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mousemeat
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| denis rigg wrote: | Again and again...
Unstoppable Cards yesterday:
We are finally at the end of the preparations for the long awaited new releases. Thank you for all your messages of support and information for the upcoming limited edition signed books of The Avengers - The Honor Blackman Years and the ULTIMATE UFO Autograph and trading cards collection, all shipping this Autumn.
Now, the company will go live on the first Pre-Orders on Sunday, November 1st at 6pm (not October 18th). 
https://unstoppablecards.com/2018_SECURE/
I wouldn't be surprised if we soon read something from Unstoppable like the following: 
Now, we are finally at the end of the end of the preparations for the very long awaited new releases. Thank you for all your messages of support and information for the upcoming limited edition signed books of The Avengers - The Honor Blackman Years and the ULTIMATE UFO Autograph and trading cards collection, all printing this Autumn, but shipping on Boxing Day 2021. |
shipping on December 26th ? WONDERING if it'll be available on AMAZON...or would I have to go thru a UK source ??? |
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MRotten
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| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:00 am Post subject: |
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| I take it this is still on for Sunday Nov. 1st? |
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James C McFetridge
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| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:04 am Post subject: |
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| MRotten wrote: | | I take it this is still on for Sunday Nov. 1st? |
Seems to be... |
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James C McFetridge
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| MRotten wrote: | | I take it this is still on for Sunday Nov. 1st? |
It's Sunday 8th November now. |
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denis rigg
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:12 am Post subject: |
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Umm, now it looks like the delay is due to the work with the UFO cards set, which will go under orders along with the Honor Blackman book.
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cyberrich
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:16 am Post subject: |
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Has anyone heard any confirmation on the price? I'd love to buy it, but I'm still undecided whether I want to pay £100 or more. I know they are signed, but I have several signed photos, plus two handwritten letters. I have loads of books and magazines with countless images of Honor. I'd love to know just how many new and unseen photos will be in the book. I might wait and see if someone will give a review of the book first, and hope they haven't sold out by the time I decide  |
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MRotten
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:41 am Post subject: |
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| cyberrich wrote: | | Has anyone heard any confirmation on the price? I'd love to buy it, but I'm still undecided whether I want to pay £100 or more. I know they are signed, but I have several signed photos, plus two handwritten letters. I have loads of books and magazines with countless images of Honor. I'd love to know just how many new and unseen photos will be in the book. I might wait and see if someone will give a review of the book first, and hope they haven't sold out by the time I decide |
A bargain at any price. This looks to be a very special book and I must have it. |
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James C McFetridge
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2020 11:39 am Post subject: |
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| It's been delayed again. No date on their website anymore, and the countdown clock to pre-orders has gone. They say: "Pre-order later in November for December shipping." |
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Frankymole
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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| cyberrich wrote: | | Has anyone heard any confirmation on the price? I'd love to buy it, but I'm still undecided whether I want to pay £100 or more. I know they are signed, but I have several signed photos, plus two handwritten letters. I have loads of books and magazines with countless images of Honor. |
Will the book itself be signed (as in a bound page) or a signed frontispiece pasted in?
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James C McFetridge
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| Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2020 4:13 am Post subject: |
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| Frankymole wrote: | | Will the book itself be signed (as in a bound page) or a signed frontispiece pasted in? |
Could be either. These days authors often sign an insert page (rather than the finished book) which is then bound with the rest of the book at the printing stage. Much preferable (in my opinion) to a stuck-in frontispiece. |
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dissolute
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If it's like Unstoppable's other substandard work it'll be a printed signature and not a real one.
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mousemeat
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| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| dissolute wrote: | | If it's like Unstoppable's other substandard work it'll be a printed signature and not a real one. |
printed ? shame. would have been much cooler, if ,since it's a limited run, the books had each one signed... |
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James C McFetridge
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| This book seems to have disappeared off Unstoppable's radar. After promoting it heavily with a countdown clock to its release date, it's now been entirely forgotten about. There's no mention of it any more on their website (just the UFO trading cards), and no mention on their facebook page. I contacted them a few weeks ago to see what was going on, but have had no reply. |
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mousemeat
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| James C McFetridge wrote: | | This book seems to have disappeared off Unstoppable's radar. After promoting it heavily with a countdown clock to its release date, it's now been entirely forgotten about. There's no mention of it any more on their website (just the UFO trading cards), and no mention on their facebook page. I contacted them a few weeks ago to see what was going on, but have had no reply. |
so the book never saw a release ? or if it did (?) was a very limited one, and there were virtually no copies left to obtain ???? |
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James C McFetridge
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2021 7:29 am Post subject: |
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| mousemeat wrote: |
so the book never saw a release ? or if it did (?) was a very limited one, and there were virtually no copies left to obtain ???? |
The book hasn't been released yet. It just seems odd how much pre-publicity Unstoppable did for it - including a clock that counted down until it went up for sale - then to quietly ignore it entirely. Clearly they're still working on it, but the lack of news seems strange. |
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mousemeat
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| James C McFetridge wrote: | | mousemeat wrote: |
so the book never saw a release ? or if it did (?) was a very limited one, and there were virtually no copies left to obtain ???? |
The book hasn't been released yet. It just seems odd how much pre-publicity Unstoppable did for it - including a clock that counted down until it went up for sale - then to quietly ignore it entirely. Clearly they're still working on it, but the lack of news seems strange. |
darn, any idea if and when it'll see a release ? |
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Frankymole
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It will be ready when it is ready... and then I bet we miss it!
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mousemeat
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Frankymole wrote: | | It will be ready when it is ready... and then I bet we miss it! |
I'm thinking it'll come out...and in limited numbers....and MANY of us, will miss out on it...and what few copies, will go for astronautical prices.... |
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dissolute
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If it's like anything else from Unstoppable it'll be ridiculously late and amazingly sub-standard.
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denis rigg
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| Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:11 am Post subject: |
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| dissolute wrote: | | If it's like anything else from Unstoppable it'll be ridiculously late and amazingly sub-standard. |
I agree. Disappoints me even more that Unstoppable has been behaving extremely frivolously, making all these last postponements without any specific explanations.
I understand that when, for example, a webmaster of "hobby" site may not have time to get into the framework of his schedule due to being busy (and then if he explains the situation to people so that they themselves can analyze what turn of events may happen next), but here the company are working with the products for sell - and a bunch of empty promises.
In fact, I do not rule out that this book about Honor Blackman may never come out, since we do not know for sure the actual state of affairs with this. This may be at the final stage of preparation, or it may be a rollback to the early stage due to plagiarism problems, or something else. I'm really starting to think that sooner or later the company will get into serious problems with its plagiarism. If this book comes out it seems like one will have to ask the company a few questions to make sure it is indeed fully licensed.
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