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Hello hello hello everyone what’s new card crew welcome back to cgc cards card connection we are on episode 8 and I hope you all are having a great start to the New Year today is January 12th 2024 welcome in everyone we will be having a collaboration later on in the
Stream special guest fow Mr Sketch cive will be checking out this box of Fleer Ultra midnight Suns together but first off we got to get into what’s new check out news new releases talk some recent happenings feel like there is a lot of news especially in the
Sports World this week so I know I won’t be covering everything I tried to gather a little bit of everything to share with you all but yes last week we felt like it was really light on news so glad to have some more things to get on into for
You all this week but welcome in chat so far seeing MCO slab strong UK Shannon h74 Jake bad wizard Sue Alonzo Collectibles welcoming everyone and of course the streamlabs bot is here if you are having any questions having any commands that you want to check out if
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Need to use to get to uh where wherever information can be found on our website Acorn welcoming says rough week for old guy coaches yeah some coaching news as well I saw Patriots got a new head coach um I will admit I honestly didn’t realize that the Super Bowl was
In a couple weeks it’s like a month away I know it always happens in like February but I I was like oh Super Bowl mid-February I was like what what do you mean already it feels like football season just got started but you know a lot has happened so far this season but
First and foremost got to get into our update on cgc cards around the world to give you guys some info on what shows we have coming up that cgc cards will be attending in the near future do have the TCG Gala in Germany that is uh the
Closest one up to today’s dat that’s is January 20th and 21st at the Motorworld col in Cologne Germany so the German branch of cgc cards will be attending accepting card submissions and there’s also I know submits to enter to win a chance to go to some special Gala after the events
Dinner so very cool interesting it’s interesting to see like dinners and stuff with events I’m not quite sure I haven’t been to any I honestly haven’t been to a lot of shows interesting I wonder if that’s something that happens at any major events in the United States but I thought that was neat
Activation and event going on at that show in general but yeah TCG gge Germany like I said January 20th and 21st in Cologne then culture Collision is the next us-based show that is happening just outside of Atlanta at the Cobb Galleria Center in Marietta Georgia that
Is January 26 through the 28th and I will be there so if you all are attending culture Collision stop by the cgc cards Booth of course submit some cards and say hello participate in our marketing activation play Plinko enter to win some fancy cgc swag as well with different submission drop off promotions
Can find more I’ll be giving you guys more information about that next week especially since I will be at the show January 26th to the 28th we won’t be having an episode of card connection you know I won’t be here to film it although should be some special events at the
Show main stage perhaps give you all more information on that next week so make sure to stay tuned then Mega con Orlando I know I keep mentioning it I’ve been mentioning it for the past several weeks here but February 1st through 4th Megacon Orlando cgc cards Comics all verticals will be there attending
Megacon keeps announcing more neat guests I’m like man I wish I could go this year but I know that I would spend way too much money on signatures and not be very productive but Mega con always always a fun time and and for those of you that are submitting Comics there is
An exclusive label featuring a really cool alligator so if you’d like to see what that looks like and learn more about cgcs attendance at Megacon use command Megacon in chat I see some of you making use of the commands already thank you everyone all righty then finishing out our list of
Shows for tonight do have the Yorkshire card show February 24th 2024 that is in the UK is at the SE New York stadium in Rotherham United Kingdom so cgc cars UK will be there accepting submissions then for some news lots of news this week I’m sure a lot of you
Have already heard about LeBron James and Fanatics and Tiger Woods and Nike and Conor Bard’s breaking his face but let’s go ahead and hop on into news and announcements starting off with some very special cgc news we have extended our card connection coupon use code card
Connection for $50 off of a premium or Elite tier membership so there is a way to get free membership to submit you know because you do need a membership but free unpaid membership to submit cards however there are premium and Elite tier options that do come with their own benefits if you’d
Like to learn more about that make sure to use the commands although I am not seeing the links myself I’m wondering if I’m in the wrong format let me see it doesn’t look like the links are working let me toggle the cloudbot on and off real quick seems like it’s struggling
Today stream Lab sometimes can be a little difficult I see the Bots posting it doesn’t seem to be posting the links let me see I did just reset it streamlabs bot please please help us out please help us out up ah there we go there we
