Bicycle Ghost Deck - By Ellusionist

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Postby trickyricky » Sep 10th, '05, 18:43



Ordered mine late on the monday night they came out and they arrived on the saturday of the same week!

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Postby MagicAL » Sep 13th, '05, 23:09

Mine arrived today, think they look OK, not too sure I'll use them though. But they fan really really well. Would love it if all bikes came with that finish.

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Postby Big Slick Poka » Sep 14th, '05, 18:42

I personally like the look of the new ghost deck. I havent picked one up yet since elliousinst has some very un-friendly canadian shipping rates. If anyone knows of a good source north of the border please let me know.

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Postby Demitri » Sep 14th, '05, 18:46

Big Slick - I don't know if any other US online shops are selling them, yet. Usually E waits a while to release them for mass distribution. I know they're up on ebay already, so you might want to try there for a better shipping deal?

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Card Warping - and not that cool trick with the reversal!

Postby The Last Deck on the Left » Sep 14th, '05, 20:11

Hi there!

Steve Dela wrote that his cards have started to warp slightly. Mine have too, but I just assumed I'd left them out somewhere or got them a bit hot.

To me, the card definately feels differnt to normal Bikes and also different to Tally Ho's. Does anyone know if they used a different stock? I know that it has the UV500 finish which makes them very slick, but they do feel a bit different. I'm not sure about double / triple lifts with them?

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Postby Steve Dela » Sep 14th, '05, 20:23

Hi, Last deck.

Yeah they are made from a thicker card stock than bikes. they are slightly tougher to spring.

from thiner to thick cards.

Bee - Tally - Bike - Tiger/viper/ghost

BTW where abouts in the midlands r u from?

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card thickness and one way decks

Postby The Last Deck on the Left » Sep 15th, '05, 20:38

I like the progression of the cards!

You mentioned before about the ghost being a subtle one-way deck, but not the misprint. I've looked and looked but can't see it !! - Any clues? :D

I'm from Tamworth - how about yourself?

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Postby Steve Dela » Sep 16th, '05, 10:56

Newport in Salop

You know, now I think about it, the one way might just be bad printing, but I don't think it is.

One side of shading is thicker and therefore darker than the other.

is it like that on yous? also can everyone check the noses on their kings?

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Postby Mandrake » Sep 16th, '05, 14:30

From a swift scan of the kings, KH and KS are symmetrical but KC and KD aren't - more details on the bulbous part of the nose one way compared to the other.

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Postby the_mog » Sep 16th, '05, 15:14

the H &S kings arent symetrical..the pommels of the weapons have different shadings on them

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Postby Mandrake » Sep 16th, '05, 17:32

Aha - I was only looking at their noses. It's probably an arrestable offence but do I care? No, I do not :wink: !

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Misprints on the noses

Postby The Last Deck on the Left » Sep 18th, '05, 15:52

Just spotted the same misprints on the kings noses on the Tiger Deck too!

(I really need to get out more!)

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Postby Steve Dela » Sep 18th, '05, 16:16

do we think this misprint is deliberate?

:shock:

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Postby dat8962 » Sep 18th, '05, 16:22

Who nose? :oops:

Yes, I know it's an awefull pun but there you go

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Postby Zero000 » Sep 18th, '05, 21:31

i just ordered the ghost deck, the tiger deck, and teh viper deck. I'm just testing them out. and i also got a pink deck http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic7075.php

i dunno, i just like differnt colored decks

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