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the_willsome429
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Joined: Jul 2019
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| Friday, October 23, 2020 12:25 PM | |
Does anybody know if they did separate releases for retail and hobby? I went to my local hobby shop and picked up a hanger only to find that it had a plain white background and silver lettering, similar to the base of last year's Absolute. That's in contrast to the holofoil (I believe) with gold lettering for this year's base Absolute, per many pictures. Am I just missing an insert/parallel in this set or is it something else entirely? Thank you.
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BigEd76
Posts: 4,079
Joined: Nov 2016
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| Friday, October 23, 2020 1:02 PM | |
Is there any serial number stamping on it? Maybe post a pic or two in the Card ID/Mystery forum so we can see
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the_willsome429
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| Friday, October 23, 2020 1:21 PM | |
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C2Cigars
Posts: 11,578
Joined: Oct 2014
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| Friday, October 23, 2020 1:35 PM | |
After watching both Hobby and Retail breaks on YouTube, yes the hobby cards are foilboard and retail plain white stock.
And I don't see a Retail parallel listed here.
Edited on: Oct 23, 2020 - 1:38PM
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BigEd76
Posts: 4,079
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| Tuesday, December 29, 2020 11:36 PM | |
I can see this is going to be another problem already. I'm only 25 cards into the migration and people are already refilling the first 25 with more Retail images
READ THE RELEASE NOTES!
Edited on: Dec 29, 2020 - 11:53PM
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spazmatastic
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| Wednesday, December 30, 2020 2:25 AM | |
Absolute has almost ALWAYS been an issue here with hobby vs. retail and I hate to have to keep telling people the difference. But it subsided for a bit and now it's back in full force. I am SO tired of Hobby/Retail variations (or parallels, IF you want to call them that)!
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switzr1
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| Saturday, January 2, 2021 1:44 PM | |
Why didn't you just leave the retail version as the "base" checklist, instead of moving 300+ scans and adding 100 SN notes to the base checklist, months after these were new and everybody had already added their white cards as base cards?
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C2Cigars
Posts: 11,578
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| Saturday, January 2, 2021 2:40 PM | |
Yes, it probably would have been easier to remove card numbers 201-242 from the checklist and turn it into the Retail checklist. And there were no images for those cards.
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jasongerman9
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| Saturday, January 2, 2021 3:18 PM | |
As far as I had always thought, hobby was supposed to be the "base" in releases like this, with retail as a parallel.
Doesn't mean that every release is formatted correctly, but that was always my impression. Not sure if I just picked that up from similar sets, or I read it somewhere, or what, but that rings familiar to me.
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mlitteer
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Joined: Jun 2020
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| Saturday, January 2, 2021 3:20 PM | |
I REALLY wish the retail would stay the base set and the hobby (gold foil) would show as a spectrum insert (as listed on checklist from cardboard)
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