Go you know it’s one of those things you know it’s like oh if you tried turning it off and on again you know it’s like how does that fix anything sometimes it actually does work or at least the Megacon one is working let me see um me hit
Refresh turn it off and on again hold on is it truly an episode of card connection without mild technical difficulty anyways I’ll be getting to the Portland recap there we go there it is I’ll be getting into the recap as well verbally more details of course in
The article which I would appreciate you check out but we’ll get that a little bit Yeah new announcement this week on January 8th cgc cards did announce that we are now grading Jason anime cards so if if you’d like to learn more about Jason anime cards use the command Jason
Anime I will admit it was not a brand that I was familiar with myself but the information that I learned is that Jason anime is one of the largest producers of trading cards Toys blind boxes statues and stickers in China the company has partnered with different intellectual property holders to bring unique
Products to collectors in China including worldwide favorite such as Disney Universal Studios Warner Brothers Tomy and more so if you check out the press release for that by using the command Jason anime you can see some of the really awesome Disney cards that they’ve made and some beautiful cgc
Slabs and learn more about those cards that we are now accepting for grading another important announcement this week that doesn’t have a whole lot of further details just quite yet but on January 9th was announced that cgc cards will be opening a Tokyo Office later on in 2024 so per that press release
Collectibl submitted to cgc Tokyo office will be transport reported with full insurance coverage uh two cgit headquarters for authentication grading and encapsulation and then return to the Tokyo office of course with full insurance coverage during transits to be returned to the submitter so not like on-site grading at this time when that
Tokyo office op Collectibles will be transported to HQ and then transported back to the office to then be sent back out to the submitters so if you want to check out more information about that although of course there’s no opening dates or anything like that just quite
Yet use command Tokyo to get that press release and then moving on to some sports news we’ll go through Sports and then tcgs but of course LeBron James big news this week for the basketball hobby it was teased on 18 LeBron causing an uproar by vague posting about Fanatics
Tagging tops and fanatics on an Instagram post with the caption greatness awaits then it was officially announced on the 10th that’s LeBron James has signed a multi-year exclusive contract with Fanatics will be having his first appearance on cards in 2023 24 Bowman University Chrome he’s going to
Have one card in that set and that is a dual oneofone superfractor autograph with his son bronny which I was like that’s neat that’s really cool they also I think today posted a video like there was the narrated video with earlier in the week but a video of the card LeBron
And bronny holding it it looked really cool and yeah this is big news LeBron was an exclusive Upper Deck athlete for over 20 years had been since 2003 before he was even drafted so big shift there for LeBron James signing for Fanatics for Tops products like I said first set
That he’s going to be in he’s going to have one card that dual Auto in Bowman University Chrome now now will we be seeing other LeBron cards maybe we’ll have to wait for further details but for autographs we’ll be having that superator dual Auto then for NHL news very unfortunate
We touched upon I think might have happened actually right after the stream but Conor Bard was placed on injury reserve on the sixth after fracturing his jaw during a game on the 5th so last Friday was revealed that he did undergo surgery on the e8th and will be out for
6 to 8 weeks so Connor Bard is gone for the time being he will unfortunately not be able to participate in the All-Star game because that’s at the beginning of February but speedy recovery he’s having an amazing rookie season hopefully we’ll be able to see him play in you know 6 to
Eight weeks but we’ll just have to wait and find out recovery times are always in estimat hopefully his procedure and all of his healing goes very smoothly then for golf news another big sponsor shakeup Tiger Woods and Nike have ended their 27-year partnership and that was announced on the 8th however
Tiger Woods is not stated where he’ll be wearing apparel for next Tiger Woods of course another Upper Deck exclusive athlete but in terms of apparel sponsorship that deal with Nike is done Tiger Woods did state that there’ll be a next chapter however has not revealed any further information so big big big
Sponsorship news and signing news for autographs this week very interesting very interesting to see how things will proceed from here into some interesting TCG news something that I was a big fan of Square Enix earlier this week on the 10th did reveal box arts and tease some
Of the cards for their 23rd Final Fantasy TCG release that set will be called hidden trials is expected to release in August of 2024 sets on the Press releas stated that is POS the Elevate the limit break mechanic with custom themed cards thats are reported to turn tide of battle for
Collectors the set will include a very special card very rare as well showcasing original illustration of Lightning by yiki Miki yamashta so it just said very rare special card it did not say signature stamped card Final Fantasy TCG has gotten very popular over the past few sets for having tsio namura
