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Toy Con Toy Show – Star Wars Celebration

Just a friendly reminder.

Toy Con Toy Show is this weekend. We will be there on Sunday from 8AM-2PM

We’ll give you the Who? What? Where? When? and How? once again.

Star Wars Celebration!

“Our normal toy show and more! Celebrate the legacy of Star Wars with special raffles! Cosplay encouraged!”

It’s always a fun time there, plenty of toys, comics, video games, and since we’ll be there plenty of Final Fantasy TCG, and trading cards.

Time for the who, what, where and when.

Who?

Toy Con Toy Show.
https://www.toycontoyshow.com

What?

It’s a monthly Toy Show. And, we’ll just copy what was on there website. They do a better job than I would.

“For 30 years, our show has brought equity and fun to collectors, families and the Bridgeview community. The Toy Con Toy Show offers patrons access to dozens of toy, comic and collectible vendors with merchandise from all eras and genres. Toy Con also sponsors charities through fundraisers held at select shows, such as The Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation.”

Where?

Bridgeview Community Center

7902 S. Oketo
Bridgeview, IL 60455

When?
May 18th, 2025
8:30AM – 2:00PM

Let’s not forget How?

How what? How to get in.

$5 – General Admission
$7 – Early Admission
Kids under 10 = Free!

Hope to see you all there!

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Journey of Discovery

“Scheduled for release on November 14, 2025, the new FFTCG booster pack “Journey of Discovery” features many appealing cards, including brand-new illustrations and characters making their card debut. Additionally, all “Limit Break” cards included in this booster pack—a key element for multifaceted strategies—will be multi-element, providing a wide range of options for LB decks. “Journey of Discovery” will significantly expand the possibilities for both deck construction and strategic play.

This set will also come with 28 newly illustrated cards centered around characters from FINAL FANTASY VIII. Also included as an extremely rare Special card is Terra [27-014H], showcasing a brand-new illustration Fumio Minagawa, and featuring his signature foil-stamped on a card for the first time. This set is designed to appeal not only to players but also to collectors, and is sure to resonate with many existing players and FINAL FANTASY fans.

In addition, Legacy cards—powerful cards from the past selected for inclusion as premium full art cards—continue to be featured in this booster pack. The following three cards are included in this set: Regis [12-122L], Neo Exdeath [21-074L], and Ace [22-116L]. Special cards and Legacy cards are not only for collection purposes as they can both be used in official tournaments, just like normal cards.

* Please note that the Buy-a-Box Promo card will no longer be included with display box purchases, starting with the “Journey of Discovery” booster packs. Your understanding is greatly appreciated.”

We had Journey of Discovery announced last week!

We’re a little late to the party but let’s take a look at what we have in store.

We have a count of 121 cards, according to my calculations, which can be wrong, we will have 18 cards for each element. I’m guessing 3 or 4 Light/Dark cards and the rest will be LB cards. The Legacy Cards are back once again with our usual 3 cards which were mentioned above.

We’re getting plenty of new Final Fantasy VIII cards including a Rookie card for Ellone. Other cards that were shown are Zell, Graha Tia, Seven, Krile, Ultimecia, Tonberry, Jack and a Black Mage and a Miqote of some sort. Yeah, I haven’t played the online games, so I’m unsure if they are actual Characters or just Standard Units.

Let’s check out our Magitek Knight with the Golden Signature, Terra!

A 4 cost Hero. Terra is a Forward that once she enters the field, you reveal the top 3 cards of your deck. You can add 1 Fire card and either a Wind or a Lightning card to your hand. The rest will end up in the Break Zone.

Whenever you play a Wind or a Lightning card you can dull Terra and deal 8000 damage to one of your opponent’s Forwards.

This means that you will be placing Terra into a Fire/Wind deck or a Fire/Lightning deck. Both of which have not seen many FFVI decks with these elements. Which means that either, we’ll be getting plenty of Final Fantasy VI Wind and Lightning cards, or that Terra will perfect for any deck that plays these elements.

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Kardboard Fantasy

05/05

Ended up listing all of the Video Games, that we got at the Flea Market on eBay. You might ask why not just on the website? Well, we’ll be listing games that we personally like on the Kardboard Korner. We might be moving to Shopify soon, as that might be better for us in the near future.

Ran a sale on all the singles on the website. 20% off. Some of you got a great deal. Some of you missed out.

