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airship Inner circle In my day, I have driven 1594 Posts |
I've bought two different Rainbow decks, and I'm disappointed in both. There are numerous repeats in the back designs (maybe only a dozen different backs in total), and the backs are almost all standard playing card backs. One even has multiple duplicate faces.
Would there be any interest if I put together an interesting, colorful Rainbow Deck and offered it for sale? I'm thinking the following criteria: (1) Poker size. (2) Standard faces. Or as 'standard' as you can have when you're mixing cards from Bicycle, Hoyle, Carta Mundi, Hong Kong, etc. The goal is to not include any cards with weird pictures on the card faces, or full-color faces, and to ensure that they look as alike as possible from the front. (3) 54 totally different and colorful backs. I might include a few casino backs, or a 'vintage' Bicycle back or three, as long as they're interesting. I would shoot for variety: product promos (Coke, Chevy, Jack Daniels), travel (Black Hills, Hawaii), retro (Roy Rogers, Laverne & Shirley), cartoon (Snoopy, Simpsons), etc. The goal would be to build a deck that someone just wants to sit down and browse through because it's so cool. (4) A FULL set of 54 different faces. No duplicate card values. (5) Target price of $19.95 each (Paypal only), plus USPS shipping of $3.95 (or whatever it is right now). The deck would come in a random box that matches one of the cards in the deck. If you want to do effects that need duplicate backs, you'd swap in your own. I'd like to know if there would be enough interest in this to proceed, as I guesstimate it would cost me over $500 just to build 52 different decks. Not to mention the time involved. I'd want to be relatively sure I could sell 25 decks before I commit. What do you think?
'The central secret of conjuring is a manipulation of interest.' - Henry Hay
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the Sponge Inner circle Atlanta 2771 Posts |
Do you mean like Randy Wakeman's two rainbow decks he marketed?
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Mange New user Stockholm Sweden 15 Posts |
It will be great if you do it,I never like the rainbows deck of Randy Wakeman.
I think that you have somthing big here. I will be your first costumer. |
airship Inner circle In my day, I have driven 1594 Posts |
Hmmmm. I thought I had Randy Wakeman's deck but the descriptions in the online magic catalogs clearly say '52 DIFFERENT colorful backs'. If he's already done it, then I'm happy, and I'll buy it. Does anyone have this who can comment?
'The central secret of conjuring is a manipulation of interest.' - Henry Hay
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Stevethomas Inner circle Southern U.S.A. 3728 Posts |
I do have 2 of the Randy Wakeman decks, and they are all different backs and a regular 52 card deck on the faces.
Steve |
Card-Shark Inner circle Germany 1758 Posts |
I am collecting different backs of all kind of playing cards (having the same idea). I allready got 45 different ones. If you are interested to see them visit my webpage http://www.card-shark.de/index_e.cfm?Spr......p;Navi=4.
I love the idea of such a deck. Christian
Expert in playing card production for magicians.
The Person Who Says It cannot Be Done Should Not Interrupt The Person Doing It! Chinese Proverb |
Robert M Inner circle 2482 Posts |
This has been discussed before, but... the USPCC is supposedly releasing a rainbow deck soon. It will be comprised of 52 different backs from past and present USPCC decks, plus some new backs designed by Martini. It will printed on regular Bicycle stock and all the faces will be standard, as far as I know. So, this will be a definite improvement over the Wakeman rainbow deck.
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magicbob116 Inner circle 1522 Posts |
Las Vegas Gemini Twins by Tyler Corbin is essentially a rainbow deck type of effect (although not EXACTLY the same as standard rainbow deck) that uses cancelled cards (opposite corners rounded off) from all different casinos in Vegas. Four cards are selected (there's a procedure to picking the cards that I can't recall right now) and "bets" are placed on each one. When the four cards are turned over, they are the four aces. The rest of the deck is spread and it is all 5 of hearts (or some other indifferent card).
B. Robert Pulver
The "I Hate Card Tricks!" Book of Card Tricks Vol. 1, 2, and 3 Kards for Kids Sticky Situations Sleightly Wacky http://www.magicnook.com/magicbob |
Card-Shark Inner circle Germany 1758 Posts |
@Robert: That sounds great. Hope to see this deck soon.
Christian
Expert in playing card production for magicians.
The Person Who Says It cannot Be Done Should Not Interrupt The Person Doing It! Chinese Proverb |
airship Inner circle In my day, I have driven 1594 Posts |
The USPCC deck will be great as far as all the faces being EXACTLY standard goes, but it will definitely be more boring than a deck with all really colorful backs.
Anyway, it sounds like there are already plenty of products out there that I wasn't aware of, so my idea is unnecessary.
'The central secret of conjuring is a manipulation of interest.' - Henry Hay
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RandyWakeman V.I.P. Plainfield, ILLINOIS 1617 Posts |
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On 2006-11-14 13:59, airship wrote: I guess there are a lot of "rainbow decks" by now. The very first Rainbow Deck I designed and marketed WAS manufactured by USPC, on Bicycle stock, with standard pips / faces, and included 52 differnt back designs. |
airship Inner circle In my day, I have driven 1594 Posts |
Randy, Wow, thanks for posting. The two decks I bought were VERY disappointing - I wish I had stumbled upon yours instead. Sounds like my idea of what a Rainbow Deck should be is exactly the same as yours.
'The central secret of conjuring is a manipulation of interest.' - Henry Hay
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bugjack Inner circle New York, New York 1624 Posts |
Hi Randy,
Is your Rainbow Deck a dealer item anywhere, or available just from you? Best, Scott |
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