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Games => Table-Top Games => Topic started by: Spriggan on February 06, 2005, 07:54:26 PM
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So GPP said the price of a case would be $300, both me and Kije thought that was too pricey, and it looks like Game Den is the same price (they probaly have the same distributer). I've been checking up on buying on-line and feel that e-bay isn't the most secure place to buy.
The best I've found, so far, is from from Icon USA (http://www.iconusa4.com/online/hc_dc_legacy.htm) which is a distributur at $221.95 after shipping. That comes to about $4.62 a booster (compaired to $6.25 a booster at $300). They ship orders based off of when they get the orde so we may not get it for a bit after the release (3/2/05).
I'm willing to pay around $100-$120
Kije told me he has upto $60 to spend, though would like to spend less
I haven't gotten a rough figure from Fell
I would like to try and keep this between 3-4 people so that we can easly distribute uniques, there are 8 uniques, 1 giant figure and 4 super rares in a case.
If you both want to do this, I can send out a check this week (so it gets there and gets cleard in time) or someone else can use their CC (the card wont be charged until the case is shipped).
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I could go 80, which would put Sprig at 80 and Kije at 60. Let me talk to Dawn about the ideal method of payment.
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Sounds good, I'll plan on paying for whatever you and Kije don't (incase he wants to go less then $60).
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MMmm, could a 4th get in on this?
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Looks like we've got it covered. The biggest problem with adding you Gemm is you not being here when we open up the boosters, we're more then likely to get them before you come to Utah. And, no offence, I don't realy want to wait a week or so to open them.
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=P Fair enough. I'll just buy some when I get there.
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Kije is good for 60...maybe 65-70
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or whatever if you've already worked around me
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lets do
Fell-$80
Kije-$61.95
Spriggan-$80
now there are 48 boosters (I may have done my math wrong) that would be 36% for Fell and me, and 28% for Kije.
17.3 boosters for Fell and I while
13.4 for Kije
That leaves 1 extra booster (probaly just give it to Kije)
there are 9 uniques in the booster (though this isn't allwayse so, WK dosen't gaurentee it), 8+1 large size.
That would be 3 for each of us, or 3 for me and Fell, 2 for Kije and one spare to fight over. So I think just devideing by 3 in this case works well.
How I'm proposeing to split things up is we devide all the boosters as listed above and all the non-unique fgures in those boosters are yours. Any Uniques go into a Unique pool where we'll devide them in order. So Me, Fell, kije would be an example. Also I think each of us should get to claim on Unique as theres.
So for example our uniques involve Hush, KC GL and many others. I would call Hush and Fell calls KC GK, so I couldn't choose GK GL unless there was 2 in the case.
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Well, that Kingdom Come Green Knockwurst is certainly cool, but the Gap Kids Green Lantern is hard to pass up. It's a tough call.
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17.3 boosters for Fell and I while
13.4 for Kije
That leaves 1 extra booster (probaly just give it to Kije)
We could easily divide up the last booster between the three of us.
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I'm thinking of holding the last booster for if someone gets like 4-5 uniques in his boosters since we're each getting 3 that would leave the person with not getting the full amount. Though I'm just as cool with you getting it Kije.
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I'm flexible. Not like a gymnast, but like a man who can easily adapt to however we decide to dispose of that last booster.
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I'd be willing to give Kije the last booster.
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Is this just an outpouring of love towards me, or do you guys feel I would be hurt if it wasn't given to me?
Honestly, whetever works. I like the idea of holding it in case someone gets obviously shorted on uniques according to ratio. Anyways, me=flexible.
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Maybe we're just trying to appease you so you don't hulk out and kill us.
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ugggggh....Kije angry.....
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Any chance on decideing on how we're going to be paying for this by the end of the week? I'd like to get it ordered soon.
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I have cash.
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Well, to order it I need to send a check to them or one of you need to use a Credit Card (since I don't have one).
If I send a check I need all of the money from both of you this week, and it may take an extra week to get here since they have to wait for it to clear.
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I'm going to try and be at GPP this Wed. I'll bring it then. Otherwise I'll run it over later this week.
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Sounds good.
Fell what about you?
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I can't come to GPP tonight (it's ward temple night) but I'll bring you a check tomorrow at D&D.
