1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,160 Hello and welcome back to Illumination, the Disney Lorcona podcast. 2 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:20,620 My name is Max and I'm Sam and we are back at you with the second part of our year end 3 00:00:20,620 --> 00:00:21,620 wrap up. 4 00:00:21,620 --> 00:00:26,100 Shout out to Hyper Hippo for the suggestion for doing a year end wrap up. 5 00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:28,860 It's been a blast to do this one with all of you. 6 00:00:28,860 --> 00:00:36,280 Hope that the new year treats everyone well and hope that 2024 went out smoothly for everybody. 7 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:42,800 This is our 26th episode which means this will mark the end of one year of Illumination, 8 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:44,520 the Disney Lorcona podcast. 9 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:46,400 Sam, how does that make you feel? 10 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:47,400 Pretty excited. 11 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:48,400 You're excited? 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:49,400 Yeah. 13 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:50,400 You're excited there's 26 episodes under your belt? 14 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:51,400 I'm excited. 15 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:52,400 You're excited. 16 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:53,400 I'm excited for what it might mean for the next 26. 17 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:54,400 There you go. 18 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:55,400 I like that. 19 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,080 You're so excited and you just can't hide it. 20 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:02,320 Let's talk about the next 26, meaning the next upcoming year with Disney Lorcona. 21 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:03,320 We have some new sets. 22 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:07,120 We're going to go over the things that have been announced at this point, obviously. 23 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:08,640 Two new sets at this point. 24 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,120 We'll get four for the year because that's typically how it works for early schedule 25 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:13,120 purposes. 26 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:17,680 We have Archesias, Archesas, we'll find out, Island and Reign of Jafar. 27 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,280 I know how to say all those words. 28 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,800 Let's talk about these two sets together as the idea of new sets since these were announced. 29 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:28,280 We know a few things coming up this year thanks to the D23 convention. 30 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,040 We know that we're going to get some Black Cauldron action coming up this year, which 31 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,280 is one of my favorite Disney movies. 32 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:39,480 So I'm very excited to get the Horned King, Gergi and others into Disney Lorcona. 33 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:40,600 That's very exciting. 34 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:44,560 We're here to talk about what we want because it's a new year. 35 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,440 There's excitement in the air. 36 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:52,960 Sam, what do you want to see from either one of these two sets upcoming? 37 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:54,880 We know we're going to see Bolt, which is pretty exciting. 38 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:55,880 Yes, we are. 39 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,160 I hope we see some multi-color cards coming out of this set. 40 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:00,160 Dual ink cards? 41 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:01,160 Yes. 42 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:02,160 Oh, wow. 43 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:03,160 That would be very exciting. 44 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:04,160 I agree with you. 45 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:05,600 I think that there is a lot of space. 46 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,440 This has been speculated on for the past couple of sets now, how they would do it. 47 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:11,000 What would the design space look like? 48 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:17,320 The way I see it is I would see two color cards, obviously, because you play with two. 49 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:22,400 And I think the requirement from a deck building perspective is pretty simple in that you just 50 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:24,520 have to be playing both of those colors. 51 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:30,560 So for example, if you were playing with an amber amethyst multicolored card, your deck 52 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,900 would have to be amber amethyst. 53 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:38,600 And I think the cooler thing still is these multicolored cards could be more powerful 54 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:44,060 effects because there's such a restriction for playing those cards. 55 00:02:44,060 --> 00:02:46,040 What do you think about multicolored cards? 56 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:47,240 What are you excited to see? 57 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,480 Are there any things about the design that intrigue you? 58 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:51,480 I agree with you. 59 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:56,640 I think it intrigues me if they had a card that you had to play in color combination 60 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:57,680 that it represents. 61 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,640 I think that would be a really cool space to go into. 62 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:05,580 Yeah, it would be really exciting to see like a very powerful version of the effects the 63 00:03:05,580 --> 00:03:06,760 two colors tend to do. 64 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:12,580 Like we associate amber amethyst, for example, with hyper aggro and hyper aggressive strategies. 65 00:03:12,580 --> 00:03:17,580 So maybe we get to see a character that comes in that is aggressively statted. 66 00:03:17,580 --> 00:03:22,940 Let's just make up one, two, two, four, two that's inkable. 67 00:03:22,940 --> 00:03:26,720 And when it enters, you draw a card, very powerful card, right? 68 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:32,880 It's like a super Maleficent almost under costed overstated from the amber perspective, 69 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,180 but also from the amethyst perspective, you get to draw a card. 70 00:03:36,180 --> 00:03:38,380 So it's getting things from both sides. 71 00:03:38,380 --> 00:03:40,000 I think a character would be interesting. 