Say, Tad, I sent you a PM.  Thanks!

No Updates from the Tad?

No more children's antics...?

Probably.

Yalahii.

heh, cool. Do you know which card? (And ideally which expansion set? Just looked it up at decipher, and yikes, there are many...)
Was he an elf, so actually recognizable, or an orc?

We missed you too!

Wouldn't that be "Baloney" then? *grin*

Welcome Back Tad and fambly. We missed you too.

I was poking fun at the kid-spelling of Bologna!

But yes Bologna is a bunch of Baloney...*grin*

yes this is the right board for plays on words...8)

A friend and I have recently gotten sucked into the evil world of the Star Wars TCG. Much fun and not too many expansions yet which is nice if you are just starting out.

Tried the Pirates game and it's fun, but I haven't played it in awhile so I'm thinking it's more of a casual game to play when you're bored.

The Yu-gi-oh thing just boggles my mind.  Stopped by the card shop recently to buy a couple packs of Star Wars and there were over 70 kids there who had shown up for a tournament.

Whatever happened to the good 'ole days when kids would collect wholesome cards like Garbage Pal kids.

Stuart wrote:

This is a phenomenon that has so far passed me by; perhaps I should be indoctrinating Lily now agains the evils of card collecting so she'll have plenty of time to perform essential tasks, like getting me another beer from the fridge.

[ July 25, 2005: Message edited by: Stuart ]

At three years of age, my daughter does this spontaneously.  We have a small fridge next to the desktop computer in which we keep beer and pop.  Samantha will occasionally bring me a beer from here.  She even knows to bring the beer with the orange label (Oberon - yum!) as opposed to the watery Michelob Ultra that my wife sometimes drinks.  She hasn't figured out that she should bring the bottle opener at the same time, though.

I expect Protective Services will be paying us a visit any time now...

actually, when my daughter was in kindergarten and first grade, the pokemon thing had exploded.  she never EVER wanted to get cards.  she thought it was stupid. i was very proud that she was able to make her own mind up about it and not follow the fad.  she is now in 8th grade and she still marches to her own beat.

originally posted by Stuart:
  and hence on the rare occasion that one arrives they are be-pinked and glittered from head to toe.

I won't tell Medea that 'cause I fear she'll demand to change family and move to Yorkshire.

Ah you got me there, I actually store my real beer in the space under the stairs, I was just trying to look more cosmopolitan and sophisticated, like I drink imported lager, like we have a fridge!

I'll just get another black pudding down from the meathooks (.which we do have in our house it being an old farm)

I've booked my hotel room and time off for the last Wednesday in September for the Black Sheep Brewery Annual General Meeting, very excited.  The shareholders gather to answer yes to a few questions then drink free and fine ale for the rest of the day. It is essentially the preverbial p1ss up in a brewery.

Surely the trick is to invent some card system and make millions off other people's kids while making exclusive cards for your own little uber-collector, cash and kudos, sweeet.

[ July 26, 2005: Message edited by: Stuart ]

Making a CCG that will sell in droves is a LOT harder than it looks...more then one small company has gone bankrupt thanks to larger, better-backed companies pushing their Flat-crack out to the kids. Most of the stuff that kids are into now is being pushed by media-giants; Pokeyermon, Yu-gi-Blow, Duel Meisters etc...are backed by the companies that produced or will produce, related anime/cartoon companies that have the cashola to overwhelm their opponents...only long-time games like Magic and Legend of the Five Rings which has an existing Fanbase have stuck around. But even then Magic is now owned by Hasbro and even L5R was briefly owned by WotC, thus giving themselves a much needed shot in the arm to keep goign, and now they're goign gangbusters right along with magic.
The thing that saddens me is that all the current crop of card games do is teach kids poor values...$100 for a piece of Cardboard and print? Rarity, schmarity...8P
There's a reason my friends and I form back in Mass used to call it "Flat-Crack"...
Anyway, sorry for Rantishness...theres a reason I quit CCG collecting...8P

Hey Tad, I sent you some Email, when you get the chance to look at it...8)