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Originally posted by ravenheart:

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Originally posted by X:

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Originally posted by ravenheart:
No one else thinks the design of the portrait-oriented autograph cards in this set looks really cheap and amateurish, then? Just me?

In what way?

I mean they look like what a collector with a reasonable grasp of Microsoft Paint might come up with as a design to get custom cards signed at conventions.

Sure they're professionally printed on decent stock and whatnot, but it's a seriously less-than-pro design.

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Originally posted by cheifbrody:
How come there's a Raven and a Ravenheart, is there some kind of evolution thing going on here ?

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Originally posted by Raven:

I can't speak for ePacks because I don't buy them. It is a UD invention and the cards typically come out about 90 days after the traditional release. Some titles have gone straight to ePack as the only release. The only issues I have ever had with the ePacks is that some hits coming in late became exclusive to the ePacks and were never in the boxes and it seemed as though many big hits are held back for the ePack release. Now UD has said all hit ratios are the same. I am not anti-ePack, I just want value in the boxes, if there are boxes.

The skip box formula for hits that has become the norm for UD products is something else. I prefer autograph cards. I buy products with autograph cards. UD puts autograph cards in all their products like Alien and the Marvel titles, but you are not guaranteed an autograph because other hits are manufactured relics, sketches, printing plates, etc. and they rotate the type of hit seeded in the boxes. Most of the time it is hard to pull an autograph, which of course makes them more valuable if you do find one that is not an artist or some designer.

So I can buy a box, get the guaranteed number of hits, and have no autograph. Another collector who wants one of the other kind, like a sketch, may pull an auto and a fake patch and get no sketch at all. So that's what I call skip boxes, when you don't know the type of hits your box may have or the number of hits may rotate around so that some have only one and some have more than one. You can never have equal value, but you should at least have equal distribution in the type so that you know if you are interested in what you could get. At least that's how I look at it.

So this one has 2 autos guaranteed and you will get at least that much. No skipping.

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Originally posted by AWR:
Beckett Media does box busters on Facebook. Here is a link to them opening a box of Upper Deck James Bond. Looks like a nice set

https://www.facebook.com/becke...335518254033931/?t=4

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Originally posted by Tommy C:
Looks like Christoph Waltz is returning as Blofeld in Bond 25, which is filming now. See below.

https://www.theguardian.com/fi...ld-for-james-bond-25

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Originally posted by Scifi Cards:
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And you cannot count out the gaming OR ePack component that UD brings to the table for the license.

Ed

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Originally posted by Raven:

There are many Bond card collectors out there, especially in the UK. Any opinions at this stage?

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Originally posted by Raven:
Does anyone know how well these UD Bond cards sold? Did they have any positive or negative effect on the RA autograph cards? Is it on hold until ePack release?

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Originally posted by mykdude:
Only had interest in the Waltz and so far the numbers on ebay have been pretty low with fairly consistent selling prices. I have not seen the one supposedly numbered to 25 yet.

It could be that UD is holding something back or with this being a popular first time sig it is going straight into collections instead of being sold.

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Originally posted by wolfie:

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Originally posted by Raven:

There are many Bond card collectors out there, especially in the UK. Any opinions at this stage?

I have collected every Bond set that has come out and i do not have one card from this set, time will tell if i change my mind.

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Originally posted by wolfie:

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Originally posted by Raven:

There are many Bond card collectors out there, especially in the UK. Any opinions at this stage?

I have collected every Bond set that has come out and i do not have one card from this set, time will tell if i change my mind.

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Originally posted by X:

I want a Waltz ‘base’ auto but if the UD Alien releases have taught me anything I’ll wait for ePack to flood the market and bring the prices down on everything.

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Originally posted by mykdude:

I'm not sure how much of a drop you are going to see.

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Originally posted by wolfie:

e-pack is the big problem here, you just don't know where you are with numbers produced.