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Title: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: N64 Chick on June 17, 2009, 09:45:32 AM
Has anyone seen these around before? I didn't even know of such a thing until a few days ago when I was looking for Pokémon cards...

(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv337%2Fn64chick%2FSMGcardpacks.jpg&hash=ce4ff5ee6c6e3f11617b9a6ca231b2a6)

If anyone is curious, I'll post a little report of sorts on them.
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: Tv_Themes on June 17, 2009, 09:56:09 AM
Who still plays with Pokemon cards these days?
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: N64 Chick on June 17, 2009, 09:59:38 AM
My nephews apparently...
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: Chupperson Weird on June 17, 2009, 10:49:14 AM
Plenty of people who shop where I work.
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Post by: Turtlekid1 on June 17, 2009, 11:52:59 AM
I see them at Wal-Mart all the time.
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: Tv_Themes on June 17, 2009, 03:02:47 PM
I feel bad for changing the topic now ._.

I see them at Wal-Mart all the time.

The Pokemon cards? Or Galaxy cards?
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Post by: Turtlekid1 on June 17, 2009, 03:59:40 PM
The Galaxy cards.

Another one-liner for me.  I need to get some new material.
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Post by: Weegee on June 17, 2009, 07:16:55 PM
Those Galaxy cards look so amazing that I would, provided that they're available in Canada, purchase the entire collection, fry them up and eat eat 'em, so they could always be a part of me. Otherwise, Club Nintendo's virtually-unobtainable, Mario-themed Hafunda cards will have to suffice:

(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg105.imageshack.us%2Fimg105%2F4516%2Fhanafudacardscnlp3.jpg&hash=d149e6c91a934d341b3d4f237186fd06)
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: Super Caterina! on June 18, 2009, 10:28:54 AM
Oh the Hanafuda! Those cards are really so great!
They also have that old-school design of Mario and Co. that I love so much!!! *_*

I have been informed that you can find the Hanafuda in internet, but they cost sooo much: about 40 Euros (don't know in dollars, but almost the same). I don't believe in this: I think only that some Japanese guys are taking advantage of the fact that you can find these beautiful cards only in the Japanese Nintendo Fan Club.... =/

Anyway, since when have the Super Mario Galaxy trading cards been sold? This is the first time I see them: I hope they will be sold also in Europe!
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Post by: Black Mage on June 18, 2009, 10:42:23 AM
You can get them in the American Club Nintendo now as well. What is it, 800 coins?
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Post by: Luigison on June 18, 2009, 10:50:31 AM
I have been informed that you can find the Hanafuda in internet, but they cost sooo much: about 40 Euros (don't know in dollars, but almost the same).
40 Euros = 55.67600 U.S. dollars (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=CP0&q=40+euros+to+us+dollars&aq=f&oq=&aqi=)

I don't believe in this: I think only that some Japanese guys are taking advantage of the fact that you can find these beautiful cards only in the Japanese Nintendo Fan Club.... =/
I live in the US and have a deck from club.nintendo.com which I believe services NA.  I think most major countries have a Club Nintendo now.  Have you checked to see if they are available at NOE? 
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/service/nintendo_global_2148.html
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: ShadowBrain on June 18, 2009, 11:51:35 AM
I saw Twilight Princess trading cards (including stickers, etc.) at a Wal-Mart two years or so back while Halloween shopping. I bought 'em for my brother's birthday.
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: Weegee on June 18, 2009, 03:16:39 PM
You can get them in the American Club Nintendo now as well. What is it, 800 coins?

800 Coins on the button. They're certainly available in Japan and North America, but it's hard to say the same for Super Catalina's native Italy. Of course, eBay always has a few decks for sale, albeit at exorbitantly high prices.
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Post by: Lizard Dude on June 19, 2009, 01:41:16 AM
Those are not high prices.

