JAMES
BOND ARCHIVES (Rittenhouse)
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Release
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25
March 2009 |
Set Configuration:
66 Base cards
5 Cards per pack
24 Packs per box
12 Boxes per case
6000 boxes
3,50$ per pack
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Just
six months away from the previous released “James Bond In Motion”
lenticular trading card set and Rittenhouse is back in action with
a brand new trading card set titled as the “James Bond 007 Archives”.
The first foreseen release date was announced for the 4th March, then
postponed to the 1st April and finally released on the 25th March
2009. It’s a little late to call this a tie-in with “Quantum
Of Solace”, but perhaps we can say it’s a tie-in with
the DVD release. The base set contains sixty-six throwback 1960's-style
trading cards, featuring all of the twenty-two official EON produced
James Bond films, from “Dr. No” to “Quantum of Solace”.
Rittenhouse Archives gathered from each movie a close-up of James
Bond, a Bond girl and a villain. The production run for this set was
strictly limited to only 6000 boxes worldwide, like their previous
set, each box will contain at least two personally signed autograph
cards and two relic or prop cards. The counter display box shows a
picture of Daniel Craig taken from second James Bond adventure “Quantum
Of Solace” on top of a picture banner holding all the previous
James Bond actors. Each box contains twenty-four packs with only five
cards per pack. That’s only 120 cards per box!!!
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"Counter
Display Box" |
"Wrapper" |
The
“James Bond 007 Archives” trading card series contains
six chase sets, mostly to expand and update your previous trading
card sets with additional cards featuring pictures of the twenty second
James Bond movie “Quantum Of Solace”. The first chase
set holds nine new “Dangerous Liaisons” cards, the cards
are numbered from DL10 thru DL18 and were randomly inserted into 1/12
packs. With this knowledge it is easy to calculate how many of these
cards will be circling around the globe. This update is the second
addition to the beautiful “Dangerous Liaisons” trading
card series that was issued in 2006. The first update came with “The
Complete James Bond” card series.
In
2004 Rittenhouse released the “Quotable James Bond “ trading
cards. This trading card set received it’s first update with
six “Quotable Casino Royale” cards. Now five years and
two James Bond movies later Rittenhouse treats us with a second update.
This time there are eight new “Quotable Quantum Of Solace”
cards to collect, meaning sixteen new quotes or one-liners and sixteen
never seen before pictures of the until now latest James Bond movie
“Quantum Of Solace” The eight new cards are a contradictory
to the nine cards mentioned on the sell-sheet. An error by Rittenhouse
or a last minute change of plans. Who knows? The cards were randomly
distributed in 1/14 packs and simply numbered from Q07 thru Q14.
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Q13
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Q14
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To play
even with all the others card updates, the 40th Anniversary card set
also needs a “Quantum Of Solace” update. The third chase
set makes it up, but not as complete as you should expect. The sell-sheet
mentions three new “Quantum Of Solace” plot cards, a Bond
Extra Card BE0022, Bond Villain Card BV0022, Bond Girl Card BG0022,
Bond Allies BA34 depicting Tanner and two additional Villain cards
F64 and F65. The reality is somewhat different, three “Quantum
Of Solace” plot cards, card BA34 to complete your Bond Allies,
BE0022 to complete the Bond Extras and four cards to add to the Villain
collection, F64, F65, F66 & F67. Very bizarre here is the missing
Bond Girl and Bond Villain card in the 40th Anniversary Style. What
a shame. Knowing Rittenhouse Archives, these two cards will probably
pop-up in a future James Bond card series. About card BA34, this card
has already been issued in the previous trading card set. The other
BA34 shows a picture of Rosika Miklos in “The Living Daylights”.
A mistake by Rittenhouse Archives, or perhaps they can’t follow
their own creation anymore.
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"Quantum
Of Solace" Extension Cards |
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BA34
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BE0022
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The
“Complete James Bond” trading card set gave us nine cards
per movie, unfortunately it ended with “Casino Royale”
the first James Bond movie starring Daniel Craig as agent 007. To
update this already huge card set, Rittenhouse Archives Ltd. inserted
a fourth chase set containing the nine additional “Quantum Of
Solace” cards. Again the reverse composes the original movie
poster. The cards were inserted into 1/12 packs or two per box, the
numbering simply continues from were it ended in 2006, namely 190
thru 198.
