Badmike wrote:I also think the so called "official" number is low. Just sounds far too urban-legendish.

The orange B3's legendary status is almost certainly the result of a perfect storm of urban-legend-ness (urban-legend-osity? urban-legend-itis?)

The story has everything: an unfortunate event everyone can relate to ("valuable stuff got thrown away!"), a surprise twist ("but some of it was saved!"), an unverifiable "fact" that has been repeated over and over until it becomes gospel ("only one box was saved!"), and, most importantly, no way for any legitimate research to uncover what actually happened. You'd need an actual time machine to gather all of the facts on this case.

My educated guess as a longtime collector is similar to what has been mentioned above: there are far more than 72 of these floating around, but they do not come into the market very often. They are being hoarded.

I'm not denying that the 72 number seems suspicious, thus my use of the term alleged. Even if it were 10 times that number, however, there were many more woodys produced.

As for condition of the woodys, most of the ones that have come up have been ok, not amazing, at least the box. I've personally always taken reasonably good care of my gaming goods, even when I was first into D&D at age 8. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that other would do the same.

All I'm saying is it shouldn't be CRAZY! that there are more woodys up for sale than B3s. And when you throw in the value that a good woody can bring, it becomes even less surprising that as times get lean you'll see goods that have only collectible value and can gain a good price come up.

bombadil wrote:
And I got one of them.  The other went to that excitable Italian lad who used to hang out around here, but whose name I can't recall.

that would have been Giorgio? he hangs on DF iirc...as Radagast i think

Al

Yes, he's the one, a guy from Siena who lived in Emilia... Modena, I think.

bclarkie wrote:
Yes, it was Radgast here, different guy then the one who is over on DF tho'

he was a fun guy - i liked him

Kingofpain89 wrote:Anyone recall the last time a Guidon Tractics was sold on Ebay and what the price was?

In my archive, I've got the following Guidon Tractics:

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  for US $140.37 on Feb-22-07 07:48:56 PST (black box)
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  ** expired/removed eBay auction **
  for US $190.50 on May-23-07 10:37:09 PDT (black box)
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  ** expired/removed eBay auction **
  for US $63.98 on Dec-12-07 17:23:16 PST (black box)
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  ** expired/removed eBay auction **
  for US $105.83 on Jan-27-08 17:47:56 PST (white box)
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  ** expired/removed eBay auction **
  for US $78.78 on Jan-27-08 17:05:27 PST (white box)

Tome of Treasures lists a few more:  http://www.tomeoftreasures.com/forum/vi ... php?t=1369

White Dwarf 1-12 in the one auction




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Dragon 1. I imagine SucketWhisp will add this to the pile. I'd actually like to see that stack o' Drags!

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Pretty hard to find these.