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Title: Greetings from Germany
Post by: PipChick on February 13, 2018, 05:44:41 PM: Hi everyone,

I'm new to this community but have been a card enthusiast for years and have been casually collecting decks - mostly those with transformative and semi-transformative designs and art decks.

Anyways, I've recently moved to Germany and was wondering if there are any friends that also share my hobby?
Title: Re: Greetings from Germany
Post by: Don Boyer on February 19, 2018, 06:15:32 AM: Hello!

You'll find you're in good company here. We have collectors of all stripes - young and old, vintage and antique and modern, standard and custom and transformation...and everything in-between. Check out the forum and if you have questions, please feel free to ask!
Title: Re: Greetings from Germany
Post by: leangyan on February 24, 2018, 03:58:59 AM: Quote from: PipChick on February 13, 2018, 05:44:41 PM
Hi everyone,

I'm new to this community but have been a card enthusiast for years and have been casually collecting decks - mostly those with transformative and semi-transformative designs and art decks.

Anyways, I've recently moved to Germany and was wondering if there are any friends that also share my hobby?

Hello

Welcome to the forum. Great to have you here and I do hope you're going to find quite a few collectors from Germany here.

Regards,
Sunish
Title: Re: Greetings from Germany
Post by: PipChick on March 12, 2018, 01:43:53 PM: Thanks, I've been lurking on this site for awhile, but figured I'd make the plunge and register. I'm really excited to be more part of the community look forward to meeting more like-minded enthusiasts (here in Europe and everywhere) and learning more about card collecting :D

- Amy
Title: Re: Greetings from Germany
Post by: Don Boyer on March 17, 2018, 06:20:59 AM: Quote from: PipChick on March 12, 2018, 01:43:53 PM
Thanks, I've been lurking on this site for awhile, but figured I'd make the plunge and register. I'm really excited to be more part of the community look forward to meeting more like-minded enthusiasts (here in Europe and everywhere) and learning more about card collecting :D

- Amy

It's a shame you didn't check us out sooner - we're run by a collectors' club called 52 Plus Joker and our 2017 annual convention was held in Erlanger, Kentucky - the city where the United States Playing Card Company has its factory and headquarters. We were granted a factory tour as part of the festivities! I was busy the entire weekend but had a fantastic time.

The club's next convention is in Columbus, Ohio, if I remember correctly - it's not too late to join and meet us there! ;)
Title: Re: Greetings from Germany
Post by: PipChick on March 17, 2018, 09:48:57 AM: Yea, the convention in Columbus Ohio would be of more interest for me as I have a lot of friends and family in the Chicagoland area and Ohio is not *that* far lol. Maybe, I'll have to see if the dates align with my work/holiday/vacations schedule lol.

The factory tour must have been really amazing - I could only imagine! :D
Title: Re: Greetings from Germany
Post by: Don Boyer on March 22, 2018, 11:12:15 PM: Quote from: PipChick on March 17, 2018, 09:48:57 AM
Yea, the convention in Columbus Ohio would be of more interest for me as I have a lot of friends and family in the Chicagoland area and Ohio is not *that* far lol. Maybe, I'll have to see if the dates align with my work/holiday/vacations schedule lol.

The factory tour must have been really amazing - I could only imagine! :D

It was kind of cool - but it was a factory, rather than something like a showroom. Lotsa noise, lotsa big machines, lotsa industrial smells... ;) Seriously, though, it was pretty cool, but the convention itself was great fun, as was the last one I attended before that, Orlando in 2015. The 2016 con was in the suburbs of Chicago!
Title: Re: Greetings from Germany
Post by: PipChick on March 23, 2018, 04:21:13 AM: Yea, I'd most definitely attend if it came back to Chicago! a shame I'm 2 years too late ¯\_('-_-)_/¯ lol but Ohio might still work; I can make a road trip out of it :D
Title: Re: Greetings from Germany
Post by: Don Boyer on March 24, 2018, 05:32:47 AM: Quote from: PipChick on March 23, 2018, 04:21:13 AM
Yea, I'd most definitely attend if it came back to Chicago! a shame I'm 2 years too late ¯\_('-_-)_/¯ lol but Ohio might still work; I can make a road trip out of it :D

I'd look forward to meeting you in Ohio - maybe I can interest you in a Blind Wizard deck! ;)
Title: Re: Greetings from Germany
Post by: RandyButterfield on March 25, 2018, 12:18:03 AM: Hey Don,

The Convention is in the Cleveland, Ohio area, not Columbus. I'm about two thirds finished with the Club Deck design, and Cleveland is mentioned / drawn a couple times in the design.

Thanks, Randy
Title: Re: Greetings from Germany
Post by: Don Boyer on March 25, 2018, 01:22:15 AM: Quote from: RandyButterfield on March 25, 2018, 12:18:03 AM
Hey Don,

The Convention is in the Cleveland, Ohio area, not Columbus. I'm about two thirds finished with the Club Deck design, and Cleveland is mentioned / drawn a couple times in the design.

Thanks, Randy

Thanks, Randy - I keep getting them mixed up!
Title: Re: Greetings from Germany
Post by: Kevin Dixler on June 06, 2018, 07:20:02 PM: I am curious whether there are other people from Chicago, who meet locally to trade, since CPCC no longer meets.