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I'm going to be at GPP probably between 6:20 and 6:30, just so you know, Sprig.
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Does spriggan get a free action if you turn up at 6:31?
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Yes, and I get to pass go and collect $500.
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Huzzah! The rookie Sinestro is indeed a Green Lantern.
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/heroclix/dc/figuregallery.asp?unitid=6725
With him, Jade, and of course the KC GL, I have quite a few figures to chase in this set.
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KC GL has the KC TA, not the GL TA...but apparently that doesn't matter.
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My quest to collect the Green Lantern Corps and my love of Green Lantern are intricately connected, despite being ultimately separate. I'm doing my best to follow both mandates at the same time.
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I like how the names are different for some of the characters, like the rookie Arsenal is named speedy.
But boo to sinerstro not being in the IJL for one of his figs.
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Since we didn't do D&D last night, Sprig, I'll bring the check to EUOL's house tonight (though I'll be kind of late). Do I make the check out to you?
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yes. Though I won't be there since there's no D&D tonight either (Tage and Micah decided to goto Hitch), so give it to EUOL and I'll get it from him tomorrow.
Then on monday I'll order the case.
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Will do.
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With him, Jade, and of course the KC GL, I have quite a few figures to chase in this set.
Obsidian is also a member of the family, apparently. He's Jade's brother (son of GL) but who has a tendency to turn towards evil.
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Spriggan, it occured to me after I dropped off the check with EUOL that I'd forgotten to put your name on it. By now he's probably halfway to Mexico.
If do you manage to get the check away from him, just write your name on the "to" line and we'll be fine. All the other info is filled in.
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I tried to look him up, Kije, but Whoclix is down. I figured that site was well-used, but I had no idea it was this popular.
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I found out thorugh a link on CreationMatrix where a guy had posted promo photos on a Yahoo! site of the Legacy sculpts with a blurb about stats and identity next to each.
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ok, the order was made and the check is in the mail (or it will be once the mail man comes). I'll call them next week to make sure they got the check.
So we're saveing lots of money doing this (almost 50%) but wont get our case for almost a month. 3-5 days for the check to get there, 5-10 days for the check to clear and another few days for it to get shipped.
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Forgot to post this yesterday, sorry, I got a reply back about our order. It could be a few weeks, they still have orders ahead of ours yet to fill so it basicaly depends on how much product WK sends to them. Though it should be here before the end of the month.
I went to go buy a few boosters yesterday and the only store in Provo/Orem area that got any last week was Dragon's keep, and they got 15 only. Guess WK likes to release new clicks slowly now so the secondary market (ie E-bay) has a chance to build up. The DK guy said for need week he was able to get 5 boosters from his distributer. He said it was the same with MM and that by the end of the month everyone will have more then enough.
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Well, that's annoying. I suppose I can wait, though.
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Well it appears my cheque was cashed this week, if so we should be getting it soon. I noticed yesterday that my account was short about $250 so I'm assumeing it's for this. I'm going to try and make it to my bank today to cash my paycheck and will see then if it was. If not I've got a problem, since I haven't written out any large cheques in the past week.
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Well it appears my cheque was cashed this week
What? now you're European?
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Eh, I've allwayse liked that way of spelling Check better. Never used it before I went to Japan, but that's how they spelled them over there and it just grew on me. I don't use it all the time, especially when I'm typeing fast, but I like too.
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I really prefer grey over gray, while we're on the subject. I hate all those extra u's, though, and s instead of z in words like realize.
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feh. You are all unamerican. I'm reporting you to Joe McCarthy for your anti-patriotic way of spelling.
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I don't have to take spelling-related abuse from a guy who uses the word "feh." As a sentence. Without capitalizing it.
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That's the proper way to use "feh" in a sentence. I'm surprised you don't know that. I thought you studied English and wrote for a living.
Anyway, you may not have to take it, but you will anyway. Good ol' Joe's got your number.
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Oh look, the comp lit guy suddenly thinks he's an expert on something non-useless. You just keep yourself to yourself, frenchie, and we won't have any trouble.
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alright, now the kid gloves come off. The ninja monkeys are on the way.
So, you're saying that a degree where you only study ONE language (one that everyone already speaks and makes erroneous claims about its historical achievement) is more useful than a degree where you become completely literate in multiple languages? Pot. Kettle. Black. (Note: those were all used as sentences. But they were capitalized.)
