I agree. What are they hiding? Was there some great Flipsiders War,
and the wounds are still too deep for anyone to want to revisit that
dark chapter? I think they're just trying to generate hype, and darn
it, it's working.

-g

--- In mbflipsiders@yahoogroups.com, "superstar" <superstarlet_04@...>
wrote:
>
> i will not believe these actually exist until i see them. since
anjar,
> hasbro, MB or the inventor won't comment, the illusiveness
> makes them way more appealing... and frustrating.
>
> --- In mbflipsiders@yahoogroups.com, Gary Fixler
> <yahooSIGNUP@> wrote:
> >
> > Hmmm... When I got this email, I went to Jesse's mbflipsiders
> Yahoo!
> > group to reply, but though the screen says "49-78 of 79," the
> 79th
> > message isn't there. Did you delete it?
> >
> > Anyway, yes, that was my thread on BGG, wherein I was trying
> to get
> > any more info I could. I've been meaning to get that info over
> here,
> > but now that I see the dates over there, I can see work really
> has
> > gotten in the way, and time has flown past!
> >
> > That's my thread on BGG you found, which I started up when I
> noticed
> > the product ID numbers on my Flipsiders. I figured they could
> be used
> > to help track down the total number of Flipsiders out there, but
> as I
> > didn't have too many at the time, I still needed much help.
> Alfonzo
> > Smith was able to fill in some additional product IDs for me,
> > including that of the mythical Prom Date! He did duplicate the
> number
> > for Gold Fever and Road Rally as you can see, but I didn't want
> to get
> > pushy, since he had been one of my best sources of info
> already.
> > Unfortunately, with the common nouns used for the naming of
> the new
> > Flipsiders he listed, there was little I could search for online.
> The
> > only really oddly (and thus easily searchably) named one was
> > Caterpillar Causeway, but all that finds on Google is a few
> random
> > things, and now my thread on BGG. I searched out the rest, to
> no
> > avail. They are non-entities online, sadly.
> >
> > Since I've procrastinated long enough getting that info over
> here,
> > let's complete things. Thanks for the gentle nudge :) I will post
> the
> > info finally right now in a new thread with an easily findable
> topic
> > title.
> >
> > -g
> >
> > > i found this quote from someone on boardgamegeek about
> the 1993 flipsiders:
> >
> > > "I had a friend who was fond of the Flipsiders series so when
> they were discounted after
> > > being discountinued I wound up collecting them. When I
> catalogued my collection I was
> > > surprised to notice that the series was released by two
> different publishers. The ones with
> > > the 1988 copyright were released by Milton Bradley. The
> ones with a 1993 copyright were
> > > released by Diversified Specialists, Inc. (who?)
> >
> > > The newer games are:
> > > Caterpillar Causeway (#144172)
> > > River Run (#144185)
> > > Prized Pony (#144186)
> > > Alien Assault (#144200)
> > > Gold Fever (#144178)
> > > Road Rally (#144178)
> >
> > > There is a sticker on the back of these games that says
> "Distributed by West Coast
> > > Liquidators, Inc. Domiguez, CA 90220." This leads me to
> believe that the games were just
> > > dumped on the market and sold below cost."
> >
> >
> > > i've never heard or seen of any of these titles, ever. like
> aliens, do they really exist?