2012 Mars Attacks Fiasco
hiffnhoffer
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Well the time has finally come. Mars Attacks Heritage is here, and it couldn’t be any worse. The sketch cards, with the exception of a rare few, look like untalented (bottom of the class) art school students did them. If the original set had looked as bad as some of these cards, you wouldn’t even be able to give them away. And then there are the subsets.
The New Universe cards are a disgrace. They should not even be associated with the Mars Attacks name. The deleted scenes cards, though fun to look at, show why they were originally excluded from the original 1962 set. They lack the horror and suspense of the original cards. The only redeeming quality of the entire issue is the 3-D cards. I would love to see the entire set done in this style. They bring the new twist to the set that I was hoping for when I first heard about the Heritage release.
The most disturbing thing about the new issue, however, is the cost to value ratio of the cards just days after release. Take the 3-D cards for example. At a ratio of 1 in every 8 packs, that translates to 3 per box. This means that you would have to purchase 2 boxes at $50 a piece, and not get any doubles in order to even get a set, and sets are currently on eBay selling for less than $10. There is even one set up at .99 cents with NO BIDS!
Next, we move on to the various parallel sets. Obviously, the most desirable of these are the gold border cards. At a ratio of 1 in every 101 packs, and limited to only 50 of each card, finding one should be very exciting, and it is until you go onto eBay. Keep in mind that at this ratio, you would be lucky to get 2 per case, and with cases selling at $350 each, the gold cards should be rather valuable. But at this very moment there are several on eBay at buy it now for only $40. Granted there is quite a bit of enjoyment in pulling a gold card out of a pack, but why even take the chance when you can buy one for less that the cost of a single box? At lease buying the card by itself give you a 100% chance of owning one. After seeing this, why would anyone even want to buy a box? These types of inconsistencies in cost to value ration take all the fun away from opening and collecting cards, and removes the collectability that result in these cards being desirable for generations to come. This is a problem that appears consistently with almost all new cards series produced now.
What many people seem to forget, or just not even realize to begin with, is that the only reason this set is being produce is because the original 1962 set was so popular. This set became collectible as a result of the natural desirability to collect and own something that was truly revolutionary. The controversy surrounding the cards at the time of their release, along with the violent and horrifying depictions of the subjects, gave the card world something it had never seen before, and something that can never happen again. So I ask, with all the things that the original cards have going for them, why would someone even want a card that is rare because of a different color border that was intentionally printed on it, when for about the same cost you could experience the enjoyment of owning the real thing?
The New Universe cards are a disgrace. They should not even be associated with the Mars Attacks name. The deleted scenes cards, though fun to look at, show why they were originally excluded from the original 1962 set. They lack the horror and suspense of the original cards. The only redeeming quality of the entire issue is the 3-D cards. I would love to see the entire set done in this style. They bring the new twist to the set that I was hoping for when I first heard about the Heritage release.
The most disturbing thing about the new issue, however, is the cost to value ratio of the cards just days after release. Take the 3-D cards for example. At a ratio of 1 in every 8 packs, that translates to 3 per box. This means that you would have to purchase 2 boxes at $50 a piece, and not get any doubles in order to even get a set, and sets are currently on eBay selling for less than $10. There is even one set up at .99 cents with NO BIDS!
Next, we move on to the various parallel sets. Obviously, the most desirable of these are the gold border cards. At a ratio of 1 in every 101 packs, and limited to only 50 of each card, finding one should be very exciting, and it is until you go onto eBay. Keep in mind that at this ratio, you would be lucky to get 2 per case, and with cases selling at $350 each, the gold cards should be rather valuable. But at this very moment there are several on eBay at buy it now for only $40. Granted there is quite a bit of enjoyment in pulling a gold card out of a pack, but why even take the chance when you can buy one for less that the cost of a single box? At lease buying the card by itself give you a 100% chance of owning one. After seeing this, why would anyone even want to buy a box? These types of inconsistencies in cost to value ration take all the fun away from opening and collecting cards, and removes the collectability that result in these cards being desirable for generations to come. This is a problem that appears consistently with almost all new cards series produced now.
What many people seem to forget, or just not even realize to begin with, is that the only reason this set is being produce is because the original 1962 set was so popular. This set became collectible as a result of the natural desirability to collect and own something that was truly revolutionary. The controversy surrounding the cards at the time of their release, along with the violent and horrifying depictions of the subjects, gave the card world something it had never seen before, and something that can never happen again. So I ask, with all the things that the original cards have going for them, why would someone even want a card that is rare because of a different color border that was intentionally printed on it, when for about the same cost you could experience the enjoyment of owning the real thing?
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(love my original set)
Hiff
Thanks for the review.
Still love my original set, though. I need to send it to PSA to get graded.
Besides a hunderd other collectable Mars Attacks stuff, I have the original set also. I have been collecting since 1962 at the age of 9 yrs, old.
for this Heritage set, I bought only 3 boxes. One being the 'Attack From Space', Hobby Box (Which is NOT in size or like the Original 1962 prototype, box). Out of the three, only one sketch card is alright looking. That's the best I can say about it. They are a waist of time. Most look as if done, 'under a stressful last minutes because I was paid by TOPPS to have them completed & sent in by tommorrow, looking! These so-called-illustrators/artist haven't a clue as to what should have been carefully thought out. Only 1% are desent. On Ebay at a couple hunderd dollars. What a friggin' joke!
I like that all the cards are centerd. I don't like that to do that, they made the picture smaller. Also I have found typo's in the Len Brown tex on the back of the opriginal 55 only in this Heritage set.
So out of 3 boxes, I received 4 sets of the standard reg set of 80 cards. Out of 24 Green cards, 8 are dups. 2 Golds, 3 Silvers, 1, 3D set and 3 sketch cards. I paid at the most w/ ship. 51.00 a box. This month I went to Ebay. For a total of $52.83 with ship. I received 2 golds 8 silvers. Don't need another box, another regular set, or anymore dups.
Best time to get these now on Ebay if really interested. The golds total, $36.72.
I would have been happier if they did the whole 55 Original cards in 3D as chase cards & the Len Brown Auto's, plus the Gold for the 50th is acceptable as a Parallel chase set.
What happened to those great artist that did the Archive set in 1994???
A big disapoitment is not having Zena Saunders doing a tribute to her father in this Heritage set.