Here is Pack 3 of the Star Wars Masterwork box I opened. We are past the halfway point on the box now, having pulled a Luke Skywalker manu-relic and a Lee Lightfoot painted sketch card as the hits in the first two packs.
The two base cards in the pack are Sy Snootles, lead singer for Jabba's house band, and Captain Piett, who was promoted to Admiral after watching Darth Vader Force choke his predecessor to death for incompetence and later died in a space battle.
The 4-LOM card is a Blue parallel. The Blue cards are not serially-numbered and can easily be mistaken for base cards. The Tusken Raider is from the insert set Scum and Villainy, which highlights villains from the Star Wars universe. Like the other basic inserts in the product, this is a 10-card set.
And here is the hit for the box, a base autograph of Tim Rose as Admiral Ackbar. Being a base autograph of a middle-tier character makes this sort of a low-end hit. Ackbar is one of my personal favorite characters though, so if I wasn't going to pull a Carrie Fisher or Harrison Ford autograph this would be the one for me to get. With the promised autograph and sketch card out of the way, this box is pretty darn average. I like the cards well enough and I'm glad to pull an Ackbar PC hit, but nothing has blown me off my feet and so far I haven't seen any of the rarer parallels or variations, like acetate, wood, or metal-framed cards.
It's a trap!!!
ReplyDeleteI have two or three t-shirts featuring variations of Admiral Ackbar's famous line.
DeleteWow, not even blue foil on the 4-LOM? That's kind of....lackluster. Is the Sy Snootles a purple parallel? She's supposed to be yellow.
ReplyDeleteThe parallels are pretty understated in this product. A lot of people passed right over their Blue parallels, especially in the early going when they didn't know what they were looking at.
DeleteI think the photo they grabbed for the Snootles card suffers from poor lighting. You can kind of see how under brighter lights she would be yellow in color.
I like the Tusken Raider
ReplyDeleteI like it, too. The Scum & Villainy set is probably the most popular of the three basic insert sets.
DeleteSo cool. Did you buy the pack at a store?
ReplyDeleteI bought the box from a seller on eBay. My local shop didn't get any of this stuff, and I didn't think ahead far enough to pre-order from anyone. I didn't realize how cool the product would be.
DeleteAs a fan of the original trilogy, I think I might have to pick up a few packs of this. I do dig that Ackbar autograph.
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