Carded figures

[Webby72]

Is it just me or is any one else amazed at the amount of carded figures that come up for sale these days?
I've been going through some old catalogues from the 90's and very early 2000's (strictly Star Wars in Stockton on Tees, sci-fi centre in Oldham if anyone remembers them and a few others) and there's literally maybe 1 or 2 carded figures for sale.
Even on eBay back in the early days I can't remember there being that many. Now don't get me wrong I knew there were some around, I remember going to Melton market in the early 90's and a guy had a whole box full of carded akbar's, it still upsets me that I only purchased 1 of him!
There was also a couple of shops in Leicester that I used to get stuff from and I can't remember them having many carded figures either and that was the heart of Palitoy!
I sold my collection back in 2003 but slowly over the last couple of years I've managed to get almost a complete loose set again but as I said above while looking for loose figures I have been staggered by the amount of carded figures and therefore thought I'd ask the question.

 

[Palifan]

Two words……Toy Toni

Ian

 

[tiefighterboy]

Towards the end of the line...there were cases upon cases of figures left from overstock. This is where many of these come from.

 

[x-pack]

Maybe people flip cards more these days. There's a greater market and also a market that is easier to access.

 

[Simply Sci-fi]

I agree that access to the market is so much easier these days with EBay. The rising value of carded figures will increasingly draw out items for sale. People are dragging out their items that might not have seemed worth selling before. Tough times with the cost of living is also a factor, with people unable to resist selling their carded figures now that they are worth so much more.

Toy Tony must be a factor however with the amount of crap that he dumped on to the market.

Craig.

 

[Mr-shifter]

Maybe people flip cards more these days. There's a greater market and also a market that is easier to access.

It's funny you should say that. I brought a moc from Iain at ff, and there was another moc sold, and I believe both that'd been owned previously by forum members at ff, but had not come from them at this time, they had been through other collectors hands in the interim.

I guess once something comes out of the wild into the collectors circuit, it will stay in circulation there until it ends up in a black hole collection.

 

[sparkysx]

wonder how many carded figures are still in peoples lofts?

 

[Pomse2001]

wonder how many carded figures are still in peoples lofts?

Maybe not that many, but it could be cool if there is still a lot

 

[x-pack]

Loads in mine :wink:

 

[JuniorChubb]

I only keep VCJ's in the loft :wink:

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

I only keep VCJ's in the loft :wink:

:lol:

 

[Grant_C]

**** ugrades!

 

[SW-Vintage]

it is sometimes incredibly hard to tell an original carded to a repro/custom.

a friend of mine started to do custom cards when he started selling some of his collection, at first they were easy to spot as repro/custom, but over the months he tweeked the process + by the end of it he damn near perfected the art!

he tells me the main trick is in the coloration of the glue used to stick the bubble down, the card itself is apparently relatively easy!

it's made easy in the fact that you can buy on ebay a CD-Rom with every cardback / instruction manual / catalogue & decal, you just need to have a good printer!

 

[jasdev999]

Worrying this....I always thought getting the card texture, density and colour right should be difficult. Repro cards are rather flimsy and print colour not vibrant enough.