Its quite a reputable shop in Singapore. There is another stall that has a similar name but has a rather bad rep for selling counterfeit stuff.

Aww man! So awesome, would've loved to go. I have got to get out of Australia! They should all come over here for vacation!

I heard they would be going over to Australia early next year. Keep a look out for the dates.

I am liking that they made the queens more attractive and younger. Not like the standard queens which are older and less attractive. Not that it's bad. But don't you think the only females in the deck should look more appealing?

I'm really liking the look of this deck! - Not only are the court cards borderless, something we all love, but they are very simplistic, something from D&D's decks that we've loved also! Is it me, or does the red pop more than standard Bicycle colors?

+1 to borderless courts

More updates on the deck. Custom and simplified courts.

Quote from: Siegismyname on November 27, 2012, 10:59:34 PM

Tannens look like a super awesome magic shop with lots of cools stuff. I will be sure to head there during my trip to NYC(if there ever is one). Maybe I can even go meet Don or other discourse member around the area. What say you Don?

The Bucks are awesome people from my experience with them during the Singapore lecture. They are not as money grabbing as people here think. They are more than willing to impart any knowledge to anyone that asks. Kudos to Dan, Dave, Ricky and Kevin for bringing the art of magic and flourishing to another level.

Sure, I don't mind meeting strangers I met online, especially if they bring candy... 

The Bucks are nice guys, nicer than the reputation I'd heard about them.  I still don't like their in-house decks anymore, but I'd buy from them again, no sweat.

Candy from Singapore? Will see what I can do. Will see when i even get to go to your side of the world.

Quote from: twiscold on November 27, 2012, 10:17:51 PM

it is confirmed this is a different color LTD and its not black. Blue i guess

Confirmed by who?  This photo isn't clear enough to confirm anything, and I haven't heard anyone at E give any specifics about it - have you?

Mike from E confirmed it over at UC.

Quote from: sr15 on November 24, 2012, 02:56:43 AM

I really think it hurts the entire series overall, since the amount of different decks in the series essentially doubled overnight, and there are 60000 extra decks in the series that used to be quite limited.  I don't think I would mind as much if they only released a reprint of only the v6s or even the v5s, but to go all the way back to v3s is really just diluting the value of owning any individual deck in the series, resale or not (again, v1 and v2 aren't really affected by this and I think their value won't drop).

so yes, it hurts resellers, although I and pretty much everyone here don't care about them. It hurts people who only wanted v7s, but it also hurts people who already own the originals, imo. I don't actually have any Smoke and Mirrors besides v6 so don't take this like I'm complaining about my own decks, but this is just in my opinion somewhat of a downfall of a once prestigious series of playing cards.

These reprints are just that - REPRINTS.  The only new deck in there is v7.  The other decks are not identical to the original versions, so no, they don't serve as replacements for them.  If someone can't afford the originals and just likes the style, that person would be thrilled to have this boxed set.  But to real collectors, it doesn't mean a lot, unless they happen to be hardcore completists.  To less-rabid collectors, only the v7 deck matters.

To not sell the v7 deck separately - it's nuts.  It's going to take weeks, if not months, to sell out that print run.  It will likely be the first - and last - S&M release to take so long to sell out.

And don't delude yourself into thinking that the series was all that limited.  While the first versions were likely made in small numbers, since they had no idea of how they'd appeal to customers and the custom deck craze was very new, the latter versions were ordered in quantities of 20-30K.

I second that. The reprints are actually slightly different from the previous versions, With the box, court cards, and jokers being slightly different from the 'originals'. The court cards are now standard and recolored instead of simplified, the box looks like it has a matte finish and is embossed has the new S&M logo (which I think completes the boxes and the v4, 5 and 6 had a 'hole in the centre of the box front) and the jokers don't have the 'D' pips on the corners. Not forgetting the perforated seals. The smoke and mirror box also makes this very much a collectable.

This is like a mini-review from the pictures shone.

Quote from: twiscold on November 23, 2012, 10:58:50 PM

the only great deal in this shit friday lol

It would have been better if they'd at least announced it more broadly than in David's Twitter account.  Looks like I'll pay double the price or more on Sunday night.

They did announce it 5 mins before the smoke and mirrors on twitter and facebook. Seeing the price tag, I bought 1 Brick immediately.

Is anyone else getting a bug where you can see other peoples carts?

yup. I think I will go to sleep and wake up tmr to buy.

lets have more pics while the site is semi-up

from what I deduce from the pics, the blue, red, green, white and black are reprints. The v7 are new. They are not the previous ones. The box and insides are totally new!

Quote from: K on November 23, 2012, 11:23:15 AM

10,000 it'll last awhile i think, at least with that price tag. I'll just check back tmr morning, gotta wake up a lil earlier before work. lags like hell and now i've been getting errors..

Heck, with 10,000.   I bet these last for a couple months if not longer.   No rush here, gonna hold out till after I get my Split Spades and other Black Friday merchandise.   And even then, I probably wont get this.   I already own all the sets.   Why buy them all again just to sit on my shelf.   Mehh...

the Split spades are here. Get them while they last. They are super cheap.

this looks bad. There is an error now. but even though there is an error I still cannot decide how many to buy.