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Title: Bicycle Apollo
Post by: PoundFFFFFF on November 07, 2011, 02:52:03 AM
(http://love.youthwant.com.tw/LoveSchool_xfile/M_place/72/100123572//GRAPH/111107150605z10Y.jpg)
Credits to Kete Moon's blog for the image.
Title: Re: O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: CBJ on November 07, 2011, 03:09:30 AM
You beat me too it ;)

I like this one.  I can't believe how many decks are being produced

CBJ
Title: Re: O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: PoundFFFFFF on November 07, 2011, 03:10:49 AM
Of course~ all topics on New decks reserved for CBJ  ;D
Title: Re: O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: xela on November 07, 2011, 03:17:41 AM
I lose interest after the box design. The backs could use better borders as well as shadowing, and the Ace of Spades is bland.

I do love that box though...
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: CBJ on November 07, 2011, 03:19:22 AM
It's the card backs that I like on this one, but you're right about the ace... they could have done way more with it
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: Bulldozah on November 07, 2011, 03:34:17 AM
I actually don't mind the design of the ace, it may be very basic but for me it's quite eye-catching, and as the saying goes, less is more. However, the font on the ace really doesn't suit the theme, and that's what puts me off.

Also, I'm not a big fan of extremely repetitive or tessellated back designs - to me it just looks like someones copied and pasted something everywhere and passed it off as a back design, not really taking the time to design a proper back.
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: xela on November 07, 2011, 03:39:54 AM
I actually don't mind the design of the ace, it may be very basic but for me it's quite eye-catching, and as the saying goes, less is more. However, the font on the ace really doesn't suit the theme, and that's what puts me off.

Also, I'm not a big fan of extremely repetitive or tessellated back designs - to me it just looks like someones copied and pasted something everywhere and passed it off as a back design, not really taking the time to design a proper back.

That's actually exactly how you make those kinds of back designs. This deck would be branded better under the Bee name in my opinion.
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: sinsandman on November 07, 2011, 03:57:41 AM
I was just thinking to myself that I actually like backs obthis style and the Bee has the right idea when they do them. I do like the theme and the ace isn't bad in my opinion. I can see myself picking up a couple
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: phantom1412 on November 07, 2011, 07:07:02 AM
I like the box, but not so much at the back of the cards.
Why new decks keep coming?
I will have nothing to eat!
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: dee1orean on November 07, 2011, 07:45:29 AM
I'll pick up a couple. Anything with traditional hotrod flames is fine by me!!
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: loldudex2 on November 07, 2011, 08:45:47 AM
I wish the card backs looked the the back of the tuck case. I think the lorded detract from these cards a ton.
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: Kanped on November 07, 2011, 09:11:11 AM
I would actually really like this deck if it were borderless; I don't see the point in 'framing' a imple, repeating pattern.
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: loldudex2 on November 07, 2011, 09:15:39 AM
I would actually really like this deck if it were borderless; I don't see the point in 'framing' a imple, repeating pattern.

I don't like bordered decks, so I think it should have a much thinner border, like the border on the Vortex deck.
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: John B. on November 07, 2011, 09:52:02 AM
the card back ruined for me, also with the ace it either needs to be normal or really cool, i dont like this one.
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: law_kid on November 07, 2011, 10:28:04 AM
There is nothing that I don't like about this deck.  Except, of course, that I don't have it yet.
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: Collector on November 07, 2011, 01:13:16 PM
There is nothing that I don't like about this deck.  Except, of course, that I don't have it yet.

