My Promo & Oddball Stuff

Hi all,

just been going through some albums, mostly promo stuff.
thought i'd scan some things as I go through, kinda make a little
thread of my oddball stuff and maybe include some info on how I got it
or why I wanted it at the time sort of thing if I remember, my memory isn't getting any better, so this might act as a personal diary for me.

Also there are things I would like info' on so if you have a story on any of my stuff, I’d love to hear of it, a large part of my collection, or me collecting promo stuff, is knowing the origin of it, why it came to be, how it was acquired, production run #s, variants of any kind, any info is great info for me.

Nothing is for sale here, if there are multiples of things I might do a for sale thread and put it there.

anyways, i'll start with some futera sample cards, rather then scanning complete sets i'll just show them in blocks of 4 as there kept like that.

Apparently futera produced 50 sets of samples per series.
only some dealers got one set to display in store, the bulk of the samples didn't really come out until futera closed down.

1994 - Elite 11's, Hattrick Card, Great Cricket Memories & Border Hologram


1995 - Bat 2 Balls, Supreme Team


3 Redemption Sets: Greg & Ian Chappell, Greg Blewett.
Even though they have sample printed on them, futera still punched the
hole out on the redemption cards before giving out, would like to know
if anyone has seen an unpunched sample redemption?


1996 Cricket Elite: Impact Card, Marsh/Lillee Redemption set,
Specialists set & Freshman set



That'll do for samples for a while, i'll get back to them later.

1994 Futera NBL Series 1 (Keyway Set)
Complete set of 110 cards, all overstamped with the Keyway Logo on front

Being a checklist freak, I'd really love another set of these 4 checklists
if anyone has a broken set?

1993 Hot Surf: common set of 50 has a variation set of 25 fronts & 25 backs.

There were miss printed cards where they had the front of the card on both sides and the backs of cards on both sides.
so for example, card #1 has the front of card #50 on the back, so two fronts, card #2 has #49 on the back, so 25 cards make the complete set of fronts, same with the backs, 25 different cards with the backs on both sides.

There's more backs then there are fronts, I found a set of fronts in about every 500 packs and 3 sets of backs in 500 loose packs.

Mark Richards Auto's from the export series..


Electric Chair Hologram from True Crime II

was one of my greatest non-sport pulls, and from an $8 box!

whew, i'm scanned out, bye for now..

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ok a few more..

'95 Futera Grand Prix: wrapper redemption promo


Set of 2 promo's for Ashes Winning Captains series & the jack dempsey boxing greats promo from the U.K.


'94 Futera NBL: black & white "sportscard expo geelong" promo cards

these are copies of the futera commons, in B&W, thin card stock and the front has the overprint promoting the expo at the arena, geelong in '94.
#21 Adrian Branch - #22 Cecil Exum
think these were inserted in one of the magazines, not really sure now.
are there only 2 different ones?

When dynamic switched names to intrepid, everything seemed to go downhill
from there, although a few gems came out of it in the end i s'pose.
at ozcon in '96 the intrepid stand was really buzziing with a heap of no-name stars signing autographs, there tables overflowing with promo cards and freebies, opposite side Select were dishing out promo's too, wayne campbell signing auto's, Tempo throwing out pumped up downunder & gladiators promo's, it was an f'n frenzy for us promo hoarders at the time, if it was free, i'll take 3 was our motto, well, I took the lot if I got away with it

Super League was flavour of the day, did not happen but the promo cards did
Regular & Ozcon variant..


'96 Rugby League have the same ozcon variant


Netball is played by one million girls in australia, if you want to pick up, then a netball game is about as good a place as any to do so.
and if your no good at picking up then do like I did and hunt around for anything promotional that you can hide under your jumper, flags, programs, scarfs and knickers were my fav's
1997 was a great year in netball, would you believe fisher & paykel, the fridge dudes, produced a promo series of cards!
3 series, one for the under 21's the seniors, and the australian olympic team

U21's set of 12


Seniors Set of 12


Olympic Team Set of 9


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Star Wars Harmony Foods Promo Set of 24..

was the hardest food promo card set i've ever tried to complete!
they came in little tins shaped like a movie reel, inside was two little packs
of gummi bear type lollies and 3 cards, problem was every tin in my area had the same 3 cards! collation was really bad, they were only around for a few months and gone, I only completed a couple sets when I found the tins in a clearance bin at target later on down the track.

Star Wars Movie Shots (netherlands)

in '97 I stopped in amsterdam, went there for 4 days to chill half way through a euro drive through before moving on.
I ended up staying there for 36 days, had a ball, and during that time they had these movie shot things in packs of chips, did hundreds, maybe a thousand packs of chips, that's all I remember for my trip there.

