (I think I saw him list a bunch more not long ago but he raised them to $44.99. I was quite happy to pull a Denisof auto but I'm still pecking away at those pesky inserts (unlike buffy I usually only get 2 boxes of Angel a year).

As for ratios I know I'm in the minority but I liked when autos were tougher to get. That Shimerman auto I pulled isn't a big one like, say, a Dushku or ASH would have been buth there was a definite thrill when I pulled it because I knew most boxes don't have an auto.

EDIT: Heh, just noticed your signature. Another fan of the movie?

Ash: Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun. (Army of Darkness)

I just cracked a box of Fleer/Skybos Star Trek TOS Season One cards, but didn't write down what I got...

Anthony Call auto, though. Only 1 base set.

-Bob-

"Future events such as these will affect YOU in the future!"

Hmmmmmmmm

When I broke a box of Angel Season 1 I got:
DA 7 & 8
LA 1
Elizabeth Rohm Auto
Warrior's Destiny

If I'd realized how hard it was to pull an auto I would have kept & traded that one

Lessa
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Incarnadine - yeah, I got the case for a great deal so I couldn't turn it down. Now the boxes are going for at least $45 on ebay and up to some ungodly amounts. Out of the case, I hope to pull at least 3 autos (I think 3 or 4 was the case average back then?). I've already got most of them anyway... No doubt I'll have extra inserts - I'll keep you in mind for trading

If the autos are based on 1 per 3 boxes that's fine, so long as there aren't a ton in the series. I couldn't imagine anything worse than a series with 13 autograph cards at those ratios. If there are only 4 or 5 in the whole series, I would agree.

And yeah, I'm a big fan of the Evil Dead trilogy

Regards,

Paul Russell

"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand things with alloys and compositions and things with...molecular structures." -- Ash, Army of Darkness

I opened 2 boxes of 2001 Fleer WWF WrestleMania last week and pulled a Signature Moves autograph card of Kurt Angle. This was #'d out of 500.

Mike
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Originally posted by Paul Russell:
Incarnadine - yeah, I got the case for a great deal so I couldn't turn it down. Now the boxes are going for at least $45 on ebay and up to some ungodly amounts.

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Actually, I've also noticed a bit of a price jump with the early Angel stuff, including the base sets...

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Originally posted by xSaBx:
Actually, I've also noticed a bit of a price jump with the early Angel stuff, including the base sets...

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Just a guess, but could that have something to do with the fact Buffy is over? Perhaps more fans of BTVS are looking towards Angel now...

Regards,

Paul Russell

"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand things with alloys and compositions and things with...molecular structures." -- Ash, Army of Darkness

I've never seen an ep. of Angel. Sadly, I didn't watch a full ep of Buffy 'til 2001, and didn't really get into it until April. Now I've seen 4 WHOLE episodes of Buffy! Whoooo I've seen 2 Season 2, and 2 Season 6. Never seen Angel or Faith...

I'll get around to getting all the box sets...

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Mail seems to be running slow here lately but I finally got and cracked my Buffy season 4 box.

New Beginnings- NB6, NB7, NB8
Ritual of Enjoining- R5 and R6
Autograph- Danny Strong A19 (Jonathan)

Pretty good overall but I didn't get any of the cards I'm still missing. Oh well, always fun to crack packs.

Willow to Buffy:

I think you're ready now, or at least in the state of pre-readiness to make conversation, or-or to do that thing with your mouth that boys like.

Just got my Angel Season 2 box today... Here's the breakdown:

* Box loader: L4
* City of Angel: CA5 and CA6
* L.A. Women: LA2, LA3
* Auto: A7 (Charisma Carpenter)

I'm so happy about the auto, especially since I had been extremely disappointed with Season 1 before (out of - let's not even mention how many - boxes, not a single auto

All together, I think it was a *very* good box.

Martine

Nice Pull Martine!!! Got my Complete Voyager box today myself Great box!
Had a nice John Savage auto, also PA2 Rayner, Janeway GAllery card and a Seska SKetchafex!! By Schafer! LUV IT!!! The only draw back was the foees cards I got in this box are the same ones I got in my other box!

That's definately a great box Martine! I pulled almost the same thing a few weeks back. Gota love getting CC's autograph

Regards,

Paul Russell

"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand things with alloys and compositions and things with...molecular structures." -- Ash, Army of Darkness

Sweet pull. Nice to find an Angel season 2 box too, they are definitely more scarce than season 1's which are plentiful for some reason.

Willow to Buffy:

I think you're ready now, or at least in the state of pre-readiness to make conversation, or-or to do that thing with your mouth that boys like.

I just finished opening 6 boxes of Angel Season 3. Here's how they broke down:

Box 02715

Box Topper: A3BL-1
Triangulations: TR2, TR3
Prophesies Unfold: PR1, PR2, PR3
Pieceworks: PW2
Autograph: A16 Keith Szarabajk

Box 02791

Box Topper: A3BL-3
Triangulations: None
Prophesies Unfold: PR4, PR5, PR6, PR7
Pieceworks: PW1
Autograph: A23 John Rubinstein

Box 02795

Box Topper: A3BL-2
Triangulations: TR3, TR4
Prophesies Unfold: PR4, PR5, PR6, PR7
Pieceworks: None (although interestingly, there was one pack with no blank)
Autograph: A18 Jack Conley

Box 02716

Box Topper: A3BL-3
Triangulations: TR1, TR6
Prophesies Unfold: PR7, PR8, PR9
Pieceworks: PW2
Autograph: A17 Daniel Dae Kim

Box 02793

Box Topper: A3BL-1
Triangulations: TR4, TR5
Prophesies Unfold: PR4, PR5
Pieceworks: PW2
Autograph: A16 Keith Szarabajk

Box 02714

Box Topper: A3BL-2
Triangulations: TR4, TR5
Prophesies Unfold: PR4, PR5, PR6
Pieceworks: None
Autograph: A15 Amy Acker

All in all, I averaged better than the odds and am totally thrilled about the 3 Cordelia Pieceworks cards and the Acker auto!!! What a great way to spend the afternoon

Hopefully my case of Angel S1 will arrive tomorrow.

Regards,

Paul Russell

"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand things with alloys and compositions and things with...molecular structures." -- Ash, Army of Darkness

Geez Paul, that's incredible! I only got PW1s out of what I opened.

Congratulations!

Lessa
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Originally posted by tialessa:
Geez Paul, that's incredible! I only got PW1s out of what I opened.

Congratulations!

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Thanks Lessa! I was pleased as punch. One of the PW2's could be considered a mild variant because there's a pull in the fabric (like it got snagged on something -- t'is very cool). And now I have both PW1 variants (fabric pattern going vertically and horizontally). There may be others, but I haven't heard of them yet.

I also correlated the base sets and got a grand total of 14 from all 6 boxes.

Regards,

Paul Russell

"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand things with alloys and compositions and things with...molecular structures." -- Ash, Army of Darkness

I think if we are going to post break downs we should title each beginning thread with the set title and only report the box busting done in that set. A new set gets a new title thread. That way it doesnt go all over the place. I wonder if we could make this a special section on the NSU card talk??

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