Nintendo charges $800 for them.
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Post by: CrossEyed7 on June 19, 2009, 02:09:59 AM
Well, the cards cost $800, but then you get $800 worth of games for free.
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Post by: Weegee on June 19, 2009, 12:55:21 PM
Well, there's a paradox if I've ever seen one: You have to buy $800 worth of games to get the cards which allow you to get $800 worth of games for free? All I know is that it took the combined totals of my own and my cousin's games to afford a 600-coin cardboard-and-foam game case. One schmexy game case, mind you, but just a game case nonetheless.
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Post by: N64 Chick on June 19, 2009, 01:51:34 PM
You got one of those cases too, Weegee? I know I did.
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Post by: Weegee on June 19, 2009, 06:50:52 PM
You know you did, or do you think you know you did?

(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi23.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fb380%2FTheHan%2FIMG_0622.jpg&hash=2ccc72ab9a8a7ad1f28364a6169cd590)

Yeah?
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: SolidShroom on June 20, 2009, 06:09:00 AM
I've contemplated getting that but really I have no idea which reward I should get because they all look incredible.
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: Weegee on June 20, 2009, 01:17:16 PM
Yeah, deciding between the SMB game case and the Hafunda cards was brutal. In the end, the former won out because laminated cardboard and foam is more likely to survive a juice spill than paper cards.
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Post by: CrossEyed7 on June 20, 2009, 01:28:21 PM
I'm gonna wait until next month to do anything. I got Platinum status, and I want to make sure the prize you get for that isn't something I was going to buy (doubtful, I know, since this isn't Japan). I'm also not registering anything until then, because it seems like a waste to go over 600 in a year.
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: Weegee on June 20, 2009, 01:54:11 PM
The Platinum status prize (which I'll be getting as well) is probably something relatively trivial compared to the actual collectibles. I'd expect something to the likes of a commemorative coin. On a related note, Japan's Club Nintendo has access to exponentially cooler stuff than ours. Really, who wouldn't want a Nintendo DS case shaped like Mario's hat?
(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalbattle.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2006%2F06%2Fdsmariohat.jpg&hash=4e5c5f0a563f47174294c2c4d1711bda)

EDITED EDIT: Whoops; my bad.
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: SolidShroom on June 20, 2009, 02:52:05 PM
No, coins last for 2 whole full years.

Statuses get reset every year though, so I'll be a platinum member for basically like 10 more days.
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: N64 Chick on June 21, 2009, 05:37:47 PM
That's the one I got too, Weegee. I liked how it smelled like a shoe store when I first got it. Mmm...shoe store scent...

Anyway, back to the SMG trading cards, I made a video about it which can be seen here (http://n64-chick.livejournal.com/369939.html). This will probably be the only time you'll ever see me in front of a webcam...

Or you can simply ignore that and just check out the card checklist (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/n64chick/SMGcardchecklist.jpg). Do note that because the size of this thing, I had a little trouble scanning it.
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: bullykoopa96 on June 29, 2009, 02:13:05 PM
speaking of pokemon cards, I am very thankful I didn't go for that fad...my friends wasted LOTS of money on that crap

I remember the real Mario cards there with drawn screens from mario 1 and 2, and there were those silver things to scratch to see if you won...those were cool
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: ShadowBrain on June 29, 2009, 04:01:01 PM
Yeah, I've got a few of those myself.
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: N64 Chick on June 29, 2009, 06:21:18 PM
I remember the real Mario cards there with drawn screens from mario 1 and 2, and there were those silver things to scratch to see if you won...those were cool
I have some of those actually. I picked them up at the Goodwill that I used to work at. I never did scratch off any of them though. :P
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: ShadowBrain on June 29, 2009, 09:31:07 PM
Yeah, that kind of stuff you leave be. I picked 'em up at Starabilias in Downtown Disney years ago.
Title: Re: Super Mario Galaxy trading cards?
Post by: N64 Chick on June 30, 2009, 03:56:51 PM
If any if them were doubles, I would've done it. But of course, none of these were.