You’ll have to keep an eye out for the next sale. Or you can just subscribe to the newsletter and we’ll let you know when it will pop up.

05/06

Did a restock on Resurgence of Power, for TCG Player and eBay.

Since our Cinco de Mayo coupon did pretty good, we decided to add one more day to it. Didn’t do so great today.

We’re sponsors for the Fun Run that our kids go to school at. And we got our T-Shirts in today. These ones look better than last year’s shirts, and plus we have the Kardboard Korner logo on the back. Can’t go wrong with that.

05/07

It’s Wednesday, and that means we’re heading to the Flea Market, in hopes of finding our guy there. He was there today, but he had nothing for me. Just half of a Switch game pad. The blue side if you need to know. I left it there.

The Power Supply came in today, now let’s see if we can get this PlayStation 2 to work. I got a bunch of games that I need to test. Once this one is good, I’m going to start on the 3 Xboxs.

It turns on now, but I must have messed something else up.

05/08

It was the Fun Run today, we went to support our kids. Plenty of Coffee provided, so I was happy. I cheered on the kids and took off.

Found some PlayStation accessories while I was out sailing today.

05/09

City wide Garage Sales.

That’s our cue. Dropped the kids off to school and off we go. And, even though it said city wide there weren’t that many sales out there. All we managed to find was a Sully Talking Plush. Which was pretty cool, but not exactly what we needed. We still picked it up though.

As I was starting to head home, I saw a tiny sign, it’s a garage sale sign all right. Had a little trouble finding it. Once I got there, I walked all the way to the back of the driveway, and I see 2 people going through 2 bins full of Vintage Nintendo. I’m talking about Consoles and Games. You name it, it was in there. I just turned around and left. No point in sticking around there.

Now that sucked big time. I was a little pissed off, not at those two. They had every right to grab them all, I would have done the same. I was just pissed that I didn’t get there first. It’s all good though. They got it, as they should have.

Restock for From Nightmares on TCG Player and eBay.

05/10

First off let’s rewind a couple of days.

My son saw a Minecraft Nightlight that I had for sale for when I would go to shows. And, as every 6 year that would see it. He wanted it. Of course he asked for it and I said no. I told him that he can earn it. All he had to do was come work with me for a day or two. He agreed. I also told him that on Saturday he would have to wake up early so we can head out to the Flea Markets.

Today’s the day. I woke him up, and he got up so fast, he got ready in 5 minutes. I was surprised. He was ready to go. He kept asking what do I have to do?

I said just come along for the ride, maybe you’ll learn something.

It was a fun day with him, just cracking jokes in the car.

First Flea Market, we ended up with a couple of XBox 360s, a Dreamcast, Gameboy Color, PS2 Slim, an Ipod, a battery for an Ibook, and some games for these systems.

We were done with that one, and since it was still early, we decided to go to another one. We found one that was off of I-55 which said was open on Saturday. Turns out it was not. We turned around and headed towards another Flea Market, took us 20 minutes just to get a Parking Spot at the last one. You’d think that it would be a great one. But, we did not find anything there.

That was it for today, time to head home.

05/11

Sunday.

It was time to try and test everything that we picked up yesterday. Most of the Consoles had cables and everything, but some were missing a cable or a controller. So, we couldn’t test those.

Out of all the games that were in the package that we picked up yesterday, the only one really worth anything was Gran Theft Auto 2 Collector’s Edition for the original PlayStation. And, that one sold within the hour of listing it.

I might have to find a way to let you all know of the new items before they hit eBay.

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Starter Set Vol.1 and Vol.2

We have new Starters announced! And, this time they are not bundled together. You can choose which one you’d rather have. Cloud or Zack? Vol.1 or Vol.2?

From what I can tell, they are not Final Fantasy VII themed decks as the cards that were shown contain Characters from the different series. Lightning, Yuna, Luso, Charlotte, are all included in these sets as well.

Set for release in October 3rd, which gives us a Tentative release date for Opus XXVII for either October 31st, or November 7th.

Both of these sets come with a Full Art Foil of either Zack or Cloud.

And, for the first time these Starter Sets will also include a Limit Break deck as well.

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One More Day

We had a Coupon out for Cinco De Mayo, and decided that not everyone had a chance to use it.

So, we decided to add one more day to it.

Maybe 2 more days.

If you missed out then, here is the Coupon Code “20Korners” Use it at checkout to get 20% off of all singles.

And, if your order goes over $200 you’ll get Free Shipping as well.