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Title: Vegas Playing Cards (KS)
Post by: Fess on December 02, 2014, 08:52:32 PM
Vegas Playing Cards (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1612131439/vegas-playing-cards/description)

A deck of playing cards with exciting artwork and beautiful handling for magicians and cardists. But we need money to start printing.

(https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/002/985/131/6684a74f4b17e8bd32515382e7f99631_large.jpg?1417277128)
Title: Re: Vegas Playing Cards (KS)
Post by: Rob Wright on December 02, 2014, 09:29:07 PM
Only a picture of the back. And not a good picture at that. At least make the picture look sort of like a card. I just don't understand how people can put up projects like this. If they looked at any other projects, they would know this isn't going to work. Terrible planning and project.
Title: Re: Vegas Playing Cards (KS)
Post by: sprouts1115 on December 02, 2014, 09:39:05 PM

"The cards will be printed by the US Playing Card Company so the quality of the deck will be unquestionable."

£ 300 seems a bit low for a USPCC deck.
Title: Re: Vegas Playing Cards (KS)
Post by: Don Boyer on December 03, 2014, 05:56:42 AM
This name sounds too familiar.  I think that he tried once before to make a deck project on KS, but under a different account.

   
ANY ONE OF THESE would qualify as a red flag for a KS deck project!!!  All of these together get it promoted to "certified train wreck in the making"!
Title: Re: Vegas Playing Cards (KS)
Post by: Collector on December 03, 2014, 05:32:26 PM
I have a feeling that I saw these pips on some vector stock site. He added neon effect to them and (possibly) created the inscription. For those who hasn't understood - these pips and the inscription are the only custom things in this deck. I think this is more for cardists and magicians.
Title: Re: Vegas Playing Cards (KS)
Post by: rjtomlinson1977 on December 04, 2014, 03:25:34 PM
The Vegas logo isn't from this guy either (well unless he's the one that designed it back in 2007). This Vegas logo ambigram has been around for a while. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Vegas_ambigram.svg/800px-Vegas_ambigram.svg.png)
In fact, the vector is readily available anywhere on the internet.
Title: Re: Vegas Playing Cards (KS)
Post by: Will W. on December 04, 2014, 05:21:28 PM
Found this youtube video of the creator of this,  uuuuhhhhh, project...  I was less than impressed.  ::)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBVaddxmylw
Title: Re: Vegas Playing Cards (KS)
Post by: ryzellon on December 04, 2014, 05:31:22 PM
Quote from: Don Boyer on December 03, 2014, 05:56:42 AM
This name sounds too familiar.  I think that he tried once before to make a deck project on KS, but under a different account.

You're probably thinking of Benji Taylor, creator of the ICON deck.
Title: Re: Vegas Playing Cards (KS)
Post by: Don Boyer on December 05, 2014, 12:26:49 PM
Quote from: Will W. on December 04, 2014, 05:21:28 PM
Found this youtube video of the creator of this,  uuuuhhhhh, project...  I was less than impressed.  ::)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBVaddxmylw

Only got through the first two minutes before the audio quality drove me away.  I think he shot it on an old VHS camcorder or something with similarly bad wide-area microphones attached to the camera.

The "trick" he was doing is nothing anyone couldn't do with a good pack of marked cards.  In fact, it's the WORST use of a marked deck there is; in essence, it's "Pick a card - put it back - is THIS your card?"  Mental as a doorknob.  No better than a kid using a stripper deck for the first time and simply yanking the card out of the middle of the pack for the reveal.  I'm curious how long it took for people to catch on.

Quote from: ryzellon on December 04, 2014, 05:31:22 PM
Quote from: Don Boyer on December 03, 2014, 05:56:42 AM
This name sounds too familiar.  I think that he tried once before to make a deck project on KS, but under a different account.

You're probably thinking of Benji Taylor, creator of the ICON deck.

Nope.  There was a young British kid who tried getting a deck made on KS and it was a dead-simple design and terrifically too small of a goal for the project to succeed unless he exceeded it by a few orders of magnitude.  But this guy appears like he's approaching adulthood, so maybe I'm thinking of someone else.
Title: Re: Vegas Playing Cards (KS)
Post by: ryzellon on December 05, 2014, 06:27:52 PM
Quote from: Don Boyer on December 05, 2014, 12:26:49 PM
Quote from: ryzellon on December 04, 2014, 05:31:22 PM
Quote from: Don Boyer on December 03, 2014, 05:56:42 AM
This name sounds too familiar.  I think that he tried once before to make a deck project on KS, but under a different account.

You're probably thinking of Benji Taylor, creator of the ICON deck.

Nope.  There was a young British kid who tried getting a deck made on KS and it was a dead-simple design and terrifically too small of a goal for the project to succeed unless he exceeded it by a few orders of magnitude.  But this guy appears like he's approaching adulthood, so maybe I'm thinking of someone else.

Let me clarify: when you say you think "he tried once before," you're probably thinking of Benji Taylor, creator of the ICON deck. That's the young British kid. Benji first tried Kickstarting some trilogy project (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/punchmile/the-dfc-deck-of-playing-cards-the-start-to-a-trilo). He then deleted the account when that campaign failed, tried one re-print deck before he launched his ICON deck successfully (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/benjitaylor/icon-playing-cards).

This Benjy appears to be someone else altogether.
Title: Re: Vegas Playing Cards (KS)
Post by: Don Boyer on December 06, 2014, 04:42:15 AM
Quote from: ryzellon on December 05, 2014, 06:27:52 PM
Quote from: Don Boyer on December 05, 2014, 12:26:49 PM
Quote from: ryzellon on December 04, 2014, 05:31:22 PM
Quote from: Don Boyer on December 03, 2014, 05:56:42 AM
This name sounds too familiar.  I think that he tried once before to make a deck project on KS, but under a different account.

You're probably thinking of Benji Taylor, creator of the ICON deck.

Nope.  There was a young British kid who tried getting a deck made on KS and it was a dead-simple design and terrifically too small of a goal for the project to succeed unless he exceeded it by a few orders of magnitude.  But this guy appears like he's approaching adulthood, so maybe I'm thinking of someone else.

Let me clarify: when you say you think "he tried once before," you're probably thinking of Benji Taylor, creator of the ICON deck. That's the young British kid. Benji first tried Kickstarting some trilogy project (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/punchmile/the-dfc-deck-of-playing-cards-the-start-to-a-trilo). He then deleted the account when that campaign failed, tried one re-print deck before he launched his ICON deck successfully (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/benjitaylor/icon-playing-cards).

This Benjy appears to be someone else altogether.

You might be right.  When you mentioned ICON, I was thinking of LoTrek's new project.
Title: Re: Vegas Playing Cards (KS)
Post by: Fess on September 25, 2015, 10:11:36 PM
Relaunched.

Playing Cards Vegas Series. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1612131439/playing-cards-vegas-series?ref=category_newest)
By Benjy Cohen

(http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/1612131439/playing-cards-vegas-series/minichart.png) (http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/1612131439/playing-cards-vegas-series/)
Title: Re: Vegas Playing Cards (KS)
Post by: Don Boyer on September 26, 2015, 01:25:08 AM
It's the same wet, sticky mess as before, it seems.  Borrowed art (what little there is), no visible court cards, indices way too far from the corners to be of any good use and a goal that's well underfunded for even a modest 2,500-deck print run with USPC.

Pass, with big red flags waving in the wind.