Box Breaks - EX2000 (what a terrible overpriced product) and Allure

[drearick]

I'll preface by saying I NEVER break the higher end products - if something gets much above $100 for a box, I'm out. However, somehow talked myself into breaking a box based on the "nostalgia" of the product - what a huge mistake. For $220 (OK - $200 as they gave me a $20 discount for buying both the EX and Allure boxes) I expected so much more - yes, I should have done my homework before buying it so ultimately that's on me.

First off, probably half of the base cards (and a couple of the rookies) had dinged corners and/or chipped edges. With it only being two cards in a pack I think the packaging is just too flimsy and there's no support to prevent that from happening. Here's a list of the base and rookies (not scanned):

BASE - Aho (edge dmg), B. Tkachuk (edge dmg/ding corner), Rantanen (ding), Svechnikov, Giroux, Suzuki, Ehlers (ding), Kaprizov (ding), P. Kane (ding), B. Nelson, Zegras (ding), Letang, Marchessault (ding), Vasilevskiy, J. Hughes, MacKinnon (ding), Matthews, Oettinger, Konecny (ding), S. Jones (destroyed corner), Josi (ding), Wright, Eberle (ding), Makar

ROOKIES - Cooley, Zary (edge dmg), Benson, McGing, Sourdif, Knies (edge dmg), Coronato, R. Evans (edge dmg/ding), Greig, Poitras, Faber (edge dmg), Kartye

Next up are the inserts which, frankly for a product this expensive to have seven very flimsy, unattractive inserts out of the 10 total in the box is not what I would have expected - I'm talking $1 inserts in a $200 product. Here's what I pulled (again, not scanned):

Star Date 3000: Stutzle, J. Robertson, J. Walman(??), Pastrnak
Index Movers: W. Johnston, Perfetti, D. Joshua

That leaves me with 3 inserts and 2 parallels that I would guess they consider the "better" cards (scan below):
PARALLELS
Quinn Hughes All-Access Credentials (not numbered)
Matthew Barzal Credentials (#282/499)

INSERTS
Devon Levi Net Assets
Anze Kopitar Hall or Nothing
Jaroslav Svejkovsky Star Date 3000 Parallel (#54/99)




OK, now on to the Allure, which I actually think is a much better break and significantly more value for the cost (only $120 on this one). I didn't pull anything earthshattering, but it was a fun break, the cards are nice looking (and there was no damage).

First off, here's a list of Rookies and lower level inserts (not scanned):

RCs: Stankoven, Klapka, Brisson, Chibrikov, Doan, D. Cooley, A. Thomas
Black Rainbow Parallels: J. Doan RC, Draisaitl, T. Moore, Konecny
Red Rainbow Parallels: Lundell, M. Villalta RC
Colorful Futures: Zegras
Colorful Futures Orange: J. Hughes
Colorful Futures Purple: Z. Benson
Color Flow Red-Orange: T. Terry, M. Barzal
Color Flow Orange-Yellow: Dahlin
Color Flow Green-Blue: Fantilli
Across the Pond: Heiskanen
Across the Pond Orange: Draisaitl
Protectors of the Ice Blue: Shesterkin
Protectors of the Ice Green: Swayman
Protectors of the Ice Orange: Oettinger

Now for a few scans:

First off, you can't go wrong with a couple Ovi's:


Color Flow Yellow-Green Alex Ovechkin
Orange Slice Alex Ovechkin

Next up a couple Hutson RCs:


Lane Hutson RC
Lane Hutson Black Rainbow RC

And last up, a couple numbered cards and a Doubloon insert:


Gold Glitter Bomb Andrei Svechnikov (#186/199)
Color Flow Red-Orange Spectrum Mitch Marner (#102/150)
Doubloons Mason McTavish

Thanks for the look - have fun with your breaks (and stay away from EX).
Dave

 

[MMarch]

That is a huge bummer, EX-2000 could have been an outstanding product, but with the odds and price point it was doomed even before the garbage quality control was known. Does anyone know if UD is going to do anything about the widespread damage, or is it another "oh well tough luck" situation for the collectors again.

 

[odjickfan]

EX-2000 had so much potential, it’s sad that it turned that way.

Out of curiosity, how was the condition of the cards in Allure? I opened a 22-23 and a 23-24 blaster, and there were a lot of roller marks in the back of the cards.

 

[Avalanchefan21]

EX-2000 had so much potential, it’s sad that it turned that way.

Well said ^^^

Glad you're allure box was better. I agree with everything you said though Dave. Awesome looking cards EX is just not for the price, someone said its like a more expensive version of Synergy which unfortunately they were correct. Just too bad the cards were damaged because the base some of the inserts are really cool. I think the 2 cards per pack was a throwback to when they had it I guess