72 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,760 I also think just an action or a song would be interesting. 73 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:48,240 And I really think that the color pair could get to dictate what card they all got. 74 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:52,000 I don't know if they'd all get one or they'd all get one at each rarity, like a common, 75 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:57,000 uncommon, rare, et cetera, or like a rare or above depending on the color combination 76 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,000 or just one per color. 77 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,360 And we talked about this in the previous episode. 78 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:05,320 I really like how elegant Ravensburger's been with things and how non-committal their attitude 79 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,320 is towards over saturation. 80 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:08,320 So I really like that. 81 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:12,300 I like that they're committed to it not being saturated with something. 82 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:14,600 For example, we had the sing together cards. 83 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,040 I was going to bring that up that that's something else I'd like to see is some more sing together 84 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,000 or more different shift. 85 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Right. 86 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,000 But it wasn't overdone. 87 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,280 We had just one sing together for each color. 88 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:27,320 We had one alternate shift cost card for each color. 89 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:32,900 Nice and refined very, very much just taking their time through the release. 90 00:04:32,900 --> 00:04:37,200 And I like that a lot because something as impactful as multicolored cards, they came 91 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:43,240 out in Magic the Gathering early on and have been a staple in Magic the Gathering since. 92 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,800 So I mean, 30 years that they probably came out in the first few. 93 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:53,000 So we've been seeing them for well over two thirds of the lifespan of Magic as a game. 94 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,880 So being able to see these multicolor cards come out in Lurkana could mean the same thing. 95 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,280 And what I don't want to see is just an over saturation where it's like, oh, these cards 96 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:04,480 are so powerful and so strong that if you're playing purple and steel, you're playing all 97 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,040 three multicolor purple steel cards. 98 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:08,040 I agree with you. 99 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,480 I'd like to see them revisit some things that they sprinkled through. 100 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:11,720 We're seeing a little bit of it. 101 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,280 Cards where you get to pick the effect of what was referred to as a modal card. 102 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:16,960 We've seen a few sprinkled in here and there. 103 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,400 A few of the kicker like cards, especially out of Emerald. 104 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,840 When they come in, you can pay a little bit of extra ink to have them do something a little 105 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:24,840 bit more powerful. 106 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:28,680 I'd like to see them continue to sprinkle those things in because it just feels like 107 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,800 the game is growing, not like one set does one specific thing. 108 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:37,720 Other games have the concept where they have to have a new theme or mechanic for every 109 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:39,560 single new set that comes out. 110 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:44,880 And I feel like that tends to make games very, very hard to grok and digest, especially for 111 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:46,040 a new player. 112 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,480 And Lurkana has been very conscious about making this very approachable from a new player 113 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:51,560 perspective. 114 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:56,360 I think that I would rather see them grow the mechanics that are already in there and 115 00:05:56,360 --> 00:06:00,120 potentially have the dual color cards rather than make a new mechanic. 116 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:01,880 I don't think we really need that at this point. 117 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:02,880 Not yet. 118 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:04,320 They introduced locations in Inklans. 119 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:08,200 Once in a while, something brand new to spice things up is interesting. 120 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:14,520 But I think that for now, being able to continue to expand the landscape of what they have 121 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:20,200 already designed and look at the really dive into the deep design space is very interesting. 122 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,000 Now speaking of that, what do we want to see them avoid? 123 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,680 I think is a good segue from there because we've already started to indicate we don't 124 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:31,600 want to see them just saturate the game with a bunch of different effects or mechanics 125 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:33,880 or keyword abilities on cards. 126 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:39,040 Because again, from a new player perspective, it tends to be very overwhelming to look at 127 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,640 from a franchise player perspective. 128 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:46,120 You start to pick apart what effects and abilities and things are good and you can dismiss a 129 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:50,520 lot of the card pool with mechanics that maybe aren't quite as powerful. 130 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:55,480 So that also means that cards lose value easily when there's too much going on. 131 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,540 So I would like to see them avoid any kind of over saturation. 132 00:06:59,540 --> 00:07:01,120 What would you like to see them avoid? 133 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:05,680 I think it's just what I already said with just avoid any new difficult keywords for 134 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:06,680 now. 135 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:07,680 Makes sense. 