Stamped cards and also super rare hard to find card of esian from Final Fantasy 14 in dawn of Heroes next set coming out in March we’ll have a namora stamped separo autograph not sure if that will be a special foil like the estan was in dawn
Of heroes or if the lightning will have some sort of signature stamp it was just teased this very rare special card it is also the same card that is the revealed box art is absolutely beautiful I do recommend you all at least Google Final Fantasy hidden trials if not visiting
The Square Enix website checking out the official Final Fantasy TCG website also for the first time in the Final Fantasy tcg’s 23 sets Final Fantasy recordkeeper will have their first themed cards in the set so each Final Fantasy TCG release it’ll Images new illustrations video game screenshots promotional art
From different Final Fantasy series of which you know 16 Mainline games and counting all kinds of spin-offs mobile games games I will admit I wasn’t familiar with myself as a final fantasy fan until I saw some of the Arts and I learned about like obscure Nintendo Wii
Chocoo games and things like that really cool lots of variety lots of different styles as well for collectors but yes a Record Keeper getting their first first TCG cards for this iteration of Final Fantasy TCG in August so that is the Final Fantasy TCG news for tonight and then Pokemon some interesting Pokemon
News a lot of new card reveals for the upcoming Japanese releases have been happening but also we did get an interesting note the van go Pikachu Pikachu with gray felt hats is getting a European reprint so Pokemon company did announce that will be in European local card shops we’ll be getting 100 copies
Per store to give outs with inore purchases of 3030 or more so it will be knots like the Vango Museum where you had to visit and fill outs like a little puzzle is more similar to the US Canada and I believe Japan Pokemon Center promotions where you had to buy certain
Value worth on the website and then you got a card so this will be at local card shops in the EU so of course a lot of people speculating if we’ll see that distributed outside of the EU or it’s just a European but yeah interesting news regarding the van go Pikachu then
Of course team cgc cards had another solid performance last weekend at the Portland Regional championships zul Garcia grigo who we did have on the show a couple of weeks ago back in episode five I believe did have his fourth top eight finish of the Season fourth top eight Regional finish in a
Row very very impressive already doubling his Top Cut finishes from the prior season lots of talk in the competitive Pokemon community that this is shaping up to be a Legendary Run for aul congratulations but also not too bad for the rest of our members either Grant Manley finishing in the top 36 then
Caleb geter didn’t have that great of a showing but of course you know that’s just how the cookie crumbles sometimes did give me the information so I’m not picking out stats to be rude but Caleb did say it was his first time missing day two in 11 consecutive Events first
Time since May of 2023 unfortunately so broke a pretty big streak there by not making day two this time but going to be better next time you know just got to keep going but yes the Portland Regional recap article is available for you all to read if you use command Portland in
Chat the will drop that and it has now been approved for people that write specific articles and not press releases you can put your name on it starting in 2024 so big surprise I have been writing the Articles since late October so if you guys would read them I would really
Appreciate it I think they’re entertaining you all can read them and say Ally you’re really not funny stop trying to be cool next week or perhaps you’ll really like them you’ll just have to read them and find out but yeah yes that new article is up today usually try
To get it out the Wednesday after the competition however it was a little late getting some of the information to write that article but yes that is up tonight but that Recaps all of our news and announcements I have for you all One Last Thing Before I know y’all are
Itching to get into this box of midnight Suns and I’m sure FAO is really excited as well I am too of course I even got a box for myself so you know when I was like which box are we going to open open for card connection I was
Like so we’ll see this box and then my box I’m waiting to open my box I haven’t opened it yet I want to get our first look here together talking new releases on the 10th we did have P Phoenix football Onyx vintage football then on the 12th today match Gathering Rapa remastered came
Out interesting I like the uh ultr Pro actually put out some playmats on their website today I got an email so some of the anime fibble thip the Lost has a hollow foil speckled super you know extra pric version because it’s extra shiny uh super cute playmat I did order
That because I totally need to have more playmats not like I have 75 playmats that I don’t use lot of great art in rava remastered unfortunately don’t have any to open tonight’s buts definitely big release of Magic Gathering today the Immaculate Collection basketball Panini Prime racing Upper Deck ice hockey and flare
Ultra midnight Suns which we’ll be getting on into next let me catch up on chat so I know I was speed running all of the news so we can get into our box opening here but Marvel Madness MCU welcome in gal welcome in Happy Birthday Terry 3g’s welcome in anyone else whose
