Trading Cards
SDCC 2010 exclusive cards
Just finished hot foil stamping cards for an amazing treasure hunt. DKE Toys is running a scavanger hunt for cards featuring artists attending the San Diego Comic-Con. Details are available from DKE, by email before the show, or at their booth once you are there. Following clues, you can gather signed artist cards, and upon gathering all available on the floor, you can show them back at DKE to receive additional cards! As collectors gather cards, they will be counter-stamped on the back. The hunt will begin Thursday morning at the show.
In preparation, we had a special gold foil seal made, and stamped 200+ each of 6 different cards.
The leftover foil kicked out the back of the stamper.
The 6 different stamped cards
Collating Suckpax 1 cards
Now that all the various cards and inserts are ready, we sort out which cards go into each box.
This is the opposite of what many collectors do, which is to open up a batch of packs and then sort the random cards into stacks of teams, or of the same card. Here we are taking a handful of identical cards and dealing them out into stacks that will be the contents of a box.
I built a pair of these 50 slot “mail box” cases. In hindsight, I should have made them only 25 slot. With 252 cards per slot, the total weight when full is about 90 pounds. I built them before I had actual cards, but I could have weighed a stack of cards from my collection.
Yes, there will be gum
Our number one comment from people seeing the Suckpax 1 card packs was “Is there gum?”
So of course we had to have gun for The Art Hustle series. The real deal, a stick is going into every pack.
Burning rare Suckpax 1 cards
Certain cards were deemed to be made “scarce”. Four different base cards were selected to have fewer exist than the rest of the base set, and the three different chase cards were also reduced in quantity. I suggested burning them, to ensure scarcity, and we proceeded behind the SideKick Lab facility to make a campfire and begin operation scarcity. I was tending the fire, and a few half-burned cards fluttered out of the flames. The Sucklord began picking them up to tuck back into the fire, and I saw a light bulb switch on over his head. “These have got to go into the packs!” he said. We imagined the WTF moments that would occur as collectors opened packs and found burnt remnants of rare cards in their hands. They might think that there had been a fire at the packaging plant, or some kind of sleazy carny working in the assembly plant might have used a card to light his stogie, then tucked it into a pack to hide the evidence.
Suckpax 1 inserts
We had fun with preparing specialty “insert” cards for the Suckpax 1 series. Taking the concept and twisting it a bit…
First came “splatter” cards. The Sucklord selected small batches of cards from the base set, and hit them with paint in his own style.
suckpax 1 bullet hole cards
Pushing the concept further, small stacks of base cards were wrapped and shot with a .38 caliber pistol. Video of this was featured on Suckadelic.com.
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