+ I need to see really interesting custom court cards (pips?).
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: Evan on November 07, 2011, 02:57:32 PM
Im not a big fan of repeating backs so I don't really like these
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: sinsandman on November 07, 2011, 04:43:54 PM
I agree that there is very little point to putting a border around a back of this design...I still really like it and wouldn't mind owning a couple though.
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: austin on November 07, 2011, 04:50:03 PM
I also like the box design and I don't like the border or the ace, the ace needs color or something. I also agree with Alex that this deck needs some shadowing.
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: Aaron on November 07, 2011, 09:13:00 PM
where is this being released
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: Bulldozah on November 07, 2011, 10:02:47 PM
It would be awesome if the flame design were somehow incorporated in the pips... then again, this probably wouldn't be possible to do without looking absolutely retarded :/
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: austin on November 07, 2011, 11:20:10 PM
The joker for the Apollo deck. This deck is produced by Bicycle. Not yet sold.

http://love.youthwant.com.tw/4/book_readz.php?stud_id=100123572&b_id=2439&p=2442&ftype=9

(http://love.youthwant.com.tw/LoveSchool_xfile/M_place/72/100123572//GRAPH/111108112232z10Y.jpg)
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: PoundFFFFFF on November 08, 2011, 02:25:42 AM
Since the images are of reasonably decent quality, I might as well.

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6092/6325345080_aa8cc602fc_b.jpg)

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6111/6324591869_773e334845_b.jpg)

  Looks like the borders are too thick to be seen in fans.
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: phantom1412 on November 08, 2011, 03:46:32 AM
The joker for the Apollo deck. This deck is produced by Bicycle. Not yet sold.

http://love.youthwant.com.tw/4/book_readz.php?stud_id=100123572&b_id=2439&p=2442&ftype=9

(http://love.youthwant.com.tw/LoveSchool_xfile/M_place/72/100123572//GRAPH/111108112232z10Y.jpg)

The picture remind me of the Walt's Disney Herculis. (Thinner version)
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: CBJ on November 08, 2011, 08:36:33 AM
Since the images are of reasonably decent quality, I might as well.

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6092/6325345080_aa8cc602fc_b.jpg)

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6111/6324591869_773e334845_b.jpg)

  Looks like the borders are too thick to be seen in fans.

Wow!  Another good job on the photo editing.

CBJ
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: phantom1412 on November 08, 2011, 09:20:56 AM
At first I thought it was real  ???
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: loldudex2 on November 08, 2011, 09:24:03 AM
The borders kill this deck for me.
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: austin on November 08, 2011, 01:36:13 PM

The picture remind me of the Walt's Disney Herculis. (Thinner version)
Haha never thought about that, but your right it does look like Herculis.
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: CBJ on November 08, 2011, 06:25:19 PM
Another pic.  Not sure if this is photoshopped, or a prototype

(http://52cartes.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/image001.png?w=614&h=411)

CBJ
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: MrLukeCarroll on November 08, 2011, 06:55:46 PM
Does the back give anyone else a killer headache O.o
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo - O.o Has anyone seen this?
Post by: xela on November 08, 2011, 08:25:19 PM
I have a love/hate relationship with this deck right now. I adore the box, and more or less loathe the rest. I think the back has a lot of potential, and could look amazing if it had the faded effect like on the Stingers, and thinner borders.

Title: Re: New Deck - Bicycle Apollo
Post by: KPopFever605 on November 09, 2011, 11:17:45 PM
The pic look legit, but to me, I'm iffy about this deck.
Title: Re: New Deck - Bicycle Apollo
Post by: LauR on November 10, 2011, 10:52:18 AM
I hope the court cards are custom, all the recent decks lately have just been the backs, jokers, AOS. Except for Vortex of course cause Alex isn't lazy.
Title: Re: New Deck - Bicycle Apollo
Post by: CBJ on December 02, 2011, 06:21:09 PM
There cards are now available.

Here are pics c/o bmpokerworld

(http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae240/1rideout/KGrHqNHJDkE63Zd7UnBO2RIceSJ60_3.jpg)

(http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae240/1rideout/KGrHqFHJ8E63SLfr6uBO2RIewv5Q60_3.jpg)

(http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae240/1rideout/KGrHqVHJDcE63ZmE5BO2RIg3O60_3.jpg)

CBJ
Title: Re: New Deck - Bicycle Apollo
Post by: dmbaggs on December 02, 2011, 06:28:31 PM
Eh the back design is alright. The court cards are interesting with the red ink and the red glow around the pips. I dont think I'll pick any up though.