Name I’ve missed the streamlabs bot is taking up a lot of space on my column do apologize is but we are ready to go ahead and swap gears to a braking area let me put on my headphones first and of course chat please let me know if we’re
Having audio issues last time I used the collab cam it was either I could hear or you guys could hear I think we fix that issue I tested it out before we got started but if there’s any issues please be like Ally we can’t hear instead of just letting me embarrass myself more
Than usual so let’s go ahead and swap over here and welcome to Our Guest hello welcome this is our Marvel card expert if you want to go ahead and introduce yourself sir yes oh no hold on chat’s saying that he can’t hear oh come on why is it
Not H this is always hold on all right can you talk now let’s see yes I here can you hear me chat can you hear see it’s that 15 seconds delay gets me every time ah he’s muted nope see now now they’re like oh we can’t hear so let’s know now
I got to sit here and stare I’ll just stare depressingly into the camera there we okay it’s fixed yay there we go now I can stop being extra weird awesome um so excited about this you’re saying your friend is a writer for this set
Yes no uh so I have a friend uh his his Instagram handles the writer uh Ghost Writer fan man man thing and uh just a really big fan of the set he’s been super hyped about this and a couple of us have been and getting a preview of
The Art uh as of yet I haven’t seen a lot of it but I’ve seen some previews and I have to say it looks really nice and fleer ultra perfect with some amazing inserts in there uh so I’m I’m really looking forward to see what you
Yeah I will admit this set really like snuck up on me I feel like I hadn’t heard of it until Upper Deck started posting like on our Instagram some of the previews and I was just enamored with like all of the like original Bas art because this is a 100 card set with
All new Arts I know not all Marvel sets will use new art especially things like annual will use shots from the past year of comics but this is all new original art and I’m excited to check it out so interesting design here for the Box they
Are thick stock cards if you all can’t tell this box only has 12 packs in it and there’s only six cards per pack so in a box it looks like you get a lot but don’t be deceived by the larger size the cards themselves are big you can get
Artist autographs you can get one of one sketch cards you can get one of one parallels you can even get little mini cards inside little Tombstone shaped rip cards which is neat discover thematic inserts spellcraft stories Spirit of vengance Strange Tales fire and more and while I go ahead and open this
Up I if you could go ahead and tell everyone a little bit about midnight Suns because it wasn’t a group that I personally was super familiar with prior to checking out this release me either actually so apparently it started in 1992 and then they had their own Series
In 93 and midnight Suns is really just the supernatural hero element of the Marvel Comics and seeing what the MCU is doing when talking about Black Knight and the ebony sword there’s a lot of speculation going into that Marvel and MCU is going to really start focusing on
The supernatural aspect of it which is very exciting uh because characters are actually just really fun to like and they’re drawn in this very cool way and I have to say especially for this set I love the design it kind of like uh an iron gate outside of a haunted house
It’s really beautiful oiling I’m excited to see the comic Cuts there’s a lot of new issues that are have first appearances for particular characters here like moonnight werewolf by night’s first appearance so they have those comic Cuts here I don’t know it’s it’s looking really good yeah I I really
Actually enjoyed the MCU moonnight that was my first introduction to moonnight outside of just like had vaguely heard of them before and I believe actually the MCU product of that should be coming I think it’s scheduled for end of this month the early February so hopefully no
Delays on that and maybe we’ll get to check out a box or two of that here on the channel as well that’ be awesome I I know um Oscar Isaac has been signing for Star Wars so perhaps may have some autographs in that as well I’ve heard rumors that he’s in
There I’m hoping that’s true and then werewolf by night might be another series they’re coming out with too so I don’t know it’s it’s gonna be pretty cool pretty creepy 2024 yeah exit let’s go ahead and get on into our first pack and just one box opening uh just six cards per
Pack so but they’re all really thick so and good variety too which is why I like flare ult now this pack here only has five however we do have something large so I’m wondering if we’re starting off with a comic cut so I think the Fleer Ultra Avengers Cuts were like 130
Point yes whereas like oh that too it’s got like a matte finish oh that’s really cool yeah there we go oh these cards are beautiful uhhuh all right look like a green parallel coming up dagger H Simona biani that’s stunning such great art I believe that the
Signature series for bian just ended on like the fifth for people to send in their cards but super cool all right what was this maybe it’s a rip card oh no it is a Cuts comic clipping do strange that’s cool from Doctor Strange 2015 is issue number
386 that’s a great looking cut too yeah number 17 of 40 that’s cool writer Donnie Kates cover artist Nico henrya and the is a big one to look out for that’s really cool I like that now I need to uh check and make sure I have proper size sleeves so spellcraft stor
