New BSG card set due in 2005 ! Any Suggestions ?

ernie90125 · August 24th, 2004, 01:59 PM

Hi all,

To those who have noticed I have posted recently, I was away on a long holiday in the sun, which aside from a close run-in with a wildfire, was very enjoyable !

Some fans collected the BSG trading card set made by Rittenhouse Archives. The set was a success and sold out. As it was officially licensed from Universal, they will know that it sold out, and there is support for the BSG TOS amongst collectors - I think that's a good signal to send....

I have heard that the second trading card set is due 2005. If so, then it would be possible to discuss it now, pass on the suggestions and very possibly influence the set. This company is EXCELLENT at listening to fans....

I'll post some of my suggestions and hopefully a strong and solid BSG TOS product can be made.....

ernie90125 · August 24th, 2004, 02:02 PM

The first card set included a nine foil card subset called 'Colonial Warriors'. The following characters where not included, so it may be nice to create a second Colonial Warriors subset :

Casseopia
Serina
Jolly
Boxey
Omega
Zac
Troy
Dillon
Jamie Hamilton

As the subsets mostly come in set of Nine, that would make a nice suggestion ?

ernie90125 · August 24th, 2004, 02:04 PM

Perhaps the 'bad guys' should also receive a special 9 card foil subset ? My suggestions for this would be :

Imperious Leader
Ovion
Lucifer
Spectre
Iblis
Cylon
Gold Cylon
Xavier
Ron Moore !!!!!!!! or perhaps Balter would be more appropriate ?

ernie90125 · August 24th, 2004, 02:12 PM

David Moss made the suggestion to me of a subset based upon the computer generated world of BSG seen in fanfilms...

ernie90125 · August 24th, 2004, 02:14 PM

I have been collecting together old photographs of the Universal Studios 'Battle of Galactica' ride. I didn't even know that it had existed until a little while ago !

Dpes anyone else have old photographs of this ride ?

kingfish · August 24th, 2004, 02:25 PM

I purchased the set from Rittenhouse for $19.99. It was the basic set which contained no extra cards. I am pleased with the quality of the work that went into it.

ernie90125 · August 24th, 2004, 02:30 PM

Kingfish,

It was a very good set, although after its release, people to looked closely had some comments such as a lack of Tigh cards. And 2 out of 3 of the 'Take the Celestra' cards were nearly the same.

But it was a much better set that the previous 'Dart' set, many of the cards in that made no sense !!!

kingfish · August 24th, 2004, 02:35 PM

The big question then is how much. I believe that the set should include more cards to deal with each episode. There weren't that many for Living legend which is one of the best episodes made during the shows first season.

peter noble · August 24th, 2004, 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ernie90125

Hi all,

To those who have noticed I have posted recently, I was away on a long holiday in the sun, which aside from a close run-in with a wildfire, was very enjoyable !

Some fans collected the BSG trading card set made by Rittenhouse Archives. The set was a success and sold out. As it was officially licensed from Universal, they will know that it sold out, and there is support for the BSG TOS amongst collectors - I think that's a good signal to send....

I have heard that the second trading card set is due 2005. If so, then it would be possible to discuss it now, pass on the suggestions and very possibly influence the set. This company is EXCELLENT at listening to fans....

I'll post some of my suggestions and hopefully a strong and solid BSG TOS product can be made.....

Hi ernie, glad you enjoyed your holiday.

Thanks for posting about the card set selling out, it's great news for TOS fans and validates our reasoning that the original show can still make money.

For a second set I'd like to see behind the scenes shots of the filming, model shots, rare pre-production art (not the Ralph McQuarrie stuff), like Joe Johnston's heavy chain mail Cylon designs (no one's ever seen those).

For a subset your actor suggetsions are great, but I'd like an Annie Lockhart autograph card and a Barry Van Dyke one too.

Best,

Peter

ernie90125 · August 24th, 2004, 03:33 PM

The Anne Lockhart auto card is one of those I understand has been created, and will be included in this second set. Along with various others, I suggested a Barry Van Dyke one, but who knows !

I have to say that Galactica 1980 has been accepted very well alongside the TOS when it comes to cards. Far more than in any other way I have seen....

Charybdis · August 25th, 2004, 09:34 AM

I got the Rittenhouse set and I also caved in and got the 1980 set. They are very nice cards. Can't wait for more!!!

137th Gebirg · August 25th, 2004, 10:03 AM

Another card set, eh?

As long as it doesn't have the "SketchEFX" (or however it was spelled)-style cards. Despite the quality of the work (some of it exceptionally good, some exceptionally bad), I found it frustrating that there was absolutely no way of collecting all types of cards. There were too many differences from card to card, being drawn/painted directly on by the artists. As an obsessive-compulsive collector of all things BSG, I found this exceedingly irritating

. Just my $.02

peter noble · August 25th, 2004, 10:07 AM

Yeah, the SketchEFX cards were a bad idea, I haven't got any of them but I've got ALL the others even the promo ones.

Peter

ernie90125 · August 25th, 2004, 10:16 AM

Peter,

It's no surprise that you don't have all the Sketchafex cards, since there a hundreds of different designs by the 9 artists !

I have all but a couple of promos. The Costume Cards are an excellent way of owning a small piece of the show, although it means they must have chopped up something priceless :-(

peter noble · August 25th, 2004, 10:37 AM

Ernie, maybe you could organise a fan poll of what cards they'd like to see and then report the results back to Rittenouse.

Regards,

Peter