BCW Supplies is excited to welcome Tim McEnery as our Sports Category Manager. Tim will help sports card and memorabilia collectors, shops, and show vendors find the best products to protect, store, and display their collectibles.
By Kimberly Weese
Shadows of Brimstone by Flying Frog Productions is a fully-cooperative dungeon crawler that allows its players to build characters, travel through portals, visit various worlds, battle monsters and enemies, all while trying to save the local town (and earn as much gold and loot as they can carry). Each map tile, piece of gear, choice of enemy, or room encounter that you come across is randomly determined by the luck of the draw from its own deck of cards. Which, as one can imagine, adds up to a lot of cards. When I first started playing this game 7 years ago, I traveled with my game to my favorite local store with a few deck boxes for each set of cards. Over time, the few boxes multiplied with each expansion added and quickly required more boxes than I wanted to carry. Luckily, BCW’s 3200 Collectible Card Bin and Bin Partitions were the perfect answer to my problem! With all my cards in one box, they were easy to store and carry.
Disney Lorcana by Ravensburger is a game where two or more players summon various Disney heroes and villains to be the first to collect 20 pieces of lore. As the game takes place in an original setting, characters from many different properties can make an appearance, often in the same deck!
The game uses 3 main types of cards: Characters, Items, and Actions. Characters collect Lore as well as challenge opposing characters. Items give access to powerful abilities. Actions are one-time effects that are discarded as soon as they’re resolved. Songs are a special type of action card that can be used for free by having a character “sing” it.
While coin collecting isn’t limited to US currency, most holders from American companies are based on those sizes. If you collect world coins, or aren’t an American, this can create some confusion. Below, I will go over some tips and tricks to help pick the right holder for your coin when there isn’t an obvious choice.
By Serena L.
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Serena here, this time, we’re back with an old friend. With the recent release of Festival Booster 2023 we have some new support for the original five Lyrical Monasterio decks, including the one I wrote my very first article on, Feltyrosa! I’ve been playtesting and this is my most recent version of the deck.
BCW is proud to introduce our new premium 9-pocket protective pages. Our LaserWeld Pages are head and shoulders above any other poly pages available on the market.
First, as the name suggests, these pages are welded using a laser. Our patented manufacturing process gives a thinner weld line compared to standard hot press or sonic welding while also being stronger. Thinner lines put more focus on your cards, making them aesthetically superior as well.
On the subject of looks, you will quickly notice the LaserWeld Pages sit flat and smooth. Other manufacturing methods can make the material wavy or curved. The flat LaswerWeld Pages minimize glare, making displays and photos more attractive. The flatness of the pages will also let you use more pages per binder.
Finally, there is a difference you may not see, but you can feel. The LaserWeld Pages are made from two layers of heavy-duty, 115 micron polypropylene. In addition to the acid-free, archival properties of polypropylene, the thicker material adds an extra buffer between your collection and any spills, scratches, or other damage that may occur.
Comics, like every other collectible, require care when shipping. While you can toss them in a box with no other consideration, they will most likely arrive damaged if not destroyed. Fortunately, BCW offers several options to ship comics safely, each suited for a different need.
Continue readingSports and trading card businesses have relied on Toploaders to protect, store, and display their most valuable cards for decades, but did you know that BCW Supplies now offers five sizes of Toploaders designed specifically for vinyl records?
Made from two layers of semi-rigid plastic reinforced with high-impact grade PVC along the edges, our Toploaders protect rare and valuable 12-inch and 7-inch records. Records slip securely into the top of each loader to offer maximum protection, prevent corner dings, and keep records and their jackets looking pristine. The clear plastic also makes these ideal for behind-the-counter wall or shelf displays.
Our Record Toploaders are available for 7-inch records and four subtly different sizes for 12-inch records. The PVC used in all BCW Toploaders contains no plasticizers or stearates and will not harm records or jackets in any way.
Continue readingBy Serena L.
Stand up! Vanguard!
It’s Serena and I’m back with another Cardfight Vanguard Overdress format deck tech! This time around we’re taking a look at the Glitter who seeks the Fire Regalis, Tamayura. Tamayura is our first foray into Dragon Empire, but she brings a familiar style of play, particularly if you read our last article. Let’s get started!
By Sal Barry
Longtime collectors remember when sports cards started using a high-gloss protective coating in the early 1990s. This coating – known as UV coating – gave the cards like Fleer Ultra and Topps Stadium Club a slick, premium feel to them. Collectors loved it!. But this eventually led to a problem called “bricking.”
Bricking is when cards get stuck together in a stack resembling a brick. And once they brick, they are hard to unstick. Read on to learn why cards stick together, what to do if they brick, and how to prevent that from happening in the first place.
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