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Post Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:25 pm 
 

What sort of case does each set of AD&D Monster Cards come in? I recently bought set 2 off eBay and I was rather surprised that the plastic case/holder doesn't close; it's basically just one-sided tray. If the cards were hanging on a rack, for example, the cards would fall out. (The original shrink wrap would have kept them in place, though.)

Is this normal, or is my set's case missing the front half?


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Post Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:04 pm 
 

My recollection, Guy, is that they came in a case similar to the TSR Minigames and that they weren't shrinked at all but were held together with the pinching-buttons or whatever at the corners of the cases, but I could be off on that.  

Hmmm:  checking the Tome, I can't tell if there's another half to the plastic case or not @ http://www.tomeoftreasures.com/forum/vi ... php?t=4326
It does look like 2 pieces/halves to the outer case (although it could be one piece hinged across the bottom), and there's definitely shrink there.

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Post Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:24 pm 
 

I didn't think to check the Tome's forums; I should have thought of that. To me, the pictures look somewhat inconclusive in the matter. But maybe I'm just being hopeful that my one-sided case is correct :)

Mine one-sided case is somewhat reminiscent of the mini games' cases, but it doesn't have any evidence of a hinge, nor does it have any sort of notch that would grab onto a cover.


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Post Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:33 pm 
 

None of my sets have any top piece, though they also are not shrink wrapped.

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Post Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:43 pm 
 

Plaag wrote:None of my sets have any top piece, though they also are not shrink wrapped.

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The one-sided tray was shrinkwrapped to hold the cards in place until they were opened.


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Post Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:53 pm 
 

TheMilford wrote:The one-sided tray was shrinkwrapped to hold the cards in place until they were opened.

I have sets with the two-sided trays.

  

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Post Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:54 pm 
 

TheMilford wrote:
The one-sided tray was shrinkwrapped to hold the cards in place until they were opened.


I'm not sure that's exactly right.  My shrinkwrapped sets are pretty buried in storage at the moment, but I'm pretty sure the cards are in a plastic case (one piece wrapping around front and back) and then shrinkwrap is over that as one would expect.

  


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Post Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:02 pm 
 

TheHistorian wrote:
I'm not sure that's exactly right.  My shrinkwrapped sets are pretty buried in storage at the moment, but I'm pretty sure the cards are in a plastic case (one piece wrapping around front and back) and then shrinkwrap is over that as one would expect.


I bought my cards from three different sources at three different times wrapped and unwrapped and they are all like I described.

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