Is our first insert here I like it got blade on there that is a silver parallel looks like the parallels are labeled on the back which I do appreciate that doesn’t happen every set that is good to know nope they need to be do that needs to be common practice
For sure that’s important yeah I feel like it’s been happening more frequently yeah yeah yeah there was I forgot what that made was a huge problem I think it was X-Men metal and then after that UD kind of has made it a point especially with the cards that had
Like gold art to begin with you couldn’t tell if it was like a gold parallel or gold only by looking at like the logo which sometimes too like even in different lights it’s like it looked a little different but yeah it’s crazy to think X-Men metal was already like three years
Ago kind that’s say all right pack two we do have six cards in here and other Fleer Ultra Avengers boxes I’ve opened so very similar to this product although that did release last year sometimes you have box uh packs with five cards and like one thicker card but sometimes you could also have
Packs that have seven cards with one of them being like a special acetate insert as well Adam Warlock oh wow beautiful a lot of firsttime appearance for certain characters too in this set which is pretty fun and we have topaz green it’s cool oh so this is a puzzle card
This next one nine piece puzzle right yeah that’s cool which piece number is this eight of nine these usually fall like every three boxes I think I think that’s right yeah yeah so very cool more rare welcome in everyone just joining another spellcraft stories silver and doramu doramu parallel is a silver so
Regular silver parallels are not numbered as far as I can tell all right so that one it is extra shiny however very similar to the base color scheme oh no actually it is they’re all silver interesting so the base is labeled as silver that is good to know I
Was expecting because it was the last card in the pack that it was going to be different but that was not the case sometimes the angle I look at stuff looks extra shiny so no that’s just me so silver seems to be the base designation good to know melie Collectibles says this set
Looks great I agree cards looking very nice so far really cool art we have a green and a blue in this pack Oh Black Hearts Falcon green Adam Warlock they’re blue parallel that is number 87 of 180 now I know for the Avengers flare Ultra product the numbering was like
References to stuff would you you have any idea what maybe the 180 is referencing it might be to the issue it might be to something with the character the0 here might not be a call out uh to something or an orage to a first appearance number but cards did do that
So forgot the first year of Avengers and I think that was maybe some of the reference to why it was that insert number but for midnight SS 180 I don’t I don’t know if that’s something specific but some of them I’m sure are All right next up caretaker we do have werewolf by Knights that’s cool very cool I like that one that is cool Who’s the artist on this one let’s see Pascal Malay Pascal very cool I like that piece have a green spellcraft stories very cool oh that’s cool this
Is this has no border on it that’s that’s some sort of parallel but the green is unnumbered on the spellcraft stories too okay good to know so this is ultra Shades so this is an insert oh Ultra Shades that’s cool that’s cool reminds me of the like what ifs for Marvel
Masterpieces now it has like a a regular background but just the uh not having any like on the front I like no Tex man it’s really great I you know the set that really did no Tex and well minimal Tex was 96 mm and it’s just really gives
The art ability to stand out on the card yeah that Captain marble that’s such a good piece that is so nice a lot of biane Art in here that’s I think maybe the third one that we’ve seen yeah there’s a good variety in there I’m pretty I was looking up the artists when
They showed the preview and uh I don’t know I like the look of the set overall and I always think that’s a big thing when you like set collect this tooer Pages have some variety got skinny card alert all right o I think it’s purple we got jinx zkill
Cosmic Ghost Rider there he is see Ghost Rider being a flaming skull it’s like why why does he need a space suit you know what I am not gonna argue that and it makes a lot of sense maybe the fire with the oxygen I don’t know there’s some kind of Science in there
Alley oh it is purple ooh Hellfire oh that’s cool that’s cool so Lilith o I think I still have some of the spacers from yeah there we go purple I know it’s hard to see on the background but yeah that’s a cool effect though it is what are those is it the
Hellfires that was cool doesn’t appear to be numbered or anything this reminds me though of the they were the acetate parallels of a set from Fleer Ultra X-Men yeah yes remember I have St like a gold parallel uhhuh Hellfire combines acetate stock with a rainbow foil die cut
Book they’re also similar to the for those of everyone in chat that enjoys hockey cards the special young gun parallels out of SP authentic where they’re like 3D very similar to this with the acetate background but there’s card stock as well so that’s that’s really pretty I like
That we also have first insert to the box for the tomical artifacts Oh weird that’s cool cool I just think these are designed very well I like them a lot blackout I’m gonna pick up one spirit of Vengeance Goose Rider what yeah it’s a goose that’s cool Johnny cut that’s
