Oh, product page has gone up. 5 autographs in every box, more money per box. Why not bring back the premium pack and lower the downpayment expense?

Upping the number of common autographs to try to justify the increasing box price doesn't help, but what difference does it make? Nobody wants to put out a major non-sport license for under a $100 per box anymore and under $200 is rapidly becoming a bargain.

Ciaran Hinds is best new addition so far and Oona Chaplin is finally back. 33 copies of Clarke/Huisman new dual. I would hope she has others with others. Metal autograph cards are new, but only one per case. Funny how RA never got Madden again after his two.

Trivia question, who has signed only one card in GoT so far?

Answer:

George R. R. Martin (Author, Season 2)
D. D. Weiss (Producer, Season 2)
David Benioff (Producer, Season 2)
George Georgiov (Season 3)
Gwyneth Keyworth (Season 6)
Kevin Elden (Complete 2)
Alisdair Simpson Complete 1)
Diana Rigg (Complete 2, Cut)

There are several other people who have done only two cards/styles so far.

$269 a box!! Yeah, great an extra couple of $10 common autographs(in all likelihood), makes it well worth the box price.(sarcasm employed) lol
I never like these 'art' variation cards, it's just photos been put through photoshop. At this point most GoT collectors have nearly every released piece of photography ever created for the show.
I'll look for some of the new signers like Hinds(though I have his Tomb Raider card), but I'm so done with the rest of it. I still love the show, and made peace with the ending a long time ago, but I can't justify spending that kind of 'lottery' money on a box of junk anymore. And lately RA boxes have been full of filler junk.
That said, I may still throw some money at a box of the next Picard set.

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Originally posted by Hedgehog Witch:
$269 a box!!

I never like these 'art' variation cards, it's just photos been put through photoshop.

Yeah, the autograph card photos they posted are kind of unusual. Some look like they are just hold overs in the old designs, but others look like a new design. Really only the Hinds photo seems more like a sketch.

Don't know what the base cards will be, but earlier Arts and Images products had almost caricatures of the actors, and those I really hated. Photo shopped would be better.

At this point I'm only interest in the autographs anyway, but the cost of sealed product has gone beyond the point of my getting multiple boxes now. One thing I've noticed about GoT auctions on eBay is that, after a little time, the cost of the box doesn't actually translate to any premiums on the autograph cards. By that I mean, the same signer is selling in the same price range, whether or not the card itself was released in an $80 box or a $160 box.

People can't tell the product release from looking just at the card and they can't remember the cost of the product anyway. This is the way RA choose to drop the autograph cards in most of its main titles and years later, without a checklist, most buyers couldn't say which release a particular certified signed card came from without looking it up. So now that just reinforces the idea that all common signers should be priced the same, even though the boxes may not be equally priced at all.

So if you pull a common autograph signer from a $269 box, chances are in 6 months that card won't be worth any more to a buyer than the same GoT signer on a card coming from an earlier $75 box. Or at least that's how it seems to me. Now the design may carry more weight with collectors, which is perfectly valid.

Something I noticed from the set before this, Complete 2, was that even the common signers were a little hard to find on the usual places. And some of those that did surface had badly inflated prices. I think dealers(not sure flippers are still a thing now) were trying to get their money back on the product in any way they could.
There's a few of the new signers from that set I will never get, because they just haven't been in anything before or after, or nothing of note to warrant the price, and then the expensive postage costs, as most of the dealers are in the US, just take the air out of the balloon.

I restrict myself to certain autographs now, I just don't have the space for more, and I had a big trim-down of my GoT autograph collection as I really don't need 4 or 5 of the same signer.
Anyway, I question if anyone is getting a good deal out of boxes priced like that?
(edited to add, obviously RA are getting a deal )

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Originally posted by Raven:

Don't know what the base cards will be, but earlier Arts and Images products had almost caricatures of the actors, and those I really hated. Photo shopped would be better.

There are three of the 99 base cards pictured on the RA web page.

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Originally posted by Raven:

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Originally posted by Curler:
I like the design of the quotable cards that Rittenhouse displayed at the Philly Show last weekend.

Are they different from the previous ones?

Yes, they are different. There were two new autograph card designs in the display case. Both are visible on Rittenhouse's website now.

I'm not sure if RA is signaling a change in the 12 case incentive for this product, or if its just an omission in the wording. Normally the product page calls it the 12 case incentive, which then notes the archive box. This time it's called the 12 case incentive box, and only mentions the exclusive autographs and extra cards, without ever saying "archive box".

Perhaps RA has finally given up on the term "archive box", since it seems like more autographs get left out with each new set, but for the cost of 12 cases here, I think they should throw in everything.

I wonder what the asking price on this incentive box will be, or if you still are getting all autographs that are not deemed pack exclusives, which is not actually stated?