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Playboy Collectors Cards
1994 to 1996 Update set
(The first expansion set)Release date March 18, 2002
By: Stellar Collectibles
9 Celebrity chase cards, 6 Playmate of the Year cards, 3 Photo of the Year cards
Gold Foil Inserts
Playmate of the Year (6)
Brande Roderick PMOY #1PY-#6PY
Celebrity (3 x 3)
Angie Everhart #1AE-#AE
Kylie Bax #1KB-3KB
Mia St. John #1MS-#3MS
Insertion ratio: PMOY cards average 1
in 12 packs (two to a box), celebrity cards 1 in 8 packs
(three to a box).
Update Autograph Cards
As with other Stellar products, only the
Premium set autographs will be numbered, autograph card
art once again differs from set art.
Cards issued with foil packs
Maria Checa PMOY August 1994
Donna Perry PMOY November 1994
Rhonda Adams PMOY June 1995
Holly Witt PMOY November 1995
Victoria Fuller PMOY January 1996
Karin Taylor PMOY June 1996
Ulrika Erickson PMOY November 1996
Brande Roderick PMOY 2001
Kylie Bax Celebrity
Angie Everhardt Celebrity
There will likely be extra cards distributed later
Insertion Ratio: 1 in 24 packs
Insertion ratio: One autograph in a box,
one autograph in each box. Odds of
receiving any one card: 1 to 240 packs.
Photo of the Year cards
A variation on the Photo of the Month and Cover of the
Month cards from previous editions, this time there will be
three cards, one from each year.
1994 Nikki Peterson
1995 Sandra Taylor (Sandi Korn)
1996 Jenny McCarthy
Insertion Ratio: 1 to a box
Jumbo Cards 3.5" x 5"
Case Topper auto Priscilla Taylor March 1996
Box Topper auto Anne Marie Goddard January 1994
Binder set card auto Lisa Marie Scott February 1995
Premium Binder set card Danelle Folta April 1995
Extra Cards
Danelle Folta Jumbo auto (released with Premium binders)
Neriah Davis autographed
Mia St John unautographed autograph
Notes: The information above was taken from the promotional poster
for the update set, from Jim Dryden of Blue Waves, and from the cards
themselves after their release. Typical for adult card sets this
edition was months late. Comparisions to earlier editions:
Covering each month between 1994 and 1996, the card formats followed
the cover, pictorial, and centerfold grouping, however the cover
cards only had the heading and subject without any other text. The
font and letter size also changed on some areas of the cards compared
to previous editions, this is most noticable on the card backs.
Pictorial and centerfold cards are quite similar to the older editions.
Cover cards also do not seem to be sized quite correctly, many have
edges of the word Playboy sliced off. Lettering is light blue and silver,
chase cards are gold. Twelve of the thirty six covers were not available,
substitute images were used, as in the older sets. Continuing a trend set
by Stellar, artwork on autograph cards varys from common cards, and
regular foil pack autographs will not be numbered. Extra cards were
released through Blue Waves, as with other editions, extra cards were made
up as "spares" in the event that one or more of the contracted autograph
subject failed to return their cards in time for the set release. About
6 to 8 weeks after the set release, these cards are placed on the market.
A 400 case edition is slightly more than half of the December printing,
which is now sold out and becoming scarce. With this release Stellar
and Blue Waves attempted to set suggested retail prices for the cards,
they were not particularly successful, although it remains to be seen
how dealers who violated their price guidelines will be handled in
future releases. Pricing remains a sore subject for dealers attempting to
compete with others selling at their cost.
Since the coallation on the Update set is very good to excellent, there are
usually about 14 extra cards in a box. This means that there are going to
be few trading singles entering the market. Buyers are advised to buy sets
or boxes rather than attempt to put together a set from singles.