Comments | flake_sake: Buffy Tarot cancelled

flake_sake

Buffy Tarot cancelled

Jun 25, 2008 15:54

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tarot, buffy

Comments 8

zoesmith June 25 2008, 15:22:33 UTC

Oh bummer... I was looking forward to it! I rally loved the art. :(

flake_sake June 25 2008, 19:50:00 UTC

Yeah, me too :( Would be a shame for it to rot in some drawer now. I hope someone else picks it up.

random commenter rowanda380 June 26 2008, 19:39:29 UTC

I am so disapointed by this, I love Tarot, and I love Buffy even more. I do hope they still publish the art...so if you find out the info...let everyone else know too please!

Re: random commenter flake_sake June 27 2008, 04:58:24 UTC

If I find out anything, I'll post it here, promise.
It was due in August, so the artwork was probably already complete.

Re: random commenter rowanda380 June 27 2008, 13:21:26 UTC

yeah I would have thought it would all be done...I wonder how they would release it....and I wonder why they stoped production :0(

rebranding tarot in the USA anonymous June 29 2008, 06:52:48 UTC

This is not meant as a put down of tarot fortune telling, but if the cancellation of that Buffy deck is related to any controversy about tarot cards, I think it's time for tarot to be rebranded in the US ( ... )

Re: rebranding tarot in the USA flake_sake July 1 2008, 09:53:09 UTC

Looks like you had something there and it really was the occult stuff about tarot games that stopped it.
Sometimes it's astonishing how empty headed people can be...

Re: rebranding tarot in the USA anonymous July 3 2008, 03:55:59 UTC

Well, there's still speculation as to what was really the issue. It is not only fundamentalists who are to blame for their ignorance, I believe the American tarot industry itself might be at least somewhat in fault. I don't think the way tarot is commonly sold in the US still serves a useful purpose. Back in the 60s it made more sense to sell tarot only for fortune telling because of the big occult boom in that decade. In Europe however tarot is also sold as a real card game similar to spades and not only as a fortune telling tool. There's a very real danger of a tarot market crash so the customer base for tarot needs to be expanded if this is to be avoided. I believe there is also a place for tarot cards as a means of teaching European history in America's schools. If the tarot publishers educated Americans about the role the cards played in the history of game playing, they could be more easily integrated into public education. I've read where this was done in secular France where tarot is played as a spades-like game. The tendency ( ... )