The Lucky Finds bragging thread

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danth wrote:How does one tell the difference between them? I saw some DBZ cards at my dollar store and thought of this thread, but I don't know which are the good ones.
I'm not sure, I bought one of each of the different packs, but so far I've only opened one.
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danth wrote:How does one tell the difference between them? I saw some DBZ cards at my dollar store and thought of this thread, but I don't know which are the good ones.
Danth, which cards are you referring to as "the good ones?" Personally, I have a soft spot for all of them. :lol:

The easiest way to tell what you are buying is to see if there is a year listed anywhere on the pack or box. The newer cards say "2014 Dragonball Z Trading Card Game" very prominently, though I'm not sure if there's any indication of the year on the older card packs.
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danth wrote:How does one tell the difference between them? I saw some DBZ cards at my dollar store and thought of this thread, but I don't know which are the good ones.
The ones I was collecting were the Funimation re-releases of the actual Japanese cards, which have the original Japanese look of the packs, with Japanese writing on them. I think they had series 1-3, 4 in some rare cases. They also had packs that show the actual cards, prepacked into see through bags (6 per pack or something). I thought all the non-Japanese ones were junk. :lol:
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I got this the other day for free....still in the shrinkwrap, haha. XD
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Oh gosh! I remember that. There was a BGC one, too. Those were for Windows 3.1, right? Or for Windows 95?
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greg wrote:Oh gosh! I remember that. There was a BGC one, too. Those were for Windows 3.1, right? Or for Windows 95?
I think it's 3.1! :lol: I always wanted one and the BGC one back in the day, but they were so expensive! I'm tempted to open it and see if I can get it to load on a DOS prompt or something. XD
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greg wrote:Oh gosh! I remember that. There was a BGC one, too. Those were for Windows 3.1, right? Or for Windows 95?
I think it's 3.1! :lol: I always wanted one and the BGC one back in the day, but they were so expensive! I'm tempted to open it and see if I can get it to load on a DOS prompt or something. XD
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Okay, so I realize that only a few of you on here are into models, however this should be of interest to everyone. I recently scored a plastic model kit set of Leda: Fantastic Adventure of Yohko off YAJ. What is so cool about this kit set is that it's made to look like a VHS box set, and each model is contained in a box made to look like a VHS cassette.

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Check out the Tumblr page I made for more pics of this cool packaging. What's extra cool is that it only cost me 2000 yen!
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omg that is so cool!! I'm totally in love with the packaging on it, greg. What a great find!
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Oh cool. So basically one "VHS" is a package of materials for Yohko standing and the other is her riding the vehicle?
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