136 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:11,080 I think keeping the game simple and elegant is something they've done a just bang up 137 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,000 job thus far in the first six sets. 138 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,960 I would like to see some other things. 139 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:22,600 How do you feel about them approaching the idea of re releasing or remixing sets together? 140 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:27,600 So maybe like the first three sets come out in one compact set where they take a third 141 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,760 of each of the set and mix them together for release. 142 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,000 And like the first few sets as a remastered set. 143 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,760 I don't know how I feel about that. 144 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:36,760 It's different. 145 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,320 Makes cards more accessible, tends to cut out some of the cards that just didn't end 146 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,360 up making an impact from a design standpoint. 147 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:46,480 I think it's interesting if they feel like product is in a scarcity, but they have said 148 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:48,560 that every set is print to demand. 149 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,200 So it doesn't feel like that's quite as important yet. 150 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:56,000 Maybe in another few years, something like a, it could even be the first six sets together 151 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,120 as a remixed first arc or story or whatever they want to call it. 152 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:01,640 Because they refer to it as chapters. 153 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,240 So I don't know if it would be a book or things like that. 154 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,880 Like the first six chapters comprising a book or whatever part one, I don't know whatever 155 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:12,600 they want to call it, but coming up with like essentially a mush together version of a bunch 156 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:17,560 of the very impactful cards in the game and pushing aside some of the stuff that didn't 157 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:21,680 quite make the mark or is in there for limited purposes. 158 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:23,600 We get a lot of the two twos for one. 159 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:27,400 I was listening to another podcast today and they said the first time owl was printed was 160 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:30,520 in this set, the yellow owl, but that's not true. 161 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:34,240 There was a two to one owl that's blue from, I think in clans. 162 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,240 So it was just like, no, there was an owl before that. 163 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:40,440 You just didn't realize it because the card had zero impact on the game in any meaningful 164 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:41,440 way. 165 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,320 I feel like that would make for an expensive set though. 166 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,400 If they just did cards that matter, right? 167 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,120 It's possible, but you may pay a little bit of a premium upcharge for something like that. 168 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:55,160 You see it in other games like where they remaster or re-release specific things, especially 169 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,960 with new special versions, cause you got to get the franchise players to buy some with 170 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:00,080 the new special thingy. 171 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:01,600 I could see something like that coming up. 172 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,880 I'm not necessarily saying I'm all for it, but I would like to see more, maybe another 173 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:07,320 Illumineers quest. 174 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,480 We got to see that with Ursula's return. 175 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:11,440 So maybe coming with set eight, we might see another one. 176 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:12,960 I was gonna predict that with Jafar. 177 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:14,840 It'd be, that'd be perfect. 178 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,240 Just the big bad from each sick set, the big bad set. 179 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:19,240 So that's kind of cool. 180 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:20,240 That'd be fun to see. 181 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:22,720 So I think there's a lot to look forward to in terms of product. 182 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:23,720 There should be, right? 183 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:24,720 If it's a trading card game. 184 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:29,520 If you're doing it properly, there should be a lot to look forward to from a card buying 185 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,600 perspective cause they want those dollary dues. 186 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:34,360 Let's talk about competitive events. 187 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,700 Right now there are three called major events on the schedule. 188 00:09:37,700 --> 00:09:43,000 We have North American continentals, which is coming up January 10th through 12th of 189 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,000 2025. 190 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,600 We have the Azure 8 C set championships. 191 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:53,240 This time taking place from January 18th to February 9th of 2025 to be able to avoid those 192 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:54,920 North American continentals. 193 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,880 Kind of cool we get to see it and then immediately fiddle around with our cards to try to make 194 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,400 last minute tweaks for set championships. 195 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:06,760 And then finally in March at a date yet to be determined, we are going to have the world 196 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,160 championship, which is exciting. 197 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:10,160 Yeah, very exciting. 198 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,660 That'll be in Disney world fitting. 199 00:10:12,660 --> 00:10:15,840 Now talking about these competitive events, what do we want? 200 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:22,500 I guess what's our wishlist look like when it comes to the idea of upcoming Lurkana events? 