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Great! Can't wait to get all these decks, this will be the most awaited and excited unboxing for me in 2017.

Lotrek wrote:Yes, bronze decks too.

Inverted Inferno is following right after these.

I just want some clarification. So late September you're sending out:

-Grotesk Black Gold & Silver
-Grotesk Bronze
-Liturgy (Version2 green and Version2 red tucks plus a free 1st version green deck)
-Grotesk Inferno

all together in one shipment?

Exactly.

Lotrek wrote:Exactly.

This was all just a huge scheme to make shipping cheaper wasn't it. Genius.

"Finish was rubbish, need to reprint everything, I'll touch base in a month"
"Ok that didn't work, but this other deck is working, I'll try that on this, gimme another week"
"Ok, my cat scratched all of the prints, and puked on the tuck boxes, While I am getting this third deck printed I have to completely reprint the other two"
"Another glazing issue, all three decks are on hold while I finalize the glazing process and print deck four"
"Alright, totally random, not planned at all coincidence that everything finished around the same time, I'll just ship it all at once"

Gotta love them parcels covered in stamps from Athens.
Yay! to Hellenic Stamps.

Justin O. wrote:

Lotrek wrote:Exactly.

This was all just a huge scheme to make shipping cheaper wasn't it. Genius.

"Finish was rubbish, need to reprint everything, I'll touch base in a month"
"Ok that didn't work, but this other deck is working, I'll try that on this, gimme another week"
"Ok, my cat scratched all of the prints, and puked on the tuck boxes, While I am getting this third deck printed I have to completely reprint the other two"
"Another glazing issue, all three decks are on hold while I finalize the glazing process and print deck four"
"Alright, totally random, not planned at all coincidence that everything finished around the same time, I'll just ship it all at once"

Wait. We haven't finished yet. In a few days I'll break my leg, then we'll have my car stolen full of the decks, then we'll have "Ambassadors" issues with foiling, then a major change in the Hieronymus decks that won't come out as I wanted them to and finally you'll get all the decks after 4-5 years in a huge box. Eheh, that's the way to make money nowadays!

Lotrek wrote:

Justin O. wrote:

Lotrek wrote:Exactly.

Wait. We haven't finished yet. In a few days I'll break my leg, then we'll have my car stolen full of the decks, then we'll have "Ambassadors" issues with foiling, then a major change in the Hieronymus decks that won't come out as I wanted them to and finally you'll get all the decks after 4-5 years in a huge box. Eheh, that's the way to make money nowadays!

Lotrek wrote: Wait. We haven't finished yet. In a few days I'll break my leg, then we'll have my car stolen full of the decks, then we'll have "Ambassadors" issues with foiling, then a major change in the Hieronymus decks that won't come out as I wanted them to and finally you'll get all the decks after 4-5 years in a huge box. Eheh, that's the way to make money nowadays!

You had better knock on some wood ASAP.

Got home to a rather large parcel on my doorstep today.
Here's a quick snap shot of what I received:

I am so envious misterharmanko! Sadly, I didn't back that campaign. Still, that had to set you back a few pennies. One can never have enough limited decks of Lotrek's though.

Bradius wrote:I am so envious misterharmanko! Sadly, I didn't back that campaign. Still, that had to set you back a few pennies. One can never have enough limited decks of Lotrek's though.

Agreed, I do like to stock up on Lotrek's decks.
And Yes it did cost me a small fortune - However it was so long ago that I think my bank balance has just about recovered

misterharmanko wrote:

Bradius wrote:I am so envious misterharmanko! Sadly, I didn't back that campaign. Still, that had to set you back a few pennies. One can never have enough limited decks of Lotrek's though.

Agreed, I do like to stock up on Lotrek's decks.
And Yes it did cost me a small fortune - However it was so long ago that I think my bank balance has just about recovered

That looks to be $1,400 by my count...

I used to think I was over-doing it by ordering 2 of each deck...

Lotrek how can we get a tracking number from you about these decks?

Return the favor, get on the Oath listing ?

Bikefanatic wrote:Lotrek how can we get a tracking number from you about these decks?

Just send me an email to lotrekdesign@hotmail.com

Got my decks well packed in perfect condition on friday
Beautiful and shiny as expected.
Silver, Gold and Inferno are very thick, more then Ambassadors.
Can't wait to get Inverted Inferno & Signature aswell.
Thanks Lotrek.

btw.... I thought that i get the Grotesk Test decks with this package, but i guess they will sent along with Inverted Inferno ?
Test decks were on sale May 10th:
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I've added all 4 decks to portfolio52.

Lotrek, thanks to you, Melania and the rest of the people who were involved with the decks.

Christmas came today and every thing was perfect. The Grotesk Bronze is my favorite out of the 4. I favored the green Liturgy deck over the red one but I like the red one better. Well I'll be ready for the inverted Inferno and Signature decks.

Bikefanatic wrote:The Grotesk Bronze is my favorite out of the 4.

+1, I'm not sure what I was expecting, but yeah the Bronze one is pretty amazing looking, definite stand out so far.

Was this stock the last that was available, or something ?
Hope these are waiting for me at home .... !

Haven’t seen Lotrek post in the last few days, hopefully because he’s busy preparing to ship the signature and inverted inferno decks

I hope so too Oscar, but he might also be busy finalizing the printing of the Ambassador players decks and making the Ambassador signature tuck boxes.

Bruno wrote:Was this stock the last that was available, or something ?
Hope these are waiting for me at home .... !

I think he mentioned that the bronze stock he had was rare and had very little of it which is probably why there's not a lot of bronze Grotesk and the first version of Liturgy decks.

Bikefanatic wrote:
I think he mentioned that the bronze stock he had was rare and had very little of it which is probably why there's not a lot of bronze Grotesk and the first version of Liturgy decks.

I'm quite sure he has some extra bronze stock. The one that is rarer and out of production is the Black/Bronze, on which he printed the Liturgy Misaligned (V1) and the Liturgy Treasure...

As far as I remember sms69x is correct.

The Black / Bronze stock was the rare stock which was used for the Liturgy Treasure & Misaligned decks.

The Grotesk Bronze deck was printed on the Bronze stock as a test for a different deck (Sanctus??) to see how it would turn out.
As the Grotesk printing plates were already available this is what Lotrek chose to use for the test.

The Signature and Inverted Inferno editions haven't shipped yet, correct?

Correct. He's still finishing them.

PrincessTrouble wrote:The Signature and Inverted Inferno editions haven't shipped yet, correct?

No announcement anywhere of it being shipped yet, but Lotrek said he would ship it out right after Black Gold. Hopefully he clarifies soon. As I noted before, I haven't seen him post anything in the last few days so he could be working on sending the files for Ambassadors to EPCC and the Signature edition tucks, or getting Inverted Inferno ready for shipment. Or both simultaneously

I'm still waiting on all the seconds decks I bought from the website, when will those be shipped?

Also I was sort of told I'd get a loooow number on the inferno deck, 51 is somwhat low but not really what I was expecting.

Try emailing him at lotrekdesign@hotmail.com and asking.

pablo19 wrote:I'm still waiting on all the seconds decks I bought from the website, when will those be shipped?

Those will be shipped along with the Inverted Inferno and Signature decks