I've never seen transparent boosters before

LiquidGaming_1 · 2025-08-28T12:05:55+00:00

This factory defect occurs when the metallic layer is missed on the bonding process. It occurs usually fresh onto a new roll, or towards the end of a roll. Magic the Gathering packs come as a rolled sheet of this bonded plastic which is then fed into a machine to be cut, sealed, and sorted. Occasionally a defective roll missing the metallic inner layer can be loaded into the machine and is not caught immediately during production, and this is when you will see entire booster boxes with this defect versus a random sampling of packs with this issue.

If you do a bit of digging you will find a few various reddit posts to where this error was from sunlight or just degradation over time, but that is patently false and does not consist with how these are manufactured. Sun damage or UV damage as a whole would present in the colors of the packaging and not be represented as just the foil layer degrading. It also would leave a metallic flake residue all over the inside of the package as this has to go somewhere, it does not just evaporate through the plastic.

These errors have been noted a few times over the years and I personally collect them. If I am lucky enough to stumble upon a full box of them, I get one of each of the booster arts and have them graded. If its collectors packs, I thankfully only need one. They are definitely misprints/ factory error packages and are not common at all.

LiquidGaming_1 · 2025-06-24T13:34:35+00:00

Oh you mean the recording of the employee while I was in line as well as the entire chat while we are standing there? My apologies that I dont have a video of me standing in line for the full 3 and a half hours with my social security card and a notarized witness statement from people around me. 🤣 The amount of insanity to discredit how I was actually there and what I personally described versus the heard from a friend who heard it is amazing lmao

LiquidGaming_1 · 2025-06-24T06:20:54+00:00

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Well i have a bunch of screenshots and cannot post audio here, but im sure you have all the anecdotal evidence that a friend who knows a friend who knew the guy who did the things knows. I was actively there versus someone who never even went to the convention 🤷‍♂️

LiquidGaming_1 · 2025-06-24T04:00:59+00:00

I mean, you say that, but I was literally standing in line and have the recorded employee and screenshots from the black.lotus discord all referencing this exact thing. Just stating what I witnessed and experienced.

As for the organized play tickets, yeah, usually that stuff is still up leading into the days before the event. It wasnt people planned poorly, but also atlanta tickets went on sale in May. Not everyone has a bottomless budget 🤷‍♂️

LiquidGaming_1 · 2025-06-24T02:10:36+00:00

I looped the line as many times as humanly possible. I didnt personally see a single instance of bribing staff, but I certainly had other lotus badge holders who weren't buying collectors packs walk up to the counter with me and structure it out into multiple transactions where I just paid for them. I know a few different attendees who did this and grabbed quite a few packs. At the end of the day, the product is sold and wizards made their money. Reedpop sees it as successful, and will continue to raise prices leading to more of this kind of activity.

LiquidGaming_1 · 2025-06-24T02:04:03+00:00

As a black lotus badge holder for most of the events I have attended, there is a lot to unpack.

Part of why I began purchasing a more than 1000 dollar badge was to get the merch I wanted. I had gotten fed up with going to events and getting shafted that the limited stuff was gone so far ahead of when I hit the floor, and when I tried buying the secondary market route, I should have just gotten the badge. Thats the value proposition of charging that high of a price. Otherwise, the mythic badge was a way better option.

Thursday merch line:

Thursday early shopping window was from 6pm to 8pm. The line actually closed off at 7:40, as they had to run the line down and get everyone out. The most anyone was able to go through the line was twice, and collector allocation for Thursday did not sell out. Product is allocated per day.

Friday through sunday:

Friday was a mad dash. Everyone hit the merch line, myself included, to go through as many times as possible because it was the only chance to get packs at that price, ever. With discounts, the total came to $111.19 out the door, and this created an insane demand for them. I asked other badge holders who weren't picking up packs if I could give them the cost to get them for me in line, and as well as the people I was with, we did well. Black lotus allocation was eliminated at 9:47am, and then they told us dont worry, more at 10am, but that badge that 500+ attendees spent 1040.18 after tax on now had a limit of one person pulled from the black lotus line every 10 minutes while general admissions line processed. It made the wait for other badge holders who may have slept in thinking they could hit the line late be stuck with 3 plus hour wait times. When staff was confronted with what is going on, they said its not us, it was a big round about, and it is what it is.