Pretty awesome at night Johnny glaze an ordinary Goose transformed into the goose Rider he rode the Gooser cycle whose Flames could roast marshmallows and hot dogs for a tasty meal when enemies like chainsaw picked a fight with him by tripping his bike he could summon the Demons of heck with a honk to
Defeat them that’s cool a new pc here I like I like how it’s the uh familyfriendly Ghost Rider yes all right all right so we’re at the halfway point here oh Ghost Rider looking cool classic nice Rachel van Hing I just like the vety of art here
This look good this is cool Daniel drum and something shiny here we have a mighty Thor Ultra abilities W J Foster that’s awesome ooh that’s so pretty number 17 of 30 so 17 of 30 not numbered but 17 of 30 in the insert sets would be my assumption upper deck will
Do numbering like that on like Palladiums and such but that’s really pretty wow I like that a lot yeah have inserts back in the 90s actually it’s cool Strange Tales inserts and monstrosity I’m going to sleeve up the Mighty Thor that’s a really pretty card it is I
Like the foiling on it me too I’m curious as to what her connection to the midnight Suns is you know Spider-Man’s in here there’s a few characters in here they did that with and I Marvel has a lot of crossover so I’m sure there’s some kind of justification but
It’s definitely uh getting those characters into alra set I’m sure not complaining just curious oh we have a medallion Medallion coming up I like the medallions that’s a great Electro wow Elsa Bloodstone very cool we do have misto nice clean too some of the Fleer alra ones would have issues with the
Roller marks yep that’s pretty Mesto spirit of Vengeance insert that looks sick with the blue and Clea strange that art takes everything away that’s a really that’s a really nice card yeah Aran maku beautiful I mean all the Art’s great but it is I like the variety too it’s good oh yeah
I like how each one like since I’m not familiar with a lot of these characters or I’ve like just heard of them it makes me want to like read all of the cards too that’s the magic of Marvel cards though you know is I’m definitely guilty of like
Looking through oh I think we have a purple something you know being like oh this is a cool Iron Man card but I never read the back I just be like oh it’s Iron Man I look at it and then set it to the side but having the
Information about the characters on the back is always really cool very much so yeah modd the Mystic another Medallion another Lilith Lilith cool a Tales to astonish Strange Tales parallel purple amethyst maybe no it’s just got a purple border it is a silver interesting interesting man thing there he
Is I suppose this one is like brown too this wasn’t quite black so it did look black though but that one the first one was brown so I guess it being a different color is nothing too crazy I wonder if they’re just colored by like key
Art like if the comic cover has like purple highlights they made the Border purple yeah like that’s the majority of the color on the cover so they use that I wonder m o I wonder if the cloak makes a puzzle with the dagger sure do believe dagger was also would do that I’m
Sure Simone did that I’d be surprised if he didn’t another Medallion Loki Medallion wow spellcraft Stories moonnight versus werewolf interesting yep the werewolf scarecrow I didn’t know there was a Marvel scare oh no this one’s damaged how’d that happen yeah o how did that happen there’s nothing on the front that’s crazy
H interesting oh no that’s the artist name I was like the artist name is Jonathan I was like the DC scarecrow’s name is Jonathan but no that was the artist name not the character name I didn’t actually know there was a Marvel scarecrow that’s cool there’s actually a crazy good um connection
Between a lot of Heroes and Marvel to DC because they were at one point looking at seeing what they were publishing across the publishing houses so they were copying characters and doing weird stuff like that we do have another five card pack so I feel like we’ll have a a
Seven card one coming up Dracula green spirits of Vengeance doramu Medallion that looks good Phantom Rider nice Elsa all right just two packs left in this box you got mistress death o Carnage that’s a cool looking Carnage that’s a crazy looking Carnage wow that’s cool Luis Hastings green Dracula Medallion spellcraft
Stories Cosmic Ghost Rider base all right final pack but so far in this box we did have the comic clippings and a blue parallel for numbered Cards looks like that pack was just a little short because we do have six cards here I wonder if the pack with the Lilith acetate had seven cards perhaps we got blade hellcats a cool stac Dolan a fifth Medallion Robie Reyes darkhold and Daniel drum all right so one hit one numbered
Parallel not sure on how rare some of these inserts are so we might have found a short print know that the puzzle inserts and other Ultra sets have been rare although not sure of course we just have the one box here here to uh compare so we don’t know if perhaps the
Puzzle is more common in this release or not but historically that one has been pretty rare but yeah I love the base design I think it’s very simple with just the foiling around the top and bottom but it suits it well reminds me of like Gothic architecture like that framing it gives