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Jack of all languages, master of none.
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Yeah, but at least I know jack. Which would be more than I can say for English majors.
Oh, and before anyone else jumps in, we both studied language and literature. We're fully aware of the inherant irony of English and Comparative Literature majors mocking the usefulness of each other's chosen degrees. That's why we're doing it. Duh. (also a sentence, capitalized. 'Duh' is to always be capitalized -- 'feh' never.)
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feh. You are all unamerican. I'm reporting you to Joe McCarthy for your anti-patriotic way of spelling.
I don't have to take spelling-related abuse from a guy who uses the word "feh." As a sentence. Without capitalizing it.
You're both capitalist running-dog prescriptivists, you know.
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And you're a pansy. What's your point?
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Speaking of gloves being off, did somebody just call me a prescriptivist? Because it's on now.
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All this over a chec. Wow.
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This is HMW! Humanities Major Wrestling!
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This is awesome. And your both wrong. You both have useless degrees, unlike my education degree in English and Computing!
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Yes, but at least we know the difference between "your" and "you're."
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That was, of course, done intentionally for irony's sake.
And now, I am going to drink a nice warm cup of Irony's sake.
With Sushi.
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was this god at the keyboard again?
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A followup to the cheque, it was cashed on the 7th so I'm figureing it will be here around the 16th or so (that's 7 bussinness days).
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That woul dbe Wednesday. Maybe we could have the case shindig after GPP that night? (If it comes by then...)
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This Wednesday is, once again, Temple night for me. That puts me out of GPP but fine for a case party if we do it late (around 10 or so I expect).
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It just depends on when it gets here, I don't know if they shipped it on the 7th or not. UPS doesn't get here until around 3-4 pm so I wont know until after then on the day it arrives.
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Realizing that it probably won't come for another ten days...is it here yet? Do we have case-age?
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hasn't shown up yet, so I doubt it will come today, I'm expecting it tomorrow or Friday.
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Ok I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is I got a tracking e-mail for our case, the bad news is UPS says it wont get here until the 24th. Looks like it just go put into the mail today.
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The Package arrived in SLC yesterday afternoon so it'll be here today. Tonight after Ookla's party would be the best time for me to open it, if neither of you can do that I could do Friday night after 10-11pm.
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Tonight would be great for me.
I actually made it to GPP to play yesterday, but apparently there was no game. Poor sad me.
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Yeah, I showe dup late (7pm) and no one was there either. And I was dieing to try my hastily assembled Harpoon team.
I guess they're having a "Marquis" event on Saturday at noon, and that's why. I asked what the details were and noone could give them to me.
Tonight's great. I can do it after 10. Where should we do it? Sprig's? Dan's? Mine? Cottontree?
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if it's after 10 lets do it at the cottentree.
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Wow, this is like Christmas. Cottontree, 10pm, then?
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Well Fell is going to Ookla's party so lets see what time is good for him.
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We might go as long as midnight, but certainly no longer. That's still fine with me, but I don't know about Kije.
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I can do that. I just need to know when to be where. So however we work that out...yeah.
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Should we just say it's at time X (X being when Fell thinks he'll be done) at the Cottontree lobby?
Fell would just need to supply X and we'd be set.
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Well, I think Sprig is working there tonight, so he'll be there the whole time anyway, right? So I can just call Kije on my way over there.
Or better yet, Kije, come play laser tag and watch anime with us. You know Peter. Then we can head over together after it's all over.
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Do you have details on the shindig? I might be able to fit some timewasting in this evening...
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At 8:30 we meet at Laser Assault to play laser tag, $10 each. Then (around 9:30) we adjourn to Tage and EUOL's house for a movie, most likely anime. The plan is to be done with everything by midnight so Peter can get some sleep.
I could pick you up and shuttle you around if you need me to.
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Wow, somehow I wish I had come over this weekend instead of the week I came. =P Of course, I did still have fun, but ce la vie.
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I'll try and be at EUOL/Tage's around 9:30 tennish, and you can ferry me around from there. Thanks!
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Hey, did we forget to open the extra booster last night?
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I don't recall...I don't know where that extra booster ended up. I opened 13.
