Clamp in CardLand series 3
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You can check the official website for more information: CLAMP in CARDLAND 3 (upperdeck Japan)
RELEASE DATE : May 30, 2008
Yep, it's that time of the year, again : a new collection of 81 colorful tradings cards featuring 14 Clamp titles was released ^^
If you wanna check them, feel free to check yahoo auctions, which are flooded with them already :)
In my case, I bough them yesterday from my usual seller in ebay (I do business with Kohei-kun every time a new Clamp in CardLand series is released ehe~) and should receive them next week ^^
Well, there's gonna be a *fearful* number of doubles/triples, like last time, but I still hope to get my hands on the prettiest cards at least.
Booster Packs
1 package (10 cards): 330 yen (tax included) 1BOX (15 packs of 10 cards each): 4,950 yen (tax included)
The card in the right corner is the secret card (new art by Clamp) of Yuuko and Syaoran.
Card Type
* Story card: 21 cards
* Character Card: 40 cards
* Event Card: 20 cards
Description
* Secret: 1 card
* Ultra: 3 cards
* Super: 7 cards
* Lear: 13 cards
* Normal: 57 cards
[total cards : 81]
You said it : identical to series 2.
And the 14 mangas titles :
-20 Faces, Please!! (20面相におねがい!!, Nijū Mensō ni Onegai!!)
-Angelic Layer
-Chobits
-Chunyan
-Clamp School Detective
-Card Captor Sakura
-Kobato
-Magic Knight Rayearth
-RGVeda
-Tokyo Babylon
-Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
-Wish
-X
-XXXHolic
Here is a little preview (a bit bigger then the image above) of the secret card, unfortunately it's the front picture (while we would have liked to see the back with the whole thing better, neh?).
It seems to be Real |Syaoran...though I could swear this is more like how *Clow|Syaoran* was drawn...that said, seeing that the real Syaoran and Yuuko got a 'history' together (since he is a good client, doing lots of business with her :P), I can pretty much affirm it is him :
I saw a little of everything in yahoo, the problem is that since it's covering 14 titles and that there're only 81 cards, well, do the math : there is an average of 5 cards per manga...I saw also some colored TRC ones, very pretty, like the ones bellow, since the one above is a Normal card I have high hopes to get it *crossing fingers*, as for the Super bellow, well, it's gonna be a bit more difficult I'm afraid ^^;;;;;;; :
The CCS cards are a big disappointment : we are still stuck in vol01-02, there are too many already known pictures (=images you can get in a million time better quality in the CCS artbooks, instead of some little cards), it also looks like there is only one single colored picture of Syaoran (the very first one in CiC from series1 to 3 = 1 unique colored cards of Syaoran Li out of +300 in total!!), and not even a specially good one either. The only good thing is that they respected his original hair color (which is ~light brown,~ashy blond) and didn't darkened it 'tsubasa style' or 'anime CCS style'.
That said, knowing a special CCS compilation of CiC trading cards, called Dramatic Collection will be released shortly (in July), I suspect them to do this in purpose : the 5 new cards that this special CCS collection will have will very likely be the best selected ones and the nicest, to attract the buyers...
Good news (at least for me) : an ebay seller with whom I did business with, told me he was an expert in yahoo auction and had a special account there, and that he bought items for others people by request, after I asked him about it :D (it was a random question I made, though I had high hopes when he wrote in a previous mail he was used to get items from Japan by request, but not specifying from where he got them ^________________^)
YES!!!
I lost the count of the number of nice stuff I saw in yahoo auction that I was dying to buy but could never get my hands on, since it's a japan only thing!!!!
Now, saving money, saving money, saving money!!