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d_knight7
12/21/2010, 22:35
Hello and welcome to my second big free clix gala drawing event!

This time around there is even more excitement because we will be drawing for not 1, but 3 lucky winners!

To remind everyone how it goes, names are put in to a hat (with people who have multiple tickets getting their name in multiple times), and a winner is drawn.

As soon as we have a winner, any extra tickets he had in the hat are removed (upping the winning chances of everyone left), and the names are mixed up again and there is another drawing. Wash and repeat.

For this drawing we have a very special celebrity guest, but he has asked to remain anonymous as he doesn't want to make a big thing about his charity work.

So all that remains is to wish everyone good luck, and let the drawing commence!

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And the first name out of the hat, and first place winner is... (http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/album.php?albumid=391&pictureid=13912)

Congratulations! I'd guess about now you're cursing the fact that we fell 5 tickets short of making your prize a full case :cool:


Ok, extra tickets have been removed and here we go for second place.

And the winner is... (http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/album.php?albumid=391&pictureid=13913)

Oh man! I can tell I am going to need a disclaimer for that one.


Ok, that's a whole bunch of extra tickets removed, the odds of everyone left has went up dramatically!

And the third and last brick winner is... (http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/album.php?albumid=391&pictureid=13914)

Yes folks, that is a name. I didn't just fall asleep on the keyboard from excitement :grin:


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Well I am about to go 'hang around' with our celeb guest and his lovely wife, but I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who took part and made this such a fun event.

If you did not win anything tonight, worry not. I already have another sale in the pipes, and it is going to be so generous that it makes this draw look like selfish hobos fighting over a sandwich. I will not be happy until there is spontaneous dancing across the realms.

I have not yet begun to give!


PS - The more observant of you might recognize our #2 prize winner as, dum dum dummm, our WoS case winner from the last sale!

As soon as he started buying up clix from this new sale I knew there was this chance, so let me try and set minds at rest.

1) No credit was transferred from the last sale, all his tickets were earned for this new sale.
2) Until he bid in my first sale I had never even seen the guy post, and maintain no relationship with him outside of these sales. In fact he's in a whole different country.
3) Lastly, and majorly, our repeat winner likes tickets. A LOT. He literally had a third of the tickets in the first sale, and almost a quarter of the tickets in this sale.

While winner #2 certainly stacked the deck with all his purchases, I hope our #3 winner won't mind me saying that he won a prize with a mere 2 tickets. :)

d_knight7
12/21/2010, 22:36
Please join me in congratulating the winners, and feel free to post comments.

As the winners receive and open their bricks I hope they will post their pulls here and rub all our noses in their good fortune :cool:

phantalien
12/21/2010, 22:58
Can we make bets whether they are duplicate bricks or not?

Congratulations to all winners!

I was tempted to enter but I just couldn't bring myself to spend that money when I knew this set was coming out. Some day I will.

Cloo41
12/21/2010, 23:00
Darn, those aren't me... this sucks... All my hopes on one ticket! Haha, congratulations to the winners, enjoy your bricks.

mif987
12/21/2010, 23:38
Yes!!! I can't believe I won AGAIN :D:D:D:D the issue now will be, IF you do this with giant size Xmen what figures to buy :P

mif987
12/22/2010, 00:27
You also have to mention that thanks to you many people in my country have a lot of figures at cheap prices! :D and thanks to them I have won twice :D

bigpoppamj
12/22/2010, 06:38
I don't think I've ever won anything before... So, I'd like to thank the academy and my job for allowing me to give dknight all of my money.

Is there any way you can throw the U Fantastic Forces Doom that I already bought in there with the brick, pretty please?

d_knight7
12/22/2010, 09:27
Is there any way you can throw the U Fantastic Forces Doom that I already bought in there with the brick, pretty please?

Picture the box. It's either ramming him in a too-small-box, or having a ridiculous huge box stuffed with bubble wrap and a tiny Doom floating in the middle :p

Are you planning to order anything when I post my next uber-sale? If so I can add it easily to your new order.

