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Originally posted by Haljordanfan:
This set in my opinion, will sink faster than the Titanic.

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Originally posted by Jake:
Should have seen the rep at SDCC protecting their hinged sample card lol. My wife picked it up to look at it and he about jumped out of his shoes to make sure she didn't try to fold it (they didn't have a folded sample there either that I saw). All she was doing was flipping it over to see the back lol

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Originally posted by Ryan Cracknell:
A quick note on the hinged pieces - they are also double-sided sketches. According to one of the set's artist's I spoke with, all but one of the panels is used for original sketch art. That final panel has the COA-type stuff.

Not sure why this isn't more of a marketing point. I thought I'd read it in the past but things have changed/evolved a lot in a short time and it seemed unclear and vague. Still, that's a lot more sketches and more value for your dollar.

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Originally posted by chesspieceface:
I've always liked the Upper Deck brand and I think they've done very well with Marvel related cards over the years. Still, this kind of a product at this high a price level just leaves the realm of "proper" cards somehow.

Without at all diminishing the talented artists working on the set, if they are willing to do sketch cards in the first place, it just seems to me you could probably contact virtually any one of them and arrange for a fantastic piece of large art for $200 or less (and you could then fold that as many times as you like).

I am interested to see the base cards, though. I know they will be very limited, but will they have newly commisioned art on them like the base cards in Cryptozoic's "DC 52" set? If not, I don't know what the interest will be them despite their scarcity.

I wonder if there will be many flippers on this. I hope so, that would definitely help those hoping to build the base and regular chase sets.

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Originally posted by Ryan Cracknell:
A quick note on the hinged pieces - they are also double-sided sketches. According to one of the set's artist's I spoke with, all but one of the panels is used for original sketch art. That final panel has the COA-type stuff.

Not sure why this isn't more of a marketing point. I thought I'd read it in the past but things have changed/evolved a lot in a short time and it seemed unclear and vague. Still, that's a lot more sketches and more value for your dollar.

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Originally posted by Jake:
Nice examples there. Jaro was the link a couple pages back that was killed. (1st link on Justice41's post)

Still think the idea of a 5 card 3 panel gatefold puzzle is just stupid and insane for the artist to do though. Great large canvas do work on sure, but from a collector standpoint, KNOWING they won't all be in 1 box, it's just a bad decision.