The I think a Vibe that’s really appropriate for the set so I really like this but yeah take a look at minimal too doesn’t overcome the doesn’t overwhelm the art at all it’s really well done yeah but for our sleev cards here we did have that Mighty Thor insert the Hellfire
Lilith the Adam Warlock numbered to 180 and the Doctor Strange comic clippings number 17 of 40 Doctor Strange front and center on that one now I have no idea who this is but they’re red and they’re angry yeah unless they’re just like going out for ice cream or
Something but I’m pretty sure they’re upset they look like they came up to Doctor Strange in a huff they’re like in a huff they’re like why didn’t you get a second box of Fleer Ultra to open that’s how could you how could you Jim in chat says Ultra shade has
Short prints not sure which ones though yeah we’ll have to check out the upper deck checklist for the product but yeah just First Impressions I think the cards look great quality control yeah we had that scarecrow with the giant dent in the back other than that for especially
Stuff that’s like really thick stock it it’s definitely easy for these to get banged up around the corners often times you’ll see chipping along the edges uh just from the cards being cut but looks really clean I would say much cleaner than fler Ultra Avengers that’s good news but flare Ultra Avengers sometimes
Had like really really nice cases than some that had like a lot of issues but medallions here looking a lot cleaner didn’t see any like roller marks as we’ve seen in the past with them so looking really clean like impressive I’m like is are these is this real like is this real
Life These are really clean medallions but now I really enjoyed this and I’m curious to see chat’s opinion on this product I thought it was beautiful really want to see more of that base set now you’re not going to get a full set in a box it’s 100 cards
And which is six cards per Pack 12 packs per box not six base cards either per pack there’s definitely stuff that we didn’t see in this set so I do recommend if you all enjoyed the set go ahead and take a look for other openings look online lots of people I’m sure opening
Up this set this weekend if you have more curiosity regarding this product but I really enjoyed it I think this is a very fun release from upper deck would have loved to see a sketch or an autograph in here but I know they’re going to be out there
Comic clippings in avengers was not super common so yeah I don’t know I don’t know if comic clippings are common here but I do love the design and the Border they did for their comic clippings it’s very thematic to the set and I think it’ll
Stand out yeah for a long period of time I do love that whole Tombstone kind of shape that’s really cool yeah Terry says Medallion are very slick Ghost says love the art Moos says I give it an eight out of 10 very nice set that fun thanks Ali
And F all right well Chad I’m glad that you all enjoyed it I really enjoyed it so we had fun but we want you guys to have fun too right like we we open any Marvel we’re like this is great and Chad I’ll be like what about us but no I I
Really enjoyed it I really appreciate you making the time to come hang out with us have a collaboration tonight it would be great to have you come back another time if you know everyone’s schedules line up so I’m always around you just let me know I’ll be here when
There’s Marvel product around I’ll be here to check it out thank you Al all right thank you so much thank you thank you I will put you away now when I find my mouse you you are free to leave you can escape me now bye bye my
Friend can I show the pl the blue the plue the blue parallel again of course of course but very very fun I really really enjoyed this Set Gorgeous cards I love especially just the way the gloss is situ on the base right you have gloss on the character gloss around the you
Know the whatever etching you have and then the rest of the cards mad I know it’s not always the easiest to see on camera however in hand it’s like wow this looks really really slick the blue parallel number to 180 and beautiful card so I really enjoy
This release from upper deck I know last week we opened up box of Goodwin champions not everyone was digging the design on that but it seems like we all pretty much enjoyed this set so curious myself to check out more of this product this weekend why do I still have my
Headphones on I was like I sound weird and I was like oh so I’m basically wearing ear muffs but now that we’ finished our opening it’s time to get on into another one of our highlights here on card connection that is our community Spotlight woo and Community spotlights do have
Some specific submissions this week for the community Spotlight let’s go ahead and start off with the submission from Mao makco here in chat thank you so much for sharing your gorgeous pristine 10 special art rare Blastoise Z ex from Pokemon 151 so this is a this card is a pristine
Cgc pristine 10 special art rare Blastoise Japanese and it is my favorite Pokemon character so congrats moo on having this awesome Blastoise in your collection awesome condition awesome looking slab of your favorite Pokemon congrats on this addition to your personal collection and thank you so much for sharing with us here on the
Community Spotlight so we do have another Pokemon card Mar says I love that card it does look really cool Blastoise underwater I feel like we’ve SE a lot of cards of course with Blastoise you know Hydro pumping or whatever on land but I really I’m really digging the scarlet and