201 00:10:22,500 --> 00:10:25,280 I think the biggest thing is more accessibility. 202 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:29,120 I think accessibility is a great word to use into these events. 203 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,760 And then next I would hope they could do some more. 204 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,800 We didn't really have any close to us here in New Jersey. 205 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:35,800 Right. 206 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,320 Accessibility is a good way to phrase a lot of that, right? 207 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:43,640 I think another thing to lump into that is I really want to see them expand on the concepts 208 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:48,040 when it comes to competitive events and casual play events. 209 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:51,360 I feel like this is a space that's a bit of a gray area. 210 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:55,640 Most trading card games don't have a casual support. 211 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,120 It's kind of morphed over the years for Magic because Commander, which used to be called 212 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,960 EDH or Elder Dragon Highlander has kind of eeked out its own space. 213 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:07,840 But even within that particular space, there's still a more competitive way to play that. 214 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:11,280 I think Lurkana has really tried very hard to make it. 215 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:15,540 However you want to enjoy and ingest the game, there's support for that. 216 00:11:15,540 --> 00:11:19,440 And I really feel like now because leagues have become more focused, and it's a newer 217 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,960 game, so it's becoming more focused on the competitive aspect of the game. 218 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:27,600 I feel like breaking out a little bit of space for casual would be helpful. 219 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,880 And I think that similar to what you said, I think there needs to be a way for everybody 220 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:36,240 to have access to whatever fun they want to have with Disney Lurkana. 221 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:41,800 Being able to expand the size of the venues to get more people in is a great idea because 222 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,680 just imagine there are people who are interested in the game. 223 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:45,680 Oh, what is that? 224 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:46,680 You're going to go play. 225 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:47,680 I want to go check it out. 226 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:49,400 Well, you can't because you're not allowed in because it's sold out. 227 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,680 Well, that's not a good way to bring people into the game. 228 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:56,720 There should also be ways to get people into the game or ways for people to enjoy the game 229 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,120 in a casual way at these DLCs. 230 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,280 Or there should be a casual version of a DLC. 231 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,720 There could just be a Lurkana con, right? 232 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,560 Where it's just a convention and it's just there to have fun. 233 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:14,160 There's no events that are registered on Melee that maybe account towards any kind of points 234 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:18,120 or whatever system they end up looking at to try to get people into worlds. 235 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:22,840 And then it would let us do things like maybe make store championships have an invitation 236 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:27,280 aspect to them where if you win a store championships, you not only get a cool play map, but you 237 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:32,000 get an invite, you get a guaranteed spot at a Disney Lurkana Challenger event. 238 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,800 So it feeds up into a Disney Lurkana Challenger event. 239 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,280 So you have your locals, which feeds into your Challenger events, which feed into your 240 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:42,440 continentals, which feed into worlds, which is very similar to a lot of ways places do 241 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:46,720 regionals into continentals, into worlds, that kind of thing. 242 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,160 So there's a lot of space for the game to be more accessible. 243 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:53,280 I knew there's a lot of talk of other formats to come where you can kind of use the cards 244 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:55,720 to like scavenger hunt and things like that. 245 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:59,960 So I'm excited to see how much more accessible the game can become. 246 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:02,880 I'd love to see improved just communication. 247 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:04,920 Let us know if things are succeeding. 248 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:09,000 Let us know if things are failing and make sure that you're being transparent. 249 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,560 There's nothing wrong with us going, Hey, we were unhappy with the fact that so many 250 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:18,000 people wanted to play at the Lurkana Challenges and were unable to. 251 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:22,640 We were really unhappy with the fact that people wanted to get prize wall things and 252 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:23,640 couldn't. 253 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:24,640 We're really upset. 254 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:25,640 You know what I mean? 255 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:26,640 Or we take it as a great success. 256 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,720 We're able to put together a very successful first year. 257 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:35,120 Cause I think it was and they should celebrate their successes and not be afraid to be transparent 258 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,720 about the areas that they want to improve with us. 259 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,120 And I think vice versa, they should open it up to more community feedbacks. 260 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,960 It's something I just haven't seen a lot of is them taking and ingesting community 261 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:49,560 feedback as at least in a large enough forum for me to see it. 262 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:52,120 And I do tend to pay attention to Lurkana stuff. 