By the way, Don, please tell me the different from Brad Fulton and Ace Fulton? Are they anyhow related? Family members perhaps?
Ace Fulton is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER. He never lived except in the imagination of the D&D Printing Co.
I thought there was a blog post mentioning that Ace was Brad's granduncle?
You mean the blogpost with the Photoshopped image of a non-existent "Ace Fulton's Casino" sign in the middle of the desert, aged to make it look about 40 years old? And the bogus story about the casino and it's "founder"?
Holy crap, people, can't you recognize an ad campaign when you see one?
Do NOT take EVERYTHING you read on the Internet (or on the radio, or on television, or in print) as FACTUAL and/or TRUE...
I actually like the color of these. However, I'm disappointed by the fact that they print two vintage-style decks in a row. Also, I dislike the look of the aces. But I like the nice pips and the box. I might get some, but their "Mignight Fuel" decks is all just BS.
"Two vintage style decks in a row?" Funny, I don't recall the Fulton's Chinatown deck, the most recent one before this, as being "vintage" anything...
Nate, the
whole campaign is 100% unadulterated BS, finely ground and vacuum-sealed for freshness...
I picked up one orange one, just because it's an unusual color and I don't have any vintagey looking decks. I'd agree that prehyping your own stuff as a classic is a little lame. Oh well, their marketing does work for many. Still, and i say this everytime, I'd love to see the big guys doing more custom work. They hold so much power and use so little of it to drive things to new areas. Eventually their complacency will backfire, it's just a matter of how long it will take...
You'd be surprised at just how long consumers will accept complacency. If they didn't, we wouldn't have umpteen-hundred-thousand McDonald's restaurants in practically every nation on Earth...and nearly all of them next to either a WalMart or a 7-11...
OK, we're talking about a narrow niche of customers when we're talking about Dan and Dave, but still - would any of us be "looking forward" to a SEVENTH Smoke and Mirrors deck if we weren't complacent as a group? It's like looking forward to the one color left in the spectrum that USPC hasn't made a Rider Back deck in...
People are already hyping these cards as "the new Jerry's Nugget". That's like me hyping a briquette of charcoal as "the new diamond". The only thing they have in common is a horrible choice of colors. The Ace Fulton's aren't even a real casino deck!
Funny I don't recall seeing anyone hyping these as the new Jerry's Nugget, we all know it ain't.
I spotted it in a comment some over-excited fan put on the D&D Twitter feed.
By the way, Don, please tell me the different from Brad Fulton and Ace Fulton? Are they anyhow related? Family members perhaps?
Ace Fulton is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER. He never lived except in the imagination of the D&D Printing Co.
If that is so, who signed the Midnight deck when it stated, "Midnight Fuel deck wrapped in foil, sealed with a numbered tax stamp and signed by Ace Fulton himself," in the description itself?
Funny I don't recall seeing anyone hyping these as the new Jerry's Nugget, we all know it ain't.
Well, you've got to admit that they do like very much similar. (Below, you'll find a picture of the two decks side by side. Compliments of D&D)
As far as ol' Uncle Ace is concerned, see what I wrote above about ad campaigns and believing everything you read on the Internet...
As far as the AFC decks resembling the Jerry's Nuggets, the resemblance is only in that they're both decks of cards with vaguely phallic symbols on the front of the box and the backs of the cards. At least the Jerry's Nugget decks have a somewhat less horrible color scheme...
Truly, I missed all the "hype" on the new decks from Dan and Dave. I just don't visit the areas where the hype was spread, I guess. Over at UC there was some people discussing some pics that had been released, that's about all I knew and I didn't even pay much attention to that. It just seemed like a low-key release from my end, and heck their computers didn't even go down so I would say it worked out OK.
Yeah, that's cute - we now measure successful releases by whether or not the company servers went down...
Del, count yourself fortunate you missed the hype. You really missed nothing that wasn't worth missing.
