It's been too long without a break

It's cool to read about people breaking open their product and we haven't had much to read for a while so I've bought a couple of cheap and cheerful 2012 Ltd to share. Not a great product, but I'm determined to get a full set of parallels and the cheapest way to do that seems to actually be by buying boxes. Plus there are a few sigs I need.

Once again Card Central in NZ have been excellent - this time including a complimentary album with album pack.

Album pack - JWH foil

Box 1 - 6 foils; the exact same 6 as my last box so are free to trade for other foils - Boyd Aus, Bromwich NZ, Cronk AS, Bird IAS, Bird NSW, Civoniceva QLD.

AND a Paul Gallen sig, which I need but has some damage as do other cards. The top right corner is scalloped a bit (very small) and a line down the centre from the roller, which culminates in a small abrasion on Gallen's shoulder. All the white index cards have the same issue (not that that matters), but foils are fine. The first box I opened on release had a Cam Smith sig with the same problem so must be common place along their production run.

I'm not sure I can be bothered going through the fuss of replacing it.

I'll open box 2 now...

Box 2 - 6 foils, 3 swaps Uate Aus, Waddell IAS & JWH again (did I say this was a cheaper way to get the parallels)?!

Benji Marshall AS sig - this is a swap. I also have a Hindmarsh 3 coloured jersey swap from a sale that fell through. Will swap for Thurston, Smith QLD, Inglis or Mannering sigs from this set.



The damage is hard to pick up on a scan, but it is enough that I wouldn't feel comfortable ever selling or trading it.

A good break in all

PS - All the best to anyone on here affected by the Sydney bushfires

Thanks for sharing the break, it had been a while!!

This has to be the most frustrating series to get any decent cards. Only been buying the odd pack hoping for both Benji Sigs or the Mannering Jeresy. No luck as yet so cool to see you got one!!

Well done mate I may need some of the parralels i will have a look when i get home

troy titans douglas said:

Well done mate I may need some of the parralels i will have a look when i get home

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Thanks, mate

I have four other parallel swaps from previous breaks - Smith Aus, Slater QLD, Bird IAS, Cronk AS.

Looking for trades.

HaydenPR said:

This has to be the most frustrating series to get any decent cards. Only been buying the odd pack hoping for both Benji Sigs or the Mannering Jeresy. No luck as yet so cool to see you got one!!

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Yeah, you can spend a lot of money on nothing with this one.

I'm open on any equivalent sig trades on the Marshall if we can work something out - would be nice to send it to someone who obviously values it.

Thanks for putting this up
Good to see you get a couple of hits at least on these..

It's going to be a long time till next release so good to see some box breaks in the meantime.