Props,
relics, little pieces of fabric from the costumes these are all big
business for the card manufactures. Weeks before the official card
release you could start bidding on eBay to secure these wanted cards.
The twenty seven brand new costume cards are printed in a very low
quantity, ranging from only 250 to 900 pieces. In fact they are all
unique pieces of 007 memorabilia. Even if you can’t have them
all, these cards do make a nice display in your personal James Bond
museum. The costume cards are a mix of single, double, triple and
quadruple costume cards. What is special here, well all the cards
are related to the latest James Bond movie “Quantum Of Solace”.
The new Bond girl Olga Kurylenko is pictured on four costume cards,
she was born as Olha Kostyantynivna Kurylenko on the 14th November
1979 in Berdyansk, Ukraine. The following table displays the number
of relic cards printed.
“The
Costume Cards”
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QC01
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QC02
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QC04
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QC06 |
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QC07 |
QC08 |
QC09
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QC10 |
QC11 |
QC12 |
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QC13 |
QC14 |
QC15 |
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QC16 |
QC17 |
QC18 |
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QC20 |
QC21 |
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QC24 |
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QC26 |
QC27
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For
the last chase set Rittenhouse Archives Ltd. provided the many autograph
collectors with forty-two brand new personally signed autograph cards.
There’s only six cards in the famous 40th Anniversary style,
thirty-five full bleed cards including a case topper card and just
one card in the Woman Of Bond style which is also a case topper. There’s
one odd remark that needs to said here, the full bleed autograph card
signed by Priscilla Barnes is now officially mentioned on the Rittenhouse
website checklist. This card is exactly the same as the one distributed
with the previous card series, but at the time it wasn’t mentioned
anywhere in the previous set.
“Full
Bleed Autograph Cards”
Six
cards in the 40th Anniversary Style, a nice addition to the already
huge collection of more than 100 autographed cards in that particular
style. Rittenhouse managed to get some actors together from the 1981’s
James Bond movie “For Your Eyes Only”; Stefan Kalipha
who gets killed by a dart that came from Melina’s crossbow and
Paul Brooke who showed of at the casino and lost all of his money.
“Autograph
Cards 40th Anniversary Style”
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A91
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A122
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A128
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Rittenhouse
designed four different case topper cards, the first one is a must
have for the Aston Martin DBS fans. This relic card numbered as AMR1
contains a piece of broken windshield taken from the Aston Martin
DBS as seen in the pre-credit scene of “Quantum Of Solace”.
The pre-credit scene was shot on location at Lake Como in Northern
Italy.
The
1st Tier Case Topper came as a bonus when purchasing a minimum of
two cases. It’s an incentive autograph card in full bleed style
personally signed by Dame Judi Dench. The 2nd Tier Case Topper is
also an autograph card, this one is personally signed by the Dutch
actress Famke Janssen. The card numbered as WA27 is an addition to
the "Women of James Bond Style" autographed cards. The 3rd
Tier Case Topper card is the full bleed style autograph card personally
signed by John Rhys-Davies. Because this card was only available in
archive boxes and there are only twenty-five archive boxes in existence,
this is the rarest James Bond autograph card of all.
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"Archive
Boxes Versions A & B"
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dealer sell sheet just mentioned about an incentive card and a archive
box. Again the archive box exists in two versions, “A”
& “B” each holding a different set of cards. The John
Rhys-Davies autograph card is still circulating on eBay for more than
500 EURO. John played the role of the Russian General Leonid Pushkin
in the 1987’s James Bond movie “The Living Daylights”.
In October 2003 I was very happy to meet Mr. Rhys-Davies in person
at a memorabilia fair in Gent (Belgium). A very funny and friendly
man, he also played next to Pierce Brosnan in the TV-mini series “The
Nobel House”, a novel written by James Clavell. A nice detail
to be mentioned is the following; a location in Hong Kong known as
“The Dragon Garden” was used in “The Man With The
Golden Gun” as well in “The Nobel House”. If that
isn’t a coincidence?
