Couldn't find any old threads to add this to because it's been so long since Cryptozoic has put out a non-sport card set, although they have kept talking about it for what seems like years.

According to them they will be at the San Diego Comic Con in July with preview boxes of "What We Do in the Shadows" and a CZX "Jurassic World". WWDITS has been promised for I don't know how long. A new CZX also hasn't come out since CZX Middle Earth. If they have preview boxes ready for San Diego, we may actually see a release of at least one of them before the end of the decade.

Someone said that there may be a new Jurassic promo card at the show. Not confirmed

If anyone gets to Crypto's SDCC booth, I'd like to hear what they find. People have been asking about the release dates and getting no answers. WWDITS may make it out this year finally. CZE Jurassic World is looking like 2027.

Honestly Cryptozoic hasn't been a trading card company for many years now. It has toys, card games, tiny figures, just an assortment of useless merchandise. I don't know how it's still in business at all, given what its selling. It's NECO all over again, only they had better stuff.

Shame, Cryptozoic did put out some nice card titles and sets before whatever happened to management happened. Even if they come up with a winner, they aren't going to make much money with this sort of production.

There's also supposed to be an It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia set debuting at SDCC, I believe?

I received an email that at SDCC they will have DOG MAN Playpaks Series 1.

"Each premium box showcases an exclusive Autograph Card signed by creator Dav Pilkey. Plus you get two Totally “Autographed” Cards featuring Petey and Li’l Petey and 9 oversized cards: 2 Standees, 5 Foil/Activity Cards, and 2 Base/Color It! Cards Base Cards. Only 100 boxes made!"

Crypto also lists these:

NEW GEN UNIVERSE. Con exclusive box, 300 made.

THE EXPANSE. Con Preview box, 300 made.

MANY FACES OF SNOOPY FLYING ACE. 500 packs made.

JURASSIC PARK. Con exclusive box, 300 made.

JURASSIC WORLD. Con exclusive box, 300 made.

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS. Preview box, 300 made

Never heard of NEW GEN before, but here is more information:


Celebrate the classic NEW-GEN comics distributed by Marvel Comics and prepare for the upcoming animated series with this Convention Exclusive Box, created exclusively for San Diego Comic-Con 2026.

Explore the world of NEW-GEN and the epic battle between twin heroes Sean and Chris and the villainous Deadalus through a collection of exclusive trading cards highlighting the characters and story of the series.

Each convention exclusive box contains 13 exclusive cards, including one of three exclusive Foil Cards and one of three Autograph Cards signed by series creator J.D. Matonti, voice actor Molly Fahey, or voice actor Tony Oliver. Every box also includes 11 exclusive Base Cards featuring key characters from across the NEW-GEN Universe. Only 300 boxes were produced worldwide!

As a bonus, each box purchased at SDCC comes with the New-Gen graphic novel, collecting the origin story of the universe.

KEY FEATURES
San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive limited to just 300 boxes!
Features imagery pulled directly from the NEW-GEN comic book mini-series distributed by Marvel Comics
Every box contains one Autograph Card signed by NEW-GEN creator J.D. Matonti, voice actor Molly Fahey, or voice actor Tony Oliver from the upcoming animated series
All Autograph Cards are signed on-card and individually numbered to 100
Every box contains one exclusive Foil Card printed on rainbow foil substrate
Bonus: Each box at SDCC comes with the New-Gen graphic novel, collecting the origin story originally distributed by Marvel Comics
Exclusive Base Cards are available in:
Numbered to 299
Individually numbered 1-of-1
Exclusive Foil Cards are available in:
Numbered to 99
Individually numbered 1-of-1

CONTENTS
13 Cards Total
11 Exclusive Base Cards
Numbered to 299 (Red numbering)
Numbered to 1 (Black numbering)
1 of 3 Exclusive Foil Cards in rigid card holder
Red Foil numbered to 99 (Red numbering on Rainbow Foil substrate)
Black Foil numbered to 1 (Black numbering on Rainbow Foil substrate)
1 of 3 Autograph Cards in rigid card holder
J.D. Matonti Card numbered to 100 (Red numbering)
Molly Fahey Card numbered to 100 (Red numbering)
Tony Oliver Card numbered to 100 (Red numbering)
NEW-GEN® is a registered trademark of NEW-GEN Universe, Inc. All rights reserved.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tommy C:
Never heard of NEW GEN before . . ./QUOTE]

And therein lies the problem. Me neither. Are we just the ignorant ones or the average ones? I can't say because I'm too ignorant to know.