263 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,080 So I think I would have seen it though. 264 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:58,520 Maybe I did in fact miss it, but I'd like to see that communication really build on 265 00:13:58,520 --> 00:13:59,520 the whole. 266 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:04,600 I think they've done a great job of improving things just from the very first Disney Lurkana 267 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:06,280 Challenge event to the very last. 268 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:12,160 I think there was a marked improvement both in terms of attendance, prize wall fixes, 269 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:16,120 even just how prize tickets are allocated for the main events, the ability to get things 270 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,640 people all wanted that Cinderella play mat for good reason. 271 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:19,640 It's beautiful. 272 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:23,920 And not being able to get it at the Atlanta challenge event, basically without an absurd 273 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:28,960 amount of tickets trading or buying or some kind of way that wasn't actually tournament 274 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:34,400 approved to get made it kind of a sour note, but then they made it much easier to get by 275 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:35,400 the end. 276 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,520 I think a lot of people being able to enjoy the game a lot more. 277 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:40,800 I'd love to see them be able to put out more merch. 278 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:41,920 I want a Lurkana shirt. 279 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:42,920 I do too. 280 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:46,680 And I can get to these DLCs to get to use the prize tickets to get a Lurkana shirt. 281 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,280 So it'd be nice to see them open up to other avenues of merchandise and things like that. 282 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,400 Like the Lurkana logo on things is cool and interesting. 283 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:57,400 Think we're going to get the deck boxes in the portfolios with the launch of the next 284 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,080 set are Chasie's Island. 285 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:00,080 So people want that. 286 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,040 They want the Lurkana logo on things they want to. 287 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:04,440 They sold out at PAX, I believe. 288 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:07,920 They did sell out at PAX and the people want to rep the game. 289 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:11,040 So I think it's important to be able to let them do that. 290 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:16,040 One thing that has been obvious is they have been taking feedback noting set championships. 291 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,280 When set championships started, there were two mats and four promos. 292 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:20,920 Now there are eight promos. 293 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,720 So that's improved because there was that awkwardness where you made it into top eight, 294 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:26,680 but top eight was basically worthless. 295 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:28,460 It was only top four that mattered. 296 00:15:28,460 --> 00:15:30,380 Now it feels like top eight cut matters. 297 00:15:30,380 --> 00:15:32,000 Like who top eight cut. 298 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,400 Thank goodness I get a promo. 299 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,080 So at least you've covered that hurdle and then your top four. 300 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:37,960 Now that's a little awkward. 301 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:42,480 I don't know if it's like worth putting out four mats necessarily for it, but I mean, 302 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:43,560 I don't know. 303 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:45,760 Maybe it's a little cost ineffective to do that. 304 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:49,460 Maybe they just need to increase the cost of the kit slightly, which would then increase 305 00:15:49,460 --> 00:15:51,420 the cost of the set champs. 306 00:15:51,420 --> 00:15:53,120 Set champ prices are all over the place. 307 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:56,920 I feel like right now, I think it depends on the extra pricing each store is going to 308 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:57,920 do. 309 00:15:57,920 --> 00:15:58,920 Yeah. 310 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,220 Cause I've gone to set champs that were negligible amounts of money and have seen ones that fired 311 00:16:02,220 --> 00:16:06,140 for free all the way to like $50 for a set championship. 312 00:16:06,140 --> 00:16:11,580 So I think it really depends on the way things are being handled by the store, the additional 313 00:16:11,580 --> 00:16:13,160 prize outs, things like that. 314 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaking of set championships, I think something that I would like to see is just them to have 315 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,400 a more impactful card for their promo. 316 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:21,400 Not a fan of Scar. 317 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:22,400 Oh, I love Scar. 318 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:25,460 Don't get me wrong, but I don't know if you agree with me or not, but it would be nice 319 00:16:25,460 --> 00:16:28,680 to just have a card that everybody's playing a meta card. 320 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:32,200 Here's what I think the best path would be to kind of fix a couple of things is put 321 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,000 it out there for the community to pick. 322 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,280 Here are five cards that can be set championship cards, but we're just going to tell you what 323 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:39,280 the cards are. 324 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:40,280 They're cards that exist. 325 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:41,600 They're cards, you know, pick one. 326 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:45,560 Whatever one gets the most votes is going to be the set championship card. 327 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:46,680 That's interesting. 328 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:47,880 That makes it more exciting. 329 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:51,760 They could even give us cards in the blind to an extent though, it wouldn't solve the 330 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:53,120 playability problem. 331 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,320 So it's like maybe they play set champs to set behind. 