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We took it out, set it on a table, and forgot about it. I bet 42 or Spriggan found it at some point in the evening, but who knows what they did with it.
I suppose it's too much to hope that it had an Oracle in it, and that everyone will give her to me.
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What did you guys get, in any case?
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I'm still kind of giddy that I've got the most expensive fig in the game (Ares) and that I got the other unique I wanted: Prometheus. The only other notables on my end are an REV Captain Atom, REV Spoiler (best looking fig, worst stats,) and 4 rookie Mr. Freezes.
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you could have a whole squad of rookie freezes.
Or you could give it to me, so I can build the team of crappy figs everyone has given me for free.
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I ended up with the KC Green Lantern, which means that the evening was a success no matter what else I got. I lost Ares to Kije on a die roll (high rolls wins, I got a 5, he got a...6), but I got the giant-sized Steel, who I'm very excited about. I also got a Mongul, but I'm going to try to trade him away--he's a great brawler, but I have plenty of brawlers, and I'd rather have an Oracle or a Flash or something.
In other figs I got the REV of Joker and Jinx, who are two of the coolest in the set, and I got the Rookie Sinestro (when he's still in the Green Lantern Corps). My GL collection grows ever larger with an Obsidian (Alan Scott's son) and a Carol Ferris bystander token (Hal Jordan's girlfriend). The only figure left that I absolutely must have is the GLC version of Jade, and I'm sure I can trade for her somewhere.
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Is there a Heroclix fig of that big pig/cow thing? Forget his name... Gulag? Something...
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I don't think so, Gemm, but I'm not a Heroclix authority.
And...guess who traded for the GLC version of Jade at GPP this afternoon for the marquee event that didn't happen? That's right, me! I guess I would be willing to trade her to someone who thought that maybe it would be cool if they had her. Although no one is coming to mind at the moment...
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What will it take? I can get a ton of scrapbook supplies, if that's what you're into.
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scrapbook = sweet
And on another Heroclix note, I sold my Legacy Wonder Woman Unique on eBay for $19.50. Sweet.
And I snuck an LE Wade Wilson into it. Now I only have 2. SWEET.
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You want rid of Wade? You send here, one, yes? Gooduntag.
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Wow I'm glad we decided to do this now, WK only made about half the normal run of boosters/figures for Legacy that they normaly make so most places are allready sold out and cannot get more. GPP haven't had any for quite a while.
So what does that mean for us? Well our KC GL, Ares and Ultraman are going to be worth a lot. Some are speculateing KC GL might reach $50-60 on e-bay.
here's a quote from Bro. Magneto on the subject:
Legacy was the conflux of several elements. We had to plan this set far in advance of its actual release date, because that falls right in the middle of Chinese New Year. During Chinese New Year, our factory shuts down, and this lasts for approximately a month to a month and a half (as they train new workers after New Year).
Unfortunately, the scheduling surrounding Chinese New Year meant that we had to base the print run off of the performance of past sets and hope for the best, because we wouldn't be able to do any re-prints for quite some time - literally, it would hit sometime after Fantastic Forces.
Needless to say, Legacy sold better than we expected. Personally, I attribute it to the good PR campaign around it.
Will this be the trend in the future? No. But if you're planning on buying a case, ten boosters, two boosters, or trying to help your retailer plan for a Marquee, make sure you let your retailer know and make sure that retailer orders early. Early sales are always easier to guarantee, because if a distributor knows how many cases retailers have ordered before a print run commences, we can make sure they have each case they want.
So why did they produce such a small number? Well many distributers have lots and lots of hypertime and Unleashed. Only Cosmic Justice had previously sold out.
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again I'd like to point out how smart it was for us to buy this early, same place we bought ours is now selling a Legacy case for $150 more then what we paid for it.
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Though I have no intention of selling it, I get on ebay every day and check out the going price for KC Green Lantern. Finally I own a valuable collectible!
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KC GL has hit the $70 mark
http://gamingetc.safeshopper.com/1523/15110.htm?458
and both Ares and KC Flash hit $60
http://gamingetc.safeshopper.com/1523/cat1523.htm?458
On E-bay he's hit the low 40s
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I noticed today that he's gone down. For some reason, though, the LE Hal Jordan was over $100 last week. I had no idea he was that sought after. He's also the only GL I don't have, so I guess I won't be getting him any time soon.