I am wrapping up what I am going to do for ANS11. I changed collecting goals a couple times from pre-release to now. I purchased one collector case, expecting to get similar results to what one case yielded in ANS10. I found I got quite a bit less chase items this time and thus had less to sell or to trade with. I also purchased several jumbo packs at Wal-mart to get Bonus cards for myself and to trade with. We have no local Target and I can usually find someone willing to trade Wal-mart Bonus cards for Target Bonus cards. Here is what I decided to go with overall on ANS11:
- Base stickers (black border): Went ahead and kept a 110 sticker set that included all back variations to have all the puzzles
and coupons. etc.
- Canvas cards: These are the one border variation I really like so put together just one 55 card set.
- Red Border stickers: Was almost to a full set so traded to get the rest I needed (still looking for a #54) to put together
one 55 card set.
- Coming Distraction cards: One black border and one red border set
- Rude Food: One black border and one red border set
- Blue border, Silver border, Gold border, Pencil Sketch, Die-Cuts, Black Ludlow, and Red Ludow variations: I placed these
on my trade list as extras. I am keeping what I have in my binder but if they trade, they trade. Not trying to complete
these sets or the back variations.
- Bonus Cards: Did buy and trade to get one of each Bonus Card
- Lost Wackies: Did buy and trade to get each of the 3. Got one in my case, traded for one and bought one. Looks like they
are falling in price faster in ANS11 than they did in ANS10.
- Magnets: I am slowly putting together a set of all 10 magnets.
- Coloring Cards: Bought a set of these on ebay for $7 since I only pulled one out of the 6 jumbo packs I purchased.
- Patches: Got one in my case, but am not actively collecting the others. I am not that impressed with them and would have
much rather had full sized, high quality embroidered patches. If the prices falls on these dramatically in about 6 months...
we'll see what my interest is then.
- Bill Boards: I like the billboards but I cut them down (GASP!) to fit in currency 2 pocket binder pages that are a bit
larger than the normal postcard pages. This allows me to leave about a 1/4 inch border around the artwork.
- Comedian Auto cards: Didn't get either in my case. Purchased both on ebay
- Uncut mini-sheets(Toys R Us exclusive) - I went ahead and picked up a set of these. It takes three packs to complete the
72 card set and you can easily see the front and back sheets to get all three packs without duplicates. Each pack was
$6.49 at our local TRU. The full set includes 54 of the 55 base titles, all 9 Coming Distractions and all 9 Rude Food
stickers. The BOOGERFINGERS title from the base set is not present.
- Sketch cards: This time I am collecting one sketch from each artist and trying to spread across the 4 different types of
sketch cards shapes. I am down to needing one artist. Very nice sketch cards can be had at very reasonable prices. I
think with all the other chase items in ASN11, the sketch cards were pretty much ignored at first.
- "Grand Slam, Royal Flush": I decided to try and put together a run for one base title of all the different front and back variations available in ANS11. I looked at the chase items I got from my case and at which titles I really liked, and even took into consideration which artwork looked nice with the various borders before deciding on #26 Sno-Craps as the title to go for. I know some people are not thrilled with all the potty humor in ANS11 but this title makes me laugh and who doesn't love Yetis. So I am currently three "cards" shy of this goal (one of the canvas back variations, one of the Artist Autograph back variations, and a printing plate). The printing plates seem extremely hard to find this time for whatever reason so getting one may not be doable, at least in my price range. I was fortunate in that this title is one of the few ANS11 titles that artists have done sketch cards for and was fortunate enough to get one. Another cool bonus, Joe Grossberg, the title gag originator posted information on the forum about his original suggested title, SNO-CHAPS, and posted the rough. Joe and I happened to do some trading and when he found out about the "Grand Slam, Royal Flush" quest, promised to contribute something to the cause. Its still in the mail and I am really looking forward to see what he came up with.
- Cereal Boxes: It appears there will be mini cereal boxes released later for ANS11 like was the case with ANS10. I am sure I
will pick these up when available.
