Harry Potter Release Dates

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[dnb5000]

HI- I was just wondering what the release dates of the past Harry Potter card sets were...For instance I am assuming that Harry Potter POA was released before HP POA update - but I just want to make sure...Anyone know the order of release? Thanks!

[Tower]

I don't know the exact dates, but this should help:

POA May 2004
POAU November 2004
SS May 2005
GOF November 2005
GOFU May 2006
MM October 2006
COS December 2006

[5594mike]

  WOW:o
i never knew SS was released after POA ans POAU, im shocked
i can understand now why people as for £80 for a POA sealed box if its that old

[kbmum]

Two or three months after the release, POA boxes were selling for much more than that.  There were only 500 cases, it sold out quickly, and many people were scrambling to find boxes.

[allender]

WOW:o
i never knew SS was released after POA ans POAU, im shocked

Artbox didn't get the Harry Potter license until the time of POA. Previously, Wizards of the Coast had the rights as part of their package for the trading card game, and they issued a wide-format set for SS that is usually thought to be unimaginative. They certainly didn't promote it, and it's available in bargain bins still. The cards were even distributed like a TCG set, with "common" cards 41-80, "uncommons" 1-40, and "rare" parallel foil versions of 1-40.

After the success of POA and POAU, Artbox knew there would be an opportunity to go back and issue sets for the first two movies. Their first problem was trying to figure out how many Potter sets they could sell in a single year, since they had to plan for GOF and GOFU. They postponed COS a little bit to make room for MM.