Sumo World Magazine Archive Updated

I'm finally able to clear out some of my to-do-list with an update to the Sumo World Magazine Archive you see on the left side of this screen.  I added a bunch more magazines back in the summer and I was able to scan and upload the tables of content to the archive. Good stuff for sure and I am getting that much closer to completing the series of magazines from 1973-2000.  If anyone has any that are still on my wantlist below, give me a holler as I will gladly pay for them.  I've added the new scans of the covers as well as back in my May post, I only took a photo of them.

Wantlist:
1973 - March, May, November
1974 - January, March, July
1975 - May
1976 - September, November
1977 - July
1978 - September
1979 - May
1981 - January
1983 - March, July
1985 - January, November
1987 - September, November
1989 - January, March, July
1992 - May
1997 - September, November
1998 - January, March, May, November
1999 - January, May, July, September, November


New Adds:

2018 Irish "Who Am I" Soccer Card Game

A recent trip to Ireland led me to the local book shop in search of magazines with unique or odd card inserts included as gifts.  For those that have visited Europe, you'll instantly recognize what I am referring to when you visit an book store or convenience store.  Dozens of different magazines with extra prizes attached to them to try and attract kids.  Some are toys like plastic whistles, small trinkets, or stickers.  Others have cards included like the magazine Kick!...an Irish publication.  My Kick! copy included stickers, a key chain, a photo magnet, a sample pack of Pokémon cards, and the Who Am I card game with 24 cards of the world's famous soccer stars.  If you followed the World Cup this past summer you'll recognize names like Ronaldo, Messi, Kane, Rooney, Neymar, and Mbappe.  Cool stuff!  The game is played by splitting the deck in half and reading a card to your opponent.  If he or she can guess the name of the player from just the top clue, they get 10 points.  If they need two clues to guess the name they only get 5 points.  If it takes all three clues to guess the name they only get 1 point.  You take turns until all the deck is used up and the highest total wins.  I can't imagine you play this more than once, but a pretty cool oddball set nonetheless.

Here are the goodies I got as freebies.

Here are the cards.  Not bad quality for freebies.

I for one want to win some the "sick prizes"

Well, there you have it.  A little international flavor for your Tuesday.

2018 Japanese BBM Akatsuki Five Basketball Set

I am not a huge basketball fan, but I love collecting the Japanese BBM B.League sets.  For those that are tracking, BBM has released 3 sets so far of Japan's B.League basketball: 2016-2017 1st/2nd Half, 2017 High Five, and 2017-2018 1st/2nd Half.  In keeping with their "tradition" of releasing an annual boxed set, BBM plans on releasing the 2018 Akatsuki Five Set in early November.  Akatsuki means “Dawn or Rising Sun” in English and alludes to the fact that these are young players with bright futures.  This set captures the Japanese men's and women's World Cup Asian teams that will compete in the 2019 World Cup.  While not a true B.League set, many of the World Cup players do play for B.League teams. Here are the details from what I am able to gather:

- The entire 29-card set will be included in the boxed set
- 29 cards in the base set with 1 special insert card per box
- Special Inserts consist of 25 different #ed autos and 6 different #ed memorabilia cards
- 4000 yen per set
- Limited to 2200 sets

Below images are courtesy of BBM's website.

I've staked my claim to three boxes.  How about anyone else?