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Last post 07-08-2008 2:19 PM by Balkin. 5 replies.
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  • 07-07-2008 1:59 PM

    • rc7771
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    Curious

    Hi guys,

     Not sure if you can or want to give this away yet, but I was curious as to what the prototype dice for the auction are this year. I try to get at least one set every Gencon if I can, and was hoping to find out what I was bidding for.

    Thanks in advance, whether you can say or not :)

  • 07-07-2008 6:32 PM In reply to

    • Auction_God
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    Re: Curious

    We usually don't find out until we get to the convention - Crystal Caste makes them and then surprises us!

     He recently won a court case (vs Hasbro):

    http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/32493

    So maybe he'll have some extra cash to put towards special dice !!!

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    Re: Curious

    Bowling filed for a patent on the design in January 1998 and took 10,000 of them to a gaming trade show in Milwaukee in August 1998. He sold out.

    Gosh, I wonder what gaming trade show THAT would have been? Way to go Crystal Caste!

  • 07-08-2008 8:24 AM In reply to

    Re: Curious

    WTG Crystal Caste-- Let's here it for the little guy for once!! Yes

  • 07-08-2008 11:46 AM In reply to

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    Re: Curious

    Auction_God:

    We usually don't find out until we get to the convention - Crystal Caste makes them and then surprises us!

     He recently won a court case (vs Hasbro):

    http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/32493

    So maybe he'll have some extra cash to put towards special dice !!!

    Hasbro hasn't paid yet, they asked the court to set aside or reduce the  payment. If they are like the government they will just never make the payment.

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  • 07-08-2008 2:19 PM In reply to

    • Balkin
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    Re: Curious

    It wouldn't surprise me if they just never bothered to make payment. Eventually paying lawyers to keep going after the money they owe him will outstrip the money they'll not bother to pay him.

    Aren't these the same people who've been hounding GenCon LLC for some kind of non-payment? Or one of their subsidiaries anyway...

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