2015 EDITION

The SoccerStarz Foil Bag received a make over as the bags were changed into a bright Yellow colour, very eye catching it is indeed.

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SoccerStarz chose to release the product onto the market in what they called 'Waves' with 3 waves of releases, Wave 1 in September, Wave 2 in December and Wave 3 arriving in January 2015.

 

​The reason for this 'wave' release is that it enabled the company to have the product out on the market at the start of the season, and allowed them time to prepare the new figures.

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As the Foil bags are not transparent, it is impossible to know which figure you are buying, so it provided the perfect foil for SoccerStarz to shift unsold stock from the 2013/14 collection, by placing it into the foil bags.

 

Wave 1 is largely made up of figures from the 2013/14 collection, all of which are on a Green base, which leads me to believe they simply opened unsold blister packs and filled these wave 1 foil bags with them, to clear stock, further weight is added to my theory by the fact some foil bags were found to have collector cards in them!

 

Despite SoccerStarz saying there are 3 Waves of the 2015 Foil Bag, on the bags themselves there is no way to distinguish which wave of bags you, as a customer, are buying.

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This wave release did very little to adhere themselves to collectors, it left many collectors once again very disappointed and also deceived by a poor product, rushed onto the market place before it was ready. A wave idea is a good one if the correct thought is applied,it can be very successful, however this had one thought in mind, clearing unsold stock until new figures were ready.

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 The figures were made available on 9, yes 9 base colours! SoccerStarz added Orange and Bronze to the range with their being just 0.3% percent chance of getting one, so Bronze was perplexingly rarer than Gold, and this was not a fresh base, if you scratch the paint away they are Green based underneath, so i have never put any value whatsoever into the Orange or Bronze bases.

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​There was still no leaflet inside the foil bag to explain to collectors the significance of each base colour, it's rarity or indeed it's value on the secondary market, this was another mistake made by the company in relation to this product, they removed the collector cards from blister packs, replaced them with a information leaflet, which did explain the base colour significance, but did not seem the need to include it in the foil bags where these different base colours are actually found, does make one wonder who thinks this product out and approves it.

 

​The 2015 Foil Bag once again saw Manchester United have their own specific style bag, however the product was only available as an 18piece CDU, the 9 piece CDU had been done away with. 

 

​In the slide gallery at the bottom of the page, I have included the information which SoccerStarz placed on their website that details which figures were supposed to be released in which wave, however I must stress this is the information provided by SoccerStarz, as such it is not likely to be 100% accurate. I must also stress that it is impossible to say if each figure listed was indeed produced on all 9 base colours.

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The SoccerStarz Foil Bag 2015 Edition actually contained 14 exclusives, meaning they were not done as a blister pack or included in any team pack ,they could only be found inside the Foil Bag 2015 Edition, although it is worth mentioning that Joe Hart and David Luiz were done as Clear Sachets. 

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For Aston Villa we have Aleksandar Tonev, while for Liverpool we have Danny Agger. There are 2 Manchester City players, which are Alvaro Negredo and Joe Hart, though it will mention the Hart was also done as a Clear Sachet.

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One of the rarest released figures is that of Danny Simpson in Queens Park Rangers 2014/15 home kit, I can count on one hand the amount of times I have seen the figure. Steve Sidwell is in Stoke City home kit with BET365 sponsor on the shirt, which was not released as a blister.

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Andy Little and Ross Perry were down for a blister pack release, but that was cancelled, so I can only assume that SoccerStarz took the decision to use some of the stock by placing it inside the Foil Bag 2015 Edition, something which shocked collectors with both being incredibly rare with Perry being amongst the hardest figures to find.

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David Luiz was released with 2 different body poses, his original body pose version could only be found in this foil bag or as a Clear Sachet We also have Filip Duricic for Benfica and Silvestre Varela for FC Porto.​

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Manchester United had their own version of the Foil Bag 215 Edition and these bags also included 3 exclusives which were not made as single blister packs. The 3 players are Shinji Kagawa, Tom Cleverley and Danny Welbeck, all 3 were incredibly difficult to find and highly sought after by collectors.

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Due to the nature of how SoccerStarz produced this product it was once again an impossible take to compile any accurate list of which figures were made on what base colours, so for that reason I am just including the 14 exclusives, and only doing so on Green, as I simply can't guarantee which other base colours they appeared on.