Star Wars retailer promo envelope, dealer incentive promo, contains the MM1 multimotion widevision promo


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TV Week promo cards were another tuff promo set to complete.
in promo circles, series 1 went relatively unknown until series 2 came out.
one card per issue, series 2 was 32 cards so 32 weeks to complete the set,
series 1 had 24 cards, also there were Gold versions randomly inserted, problem was when you found gold, all the tv weeks in that bundle had gold! was just a matter of finding the golden bundles

series 1 gold set of 24..


series 2 gold set of 32..


But wait.. there is more!
in between series one & series two there was a "special series" a set of 4.
here's #1 of 4, gold version, don't know if there was a common version.
have never seen #s 2, 3, 4 of 4 either


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Austin powers goldmember token thingies from chips.
only a set of 25 but each one has 5 different colour backs!
the 3 fat bastard ones were only in multi packs which made completing the variant set
a total bastard

nice stuff mate, well done i didnt know that there were any netball cards produced ever lol

Nice Electric chair holo. I have busted two boxes of True Crime II and did not get one.

I don't know whether to bust anymore boxes to get it.

think it was '96 that Sports Weekly magazine came out
from issue #1 they inserted these trivia cards, one per week..




sports weekly only lasted 14 weeks, was pulled off the shelf like overnight.
it seems most likely that there would of been more cards in this series if
the mag' continued, have a feeling they would of had the next card in line
already printed but someone told me that in these cases they usually print the card to go in that week at the same time as the mag' so maybe 14 cards is it.

wow thats a huuuuge mailday! i love oddball stuff

Fantastic collection of promo material, all the same sort of stuff i collect.

I'm trying to upload some scans but not having much luck.
I scaned my TV Week #2 of 4 card i thought you might like to see it.



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i have seen one of those plucka duck cards signed

Nice cards BTW, i really like promotional cards and items

Love your work. I just sold all my cards from back in the day. Kinda wish I hadn't!!!

robspromos said:

Fantastic collection of promo material, all the same sort of stuff i collect.

I'm trying to upload some scans but not having much luck.
I scaned my TV Week #2 of 4 card i thought you might like to see it.

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yeah i'd really like to see that, oh hang on, when i quote your post your image text comes up, that's wierd, lets see if it shows up..

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oh cool, that's a great one.
the date and details on the back explain a few things for me.
so you wanna sell it?

If i had another one i'd sell it, this is the only one i've come across, i picked it up on ebay with a load of common TV week cards.

I wonder if the other 2 are, Silver Logie and complete set card, just me speculating.

hi there great stuff you have

do you have any futera cards you are looking to get rid of?

Cheers

Hi, nice collection of promos, thought you might like to see this one, iive spent hours googling this
and cant find any info other than its listing on futera FUTERA : page : show,
it says 3 of 3, of 334 does that mean there were 334 were issued? Good luck with ur wants.

Hi Batfink, there is a book called "The Futera File" which has a small discription about the set your talking about on page 110.

I'd scan the part in the book for you, but i just can't seem to load up any photos onto this forum.

And yes there were 334 cards issued for each player all hand numbered, i'm not sure if they are hand numbered from #1 to #334, but if they are your pretty lucky getting the players number, you would have to know someone else with the same card to see if the number was the same, i've never come across any of these promos, so i'm envious.

robspromos said:

Hi Batfink, there is a book called "The Futera File" which has a small discription about the set your talking about on page 110.

I'd scan the part in the book for you, but i just can't seem to load up any photos onto this forum.

And yes there were 334 cards issued for each player all hand numbered, i'm not sure if they are hand numbered from #1 to #334, but if they are your pretty lucky getting the players number, you would have to know someone else with the same card to see if the number was the same, i've never come across any of these promos, so i'm envious.

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yeh as u can see above ive had trouble getting pics to show in here too,sometimes they work ,sometimes not, i goto advanced and upload as attachments, till i can figure out why my photobucket doesnt display right. i would love to see that futera page ur talking about. I mainly collect promo stuff cause its cheap and i dont have the budget to buy the big name autos and stuff. Its a shame that promo's arent as popular these days,cant even get a tazo in my chips anymore, and weetbix promos have nearly dried up completely. Anyways heres the card in question, its the only thing in my PC that has a signature , glad i'm not the only oddball, promo collector here after all. gd luck with ur wants.

Nice mixed bag of goodies you got there!

yeh love your collection footycard,right up my alley. Especially the Ashes Winning Captains series & the jack dempsey boxing greats promo from the U.K very nice, what year where they made? yay, ive found a thread where it MAYbe cool to say you have neighbours cards in your pc.

Thanks,

I do have the thins sample set your talking about there batfink.
the actual sig's, i'm not sure of, but your's looks like a signed sample card 'cos it's un#'d
pretty sure the actual signed ones had a # stamped beside /334 like all futera #d cards are.
but the samples all have blank backs like yours, and mine.

here's my set of samples..