Shoot me a PM, we'll work out how best to get you your crazed Latverian monarch. :cool:

MEsch1974
12/22/2010, 15:09
Congrats, all!

pumawag
12/22/2010, 15:51
:cool:

Wow! Congratulations to all the winners!

And here I was thinking I had stacked the deck with multiple tickets...

:cool:

I did add some great figures to my collection.

Thanks d_knight7

viciousbuddha
12/22/2010, 16:39
Congrats to everyone!

I'm going to have to get Mif to buy some lotto tickets for me lol

d_knight7
12/22/2010, 17:01
I'm going to have to get Mif to buy some lotto tickets for me lol

Just don't be surprised if he pulls up to your door with a dump truck full of them ;)

mif987
12/22/2010, 20:16
That's the downside I'm very lucky with this type of things, when it comes to lotto it doesn't work lol..

During Christmas here in Costa Rica they do a big lotto drawing with a HUGE first price and every time I think of a number and DON'T buy it that's the winning number :( if I buy it I never win :P

d_knight7
12/22/2010, 20:51
During Christmas here in Costa Rica they do a big lotto drawing with a HUGE first price and every time I think of a number and DON'T buy it that's the winning number :( if I buy it I never win :P

Give me the winning numbers, then I'll shower you in clix! It's win-win.


So mif has had me crack open his brick so that hopefully customs don't hammer him as hard as if he had boosters of obviously brand new clix.

PRETTY DAMN GOOD BRICK!

WL Green Arrow
SR Bane
SR Beast Boy
SR Ares
Carol Ferris
John Stewart
Scar
Mongol
Larfleeze
Indigo-1
Kyle Rayner
Animal Man
etc

I think I see ONE non-generic duplicate (Solovar). There are 4 generics in there too.

Day-Yum.

This guy here, even some old Horrorclix boosters he got from me for his friend are raining Uniques and Veterens. Absolutely nuts.


I hope you all are this lucky, maybe one of you got a duplicate brick!

EDIT: On closer inspection, there are a few more duplicates, and 2 manufacturing errors (from what I understand this set is plagued by them). The back of sad Superman is missing (looks like the cape fills his whole rear normally) and, more tragically, the Batman from the Bane SR is missing an arm :(

Oh well, still a great brick imo. I hope they get their act together over quality control in time for Giant-Sized X-men.

VanTheMan
12/22/2010, 22:40
Congratz to the winners!

ophyjgjhnfn
12/23/2010, 02:04
Like bigpoppa, I can't remember ever winning a drawing before (aside from that free deepsea fishing trip that the mate had to remind the captain he was awarding to the sick kid below deck). Thanks for all the awesome clix, d_knight7! I finished a great version of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse (hope we get a great version in GSX!), Alpha Flight from the 90s X-Men cartoon, and several older figures including my longtime favorite, Sauron! Since I already pulled a Beast Boy Rex, I now need to play Rex, Devil Dino, and Sauron with a couple Super Apes for a sweet prehistoric team. I'll post my pulls here when I get the brick. Fingers crossed for a decent WL!


Yes, that is a name. All the way from back when Geocities first started doing free webpages (yeah, we didn't know what a website was yet, nothing had that many pages!). It took so long to get a username I literally entered my full name and birthdate as a string (something you would never do nowadays) and it suggested another name. In frustration, I pounded the keyboard a few times and one key was Return. It spat out that name as my username and welcomed me to Geocities. I've used it since as, well duh, it's never taken already!

If you wanna pronounce it, it took me til 8 years after to give it a go - Oafy jig jah hun fun. Haha!

mif987
12/23/2010, 09:39
It's the second Bane whose Batman's lack an Arm that I know of :( well I'll have to give it to a friend so he can fix it.

mif987
12/23/2010, 10:00
Give me the winning numbers, then I'll shower you in clix! It's win-win.