Anybody else going to snag some of these?
Title: Re: New Deck - Bicycle Apollo
Post by: CBJ on December 02, 2011, 06:37:16 PM
I will grab one.  And I just noticed it says "red edition" at the bottom, I wonder what the other colors are going to be
Title: Re: New Deck - Bicycle Apollo
Post by: dmbaggs on December 02, 2011, 06:41:55 PM
I will grab one.  And I just noticed it says "red edition" at the bottom, I wonder what the other colors are going to be


Well being the god of the sun (and other things) you wouldn't expect any cold colors. So orange or yellow? That seems silly. I would rather see some decks of other gods instead.
Title: Re: New Deck - Bicycle Apollo
Post by: Evan on December 02, 2011, 06:48:47 PM
I will grab one.  And I just noticed it says "red edition" at the bottom, I wonder what the other colors are going to be


Well being the god of the sun (and other things) you wouldn't expect any cold colors. So orange or yellow? That seems silly. I would rather see some decks of other gods instead.
Well, looking at the back design, I could see a blue one.
Title: Re: New Deck - Bicycle Apollo
Post by: dmbaggs on December 02, 2011, 06:49:51 PM
Yeah, but that wouldn't make much sense with the deck's theme and whatnot.
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo
Post by: Don Boyer on December 03, 2011, 01:08:17 AM
It just seems a little too unoriginal for me.  I already own enough decks with slight alterations of colors, and I think that much bright red might hurt my eyes after a while.  I prefer the "security ink" blood reds found on casino decks and a lot of other specialty decks.  Nice back, but I'm not even seeing how that ties into the theme of Apollo.  Wasn't he a Greek god?  Why not a Grecian-styled back?

There's just too many decks better than this to capture my interest.  Maybe when I started collecting earlier this year I would have wanted this, but not now.
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo
Post by: xela on December 03, 2011, 01:32:13 AM
The court cards burn my eyes. O_O
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo
Post by: Jin Jian on December 03, 2011, 04:50:23 AM
lol when and where can we buy this deck?? defintely will pick a few of these deck .. at 1st i look at these deck it kinda remind me of the LTD back design but the LTD look nicer
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo
Post by: dmbaggs on December 03, 2011, 04:54:35 AM
lol when and where can we buy this deck?? defintely will pick a few of these deck .. at 1st i look at these deck it kinda remind me of the LTD back design but the LTD look nicer


Yeah it does have a LTD back feel haha. This deck is on ebay Im pretty sure (bmpoker world, i might be wrong on that). Somewhere here in the forum CBJ mentioned where to find it!! just look a little haha
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo
Post by: Jin Jian on December 03, 2011, 01:23:04 PM
ermm how many of them are produced?
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo
Post by: vmagic on December 03, 2011, 11:17:54 PM
You can now get these on acekingplayingcards, although his shipping rates are a bit excessive imo, I mean $15 to ship to Canada when pokerstud52 can do the same from 2/3rds of the price!! bmpokerworld also has them but they don't want to sell anything to me so I am boycotting them and telling everyone else to do the same!
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo
Post by: Jin Jian on December 03, 2011, 11:57:21 PM
OMG!! lol why dun bmpokerworld want to sell to you ?? lol looking at you it remind me when my mother dun want to buy sweet for me and then i will be angry hoping that she will buy for me but i always fail and talk to her 5 minutes later
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo
Post by: CBJ on December 05, 2011, 04:11:59 PM
Not sure how to embed a video here...

Here's a link to a video review of this deck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRcw8LU23s8&feature=g-u

CBJ
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo
Post by: Evan on December 05, 2011, 04:20:17 PM
Still don't like the deck.... the box is cool though  :P
The design is just not something that I would use and it really doesn't appeal to me
Title: Re: Bicycle Apollo
Post by: KPopFever605 on December 05, 2011, 07:41:39 PM
Meh I might get them, I don't really like the back design (I never liked the Bee back design) but it'll be one less lonely deck. (See what I did... I'm not a Blieber)