That is a shame Griff especially about the starter pack too since the packed in instructions refer to the play mat that comes with them...
just booster packs does not make any sense
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That is a shame Griff especially about the starter pack too since the packed in instructions refer to the play mat that comes with them...
just booster packs does not make any sense
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the movie cards have been updated with some images,BUT they also have a listing for movie cards coming in july
There are 170 cards to collect, including special rainbow foil cards, and authentic memorabilia cards, with genuine costume pieces, and original Optimus Prime parts, from the Age of Extinction movie set!
These exciting memorabilia cards feature outfits worn by the three main human characters, with pieces of the jeans, t-shirts and jackets worn by Cade Yeager (played by Mark Wahlberg), Tessa Yeager and Shane Dyson!
170 cards to collect
Includes: Special mirror foil, rainbow foil Cards and authentic memorabilia cards, with genuine costume pieces and orginal Optimus Prime parts, from the Age of Extinction movie set.
10 Cards per packet
10 packets per display
Banter Toys Transformers Page
at 10 packs per box (10 cards per pack you will need 2 boxes to mostlikley complete the set but i have not seen any break down of odds for inserts as of yet
Banter has it under the new release heading so not sure when or if they will hit stores
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I see DOTM shots on those sample cards
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it is a 170 card set, i imagine it is like the current CCG game and takes takes from all 4 moviesOriginally Posted by Zippo
i send an email to banter a couple of weeks ago to enquire about the binders/starter packs as packed in instructions refer to a playmat you get from the start pack, i received a reply today which just reinforces Griffebs response a while back
but in saying that i just got a binder and some tins in the mail today and amabout to open them up
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I received the playmat and a sheet of cards, included with the Titan AOE comic magazine. Wasn't very impressive, and the cards have zero bio information for each character. Waste of space when you turn them over
On the lookout for MISB Headmaster Highbrow, Takara or Hasbro. I'm sure I could make you a sweet deal!
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Considering they are gaming cards like the tops trumps etc the need for bio is not there and the blank back is part of the game element so not to give anything away,
the upcoming collector cards is probably more what you are after
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Banter sent me some samples of each to review, and the two are indeed distinctly different.
Card game - a little over 170 cards to collect and battle with opponents (the more cards you buy, the stronger your deck is).
Five cards per pack - single sided. One mirror foil every two packs (average). One rainbow foil every five packs (average).
Collector Cards (or memorabilia cards) - 170 cards, plus souvenir clothing and Optimus truck pieces (which are NOT part of the 170 numbered cards, but are individually numbered on their own).
Ten cards per pack - double sided, which is supposed to include one Rainbow Foil card per pack.
EXCEPT - if your pack has a truck panel or clothing piece, it will not have 10 cards in it. The truck panel is encased in a solid block that is the thickness of 10 cards, so no other cards will be in the pack (making it easy to find if you have sensitive fingers... like those hunting down Lego minifigures in their blind bags).
The clothing pieces are not as thick, but still takes up the space of 5 cards (so comes with 5 regular cards)... while the Optimus tail-light pieces are said to come with 1 or 2 regular cards because it is almost as thick as the panel pieces.
(Photos and review to come as soon as I get to processing the photos.)
Odds listed on the back of the packs...
Optimus truck panel (the shiny blue or red parts) - 1 in every 7 packs. (noted on the back of each one as xxxx/8070... so you can work out the total amount of trading cards Topps produced if their ratio is accurate)
Cade Yeager clothing piece - 1 in every 50 packs (probably individually numbered as well)
Shane Dyson clothing piece - 1 in every 50 packs
Tessa Yeager clothing piece - 1 in every 100 packs (probably because she wore less clothing, or, more of her outfits were "kept" by production staff after the movie)
Optimus Truck tail light piece - 1 in every 150 packs. (I'd much rather have the signature/unique shiny truck panel parts than a piece of red glass that could be anyone's tail light... making this rarest item, the least interesting of the five.)
I really hope that these movie props were duplicates that were going to be destroyed anyway, as it would be a shame to have signature costumes cut up, or an Optimus Truck stripped of its outer panels, when there are museums or collectors who would buy the entire, undamaged prop.
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Did anyone ever find the Collector Cards (not the card game) in Australia?
Banter wouldn't say when they were supposed to be out, and their website once said July.... but at $15 per pack of 10 cards, I can understand if newsagents and retailers didn't want the expensive risk of sitting on them.
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they were avaliable for stocking but newsagents wouldnt order them in, even with the Gaurentee sale of a full box, and banter themselves wouldnt sell them directly either, they tried to find some stockist..
i would imaging the costume card would be easy to cherry pick from the box leaving newsagents with almost full boxes of worthless base.
for me the value for money was not there at all..especially when compared to something like Guardians of the Galaxy from Upper Deck.
Topps Transformers 10 packs 1 memorbilia hit per box @ $150 per box.
Upper Deck GoTG 10 Packs, 2 memoriblila hits + 1 Sketch or Autograph, + 1 Jumbo Card with a 1:12 chance of a Jumbo Sketch, 1 bronze foil parallel per pack @ $87 a box
so you see the Upperdeck stuff was far superior to that of TF and i am Highly disapointed at the lack of oportunity for purchasing this product so much so that i dont even want it anymore
i would not be suprised to see these rock up in places like Uncle petes or toyworld in 12 months or so on clearence
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None of that surprises me if true.
I wonder if Banter was then burnt with stock that they bought off Topps, or if they could reject being the Australian distributor, for someone else to do it (if there was anyone crazy enough).
Topps must have spent a lot of money on those movie props (truck panels and two outfits) to be charging that much money on regular cards just to pay for it all... and it sounds like they might be taking a big hit from it (globally).
(I wonder if it was already known to them, or if they saw it in my review, that it was easy to pick out the movie-prop packets, potentially leaving stores with unwanted, "worthless" cards. They would have to instruct stores to keep them out of reach of customers, to prevent feeling for the preferred packs.)
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