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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.

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.

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.

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.

I got this the other day for free....still in the shrinkwrap, haha. XD

Oh gosh! I remember that. There was a BGC one, too. Those were for Windows 3.1, right? Or for Windows 95?

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! 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

usamimi wrote:

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! 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

It's been a few years, but I believe I was able to get the Ranma 1/2 screennsaver to load in Windows XP; not sure if it will work in later versions.

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.



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!

omg that is so cool!! I'm totally in love with the packaging on it, greg. What a great find!

Oh cool. So basically one "VHS" is a package of materials for Yohko standing and the other is her riding the vehicle?