332 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:59,600 I was going to say maybe if we were doing it for the last set is the set championship 333 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:00,600 card. 334 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:01,600 Right. 335 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:03,920 So yeah, Stitch was an excellent choice. 336 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:05,800 Then we had Ursula, which was fine. 337 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,280 Then we had Mirabelle, which was not desirable. 338 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,040 No, nobody really wants the Mirabelle. 339 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:12,040 Now we have Scar. 340 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:16,120 I mean, I'm happy because it's Scar, but super great design on the card in the mat. 341 00:17:16,120 --> 00:17:18,920 But yeah, it's a piece of art and that's when it comes to the mats. 342 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:21,880 I'm more excited about how the artwork looks and they did a nice job. 343 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,960 Didn't care for the Mirabelle mat just because it's like they basically zoomed in really 344 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:29,080 closely on that Mirabelle and it was just a little awkward, but I am a big, big fan 345 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:33,840 of the Scar and how they blew the art out for the mat in that particular regard. 346 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:35,300 So I think a lot of improvements. 347 00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:39,560 And I think one thing that Ravensburger has done consistently is improve. 348 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:43,960 It's clear they, while not being as transparent as I would like them to be, they are being 349 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,820 very receptive to community feedback. 350 00:17:46,820 --> 00:17:49,240 So I'm really appreciative of that part of it. 351 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,800 And I hope that they continue to listen and apply as much of that feedback as they can 352 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,300 to make the game more enjoyable. 353 00:17:55,300 --> 00:17:58,160 So to wrap this one up, I just want to kick it over to the podcast. 354 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,960 Our goals for this year to get into the content creator program. 355 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,040 We'd love to spoil some cards for all of you. 356 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:08,040 We do set review for every set, so be sure to keep an eye on our socials for when that 357 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:09,040 goes up. 358 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,480 It's not hard to figure out before the set comes out, but we'll launch it officially 359 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:13,480 there. 360 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:14,480 You'll be able to hear it announced. 361 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:16,160 We'd like to continue to grow the community. 362 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:21,040 We are just blown away with how much good feedback we get about these episodes and about 363 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:25,420 the topics we cover and the process in which we go through to make sure the episodes are 364 00:18:25,420 --> 00:18:28,200 rolled out in a reasonable manner to all of you. 365 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:32,200 So we appreciate that feedback and hope that we can keep growing the podcast this year. 366 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,880 We have some loftier goals to grow our listener base because we want to connect with everybody 367 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,760 and we want to try to be a little bit better with reaching out to you. 368 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,280 I always feel like I'm bothering people on social media. 369 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:46,760 If you're on our feed or you're following us, I hate kind of bombarding people with 370 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:50,720 stuff, but I think we just kind of need to be a little bit more out there and just pop 371 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,760 in and say, hey, a little bit more regularly. 372 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:54,240 I think we need to do that. 373 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:57,240 And we would love some input for more episodes. 374 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:00,600 We love talking about Lorikana in all different aspects. 375 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,200 So if there's something you want to hear us talk about, a topic you want us to tackle, 376 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,360 something like that, let us know because we have a big list of things or ideas we jot 377 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:12,800 down on these notes that we take for each episode so that we can try to reference back 378 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:14,860 for a future episode. 379 00:19:14,860 --> 00:19:17,400 And also what's the hot topic in the community? 380 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,080 We tend to talk about those things, but we want to hear what you want to hear about. 381 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:25,120 We want to talk about some things if you want more fundamental episodes about basics of 382 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:26,280 TCGs you want to give it to you. 383 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:30,480 If you want more topical episodes about what deck is hot in the meta right now, we want 384 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:31,480 to talk about these. 385 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,480 These are all things we talk about in life, so they're things we want to talk about with 386 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:35,480 you. 387 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,040 So please do let us know what you want to hear. 388 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:43,420 And thank you so, so much for making the first 26, the first year of this podcast, a really 389 00:19:43,420 --> 00:19:44,920 awesome one for Sam and I. 390 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:48,440 Sam, this is your first official role on a podcast. 391 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:49,440 Yeah. 392 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,040 Sam, you've never co-hosted a podcast before ever. 393 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:54,040 Nope, just the background of some of yours. 394 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:56,760 Yeah, just other podcasts you snuck into. 395 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:58,480 So it's really, really exciting. 396 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:00,240 We hope that you'll keep listening. 397 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:01,960 And Sam, you and I are going to do one thing. 398 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:20,360 So keep questing.