With 1 day left to go the last of the 2011 Mystery Boxes will at least be auctioned off. You can find it listed over at the Trading Card Auctions site. 50% of the proceeds are going to charity and we have added some fantastic extras in with this special listing! That leads us nicely into the new 2012 Mystery boxes. We had a number of unhappy folks last year as we only produced 30 of these sets, but realistically a lot of the cards and products that go into these boxes are very labour intensive so we have to balance that against demand, and of course we want to keep these limited for the collectors out there.
We came to the decision to double the print run this time, now we will release 60 Mystery boxes at £60.00 each. This is not the only change we have made: This year the boxes are bigger and filled with a LOT more fantastic and exclusive stuff.
Items in the boxes come from a range of all our products.
You will find at least 4-5 premium inserts, of which no less than 2 will be sketch cards though many boxes will have more. The sketches will be from a range of sets and some will include cards that simply arrived to late for inclusion into products! You will also find at least one of our sealed products, which will of course still include any premium inserts it came with.
On top of that you will find memorabilia cards, autographs, exclusive promos, sets, exclusive chase cards and lots of variants! We are also going to be including some uncut sheets, and original card artwork in some of these boxes! Oh did I mention the case and multi case incentives? Not all of these are taken up by dealers so what we have left from our products will be added into the mix! We also have some errors and test cards going that never normally make it into the collecting world.
These will be shipping in December and will include cards not only from earlier releases, but also from Dracula and Sherlock Holmes, along with some from our unannounced end of year product. For a hint on that check out the image at the end of this post. The Mystery boxes will be available for Pre-order in the next few days!
Preview set Shipping November 2012