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Carded Minesweeper
Posted: 23 Mar 2008 13:18
by captainwatts
Hi eveyone this is my first post so please be gentle.I have been collecting for about 6 months now to add to my childhood set up.To begin with i wanted to collect all z force carded figures,have managed to get all bar one.yes you've probably guessed the one i'm missing is the minesweeper.
Does anyone know if these ever is availible as i noiticed whilst looking at collections that even jonesy doesnt have it.Also what kind of price would i be looking at.
cheers,The Captain.
Re: Carded Minesweeper
Posted: 23 Mar 2008 13:26
by captainwatts
sorry,not a good start but i ment to say louie not jonesy
Re: Carded Minesweeper
Posted: 23 Mar 2008 13:48
by scoobydie
I`ve got one going up on ebay tonight, not a sealed card, just the figure ,accessories and backing card .
He`s missing one land-mine though.
Got to pay for some big bills so he has to go now
Re: Carded Minesweeper
Posted: 23 Mar 2008 13:57
by captainwatts
Will keep an eye out for that tonight then.Is the rareity down to a small number made or was it just not a popular figure at the time.
i have yet to see a mint carded one for sale at all.
Re: Carded Minesweeper
Posted: 23 Mar 2008 14:06
by The Baron
Carded ones have cropped up on ebay from time to time, so don't give up on them. I'm not sure why they're so rare, it's always worth checking the bulk lot auctions for figs and accessories.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Action-Force-Z-Fo ... dZViewItem
Welcome to the club!
Re: Carded Minesweeper
Posted: 23 Mar 2008 14:11
by captainwatts
Thanks for the tip Baron,and i have to say that the photos of your collection blew me away and have inspired me to build my own army.Primarily Z Force and The Enemy.
Hope to post some pictures of my collection at some point,if the wife will show me how.
Re: Carded Minesweeper
Posted: 23 Mar 2008 14:16
by The Baron
Thanks!
There are more pics of my collection in amongst the
Travelling Muton mayhem.
Re: Carded Minesweeper
Posted: 23 Mar 2008 14:33
by paulitoy
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I'm pretty sure that the minesweeper just wasn't produced in very large quantities. He's the only figure that I never had as a kid and I don't ever recall even seeing him in a shop. There's no obvious reason for this of course, but it just seems to have had less produced. Nearly all the regular figures are available moc quite easily, but I've yet to actually see this little fella carded myself.
Jonathan Bow [newswseller on here] said he had a moc for sale a month or two back. Don't know if he has shifted it yet, it might be worth pm-ing him to ask but the price will obviously be quite steep.
Re: Carded Minesweeper
Posted: 23 Mar 2008 20:06
by scoobydie
I heard of one that went for £200 carded, I think that was Newswseller though.
I`ve only seen one carded Night Patrol on Ebay too, and that went for just under £100 !
Another rarity in itself.
Re: Carded Minesweeper
Posted: 23 Mar 2008 20:43
by paulitoy
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£200 quid is a bit ridiculous! I guess people will pay if they want it bad enough.
I was thinking about the lack of carded Minesweeper's a few months back....
Before collecting action force I spent a few years collecting star wars. Now there are a ton of unreleased prototypes in the star wars toy range. Once I had all the released toys, I wanted custom copies of the unreleased stuff. Over many months I managed to aquire a full set of 6 never released ewok figures:
Once I had them, I got someone to make repro cardbacks, a different guy to make repro coins and then I got some bubbles, used a special cleaning substance to remove the old glue & paper from them and then re-carded all the unreleased ewoks. It took hundreds of emails and loads of time but in the end I ended up with the photo above of six never released figures that look near-perfect.
Whats the action Force point? Well, I thought about getting the same people to make a couple Of Minesweeper cardbacks, get a few uncrushed bubbles cleaned up and re-card a few minesweepers. Because its fairly expensive [maybe £30 to £40] I'd need a couple of others to chip in with me so I could save a little in bulk-buying.
Basically, if you have a complete Minesweeper and want it recarded [and don't mind forking out a fair sum] we could get it done.
If anyone's interested, lmk....
If not, no worries, it can wait till another day.