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Trading Cards
So on the last night in Atlanta some of the Cheesy Poofs were discussing the possibility of starting FIRST Trading cards with all the FRC teams that participate throughout the season.
We figured that there would be a card for each team for each year and on the card would be: Team name, team number, a picture of that year's robot, rookie year, and where they are from. I was wondering about anyone's thoughts about this idea. |
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Re: Trading Cards
YES. That's all that needs to be said. Make up packs and sell them at regionals, and money goes to scholarships or something good like that. I would totally shell out the cash for that. What about ones with Dean Kaymen and Woodie Flowers on them? Or possibly, might I say it, Andy Baker???
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Team 2228 asked all the teams at the Finger Lakes regional to submit a picture and stats for their robot, and they made trading cards for each team's robot that were given to each team. People also could get bonus cards with things like Dean or Woodie or "Mentors" on them, and I think there was a prize for getting all the cards.
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Team 195 has been doing trading cards for 3 years now. I like to thing of it as a pin with team info on it.
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awsome.. i would love to have a ultra-rare simbotics world championship holographic trading card, a thunderchicken's one wouldn't be bad either
having mentors on the cards would be awsome, maybe having special cards with epic alliances on them, like last years pink-swamp-beast this is a GREAT idea EDIT, add maybe MC's like Karthik's invisable bycycle and Mark Leon's Judo... Last edited by Nawaid Ladak : 21-04-2008 at 16:17. |
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I also like the idea of selling them and giving the proceeds to benefit something. For those of you that have tried this before how did you get quality pictures of each team to put them on the cards? Did you take the pictures yourselves during the regionals or did you ask them to send you pictures? |
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LETS DO IT!!!!! |
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While lots of teams produce their own trading cards, I think the idea here is to have them produced for ALL teams, and perhaps sold in packs of ten random cards, for sale at events.
So if a trading card is .8mm thick and there are 1,500 teams in FRC (well... more next year, but let's say 1,500) then a complete set of cards would stand 1.2m high. The catch would be getting the photos submitted and cards printed in time for regionals. For instance, our robot did not have decals on it until we got to Portland, and then changed out one manipulator when we got to Seattle. But now we have good photos. So perhaps it would make sense to sell the 2008 cards at the 2009 regionals. It will still be difficult, however, to get quality photos of all 1,500 teams, but even if only half the teams submitted photos it would be kind of fun, especially as teams traded and swapped to get "their own" cards. For once I would feel sorry for 1114 as their robot would be likely to be in wee bit higher demand than ours! Jason P.S. Just an addendum... as the discontinuation of the "Behind the Design" series of books shows, FRC is still not quite "big" enough to support some of the commercial ventures of professional sports. Something like this would require a careful business plan if it were intended to generate revenue. |
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It'd be nifty if we got pictures of just the bots at certain events, or one person from each event too high quality pictures and sent them into one place and cards were made.
It'd be an interesting concept to pull through |
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trading cards with robots would be awsome. It would be the best thing since Pok'emon lol
Last edited by zachjo : 23-04-2008 at 22:23. |
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Re: Trading Cards
Ok or instead of a card game what if we made a fantasy league for robotics. Pick all of your teams in a draft after the game comes out but before regionals begin.
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Re: Trading Cards
we can do both
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