The Backer Card... A New Collectible

When I first started Hellinspace... Like most people I imagine, that when they are starting up a new business, have the usual jitters that come with trying to start up their own business... But there is a side to starting up your business that most people generally tend to leave out, when talking about starting up their businesses... That being the fun stuff!

What I mean... Well in my case, while trying to figure out how I was going to make my business profitable... Now many people do that in many different ways... If some one wants to start up their own law firm, these lawyers might find it something of a thrill when looking for their first cases, and for Doctor's opening up their own practice... Well they might get a strong sense of satisfaction when they begin truly designing their offices, (exam rooms and the like,) as well as looking for their first clients!

Well for me, being that Hellinspace has, HellsDepot.com as a store that sells all sorts and kinds of goodies... (Or well at the time that I am writing this, HellsDepot is closed for renovations,) so besides the fact that building the store was a lot of fun, one of the things that I found that I really enjoyed, was finding the right kind of product for the store, and that is when I came across, 'Backer Cards'!

A TV Backer card for HBO's, 'True Blood'!

Now you might be wondering what these cards are, right? Well during the time when movie rental stores were still available (this was mostly before streaming, and red box,) one of the things that Blockbuster did, was they commissioned these high quality mini-posters that were printed most of the time on heavy card stock (or, well in a few cases that I could find, on metal...)

The reason they did this is that when these TV shows (and they did this for all of the entertainment mediums that they had for rent at the time, including Movies and Video Games,) happen to be all out for rent at the time,  they would put these cards out to let people know that  they happen to be out of that particular item at the time.

A Video Game Backer Card for: Street Fighter X Tekken!

With the downfall of the movie rental industry  these mini-posters (called backer cards,) have started becoming highly collectible items, that rather you are a Movie Memorabilia  collector, Video Game Memorabilia collector, or TV Memorabilia collector, has generally found a place in this world!

Now it is true, these pieces are still relatively new to the world of collectors, but if you happen to see them, you will be able to distinguish at least some of them by the fact that some of these will have, 'Blockbuster Delivers'... The truth is, is I have not seen this as of yet on to many TV or Movie Backer Cards, but I have seen them a lot on Video Game Backer Cards!

The other way you can distinguish between them is the fact that a lot of people selling them online will let you know, either in the title of the listing, or  in the description that these are not the Movie/Tv Show/Video Game.

Anyway, if you already know about these, well I hope that I have given you a little bit more information that you can use... If you are now just discovering these, enjoy!

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