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Bicycle® TATTOO Playing Cards Deck (KS)
« on: February 28, 2014, 07:18:21 PM »
 

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Re: Bicycle® TATTOO Playing Cards Deck (KS)
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2014, 01:47:16 AM »
 

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Pricing is a little on the high side.

The art is good - but has nothing to do with tattoos.  The choice of title is terrible, especially with USPC having released a "Bicycle Club Tattoo" deck only a few months ago.  And why oh why can't deck designers get over the faux-ancient look for the background?  It's rapidly becoming a worn out idea.

This deck will be nearly useless for poker because of all the spot cards having 10 visible pips in identical locations.  Try identifying the cards in the flop from the far end of the table, and you'd better have really good vision.  Even magicians would tend to shy away from it due to the design being too far from the beaten path.

And would someone over there hire a proofreader, please?  It's clear that the writer of their copy either learned English as a second language or was terrible at writing in school.

The deck itself isn't a lost cause - the changes needed to improve it are small but noteworthy.  They have the potential to put out a gorgeous and highly-functional deck here.
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Re: Bicycle® TATTOO Playing Cards Deck (KS)
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2014, 06:35:37 AM »
 

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Pricing is a little on the high side.

The art is good - but has nothing to do with tattoos.  The choice of title is terrible, especially with USPC having released a "Bicycle Club Tattoo" deck only a few months ago.  And why oh why can't deck designers get over the faux-ancient look for the background?  It's rapidly becoming a worn out idea.

This deck will be nearly useless for poker because of all the spot cards having 10 visible pips in identical locations.  Try identifying the cards in the flop from the far end of the table, and you'd better have really good vision.  Even magicians would tend to shy away from it due to the design being too far from the beaten path.

And would someone over there hire a proofreader, please?  It's clear that the writer of their copy either learned English as a second language or was terrible at writing in school.

The deck itself isn't a lost cause - the changes needed to improve it are small but noteworthy.  They have the potential to put out a gorgeous and highly-functional deck here.

I was just about to say the same thing! What does this deck have anything to do with tattoo? I actually like the deck but the name really left me scratching my head. Maybe as you said that English was his second language, he translated it with his maiden language and got this weird name instead.

I actually quite like the "10 pips idea". I think the idea is quite fresh and interesting, to me at least. Just his finishing is not that good.
Maybe if he had made the contrast a little more, and faded the other pips, so that it isn't that confusing. Of course it will also be damn good if it is somehow related to tattooing... The deck name really puts me off somehow.
 

Re: Bicycle® TATTOO Playing Cards Deck (KS)
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2014, 09:26:07 AM »
 

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There's already a bicycle tattoo deck out there, won't this cause copyright issues?
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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2014, 11:54:50 AM »
 

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There's already a bicycle tattoo deck out there, won't this cause copyright issues?

Hmm.  Possibly.  I nearly forgot the Diavoli deck of the same name, printed in two versions.
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