Here it works with just one number of 2 digits and a second number of 3 digits:P

But I'll try mmm 9 17 25 41 and 87 ? :p

d_knight7
12/23/2010, 10:05
All bricks have now shipped! :cool:

Everyone can feel free to keep commenting here, and I hope that the winners will post their list of pulls here!

d_knight7
12/25/2010, 14:08
Well, I became swelled with Christmas spirit (straight absinthe by the looks of the offer), and posted an all new omg-get-this-man-a-straight-jacket kinda sale.

if you didn't win last time, get your butt over there! If you dd win...win some more! :cool:

bigpoppamj
12/28/2010, 16:15
Got the brick today. Here goes:

First Booster
Bane (Bane was loose in package but no damage)
Larfleeze
Solovar
Dominator
Donna Troy

Deadshot
Ice
Mr Terrific
Batman
Saint Walker

Beast Boy T-Rex
Mongul
Wonder Woman
Beast Boy
East Company soldier

Deadshot
Crimson Avenger
Nightmaster
Animal Man
Ares

Carol Ferris
Aquaman
Detective Chimp
Bart Allen
Gorilla City Warrior

John Stewart
Superboy
Warlord
Green Arrow
Bart Allen

Indigo-1
Ocean Master
Sgt Rock
Crimson Avenger
Zamaron

Dominator
Bart Allen
Beast Boy Bear
Osiris
Green Arrow WL

Scar
Sargon the Sorcerer
Solovar
The Atom
Donna Troy

Kyle Rayner
Superman
Warlord
Beast Boy
Zamaron

Overall, a pretty good brick. I didn't get any pieces I needed, but it will all go to friends and trades anyways and it was free.

I can't believe I still haven't pulled a Hal Jordan SR out of 2.5 cases.

Thanks again knight!

ophyjgjhnfn
12/29/2010, 01:08
Alright! I've got my brick, thanks d_knight7! and I'll be opening it now.

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front left to back right :

Easy Company Soldier
Ice
Beast Boy Cheetah
Queen Aga'po
Ragdoll (buddy wanted him)

ECS !
Beast Boy
Detective Chimp
Ocean Master
Kyle Rayner (other buddy wanted him)

Sinestro! completes my Corps again outside Hal WL
Guy Gardner (better face than my other so I'll be keeping this Tron Gardner)
Osiris
Beast Boy Bear
Bart Allen

Deadshot
Johnny Quick
Sgt. Rock
Animal Man
Superman SR (dupe for trade/sell but again, better than my first. nice, d_knight7!)

John Stewart
Mera
Cheetah
Crimson Avenger
Dominator

Zamaron
Johnny Quick
RC Dominator
Ganthet
Green Lantern (yay, Scott!)

GC Warrior
CA
The Atom
Aquaman
Flash (dupe! can you believe it? but now I get to trade it for whatever)

Black Alice
Wonder Woman
Nightmaster
Mr. Terrific
Zamaron

Ice
The Atom
RC Dominator
Batman
Isis

GCW
Donna Troy
Green Arrow
Solovar
Carol Ferris (dupe for trade!)

Altogether enjoyable as I extended my Zamarons and Easy Company a bit and pulled my Scott and Sinestro. I got one of the 3 big White Lanterns (a dupe, no less!) which I may try to use to get someone's Hal or Sinestro once that becomes available. Or! I may off him to put money toward GSX. Funny that out of a case +2 now there has been no Scar, Larfleeze (traded), Atrocitus, or Comet Dud. Not that I'm complaining about never having pulled that last one...

Thanks for the Christmas present d_knight7! Unfortunately you just got rid of the Jean Grey Phoenix but I'm positive I'll find something to squirrel away for your next drawing.

mif987
12/30/2010, 07:11
hey ophyjgjhnfn what do you want for wl flash?

d_knight7
12/30/2010, 10:21
I LOVE seeing you guys excitedly opening your bricks, it's almost like the feeling I get watching my son open his presents :)

I can't wait to see the size of the brick opening thread for my GSX sale!