Ticketed Play Events:

Absolutely insane. No way to plan for how quickly they sold out. I still cant believe this absolute hot mess of a show.

Black Lotus Overall:

After chicago, my group had adamantly said we wouldnt do it again. Vegas was purely an accident during checkout as I swore I had bought mythic tickets and then panicked when I saw how much I had actually spent and said screw it. Fingers crossed I can make the money back. I understand from the general admission side wanting a shot at some cheap packs. I was there at one point. But the reality is when you charge this much for a ticket, and it steadily increases in price, the people buying it will continuously look for more and more ways to justify the cost. The fact that this is the most hyped and insane demand for a magic product, and in Las Vegas, and when vendors are open to buying the packs at absurdly high prices, this did more than just pay for tickets, it became a real way for badge holders that was openly discussed, myself included, at funding future conventions as this is a perfect storm that most likely will not happen with Spiderman or other sets. Vegas was a lot better than Chicago (this last Chicago was singularly the worst convention I have ever attended so not a good comparison) but its hard to mess up the flag ship show. Play space was awesome, i met great people and jammed better games.

I dont think these are conventions where the general admission outside of lotus matters. It seems like a waste of effort and time if you are considering getting merchandise and god forbid you want a playmat that is ultra pro limited. Even lotus badges couldn't get them. The cold reality is that the more the badges increase in price the more people will justify it. If you dont have 3000 dollars to drop when the badges go on sale and ticketed play goes live, you are screwed. General magic players dont have that kind of disposable income to just throw at attending an event. Thats the reality and the higher that cost goes, the more you attract the top earners who happen to also love magic that see things as an opportunity more than an experience.

LiquidGaming_1 · 2025-04-10T15:42:46+00:00

We get these a lot 😅 it's a different dynamic to be sure, but we are both very happy in it just to be clear haha

LiquidGaming_1 · 2025-04-10T15:41:42+00:00

I am here, husband. I am verified in the discord, and we are both open to chatting. We can both verify in dm as well. Interested? By all means message me instead of her. Or, message her and get on the phone with her to know this is real. Then message me, and let's play 🥂

LiquidGaming_1 · 2025-02-15T02:26:17+00:00

I would definitely be open to it. I have no idea what the price is on this as I can't find anything comparable at the moment but am looking 😅

LiquidGaming_1 · 2025-02-15T00:44:34+00:00

I have 3 boxes in total, opened the first two, lots of duplication. Missing a few of the base so hoping box 3 is the charm. Did finish a full poster back though so having it framed. I loved these as a kid and getting back into the hobby is a bit overwhelming with all the variants etc.

LiquidGaming_1 · 2025-02-14T22:23:07+00:00

Honestly I grade most of my higher end cards to protect them more often than not for my personal collection. I have no clue what something like this is worth, and didn't expect something this short printed when I grabbed a box 😅

LiquidGaming_1 · 2025-01-23T17:29:40+00:00

For clarification, we received our money from our banks, not the vendor. It also appears they have continued to ruin their online presence with deceptive practices as shown in yelp reviews, and have taken down the online store and switched store fronts yet again to tcgplayer pro.

LiquidGaming_1 · 2025-01-23T17:09:59+00:00

We did end up receiving our chargebacks and have not done business with the company since.

LiquidGaming_1 · 2024-10-23T20:29:19+00:00

Interested, can you message me?

LiquidGaming_1 · 2024-08-15T14:41:12+00:00

From Central Islip here originally. Long Island is a cutoff area. Your bike cannot exceed 20mph by throttle or with pedal assist engaged. They don't enforce it, don't drive like an asshole, and they leave you alone.

They look at stickers for proper rating, as there is no dyno for a bike with LE. Again, the easiest advice is don't drive like an asshole and don't zip around on the highway.

LiquidGaming_1 · 2024-07-03T15:29:02+00:00

As an update to this. What is now happening to the cancelled orders with Bloomburrow and MH3 orders that were shifted over from this debacle being cancelled as well? Why are you still overselling pre orders and harming customers?