It would help a lot if there were some prices attached to these announcements of booth boxes. I mean I'm not going to be in San Diego anyway, but the cost might make a difference to someone who can visit the Cryptozoic booth. You can take a chance if it's a bargain, but at full price you have to know you want it.

I was at the New York Comic Con when Breygent came out with the first set of Dexter. Can't remember the exact year, I'm thinking October 2010, or close. It was a premium box format with the complete base set, a few inserts, and an autograph card. First and only time I ever met Tom, nice guy. The cards were $60 a box and I had not seen the show yet. I bought 3 of them. Those were the days when you could still pick up cards you didn't know blind.

I have recently been reading about new issues and titled sets of cards.
I am amazed at how they can make up a set by just using different colours foils numbers etc to make up sets of cards were you now have to purchase multiple boxes to be able to complete your set and boxes are not cheap nowdays seem to be more expensive packaging cheap cards less cards.
In the old days you purchased a box cost approx $100 or less got your set and happy as .
In my opinion collectors are now getting ripped off by the issuing companies
Any Thoughts
Oh for the earlier days.
It has now been made into a money sucking vacume cleaner system

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Originally posted by piko:


In my opinion collectors are now getting ripped off by the issuing companies
Any Thoughts
Oh for the earlier days.
It has now been made into a money sucking vacume cleaner system

Not all the companies are doing this, you need to pick and choose where you get your cards from. There are still manufacturers around who put out very good product at a reasonable and sensible price. We have one here in the uk, these are the people you need to support.

quote:

Originally posted by piko:
In my opinion collectors are now getting ripped off by the issuing companies
Any Thoughts
Oh for the earlier days.
It has now been made into a money sucking vacume cleaner system

I see it as the collectors paying the price for what I consider gambling: buying a pack of cards merely to find a good "pull" and tossing out the rest is no different to me than scratch tickets. I absolutely hate it: all the 1/1 stuff, the "rippers" on whatever social media you can name, the grading schemes, the constant "whats it worth" sports collector mentality that has really flowed over into non-sports. Stuff like that further solidifies my opinion that promotional/oddball/product premium cards are the last frontier of true, unadulterated trading card collecting.

I haven't had coffee yet. This thread has been hijacked.

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Originally posted by pcetodd:
I see it as the collectors paying the price for what I consider gambling: buying a pack of cards merely to find a good "pull" and tossing out the rest is no different to me than scratch tickets. I absolutely hate it: all the 1/1 stuff, the "rippers" on whatever social media you can name, the grading schemes, the constant "whats it worth" sports collector mentality that has really flowed over into non-sports. Stuff like that further solidifies my opinion that promotional/oddball/product premium cards are the last frontier of true, unadulterated trading card collecting.

I haven't had coffee yet. This thread has been hijacked.

Conversations go where they go and people feel passionately about different things. It's great to get a few posts going back and forth about any card topic.

It's coincidental that two threads, this one and the Box Prices one in the General Card section, should both start to talk about card gambling at the same time. It is a real thing and it's certainly not new. As collectors we have all looked for that big pull before. The difference is that we wanted to keep that big card that we couldn't just buy ourselves. The gamblers only want it so that they can sell it.

You're right that non-sport cards were kind of protected from the sheer greed because the card prices weren't high enough to attract all those sports card gamblers. Now many have entered non-sport just because the money has become so high to buy sports card boxes that they aren't funded enough to take the risks. When they don't hit the big card, they are in debt, as are all losing gamblers.

I think you make a good case for collecting promo cards, although you can't say that value is totally unimportant there. Human nature wants to own valuable things. If we had a matchbook collection someone would put out a price guide. All collectible markets follow the same patterns and cycles of interest and money. You can hate it, but you can't do anything about it. Just look at the decline in stamp and coin collecting, which were once hugely popular hobbies that imploded more than 40 years ago and never recovered.

Card collecting is no different, it's all happened before. Don't look at the big picture if you don't want to aggravate yourself. Look at your binders instead. I don't know why I can't get the emojis to work here anymore, but I'm grinning.