At the moment, the Ace of Clubs literally bleeds into the edge, which would allow it to be spotted within the deck. The blood would need to be pulled back slightly to stop this from occurring.

Well done on a successful campaign, wish there were higher numbers on each product but half the fun is sometimes not always getting your way

  am keen on following this KS

I am unable to help with the signatures, albeit PGI is most likely Progressive Gaming Inc, which has been bought out by IGT (one of the largest slot manufacturing companies in the world). This company also had an international section called Progressive Gaming International Inc - which would explain the PGII. Casino Chip and Gaming Token Collectors Club would be able to confirm this from the chips. The company was known to hand out casino chips as promotional materials at various gaming shows.

In relation to products used by the Casinos, these are showcased at the G2E (Global Gaming Expo - http://www.globalgamingexpo.com/) For the use of RFID playing cards and chips, these are still the rarity, not the norm, for Casinos, (including the Caesar's chain which hosts the WSOP) so you will not find these readers on a majority of the tables, only as gimmick being tested on a few tables (normally the ones used for filming purposes).
Looking over the exhibitionists at this expo will bring up the main companies which casinos use for any of their products.
For scanning these products, they hold an extremely weak range and being an extremely rare product, is not where security threats lie, especially in relation to playing cards, where the larger faults found and exploited are printing faults, or altering cards that a player touches.   Depending on the cost per deck, many countries have very strict criteria (such as Macau having to shred all cards after a fairly small time in play in contrast to Las Vegas which is allowed to recycle cards and sell them as memorabilia) we are unlikely to see this technology as a norm too quickly, since its an unneeded added cost, with Las Vegas being placed around 3-4 on the international scene for Gambling revenue, so cards are produced with Singapore and Macau casinos as the main customers.
Software wise, these come as an add-on mostly run in the Cage (cashier hubs where you cash in chips and tickets) with a link in to the security. Casinos still often have a lot of plain-clothed security and hands-on / paper tracking to back up checking people due to how reliable computers are. Normally new technology is more often used in tournaments only or at smaller venues, whilst kinks and crashing is fixed.

These are sweet. When I saw the topic title "Ultimate Universe" I was expecting  something waaaay different.  Like some "new" super heroes. Superguy, The X dudes, Doctor Squid arms. All mashed together like a  funny page section right before it helps catch the logs you in a fireplace.

And right below. 

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 Arc-Covenant and a Parched Done  mistaking it for a cooler had just slid it open in hopes of a cold beverage.

Somehow I understand your type of crazy in regard to the imagery created by the name :-p.

Well these are all sold out pretty fast, so the demand out-ways the supply. Will be interesting to see how people find these once they receive them

I'd be very keen to run a ks project on this as I am starting to build up a collection which includes older decks now, which may be very prone to destruction in Australia's summers.

In respect to the copyright issue with this deck, it is in fact a much more unique and interesting matter.

The writer of Peter Pan was closely connected to charity work with childrens hospitals - and wrote the stories as something to be told to the children. Along with this all of the Royalties, trademarks, and copyrights of any nature connected to Peter Pan were set up within a trust, as an entity to forever raise funds for Children Health research (conducted at the University College of London) along with donating to the Great Ormond Street Children Hospital (who run the trust since the writers death).

In 1987, the UK Government created a special provision to have Peter Pan classed into a unique category (Section 301 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (UK))- which has since been backed up a legal derivative created by the European Union Copyright Derivative in 1996.

Disney has been to court over whether or not it is required to pay any royalties to the Childrens Hospital (When I last looked this matter hasn't been settled) as such until the matter is completely resolved Disney themselves cannot create any laws whilst their own legal use is in dispute. The debate is whether or not the US will recognise these special rulings on UK works.

To confuse matters more, royalties payment scheme currently only list a % of profits from book sales, and/or ticket sales (regarding the stage play) and do not directly look into other areas as a direct matter, albeit with no true precedent set regarding the legal status at current, many organizations make a profits contribution as a charity donation (which is also a tax deduction for the organizations) as a faith of good will (Except for Disney which is disputing having to make any Charitable contributions as they claim the works are purely Public Domain).

Link to one of the more recent disputes over the copyright:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1447493/Disney-quits-Peter-Pan-film-after-row-over-Gt-Ormond-St.html

Please note that the Hospital accepted a 500 pound donation allowing a shop  to use the images and the name back in 2003, and its acceptance stopped legal proceedings by Disney.

I have not used deckstarter yet - Does one opt in/out for this display? There is 'anonymous' there... is this openly known and easy an option to choose. I do understand the appeal if people openly show their support - and it is interesting see average/mean investments which people choose to undertake in decks.

IMO - interested if the suits in the corner were larger, and the suits and numbers were coloured to be set aside from the rest of the card, how this would change the look of the cards.

Hmmm, the pdf states preferable temperature is 68f... that can be a normal winters day in my part of the world, and things are not much better in Vegas. I am probably going to have to invest a lot more time and effort learning about all of this.

Some very nice items there. I had not seen or heard about a 'duplicate whist' deck before (58). Would be very interested to see / learn more about it.