Bicycle Bape and Be@rbrick Deck Reviews

Hey everyone this is Diozay32 again. I decided I would continue looking at some Japanese decks in my collection and I'm gonna be looking at these two. The Bicycle Bearbrick deck which by the way if you want to see a great review on I recommend you check out Salsa Sue Productions. Check out her page she's got a great review on the Bearbrick deck. I probably won't have as good a review as hers. And then there's the Bathing Ape deck which I will look at right away since I don't think I've ever seen a review for it before. Now in front of the boxes you can see one thing about the box is it's not white it's an olive color or whatever you want to call it along with green. The top says Bicycle the bottom it says 2011 Bape edition and playing cards. I don't know if you can see Bape edition. My lighting is not that good. In the center you got a circle symbol with a octopus riding a bicycle and there's an x behind him as you can see. And one thing you might not be able to see is within this circle symbol and on the x there is basically kind of what looks like scales of an octopus whatever it just looks like an octopus's skin. Anyway on this side it says Air Crescent Fitness made in USA. On this side it says the U.S. Playing Card Company. On the top it says Busy Appearance or something and what looks to be like equipment. It's hard to tell because there's a seal but there is some writing on there. And on the bottom it says there's trademark information that says 2011 Baving Ape. I can see 2011 Baving and Ape look like they're written upside down and backwards or something like that. It's really weird. You can see right here it's hard to make out. You can see that it says Baving Ape 2011 but it's all written in weird writing and it's all kind of like backwards. I don't really know why they did that. And then back cards you can see are Rider Backs in green and then they have a special custom Baving Ape seal that says Card on the top, Player on the bottom and there is again an X just like in front of the box with some figure in it. I can't tell what it is though. And then on the flap more trademark information. You open it up. These cards are very customized. Check it out. There's an 8. There's a 6 as you can see. All the cards have very design, a lot of designs in the pips as you can see. There's stuff going on in the pips. That actually makes the pips almost, well actually it's not one way, it's just like a standard deck. The Ace of Spades looks like that. Same symbol as the box. No spade pip except the octopus here is kind of sticking his tongue out. I mean the octopus is maroon colored and it says Bicycle 808 on top. You just blank out something on the bottom and that's it. It doesn't say Bape or anything like that. And as you can see the cards are, like I mentioned, the cards are not white. They're an olive colored or whatever. Again I'll show you that with this box. You can see they are not white. And the pips for these ones are a green color as you can see for the spades and clubs. The hearts and the diamonds as you can see have a dark red almost burgundy colored pip. There's the diamonds again. Ace. And this deck does not have any special gaff cards or anything like that but it does have, well one thing I'll show you is this. This deck has gold blit edges or gilded edges. Something I completely forgot about when I bought them. I had seen before that they had gilt edges. Then recently I saw them when I bought them. I just saw them and was like why don't I have these in my clock since not a bad price. So I decided to get them. As soon as I opened the box it's like oh crap they got gilt edges. Completely forgot about that. I'll talk more about that later. Now the deck has not one, not two, not even three but four jokers. Two jokers look like this. They have an octopus on a bicycle. Kind of a stonk sticking out. And again it says baby nape but go ahead and try to make out baby nape. It's all backwards and whatnot. So there's those two. Then there's these two which has some kind of a weird character riding a bike. He's wearing the regular joker's outfit. He's got kind of a custom crown. The crown actually says, I'm sorry I'm just trying to make it out. It says 21 in the center of the crown there on a diamond. I can't make it out but it's there. And again the guy's got his tongue kind of sticking out. It's kind of weird. So I've got two of those and two of the other ones and the gilt edges. They're gold gilded edges or whatever you want to say. I'm just going to put these jokers back on the deck. One thing I will say is the gilt edges. You got to be careful with that for the people. Cut themselves with them. And one thing is for sure the handling is crap. At least fanning is crappy. Spreading is crappy. Suffering is well not too bad. You can forget feral suffering with these ones that's for sure. You see spread the cards out and they're kind of clumpy. That's all because these edges are so I don't know sticky. There's just how to