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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:04 am

I agree. They are pretty common. I am still missing 1600-4 but there has been one of these for sale for a long time at $12 which is about $10 too much for me. I think the most I have paid is $3 for a package. There were a number of 1500 and 1600 sets sold last year in the $15 range for the set of 4. $80+ for 7 sets is just ridiculous.

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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:56 pm

bclarkie wrote:

Huh?

http://search-completed.ebay.com/search ... age=search

These things, and I mean all of them, pop up on Ebay all the time. They are just as common as the Monster Cards sets and they are both less interesting(IMO) and less useful.

The Series 1 stuff, with the purple card banners, are very common, yes. The Series II tranfers, with the red card banner, are MUCH more rare, and finding all 4 in a single auction is worth a premium.

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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:12 pm

Gus Landt wrote:
The Series 1 stuff, with the purple card banners, are very common, yes. The Series II tranfers, with the red card banner, are MUCH more rare, and finding all 4 in a single auction is worth a premium.

Maybe you missed it. The first time it was listed:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

No bids.

And the second time:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

As far as them being worth more as listed as a set, I guess I don't get it. I mean you may be able to save yourself a bit more cash on shipping if you buy them together versus seperate, but other than that I don't see much of a difference.

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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:05 pm

The second series is harder to find than the first but I don't think any of them are rare. Various packages come up at least every few months. Although often enough the seller wants too much for them.

This set (the one that I am missing):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 8763780144

has been up for over a year now but at $12 no one wants it.

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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:08 am

Not that it matters greatly, but ... why in the world would a thread called "TSR Kitsch" be placed in the "Non-TSR" category?

It's stuff like this that keeps me up at night ...

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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:12 am

Xaxaxe wrote:Not that it matters greatly, but ... why in the world would a thread called "TSR Kitsch" be placed in the "Non-TSR" category?

It's stuff like this that keeps me up at night ...

Probably for the exact same reason that people put things in the "Interesting Non-TSR Items on Ebay" thread like Boot Hill, Gamma World, Star Frontiers, etc. Which is exactly.......ummm wait a sec...ummm...I don't know either. :wink:

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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:05 am

Xaxaxe wrote:Not that it matters greatly, but ... why in the world would a thread called "TSR Kitsch" be placed in the "Non-TSR" category?

It's stuff like this that keeps me up at night ...

TSR-licensed versus TSR-written, perhaps?

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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:21 pm

That's a great bunch of TSR kitsch burntwire has up at the moment:

First time I have seen:

View Master Reels

Excellent! :brilsmurf:

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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:27 pm

Don't forget the pogs:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0033282259

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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:23 am

Mars wrote:Don't forget the pogs:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Praytell, what is a pog? Even looking at a few of them in the 'pog' store I can't figure out their purpose.

My local slang growing up, used the word 'pog' to describe a slovenly person. :pig:

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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:28 am

A game were you stack them and hit them with the "slammer" you get to keep the ones that are turned over... or a least thats what I understand the game...

(I know I have used "pog" usually someone who is half pig and half dog.. like a mog, half man half dog, he is his own best friend)

Brette:)

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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:51 am

Hi, picked up some small foil pictures from Ebay (item
** expired/removed eBay auction **
). 5 of them are TSR pics. I was expecting them to be the greetings cards but all framed up, but they are slightly bigger than that. When they arrived, one of the pics had a broken frame, so I took it to pieces

Its a dufex foil, but licenced by TSR, from "Forgotten Realms", so its an official piece. It mas made in the UK. Not seen these mentioned before. On a separate note, I was talking to one of the ex-RPGA organisers a few months back, and he mentioned that the regional directors were given large foil posters (he has a set of 6 different) at some time in the distant past. Anyone know if these were also given out as incentives in the USA? Cheers, Malc

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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:39 am

The foil pics come up every so often, mostly in the UK of course...

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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:23 am

HermitFromPluto wrote:
Praytell, what is a pog?

The original pogs were caps to juice (passion - orange - guava) that I think were decorated on one side. My brother lived in Hawaii and they were popular there.

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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:46 am

These remarkable items simply must be noted on the Kitsch thread:

AD&D Pinball Game

D&D Litebrite Picture Refill!!!

The bidding is remarkable!

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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:16 am

HermitFromPluto wrote:These remarkable items simply must be noted on the Kitsch thread:

AD&D Pinball Game

D&D Litebrite Picture Refill!!!

The bidding is remarkable!

prb only because degassy31 is involved (no offence intended of course).

Al

Are we nearly there yet?

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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:21 am

killjoy32 wrote:

prb only because degassy31 is involved (no offence intended of course).

Al

Pinball game, Pinball... are you joking?

If you didn't have that :...

... you are not a serious collector.

There was one some weeks ago, but no Degassy at all.

Pinball Game

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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:28 am

le Rahib wrote:Pinball game, Pinball... are you joking?

If you didn't have that :...

... you are not a serious collector.

I... I... I have a new collecting goal.

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