The promotion
for this set began at the end of 2008 with three exclusive promotion
cards and a very detailed sell-sheet. Promotion card P1 depicting
a close-up of Daniel Craig was issued for general distribution, promo
card P2 depicting a close-up of Olga Kurylenko came as a gift with
a Non-sports Update magazine and the promotion card P3 showing MI6
agent Gemma Arterton was only available when purchasing the exclusive
designed collectors album. Gemma was born as Gemma Christina Arterton
in January 1986 in Gravesend, Kent, UK. The first scene she shot for
“Quantum of Solace” was the love scene with Daniel Craig.
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"Dealer
Exclusive Sell-Sheet" |
To
coincide with all the previous Rittenhouse card series an exclusive
collectors album was designed to hold and protect this precious card
series. The binder is finished in shiny golden scuba vinyl depicting
Daniel Craig in a “Quantum Of Solace” scene. The reverse
shows the same image that was used for the advance poster.
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"James
Bond Archives Exclusive Gold Look Binder" |
The first James Bond Archives set, covering the movies from "Dr. No" until "Quantum Of Solace". Each movie has three cards showing a picture of James Bond, at least one Bond girl and a villain or an allie. The cards are numbered from #1 through #66. Until today there are no expansions.
“Basic Card Set”
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| Check
List: |
| Base
Cards |
[ ] 01 Dr. No
[ ] 02 Dr. No
[ ] 03 Dr. No
[ ] 04 From Russia With Love
[ ] 05 From Russia With Love
[ ] 06 From Russia With Love
[ ] 07 Goldfinger
[ ] 08 Goldfinger
[ ] 09 Goldfinger
[ ] 10 Thunderball
[ ] 11 Thunderball
[ ] 12 Thunderball
[ ] 13 You Only Live Twice
[ ] 14 You Only Live Twice
[ ] 15 You Only Live Twice
[ ] 16 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
[ ] 17 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
[ ] 18 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
[ ] 19 Diamonds Are Forever
[ ] 20 Diamonds Are Forever
[ ] 21 Diamonds Are Forever
[ ] 22 Live And Let Die
[ ] 23 Live And Let Die
[ ] 24 Live And Let Die
[ ] 25 The Man With The Golden Gun
[ ] 26 The Man With The Golden Gun
[ ] 27 The Man With The Golden Gun
[ ] 28 The Spy Who Loved Me
[ ] 29 The Spy Who Loved Me
[ ] 30 The Spy Who Loved Me
[ ] 31 Moonraker
[ ] 32 Moonraker
[ ] 33 Moonraker
[ ] 34 For Your Eyes Only
[ ] 35 For Your Eyes Only
[ ] 36 For Your Eyes Only |
[ ] 37 Octopussy
[ ] 38 Octopussy
[ ] 39 Octopussy
[ ] 40 A View To A Kill
[ ] 41 A View To A Kill
[ ] 42 A View To A Kill
[ ] 43 The Living Daylights
[ ] 44 The Living Daylights
[ ] 45 The Living Daylights
[ ] 46 Licence To Kill
[ ] 47 Licence To Kill
[ ] 48 Licence To Kill
[ ] 49 GoldenEye
[ ] 50 GoldenEye
[ ] 51 GoldenEye
[ ] 52 Tomorrow Never Dies
[ ] 53 Tomorrow Never Dies
[ ] 54 Tomorrow Never Dies
[ ] 55 The World Is Not Enough
[ ] 56 The World Is Not Enough
[ ] 57 The World Is Not Enough
[ ] 58 Die Another Day
[ ] 59 Die Another Day
[ ] 60 Die Another Day
[ ] 61 Casino Royale
[ ] 62 Casino Royale
[ ] 63 Casino Royale
[ ] 64 Quantum of Solace
[ ] 65 Quantum of Solace
[ ] 66 Quantum of Solace
[ ] 67 SkyFall (James Bond Archives Final Edition 2017)
[ ] 68 SkyFall (James Bond Archives Final Edition 2017)
[ ] 69 SkyFall (James Bond Archives Final Edition 2017)
[ ] 70 SPECTRE (James Bond Archives Final Edition 2017)
[ ] 71 SPECTRE (James Bond Archives Final Edition 2017)
[ ] 72 SPECTRE (James Bond Archives Final Edition 2017) |
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of Solace: Dangerous Liaisons (1:12 packs) |
[ ] DL10 Quantum of Solace: Dangerous
