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The Discraft Mystery Misprint boxes are probably what pushed my love for the sport and for different discs over the top.
Now, I just buy what I want.
Now, I just buy what I want.
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Should be a mystery box challenge format tournament. Pay to play, get a mystery box at checkin, and you have to use only those discs for the round. Winner gets Rhode Island.
But you're right by Maple Hill and you have 8 courses of your own. (I assume you take ownership over the private course as well.)There's what, only 7 courses there and 1 is private? Hard. Pass.
King of Rhode Island.
Kind of has a nice ring to it.
Besides, it's not about the size but rather what you do with it. Or so I've been told.
my favorite mystery box is walkin into pias and lookin thru the used discs
I remember no so long ago when Discmainia released their popular Mystery Boxes, they'd get snapped up so fast it was hard to get one.
This year, they are still available almost 2 weeks later. Customers are limited to 5 (pretty sure that used to be 2). They even got the Crush boys to do a promotional video, yet still they sit. And the Discmania box is one of the better ones.
Have people gotten wise to what mystery boxes really are, mainly unsellable inventory?
Or would people rather buy discs they actually want?
I don't think they've gotten "wise" to them, they weren't unsellable inventory at their peak. I think primarily the "peak" of them was a year or two ago when there was no inventory. No inventory was unsellable, because discs were flying off the shelves as fast as they could be produced. The only way you could GET discs sometimes was a mystery box (particularly Discmania, the plastic just wasn't available).
Do I think they have peaked? Yes, because there's no longer the insane absence of plastic in general. A lot of mystery boxes still sell though...Gyro being a prime example. One of the keys is the boxes generally contain at least 1 disc that is ONLY being released via the mystery box...and not as an early release...often as the ONLY time they are going to release it (at least for a few years in some cases). The other seems likely to be the fact that people who throw Gyro throw a LOT of gyro. Maybe it's a regional thing, but I know a lot of people who throw a Discmania disc...but I know almost nobody that just throws a lot of Discmania (or if they do, they highly prefer one "line" over another).
So have people gotten "wise"...i think people always knew what they were (absent the time period where you couldn't get your hands on some manufacturer plastic at all). So the question becomes, why are they slowing down...particularly for Discmania? Because they've just done a poor job of offering a "treat" in the boxes that drives demand. And/or because the unsellable inventory filling out the rest of the box is so unattractive to consumers that the "treat" isn't worth it to take on the rest of the discs.
The bolded part is a big part about Mystery Discs....many buyers are looking for that one special/unique disc. The recent MVP/Gyro Heist Mystery Box included a special stamp disc which came bagged and with a certificate of authenticity. There were less than 400 made.
I have never bought a single mystery box ever. . .but i will buy the Clash Discs one....new fun things in the box not just old moulds
Or would people rather buy discs they actually want?