TSR Moldvay Basic Set Misprint Box

[Kichwas]

I was an actual kid when all this 'cool collectable' stuff came out.

So many original Star Wars figures, basic set dice, smurfs, comic books, etc - that for some reason I dared to actually play with instead of leave in sealed plastic containers as an investment for 30-40 years on.

My dice had all their edges worn off years ago. One or two met their end as 'what happens if I try to microwave this' experiments. My original Moldvay box was thrown out back when Boy George was still making #1 hits, and the cover to the book vanished around the same time. Some of the art has been colored in, and here and there my early print AD&D books have smurf stickers in them...

 

[Sacrosanct]

I was an actual kid when all this 'cool collectable' stuff came out.

So many original Star Wars figures, basic set dice, smurfs, comic books, etc - that for some reason I dared to actually play with instead of leave in sealed plastic containers as an investment for 30-40 years on.

My dice had all their edges worn off years ago. One or two met their end as 'what happens if I try to microwave this' experiments. My original Moldvay box was thrown out back when Boy George was still making #1 hits, and the cover to the book vanished around the same time. Some of the art has been colored in, and here and there my early print AD&D books have smurf stickers in them...

Oh yeah, same for the most part. That's why I've been rebuilding it for years lol

 

[Joshua Randall]

That’s why I have every “bugbear-with-arms-wide” plastic mini from the entire 4e run sealed in Lucite in my basement. Someday. Some. Day.

 

[Mannahnin]

Less. About the same as you'd pay for a normal boxed set on ebay. I reached out to Zeb Cook, and he pretty much confirmed it was a fold issue at the printer and is a one-off. There probably aren't more like it out there. I also reached out to Scott from Acaeum and he had never heard of one either, but said that errors aren't really collectible and don't increase value. That seems odd to me; as I'd think a one-of-a-kind boxed set would be collectible, but he's the expert, not me.

Don't believe anyone who tells you that. A misprint on a product that is now 'iconic' in tRPG history will definitely have interested collectors.

Yes, this is purely a manufacturing/production error. The only "real" value it has is to someone who finds value in owning a curiosity. In other words, ripe fodder for one of the bigger RPG convention auctions.

Yeah, misprints definitely have value in some circles. There's a collector subculture for them and discussion groups devoted to it for Magic: The Gathering, for example.