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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Playing Card Plethora => Topic started by: badpete69 on February 10, 2014, 07:32:44 PM
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Saw the movie a long time ago but not into this deck
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1662009592/freaks-playing-cards (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1662009592/freaks-playing-cards)
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Same here on both counts...
Lots of potential for the subject matter.
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One of us one of us, gooble gobble gooble gobble.
Looks more like the person is marketing the bumper stickers, hats & tote bags than the 2 decks of cards. Sorry to say but this project is doomed for failure.
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I get a laugh out of how his claim that clear plastic boxes are superior to custom deck boxes because the custom boxes don't stand the test of time! Bro, it's not like they're going to disintegrate within your lifetime if you care for them!
This movie was extremely controversial when it first came out because of the depictions of so many human deformities. Remember, this was the same time period of time when Franklin Roosevelt, paralyzed from the waist down with polio, insisted on never being seen in public in his wheelchair because he felt the public would never elect him to office. He stood in leg braces when giving speeches and used a car with hand controls to replace the need for the pedals. Even today it exists largely as a cult film from the midnight movie circuit which sprang into being in the mid-1970s. Our attitudes may be more enlightened, but there's still a lot of people who get uncomfortable thinking of such things existing in the same world they're in.
Unless this guy makes a perfect deck and markets heavily to that cult market, he's got a snowball's chance in hell.
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Nothing beats paper except for a credit card that you never have to pay for.
I like the vintage poster look of the back even though it's landscape. But the fronts are just another one of those "slap a picture on a template" kinds.