My Idea- Please Reply!

[babynick34]

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From: babynick34
Subject: Re: My Idea- Please Reply!
Reply To: [Yahoo! #4616] My Idea- Please Reply!
Date: 7/19/00 5:31 pm  (ET)

>I am curious as to know whether there will be a Harry Potter card series,
resembling magic, pokemon, star wars, etc.

Yes... Wizards of the Coast Inc have the license for producing collector
cards, so expect there to be Pokemon like cards out at some point.

>I mean, it turned (no offense to pokemon lovers here cause im not one)
pokemon from a japnese garbage tv show to a major hit.

And could do the reverse for HP. Pokemon is a cartoon - children are
shown the pictures of the characters. HP is a book... readers use their
imagination to picture the characters - they don't want Warner Bros
or someone it's given a license to producing things which show someone
elses imagination's picture of the characters. Do they?

>Now im wondering what qould happen if JK mixed the deck (get it!) and
made some cards like pokemon, but the only diff. is that Potter has a
reputation now and is at the top of the best seller list.

I can't see how these cards could work - as the characters do not have
faces... we do not know what many characters look like.

However, I am not against cards - I think something could be done,
while still encouraging imagination, and could even be made into a game
requireing a level of skill to play.

>Well anyway, itd be a great idea, since you could make up to 7 sets or
series, one for each year Harry attends hogwarts.

Do you work in marketing? I do sort of, so I can't complain... but I
think a series of cards for each year at hogwarts is going a bit far -
and what would be on the cards exactly?

>I will express more of my ideas at a later time.
PLease respond and tell what you guys think.
Thankss!

Well, you've got my view. Not highly in favour - though I would support
a card game that was educational and which would develope the players
imagination.

Nick.