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Tom Vasel
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As I was going through my card games - many of which come in boxes that simply are a pain in the neck - I was looking for a better way to store them.

A friend gave me a small plastic box that has room for three decks of cards - all next to each other - with a snap down lid. I've found this to be great - it's softer plastic, so I don't worry about the plastic chipping like many plastic boxes.

Unfortunately, I removed the sticker from the box - so I can't remember the name of the company who produced this box, and I can't find it online anywhere (although knowing what to search for is a bit difficult).

Does anyone know what I'm talking about and can point me to a spot online to purchase these containers?



Jim Cote
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That looks pretty nice. Is there enough room to get a finger in there to get the cards out, or do you need to dump them?
Tom Vasel
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There is room for a finger, AND a booklet will lay across the top of them. It's really nice - I want at least ten more!
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I haven't got a three-way box, but I did buy a job lot of plastic boxes for Business Cards. They seem to be made of the same type of plastic - rigid but flexible enough not to chip.

There's something very similar on ebay.co.uk right now: item 200008417186 (Business Card Boxes Clear Plastic). I've found these excellent for most card games, although some games won't fit into the box as the cards are too big (Lost Cities for one).

However, these boxes hold 90% of my card games and there's usually room for a folded ruleset on top. TtR and TtR:E are in boxes, as is Coloretto, Tichu, No Thanks and others.

It's not exactly what you're after, but it might do instead. I'm sure most eBay's will have something similar.
Ben Vögel
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It looks like a PLANO box. I don't know if they're available online, but I'll check.
Ben Vögel
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Not knowing the dimensions, it looks like you might find it here:

http://www.planomolding.com/content/index.cfm?siteaction=pro...§ionid=40
Robert C Kalajian Jr
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Tom,

Don't know if you have any around you in Korea, but have you tried any baseball card or comic shops? Back in the day (before game shops in the area I grew up) these places are where I got all sorts of plastic boxes for Magic cards.
Mike Barlow
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Any good sportscard store or comic store will carry these guys' products:

http://www.ultra-pro.com/page.php

Look under Sports/Card storage

or

the first three options under comics and gaming
Richard Irving
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Is there enough room to get a finger in there to get the cards out, or do you need to dump them?


A little trick for ti,es when you need "finger space" for that type of box is to put slip of paper under the cards/dice/stuff, so you lift them out of the box easily.
Tom Vasel
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Aha! Found them on eBay
http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=4&cam...

Still can't find where to purchase them online, though - I want to get at least twenty of 'em.



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Okay being semi proactive guy I am (ie sick of googling the same hits) I directly called Plano molding company and talked to a customer service person. Yes they do produce the Jammer card cases there are two sku's

5305 - Trading Card box 10.5 x 8 x 2.75 - US 2.00 each
5325 - Jumbo Card case 11.25 x 8.5 x 3.75 - US 2.25 each

you can call Plano customer care (number found here http://www.planomolding.com/content/index.cfm?siteaction=con...) and order the cases directly from them. The boxes are in cases of 6 boxes each. How ever the only caveat is the cases I am looking at in the fax they sent me are different looking the one one your photo tom. but from the really dark photo copied fax it looks like this product would work for you

Hope this helps.
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:p sorry! I ONLY gots 'this':

would anyone ELSE also 'want' such as well? I was discussing just that 'topic' with some others and yet still another "RE-design" for varying 'themes' with this.
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In the Atlanta area, the three space card box is available at most Target stores, though sometimes any given store may be out of them for a little while. I use a lot of these - the cards from a complete Citadels set (all in sleeves) fit in two compartments, plus one compartment full of flattened glass gems (and king token). You can also toss three Adlung games in one with some room to spare. There is an odd tab, designed to help make sure the cover aligns without effort, that you may want to cut off if you plan to pack all three compartments full.

They also make the two much larger boxes described above. The slightly larger one (which will hold poker cards standing up) seems easy to find here. I dislike that one - the rectangular sections are designed to hold two different types of cards (MtG/Poker size and a Wide style I've usually seen for movie cards) The bottom of each section is raised except for a quarter-inch along each edge, to protect the corners. Because this occurs in both directions to accommodate the two types of cards, either type you put in also has the quarter-inch of cards at front and back lower than the rest.

The slightly smaller large box came out (in our area) a long time ago about the same time as the Decipher Star Trek CCG first appeared, with MtG going strong. It holds poker size cards on their sides and so is an inch less tall. It doesn't seem to have the drawbacks of the larger one. It is harder to find but many of our WalMart stores have it back in the cards section of the toys area - but not in the trading cards section near the front.

I've tried to figure out who you contact at Plano about ideas, without success. They should make a two card-sized compartment version of the smallest one with a narrow third compartment between the others that could hold 5 or 6 dice or a couple of short pencils. This would allow for a single center clasp with the necessary aligned indent on the lower part placed between the card compartments. The alignment tab could be positioned to fall into that area as well. At three long the current one is just a bit too bulky for a lot of situations, where a two-parter would be much more practical.