put it there. I don't recommend any gold glit edge decks unless you want to add them to your collection. That's about it. In fact I wasn't going to buy this one before because of that. They completely forgot that they had glit edges when I did buy it. Oh I forgot to say some court cards. Court cards are also custom as you can see. They look really cartoony. Dice with the tongue sticking out. There's a queen. There's a king. Kind of scary looking in a way. Look at that. This guy almost looks like a terrorist. In disguise or something like that. There's a jack. And you got to get the same colors and color schemes. Baby ape by the way. Not sure why they call it that because there's no apes in it. But it is a some kind of a Japanese clothing store. And same with the other one. The bear breakdown I'm going to be looking at is also a store in Japan. So the only other decks that have gilt edges that are also crappy are the ramblers. And I got those just because I didn't have any decks with gold edges like this. So I didn't know what I was getting into and I just thought it would be nice to add them to my collection. Anyway that's the baby ape deck. Now we're going to move on to this one. The bicycle bear breakdown. As you can see it's got a yellow and orange color to it. The bicycle on top is written in blue and orange lettering. The front has this bear. Kind of looks like a teddy bear riding a bicycle with this bear brick. And notice the A is that symbol. Because you use it for email addresses. The ASCII or whatever it's called. And there is some trademark information. From Midicom Toy Corporation. Which this deck was designed for. Or made for. It says U.S. Point Guard at the bottom. On this side it says U.S. Point Guard Company on the top. It says poker and it says bear brick. Although you can only see the last couple letters. On the bottom you got trademark information and a barcode. And in the back you can see is that kind of ugly bright yellow rider back here. Not ugly but just really really bright. Unnecessarily as well. I just noticed I got a dirty spot on my deck here. Not sure where that came from. The seal as you can see says Midicom Toys and U.S. Point Guard Company on it. And it's like I said it's a company. It's kind of a Japanese toy store. And trademark information on the flap as well. We open it up. Again it's a very custom deck. Here's the backs. The really bright yellow rider back. And you see we have a blank card with this deck. And right away we get into card cards. There's a jack. You got kind of a faceless jack with that kind of a bear character like they have on the box. And there's a big J on it for jack. And you can see all the number cards have numbers on them. So the three has a big three on it. One thing you notice clubs and spades are in blue. Hearts and diamonds I guess are in red or almost an orangey color. There's a club. It says seven on it. Nine. There's another jack. Aces have a big A on them as you can see. Kind of a little bit goofy I think but whatever. There's the ace of spades. It's got kind of a bear head with that symbol that's on bear brick. It says bicycle area on top. You see a blank card at the bottom. And there's a T down here for trademark. There's a king, queen, and another one. There's a zoker. They got the same coloring for the word zoker. Red, blue, and orange. It's right in front of the box. And you got the same character from the front of the box riding a bicycle. And they got US in the corner as you can see in orange color. And trademark information is also in orange on the bottom. And then there is one more joker. This one is kind of a standard bicycle joker except for the orange lettering. And another standard joker again as well. These cards are really one way in the faces because of all the numbering as you can see. But other than that, it's a pretty good deck of cards as you can see. They're already a standard you know bicycle stocking finish. They handle well as you can see. They look good. All right and they're really bright backs. And you know if you're interested I know BM Poker World has them. One-Eyed Jack has them. Go check them out. Check out Salsa Superduction's review. I promise you it's 10 times better than mine. And as for this deck, this one is harder to find. You're not going to find it on BM Poker World or the One-Eyed Jack or Ace King Playing Cards or anything like that. You will find it on eBay if you're lucky. It could be pricey though because it's hard to come by. But usually around 30 or 35 bucks. Anyway those are my reviews for today. Hopefully I will do some tricks sometime over the weekend. And it is a long weekend so enjoy your long weekend if you have one. It's a Labor Day. Last long weekend of the summer season. And it's already starting to get cold it seems. At least where I am. Anyway remember to rate, comment, subscribe and all that fun stuff. Thumbs ups. And if you have any suggestions, any decks you want reviewed or anything like that let me know. With that, see you next time.