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Originally Posted by glorbgorb
This is an odd set to me. Wolverine is already one of the most popular characters out there, and he appears in every non-MCU set made as it is. So they throw in a couple more--Old Man Logan, some Weapon X cards--but we see those in other sets as well. So is this just another Marvel set with 'more popularity' because it has Wolverine in the name, some Claw Cut Covers (say that fast five times), and a handful more base cards?
He's been in comics with every conceivable other character you can think of (not literally, but you get the point) so at what point does this stop being a Wolverine set and start being just another Marvel set?
This is mainly in response to all those "I'm all in on FU Wolverine, but didn't buy any of FU Avengers or <fill in the blank>". At some point these are ALL just Marvel sets.
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I think that’s exactly what upper deck is banking on, the popularity of Wolverine. To me, this is just another fleer ultra x-men set (which I’m hyped about) with some additional Wolverine cards. I think they may have figured that was enough to justify this print run but honestly I’m really curious to see how these boxes play out long term. 50k hobby/epack is much different than 30-35k hobby/epack.
As BobCollects pointed out, people have wisened up to how upper deck prices these boxes and print runs. $235-$250 preorder is more indicative of print run than anything to me. I do think this will be the set where UD determines higher print runs may not be the way to go in such a closed distribution ecosystem. I really don’t know who they were fooling when they jacked up the number of hobby/epack they were putting out for this set. I love the art, I will surely collect, but if hobby boxes aren’t available at $150 by this time next year will be utterly shocked/floored whatever you want to call it. I believe fleer ultra midnight sons is going sub $100 by the same time.
07-08-2024, 04:27 PM
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