After months of delays, the Zerocool Stranger Things card set was released in February 2023.
What’s the Story?
At the 2022 National Sports Collectors Convention, Zerocool had one of the most popular promotions of the event. They released a set of promotional cards highlighting the upcoming collaboration with Netflix. In the fall of 2022, they planned to release a set of Stranger Things cards highlighting the recently released fourth season of the hit show.
In the fall, the boxes became available for preorder on the Netflix shop site for an MSRP of $50 per box with a November 11th release date. They announced 11,111 boxes would be produced. After several months of delays, the boxes finally began to ship in late February 2023. Here’s a link to purchase a box on eBay.
Each “blaster” box contains 4 packs, with 8 cards in each pack. The set would break down with three distinct subsets.
Character Card of Eleven
First are the base Character Cards.
This checklist contains 18 cards featuring the main characters of the 4th season. Five different serial numbered parallel cards can be found ranging from /250 to /0. Interestingly, the /0 is really a 1/1.
Red /250
Orange /199
Yellow /99
Green Rainbow /50
Blue Rainbow /11
Purple Rainbow /0 (1 copy)
Next are the Butcher Billy Poster Cards
This subset contains 14 cards with each card being inspired by one of the episodes in the season. Eight parallels can be found for these cards including artist autographed copies limited to 11 copies.
Butcher Billy Poster Card of The Bald Eagle
Red /250
Orange /199
Yellow /99
Black and White Variant /86
Preliminary Art Variant /86
Green Rainbow /50
Blue Rainbow /11
Silver Rainbow Autographed /11
Purple Rainbow /0 (1 copy)
Lenticular Subset
Finally, there is a pretty cool Lenticular Subset which shows the moment Vecna and each character form their connection.
Box Break
Check out the video below to see the box I opened!
Checklist
Character Cards
1 Will
2 Eddie
3 Joyce
4 Steve
5 Nancy
6 Murray
7 Max
8 Lucas
9 Vecna
10 Erica
11 Eleven
12 Dustin
13 Jonathan
14 Robin
15 Hopper
16 Argyle
17 Mike
18 Mrs. Wheeler
Billy Butcher Poster Cards
BB-1 The Hellfire Club
BB-2 Vecna’s Curse
BB-3 The Monster and The Superhero
BB-4 Dear Billy
BB-5 The Nina Project
BB-6 The Dive
BB-7 The Massacre at Hawkins Lab
BB-8 Papa
BB-9 The Piggyback
BB-10 The Heart
BB-11 The Bait
BB-12 The Bald Eagle
BB-13 This is Music
BB-14 Hail Lord Vecna
Lenticular
1 Eleven
2 Steve
3 Nancy
4 Dustin
5 Erica
6 Robin
7 Max
8 Lucas
9 Eddie
Lenticular Card of Eddie
Orange Parallel Card of Argyle