Liaisons
[ ] DL11 Quantum of Solace: Dangerous Liaisons
[ ] DL12 Quantum of Solace: Dangerous Liaisons
[ ] DL13 Quantum of Solace: Dangerous Liaisons
[ ] DL14 Quantum of Solace: Dangerous Liaisons
[ ] DL15 Quantum of Solace: Dangerous Liaisons
[ ] DL16 Quantum of Solace: Dangerous Liaisons
[ ] DL17 Quantum of Solace: Dangerous Liaisons
[ ] DL18 Quantum of Solace: Dangerous Liaisons |
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Quotable Quantum of Solace (1:14 packs) |
[ ] Q07 The Quotable Quantum of Solace
[ ] Q08 The Quotable Quantum of Solace
[ ] Q09 The Quotable Quantum of Solace
[ ] Q10 The Quotable Quantum of Solace
[ ] Q11 The Quotable Quantum of Solace
[ ] Q12 The Quotable Quantum of Solace
[ ] Q13 The Quotable Quantum of Solace
[ ] Q14 The Quotable Quantum of Solace |
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| Quantum
of Solace Expansion Cards (1:12 packs) |
[ ] 67 Quantum of Solace & 40th
anniversary style
[ ] 68 Quantum of Solace & 40th anniversary style
[ ] 69 Quantum of Solace & 40th anniversary style
[ ] BA34 Bond Allies - Tanner
[ ] BE0022 Bond Extras & Quantum of Solace & 40th anniversary
style
[ ] F64 General Medrano in “Quantum
of Solace”
[ ] F65 Mitchell in “Quantum
of Solace”
[ ] F66 Guy Haines in “Quantum
of Solace”
[ ] F67 Yusef in “Quantum
of Solace” |
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Complete James Bond 007 Expansion Set (1:12 packs) |
[ ] 190 Quantum of Solace
- James Bond
[ ] 191 Quantum of Solace - James Bond
[ ] 192 Quantum of Solace - James Bond
[ ] 193 Quantum of Solace - Mr. Greene
[ ] 194 Quantum of Solace - Quantum of Solace Movie Poster
[ ] 195 Quantum of Solace - General Madrano
[ ] 196 Quantum of Solace - Agent Fields
[ ] 197 Quantum of Solace - Camille
[ ] 198 Quantum of Solace - Camille |
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| Relic
Cards (1:12 packs) |
[ ] QC01 Camille (Dual Costume)
[ ] QC02 Camille & James Bond (Dual Costume)
[ ] QC03 James Bond (Dual Costume)
[ ] QC04 Camille (Single Costume)
[ ] QC05 Camille (Triple Costume)
[ ] QC06 General Medrano (Single Costume)
[ ] QC07 Mr. Greene (Dual Costume)
[ ] QC08 Mr. Greene & General Medrano (Dual Costume)
[ ] QC09 Mathis (Triple Costume)
[ ] QC10 Mathis & James Bond (Dual Costume)
[ ] QC11 Mr. White (Triple Costume)
[ ] QC12 James Bond (Triple Costume)
[ ] QC13 Mr. White & James Bond (Dual Costume)
[ ] QC14 Mitchell (Dual Costume)
[ ] QC15 Mitchell & James Bond (Dual Costume)
[ ] QC16 Elvis (Triple Costume)
[ ] QC17 James Bond (Dual Costume)
[ ] QC18 James Bond (Dual Costume)
[ ] QC19 James Bond (Single Costume)
[ ] QC20 James Bond (Single Costume)
[ ] QC21 James Bond (Dual Costume)
[ ] QC22 James Bond (Dual Costume)
[ ] QC23 James Bond (Single Costume)
[ ] QC24 James Bond (Single Costume)
[ ] QC26 Greene's Driver (Single Costume)
[ ] QC27 James Bond & Camille (Quadruple Costume) |
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| Autograph
Cards (1:12 packs) |
| [ ] A091 Stefan Kalipha as Hector
Gonzales in For Your Eyes Only (Limited)
[ ] A109 Tom Chadbon as Stockbroker in Casino Royale
[ ] A122 Neil Jackson as Mr. Slate in Quantum of Solace (Limited)
[ ] A126 Paul Brooke as Bunky in For Your Eyes Only (Limited)
[ ] A128 Tobias Menzies as Villiers in Casino Royale (Limited)
[ ] A129 Christina Cole as Hotel Concierge in Casino Royale
(Limited)
[ ] xxx-01 Roger Moore as James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me
(Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-02 George Lazenby as James Bond in On Her Majesty's
(Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-03 Olga Kurylenko as Camille in Quantum of Solace (Very
Limited)
