From: BFFN@MUSICT.MCGILL.CA (BFFN000)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
Subject: RE: McDonald's UD All-Star Collector Series
Date: 3 Jan 93 15:40:22 GMT
Organization: McGill University

In article <9301022207.AA04937@malibu.sfu.ca> chim@sfu.ca (Alan Chim) writes:
>
>Presenting --  McDonald's Uppper Deck All-Star Collector Series
>
>The Hype:  "The McDonald's Upper Deck All-Star Collector Series consists
>of a limited edition set of 27 NHL All-Star Player Cards, plus an exclusive
>Hologram Card subset featuring 6 NHL post-season 1st team All-Stars.
>We've even included a checlist card.  Look for these exciting Hologram Cards
>randomly inserted in a limited number of our packs.  Collect all 33
>McDonald's Upper Deck Limited Edition Cards."
>

There is also an UNNUMBERED checklist card thereby making this a 34
card set.  There is also an error on this checklist.  Brian Leetch is
McH 04 and Ray Bourque is McH 05 instead of the other way around.

>
>Collation:  Typical Upper Deck collation.  Terrible.  In four packs I
>received back to back doubles of the same card.  In one pack I got:
>Sakic, Lemieux, Lemieux, and Sakic.  I'm not complaining :-) but it
>makes it harder to complete a set.  I opened 15 packs and I didn't
>receive any cards of Kirk Muller, Owen Nolan, Mike Richter, and
>Scott Stevens.  I did receive two holograms of Patrick Roy and Ray
>Bourque.  Here's how it all broke down for the 15 packs I purchased:
>
>Regular Cards
>
>Card #    1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10 11 12 13 14
>Quantity  1  3  1  3  1  4  2  5  4  1  1  3  3  2
>
>Card #    15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
>Quantity  3  1  1  4  1  2  3  2  0  0  0  6  0
>
>Randomly Inserted Holograms
>
>Hologram #      1  2  3  4  5  6
>Quantity        0  0  0  0  1  1
>

Collation is indeed truly awful.  I have even seen three of the same
card in one pack.  Even with a bigger sampling, the distribution is
not very good.  I have gone through 35 packs (140 cards) in the last
two days and have ranged from a low of 2 cards of Brian Bellows
(McD 02) and Trevor Linden (McD 09) to a high of 11 cards of Kirk
Muller (McD 23).  As of the randomly inserted holograms, my luck has
not been much different than Alan's.  I been able to get 6 holograms
but already have 2 duplicates.  Averaging it out among all my friends,
the odds of getting a hologram in a pack is about 1 in 7.5.

>
>Checklist:
>
>All-Star Checklist
>
>CAMPBELL CONFERENCE
>
>McD-01  Ed Belfour
>McD-02  Brian Bellows
>McD-03  Chris Chelios
>McD-04  Vincent Damphousse
>McD-05  Dave Ellett
>McD-06  Sergei Fedorov
>McD-07  Theoren Fleury
>McD-08  Phil Housley
>McD-09  Trevor Linden
>McD-10  Al MacInnis
>McD-11  Adam Oates
>McD-12  Luc Robitaille
>McD-13  Jeremy Roenick
>McD-14  Steve Yzerman
>
>WALES CONFERENCE
>
>McD-15  Don Beaupre
>McD-16  Rod Brind'Amour
>McD-17  Paul Coffey
>McD-18  John Cullen
>McD-19  Kevin Hatcher
>McD-20  Jaromir Jagr
>McD-21  Mario Lemieux
>McD-22  Alexander Mogilny
>McD-23  Kirk Muller
>McD-24  Owen Nolan
>McD-25  Mike Richter
>McD-26  Joe Sakic
>McD-27  Scott Stevens
>
>HOLOGRAMS
>
>McH-01  Mark Messier
>McH-02  Brett Hull
>McH-03  Kevin Stevens
>McH-04  Ray Bourque
>McD-05  Brian Leetch
>McD-06  Patrick Roy
>

Gary Ng
Montreal, Quebec
(HOME OF THIS YEAR'S ALL-STAR GAME)
bffn@musicb.mcgill.ca
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