So's I'm at my local Walmart checking out the TCG section. After walking past the Yu-Gi-Oh display which took about 10 minutes of speed walking to get past (god forbid the Yu-Gi-Oh display collapse-if it did, at least 100 people would be crushed under the weight), I see a "Marvel TCG" promo package of some kind with some definite Vs artwork. The front of it boasts something like "6 classic booster packs and 1 starter!" for about $9.99.

At first I'm thinking, cool...representin' the Vs!

Then I look closer. The front shows a Marvel Origins starter, with...get this,... you ready....?
6 MARVEL RECHARGE BOOSTERS!!!!
It was not presented as a cheap combo bulk pack of similarly themed cards, it was presented as a starter type product.

WTH?

Is it even possible to run it into the ground more than that?

Some poor kid or prospective player buys it, tries to figure out how to use the Recharge boosters with the starter, gives up in frustration, and goes back to Yu-Gi-Oh.

To be fair, UDE wasn't distributing it. So other cheap crappy company was doing it. I can just imagine the dumb Suit that came up with the idea.. "Hey, Marvel is Marvel, lets package it all together!"

Is this serious?

I ... I can't even really get my head wrapped around this one.

Is UDE aware of their product being co-packaged?
Did they authorize this or is this some kind of lower-level idiocy?
Would it be possible to post an image of this product?
Does Walmart have the right to package items they sell with other items of their choice?

Seriously, I don't know the answers to any of these, I'm just confused.

Whether we want to know or not, someone should look into it.

*looks around*.

I mean someone other than me.....

Guys, no worries. I checked into it. Recharge will be legal with the Vs. system starting at the 1st of the year. Get those combo packs now!

The following information comes from my years of being a sportcard dealer years ago,quit because the companies overloaded the market with crazy amounts of different products. Upper Deck being one of the worst,so watch out. The packs you seen at walmart is from a repackaging company who buys up extra products card manufactures have lying around in theie warehouses being unsold because overproduction. Then they repackage them in various ways and distribute them to retails such Walmart and Mejier and such. Mostly in a way to appeal to the younger group. That is where those $3o boxes of Superman and Webs of Spiderman would show up and why. In some cases they just add another layer of shrink wrap and put a big cheap price tag on it. Other cases they open the boxes and mix and match products for mass appeal making someone who dont know much about the product think they would getting a great deal,where in really they where buying a ton of crap throw together. Only in the case was they actually a deal to be found is when a product was not to be distributed to the general public for some reason and these guys accidently got there hands on it and next thing it showed up in Kmarts. I lucked into 10 boxes at different store before they yanked them offthe shelves. And let me tell you the cards in that set when thru the roof price wise,I make my money back 20 fold easiely.So next time in a mega store and see mass amounts of trading cards packaged all nice and appealing beware.

Yeah saw something similar at blockbuster video. 1 Web of Spiderman pack, one recharge, and four packs of super-hero type other cards.

What's Recharge? Is it an old Marvel Game?

my friend got duped by the package, web of spider-man starter i believe and 4 worthless recharge packs

yeah I saw the same thing only around here its a pack of marvel knights and other superhero crap. ick.

I found something like that for $10 at Wal-mart once, too. It came with 15 packs and a starter deck though. Only two of the packs were VS cards. They were MOR (I pulled a Savage beatdown in one). The starter was for Recharge and collectible cards (Spider-man 2 movie cards and something else).

Stinks that the one you got came with 9 less packs and no VS.:(

I was going to point you to Richard Weld's Penultimate CCG Review Page, but the great destroyer of the Internet has swallowed it up. :( Suffice to say, yes. Apparently released after OverPower fell and before VS. rose. I never played it or even heard of it before running into Weld's site, but apparently it involved betting, which means it didn't go over well with the parents, and was poorly reviewed by CCG enthusiasts as well.

Although this is a problem - I have even seen the exact same package in local Blockbusters for quite some time now (at least since the beginning of June), there's really nothing Upper Deck can do about it since it is an external company.

That being said, ReCharge is a terrible game.

Our local Wal-Mart store used to have a 5 pack of comic books and a spiderman VS pack for $4. I bought all them up and gave the comics to my nephews. ;D