I’m having a really hard time wrapping my head around the idea that the only cards they had were red logo. Can anybody enlighten me please?
It’s gonna be hard to get an answer that you can read from them, since they’re upside down.
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My understanding is that some packs/boxes, but not all, were red logo. Australians still had access to non-red logo packs/boxes that came from earlier allocations before the counterfeit measures were put in place.
@acebren @1by1collector @ozenigma @churlocker What do you think?
My personal experience; I never witnessed red logo jungle or fossil being sold in retail stores as a child.
It’s probable they were later prints - way past the original jungle and fossil releases in Australia, hence the 1999-2000 copyright dates.
I’m not sure where they were distributed, Perth didn’t get any to my knowledge! Hopefully other Aussies can chime in with their personal experiences.
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I remember seeing most products as yellow and once saw red and thought it was fake.
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Awesome, what city? And I’m guessing it was jungle? Fossil is so scarce!
Seeing as we didnt print base set here we got them all with yellow logos.
I personally never saw a red logo pack in the shops
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That makes me feel better about what I was thinking, does anybody still have any of those childhood Yellow logo cards? Im working on a project identifying printings
There were Base Set packs printed in Australia. TCA somewhat recently cracked open a box and I personally have a few sealed packs.
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That would be fourth print, right?
I’m also curious about when they started going for sale in the country
Fourth print is an outdated term. There were like 8+ prints of english base set. But they were 1999-2000 packs, which is synonymous with “fourth print”.
Im familiar with that stuff. I’ve been working on identifying print runs, and I’m trying to figure out what all Australia had. Does anybody remember if they were mostly third print packs For jungle? Did Australia get much base unlimited before the 19 99–2000 print?
I was under the impression 99-00 packs were printed in the uk only?
No, there are both Australian and US 1999-2000 english packs.
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Regular yellow logo jungle was the vast majority of jungle product distributed in Australia.
It is and always has been exceedingly rare to find any cards pulled from red logo jungle packs in old collections purchased in Australia. The red logo jungle cards have a glossier card stock and slightly different colours to regular jungle print so they can be distinguished.
I’ve personally only found them in 1 collection but and that was years ago.
It does seem like the majority of red logo stuff was printed and not released to the public - likely due to other sets (rocket and gym) being new popular releases. Jungle and fossil just wouldn’t have sold at that point.
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Sydney myself. Specifically toy r us.
I cant remember whether it was jungle or fossil but given i dont have any 3rd print fossil cards it must have been jungle.
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Cool discussion, had no ideas these differences in logo existed. If you have a visual for the different logos could you kindly share it?
Love these packs I’m sad that people started recognizing them and marking them up so high
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You have this uncut sheet of unlimited 1st edition Base that was supposedly for Australia. Doesn’t get talked about much.
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