tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post8019006057452202022..comments2024-03-29T08:58:55.040-04:00Comments on Japanese Baseball Cards: 2001 Calbee Pack BustingNPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-9042712252999797732014-03-09T20:14:23.305-04:002014-03-09T20:14:23.305-04:00Great find! It is cool to be able to still find t...Great find! It is cool to be able to still find those Calbee packs out there.<br /><br />It does suck to get the lucky cards today, useless as they are, but those were a really fun promotional thing back in the day. I bought my first Calbee chips in 2004 and actually had a lot of fun collecting those lucky cards. That year if you sent three of them in you would get a set of the gold foil signature Star Cards, which was a pretty cool prize. I ended up getting 2 out of 3 of the sets available (one set for each series that year, I didn`t save up enough lucky cards for the series 3 set).<br /><br />Sometime in the past few years they stopped giving away sets of cards and started only giving out the card holders which are pretty useless. Now they don`t even have the lucky cards, you are just supposed to cut out a little label on the chip bag itself. I kind of hope they bring them back, it would incetivize me to buy more chips.<br /><br />Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13681778110046124243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-177782989842249952014-03-09T10:26:00.332-04:002014-03-09T10:26:00.332-04:00Thanks! Nice to know what those cards are for.Thanks! Nice to know what those cards are for.NPB Card Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-81259058084830509592014-03-09T08:20:13.276-04:002014-03-09T08:20:13.276-04:00Using what little Japanese I have, this is what I ...Using what little Japanese I have, this is what I gather:<br /><br />with 2 "Lucky Cards" you get a "present" card holder (those little binders).<br /><br />with 5 lucky cards you get a free card set, of 12 cards. The names below that list the checklist. This is the JC 57 set with SP- prefix numbers. <br /><br />10 lucky cards wins you a gold signed set of cards 1-72. These are gold foil signatures.<br /><br />Calbee packs are fun to open, even if you do only get 1 or 2 per pack. Bummer about the prize cards, though.Ryan Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12670458381967699663noreply@blogger.com