[ ] xxx-04 Famke Janssen as Xenia in GoldenEye (Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-05 Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger (Very
Limited)
[ ] xxx-06 Geoffrey Holder as Baron Samedi in Live and Let Die
(Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-07 Cecilie Thomsen as Professor Inga Bergstrom in Tomorrow
Never Dies (Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-08 Chaim Topol as Milos Colombo in For Your Eyes Only
(Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-09 Izabella Scorupco as Natalya Simonova in GoldenEye
(Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-10 John Cleese as Q in DAD (Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-11 Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (Limited)
[ ] xxx-12 Caterina Murino as Solange in Casino Royale (Very
Limited)
[ ] xxx-13 Joe Don Baker as Jack Wade in Tomorrow Never Dies
(Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-14 Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench in Dr. No (Limited)
[ ] xxx-15 Priscilla Barnes as Della Churchill in Licence to
Kill (Limited)
[ ] xxx-16 Margaret Nolan as Dink in Goldfinger (Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-17 Wayne Newton as Professor Joe Butcher in Licence
To Kill (Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-18 John Terry as Felix Leiter in The Living Daylights
(Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-19 Robert Carlyle as Renard in The World Is Not Enough
(Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-20 Carmen Du Sautoy as Saida in The Man With The Golden
Gun (Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-21 Belle Avery as Linda in The Living Daylights (Very
Limited)
[ ] xxx-22 Marguerite Lewars as Photographer in Dr. No (Very
Limited)
[ ] xxx-23 Caroline Bliss as Miss Moneypenny in Licence To Kill
(Very Limited)
[ ] xxx-24 Stefan Kalipha as Hector Gonzales in For Your Eyes
Only (Limited)
[ ] xxx-25 Tobias Menzies as Villiers in Casino Royale (Limited)
[ ] xxx-26 David Hedison as Felix Leiter in Live And Let Die
(Limited)
[ ] xxx-27 Christina Cole as Hotel Concierge in Casino Royale
(Limited)
[ ] xxx-28 Crispin Bonham-Carter as Hot Room Doctor in Casino
Royale (Limited)
[ ] xxx-29 Paul Brooke as Bunky in For Your Eyes Only (Limited)
[ ] xxx-30 Rory Kinnear as Tanner in Quantum Of Solace (Limited)
[ ] xxx-31 Neil Jackson as Mr. Slate in Quantum of Solace (Limited)
[ ] xxx-32 Glenn Foster as Mitchell in Quantum of Solace (Limited)
[ ] xxx-33 Paul Ritter as Guy Haines in Quantum of Solace (Limited)
[ ] xxx-34 Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny in GoldenEye (Limited) |
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| Case
Topper Relic Card |
| [ ] AMR1 Aston Marton Windshield Relic Card |
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| 1st
Tier-Three Case Incentive Autograph |
| [ ] Judi Dench Autograph Card (Full Bleed style) |
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| 2nd
Tier Six-Case Incentive Autograph |
| [ ] WA27 Famke Janssen Autograph Card (Women of
James Bond style) |
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| 3rd
Tier Fifteen-Case Incentive Autograph & Archive Box |
[ ] Archive Box including all pack-inserted
autograph cards and costume cards
[ ] John Rhys-Davies Autograph Card (Full Bleed style) |
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| Collectors
Album |
| "James Bond Archives" Exclusive binder |
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| Promo
Cards |
[ ] P1 General Distribution
[ ] P2 Non-Sport Update Magazine
[ ] P3 Album Exclusive |
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