Violet era special art rares we did get some reveals of like a unicus today that I thought looked really cool for upcoming March release I believe for English for the next Pokemon sets uh the name has been revealed I know pre-orders are up on the Pokemon Center for their
Exclusive etbs and such but I don’t remember what it’s called to be honest but yeah that should be coming I believe mid-march but the art I love these art rares I love them we saw of course in sword and shields like the alternate Arts but just these special art rares
The SS and then in English these special illustration rares the regular illustration rares they’re a little easier to pull than the alternate Arts as well and you just get to enjoy a lot of really cool looking Pokémon guards so this one’s gorgeous but also this one I
Thought was very interesting I saw this one on Instagram reached out to the hoen bazaar this is a art rare in Thai Pokemon does print now in thail lands or Tha language cards this is a mousehold from clay burst pristine 10 this post here from the hen bizar says
Happy New Year hope you’re surrounded by friends and family and 2024 just like these Mouse hold and tand mouse and mousehold is an interesting new Pokemon from the scarlet and violet era so tandem Mouse is there’s like two of them but they’re one Pokemon but it’s two
They’re in Tandem and then it evolves into Mouse hold and then there’s four of them it’s a little family it’s a really interesting concept it’s so you don’t want to think about it too much and in terms of like poke like you know it’s like Pokémon that have like clothes built into their
Character design it’s like those aren’t clothes that’s like your skin it’s like you know it’s one of those things you don’t think about it too much but it’s cool I like it tan Mouse into Mouse hold super cute family look at them all they’re also like not attached they’re
Like a unit just they’re together there’s four of them look this one is an even larger Mouse hoold so beautiful card here pris 10 thae language mousehold art rare ho and bizaar and then and for our final piece of our community Spotlight tonight last but not least we have this beautiful car
Beautiful Marvel art here from 2022 Marvel masterpieces this is the nine of 10 shatter star variant cover autograph posted by run itback Collectibles at same username run itback collectibles on Instagram thought it was appropriate I saw a beautiful high grade you know like I said thick cards tend to have a lot of
Quality control issues there’s just a lot more to go wrong with them easier you know when they’re bouncing around there’s thicker borders you know on the sides of the card to get certain imperfections and Transit and shipping packing everything so mint n gorgeous card New Mutants what if variant cover
Shatter star autograph N9 of 10 I wanted to share that with you all so I do try to prowl through if you tag us on Instagram especially tag cgc cards when you get your new cards back if you pick something up online you’re like I
Love my cgc slab go ahead and tag us on Instagram and you too may see yourself with a comment says hi do you have permission to use your image uh make sure you answer I know everyone’s busy though not everyone gets back to me which is fine but yeah or of course you
Can reach out directly go ahead and reach out to us the email address is in the description down below if you got questions comments cards to share reach out at card connection cgc cards.com or of course you can message the social media team and they’ll pass anything
Along wherever it needs to go if you have a customer service question they’ll point you in the right direction if you have something for card connection they’ll send it to me so very communicative social media team customer service from all my interactions have been very kind so if you ever have any
Questions there’s always someone that can help you out go ahead and reach out to us but specifically for card connection topics suggestions questions or things to share card connection at cgcc cards.com and although that ends off all of our segments today for the show there is something I’d like to
Mention sneak peek at the end totally not because I forgot to mention it in our news and announcement section but next week card connection will be debuting their official logo we are real chat we’re real we’re real we have a real logo and that will be making its
Debut I’ll be prettying up all of our backgrounds and everything you you know put myself in the corner so my arm doesn’t phase out of existence you know when I do this uh but yeah well have a fancy logo I’m excited I love it a lot
And I hope that you all will like it too right it’s not that deep but for me it’s like wow I have a logo that’s so cool so yes that’ll be debuting next week so no more is the sometimes hard to read fonts in the thumbnails that says card connection
It’ll be fancy well that that does wrap off everything I have for you here tonight thank you so much everyone for joining for another great episode in my opinion of card connection sorry for the audio scuff you know like I said it’s not an episode if I don’t push the wrong
Button at least once we’re still new we’re only eight episodes in but yes looking forward to chatting with you all next week for episode 9 and of course hopefully if any of youall going to culture Collision come say hi to me like I said I’ll be at the
Show come swing by the cgc cards Booth talk to our team take some pictures and I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your weekend so thank you so much everyone for tuning in hope you had a fun evening have a great weekend and keep having fun collecting have a good night