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Well, why buy them in the first place?
With your skills, you can just make you own!

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Well, why buy them in the first place?
With your skills, you can just make you own!

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Originally posted by Salama:
This looks like an interesting set. My question is about the panorama sketch card, I´ve understood this is a bigger card than normal, how do You store it? Can I store it in a normal album?

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Originally posted by Salama:

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Originally posted by Salama:
This looks like an interesting set. My question is about the panorama sketch card, I´ve understood this is a bigger card than normal, how do You store it? Can I store it in a normal album?

I just realized the panoramic sketch card was in Indiana Jones Masterpieces. I found a question about card storage which is of vital interest to me when it comes to card collecting. Here:

"What is the preferred method for storing the panorama cards?

I am worried about creases from leaving them folded up in a normal size card sleeve.


Ultra-pro sells archival safe postcard sized (holds up to 3 11/16 x 5 3/4 cards) soft sleeves & large toploaders that would fit them... you could then store them in a two pocket page."

I need to check these out. Thanks.

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Originally posted by chesspieceface:

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Originally posted by Salama:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Salama:

If you're going to put them in top loaders inside the pockets, you'll want the Ultra Pro 2 pocket pages. The holders would stick out of the pockets of the of the 3 pockets pages, at least if the kind you are talking about are the stacked rows of three horizontal pockets like the ones I have.

The pockets in those are pretty much exactly the same as the card height. The larger pockets in the 2 pocket pages will allow for the top loader with some room to spare. I have seen some 3 pocket pages where there are two vertical pockets on the bottom of the page and a horizontal pocket at the top of the page for a total of three pockets, but for some reason, the plastic they use in those kind is especially thin, so the pages kind of flop around when they have something in them.

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Originally posted by chesspieceface:
Hi Secret Audio Club, welcome to the board!

$80 per box is a real risk on thse since the film cells are so prominent in the "hits" ratio. Panorama sketches are nice, but just because they're double sized doesn't necessarily mean they'll all be good drawings. I think Topps Non-Sport has used them only one other time, on a Indiana Jones set a few years back, and there were some real stinkers in there. The sketchagraph drawings are usually pretty good, but even a few of those, I've seen and thought, I sure hope the actor signed the cards before they saw the subpar drawing on it. Sketches on those should be better than sketches on regular sketch cards, not around the same, and absolutely not worse.

A one hit per box product at $80 would be fine for Illustrated if you replaced the film cells with autograph cards or more panoramas or even regular sketch cards. I'm surprised they're having the film cells this time, as nice as they are, because they turned out to be a drag on Jedi Legacy whose $80-$90 two hit boxes are now widely available for $60. It's hard to count the film cells as a "hit", and most don't, hence the unsold boxes of Jedi Legacy, every single box of which contains at least one, with some holding two and no other hits of any kind.

They are plentiful and almost certainly use film bits from the 1990's Special edition re-releases. They're not even the original celluloid prints from 1977, 1980, and 1983, which would have been much preferable. 15 year old film strips are not exactly relics in the classic sense.

Still, the base and regular inserts sound fantastic and for me are a must. One nice thing about the proliferation of case and multi-case breakers and re-sellers is that on most sets you can get a mini master of all the regular chase and inserts for around the cost of one box or less. It's a nice option to have, and it happens with most sets that are produced in any quantity these days.