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For those of you who don’t know what Adventure Cards are, see here:
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Baby Blue Ribbon and the Adventure Card board game (poster) were available through the mail order and points program. The game could be played with or without special Adventure Cards, which gave commands like Go Ahead 2, or Miss a Turn. These cards were only available in specially marked packages of ponies sold in stores, two per package. Since there are a whopping 42 cards, and they were only available for a short time, they are difficult to find and even harder set to complete.
http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/The_Adventures_in_Ponyland_Game#Adventure_Cards
I’d like to get your thoughts on making replica Adventure Cards. Every now and then someone will ask me about doing them and I’ve held off for a few reasons:
- potentially dropping the current value of the originals
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on one hand, good for those looking for originals still, but not so good for those trying to sell them and those that already spent $$ on theirs and don’t want to see their collection value drop
- accidently/purposefully being sold as originals in the secondhand market
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I’ve added a small statement on both sides about them being Custom Replicas, to distinguish them from the originals, nothing that impedes the image or text, but still noticeable should anyone resell them.
- finding good quality card paper and printer for the job, something that meets people’s expectations
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I found paper that’s a close match to the original card stock, glossy on one side, matte on the other, and it’s compatible with my printer. They’re not exactly the same, pixel-to-pixel, but close enough and actually cleaner, brighter, and more consistent than the original scans. Also, while the paper front is glossy, the ink is not, so unlike the originals, they would not be completely glossy across the whole surface.
- copyright issues with Hasbro
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If I go through with this project, I wouldn’t sell on ebay, etsy or other public shopping site. Basically, if someone wants a set, they could contact me and spread word of the project to others looking. I care more about getting a good product to fellow collectors and also not overstepping my bounds with Hasbro’s products than I do about making a quick buck ;)
If there's enough interest and positive reaction to the idea, I'd consider making and selling these sets to other collectors.
As far as pricing goes, I’m thinking around $55* due to the work that’s already gone into cleaning up the scans, the paper and ink expense, and I also cut these by hand and there’s time involved in that process.
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*Probably would include free USA priority shipping with tracking, or $50 for untracked economy only if paypal GIFT payment is sent, with the understanding that I won’t be responsible for lost or damaged packages; International shipping would be worked out on a per-person basis
At least initially, only orders of full sets of 42 will be made.
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Individual card requests will be much harder to do because they artwork is laid out in groups to fill up a sheet. I would have to spend time in moving around the requested cards, and depending on how many are requested, they may not fill a full sheet. So pricing would vary on individual cards, but would be at least $2 a card just for the time involved, and maybe more depending on how many is ordered.
I’m working on the gameboard and die as well, although the gameboard is huge. It was made to use full-sized ponies as the game pieces! I’m researching different options for large-scale printing but haven’t found a good option yet.
Anyway, I’d like to get your thoughts on this project – ethical issues, pricing, interest. If there are a lot of legitimate objections, I won’t pursue it. If you don’t feel comfortable publicly posting, feel free to PM me. I’m just trying to gather information (not orders) at this point :) Thanks!
Update 06/30/2017 ORIGINAL CARDS vs TEST CARDS:
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Similarities:
Same size
A close match in thickness of card stock
Glossy on the front, matte on the back
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Original scanned artwork of rainbow and pony
A close match to the blue and purple colors used on the back
A close match to the font used
Differences:
Card stock is a brighter white
Copyright information removed and replaced with “2017 Custom Replica Adventure Cards” on both sides, to avoid mistaking them as originals. Probably going to make this text a smidgen larger and bolder than what appears here.
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Glossy side is slightly different type of glossy; ink is matte, so where the rainbow, text and pony is printed, it is not glossy like the background
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Back side artwork is recreated so that the colors are more uniform; scans used as templates for accuracy
Rainbow artwork on front is the same rainbow in the same place on every card (something that is not uniform on the originals)
Pony artwork may be bumped up or down a bit so that it doesn’t come so close to the edge of the card
You know how we sometimes say *grabby hands* or *sneaks in and takes ....*? Well that was not me :P I was finally blessed by the pony gods and managed to score a set of replica cards, and well...I am pretty excited about the whole thing
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:frolic: <-- if I was a rainbow colored pony with magical powers, this is what I would look like right now because of these beautiful cards
PS-I was serving as a guinea pig, but all so worth it ^.^