News about the upcoming 2014 NRL Elite Series from ESP!

June 24, 2014 |
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Here is the official statement from ESP:

The pre-sale process will commence  tomorrow Wednesday the 25th of June via Ikon Collectibles. Delivery of the product to Ikon will commencing week of the 21st of July while the official on-sale date at traditional retail will be the 4th of August (this is when the product will start to hit the shelves) We have agreed with Ikon that product will begin to flow out to the collector market as soon as it arrives, so at this stage from the week of the 21stof July as mentioned above.

There are  a number of special features to this set and interesting and unique sub sets which include:

–          All number 1 signature cards have been included into the set this year. (Thanks to everyone for their feedback)

–          The number 1 cards from the League Sensation Signature series will be redeemed by lucky collectors via a special redemption card . For the first time in NRL card history the signed number 1 Card will be framed with the corresponding team jersey, once ESP receives the redemption card we will send out to the collector the framed team jersey with the number 1 card, and we will return the redemption card, market of course.

–          We have included a special gold parallel 1 per 3 packs so watch out for these.

–          A second redemption card will deliver lucky collectors a set of 9 Women in League cards, from the 2013 Women in League round. All cards are printed on pink foil board and look great! Players have been selected on based on the Harvey Norman women in leagues nomination process all Nine players are were finalises in this competition there was one winner being …………

–          The Young Gun signature series will continue again in 2014, collectors should note that as a result of the NRL selection criteria when choosing these players we have a double up on 2013 release James Tedesco (Wests) James will appear again in the 2014 Elite release.

–          Also look out for:

  • Master and Apprentice, a nice looking sub set of card
  • Pride and Passion
  • 2013 World Cup Hero’s and what a  game it was!
  • And finally a special parallel set of the World Cup heroes

–          There will be three case cards design this year of which one card will be signed by Daly Cherry- Evans limited to only 70

–          Each album will contain an exclusive album card.

 

ESP will attend the Newcastle collector fair on the 20th of July, we will have some product at this fair for collectors to review, more on this latter. As soon as we have the final list of retailers selling the product we will publish this on all website so individual packet collectors know the whereabouts of stockists.

We hope that all collectors  enjoy the Elite 2014 release, we have had a lot of fun putting together, as always we welcome feedback good and bad as we endeavour to continue to improve the offer.

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The sell sheet:

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Hope you enjoy the preview as much as we have here at Gimko!