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Post by wortelboer on May 31, 2018 7:41:03 GMT -5
And the last of the C&C Vol I-II and membership kits items is sold out. The handbooks are gone.
The only items left now are the few T-shirts the 2015 & 2016 membership kits.
All that remains are curios from Volumes III and IV.
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Post by minamurray on May 31, 2018 9:38:25 GMT -5
This makes me so sad.
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Post by Geodus on May 31, 2018 11:20:48 GMT -5
If they run out of Volume IV, I'll happily sell mine back to them.
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Post by thegingerbarrister on May 31, 2018 11:25:39 GMT -5
If they run out of Volume IV, I'll happily sell mine back to them. Is there a market for Vol. 4? They're just sitting on my shelf. I have NO interest in completing them.
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Post by wortelboer on May 31, 2018 11:29:02 GMT -5
If they run out of Volume IV, I'll happily sell mine back to them. Is there a market for Vol. 4? They're just sitting on my shelf. I have NO interest in completing them. My set will be going out to the recycling bin/trash next time I do a major clean out.
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Post by centaurofattn on Jun 1, 2018 10:58:31 GMT -5
They keep getting listed on ebay, but I haven't seen anyone bidding/buying them
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Post by The Mad Mermaid on Jun 17, 2018 15:09:32 GMT -5
They keep getting listed on ebay, but I haven't seen anyone bidding/buying them I was doing some rearranging today and came across my old MPC collection. I started going through them--I have complete collections of C&C 1 - 3 as well as a Madness in the Library special edition kit. Part of me was sad because I remember the MPC's "golden age" quite fondly, and then I got a bit angry at what the company has descended and devolved into. I half wondered if any of my kits would fetch a fair price on eBay, but it sounds like they wouldn't.
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Post by The Mad Mermaid on Jun 17, 2018 15:16:40 GMT -5
I think what's hard about this is that while many of those items are very exciting to those of us who got into C&C late i.e. Volume 3 era, it's unclear how many Curios are included that actually help solve puzzles (there are some that are visible, but in the interest of no spoilers I won't say which ones). There's at least one major one that I don't see displayed in any of them that I for one would love to own. I've sent a message to them, but I doubt I'll get a response in time. Still, regardless, the price seems outrageously high, especially considering that I would be getting duplicate items (such as another Demon Jar). Which collection contains the Demon Jar? It's the only experience I regret not being able to get when it was offered.
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Post by thegenii on Jun 17, 2018 15:31:23 GMT -5
It was in, I think, about four of them. They must have had a lot of jars left over, which makes me curious why the discontinued the experience so soon.
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Post by thegenii on Jun 17, 2018 15:32:01 GMT -5
Oh, if you have any membership kits from 2013 or 2014, I'd be interested.
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Post by The Mad Mermaid on Jun 17, 2018 16:24:59 GMT -5
For those interested in the collections I mentioned earlier, thank you for your interest, and I'll let you know what I decide. I'm still torn between selling them off and keeping them just so I can remember what a treasure the MPC used to be!
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Post by thegenii on Jun 19, 2018 17:19:23 GMT -5
The Curator's latest email of bibble babble reveals that the name of "Rise of the Cult" has been changed to "Rise of the Cult: Carcossa." But the website does not reflect this. He's also managed to misspell yet another common word. I'm going back to sleep.
"... We have offerings to help you or a loved one train their panic reactions.** If you wish to prepare or refresh one's sense of panicked shock, our single mailing package The Weeping Book has helped some feel an intense fear they had forgotten. Alternatively, if you wish to instil in someone a feeling of impending dread, Rise of the Cult: Carcosa is the spiritual successor to the King in Yellow. It is especially excellent for that sense of being watched when alone at home, or of being followed when on a busy city street."
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Post by Geodus on Jun 20, 2018 12:57:26 GMT -5
The Curator's latest email of bibble babble reveals that the name of "Rise of the Cult" has been changed to "Rise of the Cult: Carcossa." But the website does not reflect this. He's also managed to misspell yet another common word. I'm going back to sleep. This might be another case of spelling variation: writingexplained.org/instill-vs-instil-difference
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Post by thegenii on Jun 20, 2018 13:03:14 GMT -5
It's more fun to think of it as stupidity.
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Post by Todd on Jun 21, 2018 8:12:36 GMT -5
Maybe it's just me, but I am no longer finding it amusing to ridicule their current marketing emails. They are so terribly bad that it's too easy. But I do wonder how much of that is the fault of the writer.
Certainly Canada has a preference to British spellings over American. Having lived in Canada for many years, and thankfully having escaped with my psyche intact, I do find that the British spellings occasionally colour my written word.
Language evolves over time, and the atrocities being performed on it by the youth today will be the conventions rebelled against by the next generation. The Curator's voice is very much Millennial in both tone and structure. The lack of commas where commas would improve readability, the run-on sentences, the comma splices... These are all things I see regularly perpetuated by the youth on my Facebook wall.
And with MPC courting the Podcast audience with their latest experience, it's probably nigh time to acknowledge that this current phase of MPC is not for us. The Curator of old relished the old ways, and the more relaxed times. I could see that Curator having, in his study, several chess boards with games in progress, all being played by mail with challengers across the globe. I can't even imagine the current Curator knows how to play chess.
Whether courting the Millennial custom will pay off remains to be seen. Millennials don't have the attachment to "things" that the older people have. They have streaming movies, and iPods, and Kindles or Nooks instead of libraries of Betamax tapes, vinyl records, and shelves full of books. Will they embrace the $300 tactile experience?
Millennials are also accustomed to immediate digital transfers of purchases. Will they be able to tolerate MPC's extended lead times, or will they eschew MPC for a company that provides immediate PDFs that they can read on their smartphones?
Only time will tell. And we Gen Xers... We know a thing or two about patience.
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