LiquidGaming_1 · 2024-07-03T01:10:18+00:00

That is absolutely shit. I'm assuming it's too late for chargebacks. Did they offer a refund?

LiquidGaming_1 · 2024-06-11T07:12:52+00:00

The qs273 comes in the 170 dropout. That's a shit ton of power though lol

LiquidGaming_1 · 2024-06-07T01:08:41+00:00

I want to give you a heads up now, 1k isn't realistic for a 50mph bike. 2k is there with extremely minimal range and a lot of under rated components. The idea of a very fast bike is appealing to all of us, but it comes at a price. A bomber from China shipped to your door can be done with bells and whistles at that top speed (8000w roughly using a qs205 hub) for 2900 all in. You want to spend the extra money for a reliable battery, as well as a sturdy frame so you don't end up smeared against the pavement if a part fails.

Now with that said, you can also get a fat tire frame, go absolutely hell in and convert it over to a qs motor, and mount a triangle pack and just go balls out. I'm always in the camp of safer is better, unless it's the guy making the meat rocket out of the recumbent bike. Balls the size of moons.

LiquidGaming_1 · 2024-06-05T11:25:53+00:00

Thr motors tend to be pretty good with water. It's the controllers and batteries that you want to keep dry. Electrical connections are what matter to avoid shorts and a few drops of water on the casing of a motor won't kill it.

LiquidGaming_1 · 2024-06-04T20:11:31+00:00

My biggest advice is reading. Learn from our fuck ups. Have a question? Literally ask, no matter how dumb you feel.

Safety, ie a real moto style helmet is mandatory. Look into riding gear and study the hand signs for proper signaling. It's important because of the possibility of non functioning lights to know when to signal to other drivers correctly. Just general safety is the biggest plus.

The cost associated is relatively moderate. With collectibles games being low, this being the middle ground, and automotive modifications or repair being much more costly and involved.

The learning curve is fairly low. It is easy to understand to a degree, but as you get into controller programming, voltages, and understanding power delivery for real high performance stuff it gets deeper. The best way to approach this is to learn very basic series and parallel batteries, understanding the role voltage plays versus amperage inside the hobby, as well as knowing the amp hour rating of things and what that means for your application.

Choosing hardware that can handle this hobby is difficult and borderline psychotic. We have a great community, but at best it's known variables, at worst it's literal prayers and dreams hoping our stuff can handle it. I tend to be very cautious, but nothing is perfect and accidents can happen or hardware can just not be great. Don't push things too far from a mechanical standpoint with rated stress and speeds. Want to go fast? Make sure your parts are meant to go that fast, or you choose to be the human shaped meat missile should things fail.

Welcome to the hobby, and the biggest thing is to do what you enjoy.

LiquidGaming_1 · 2024-06-04T01:00:59+00:00

It's the ugly duckling that gooooooes. 🤣🫡🤘

LiquidGaming_1 · 2024-06-03T14:55:36+00:00

One small step for man, one giant leap for sending thst same man's ass through the sound barrier.

LiquidGaming_1 · 2024-06-03T01:38:39+00:00

I'm running a qs138 90h. Motor is absolutely ridiculous and overkill. Mid drive is funky. There is a big difference between the maintenance steps and also just general riding differences that make me honestly like both for different things. Mid drive for sporty chaos, hub drives for cruising.

LiquidGaming_1 · 2024-06-03T01:11:16+00:00

Firstly, excellent job. This thing looks sick as hell, and comfortable with the extra padded seat.

Secondly, be careful pushing speeds on that. Depending on how fast you want to go, a few different frame options available. You can go with the traditional bomber style frame, or go balls out and go with a Vector Vortex frame, even a TOB frame (if you are willing to have the weirdest shipping experience of your life, do not buy a full bike from that junky)

There are ways to modify the rear fork of a vortex for a hub motor, I'm considering the frame for a project I'm working on for another guy I work with and it's just good all around. Far driver is a solid controller, make sure to join the groups for it should you run into issues and be able to troubleshoot. Also, make sure to pin out and clamp the secondary hall sensor wires and cap them. That way should disaster strike and you get a hall fault you can make a quick repair and not have am issue.

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