The Cards Predict Doom For Buffy
Coming straight from the (Dark) Horse's mouth, it appears that the Buffy tarot cards that were anxiously awaited for by Whedonphiles will not be seeing the light of day. As our very own OracleChele reported to you back in April from the NYCC, the cards would have featured the traditional tarot figures done up as Buffy characters. Sadly, they have been canceled.
From Dark Horse:
Scott Allie, Editor A Day in the Life of a Buffy Editor Updated 6/4/2008Please Note: Due to circumstances beyond our control, Dark Horse will not be producing the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Tarot Deck. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, but no existing orders will be filled. We appreciate your support of this program, and again apologize to those who placed advance orders and to fans alike.
It's an unfortunate loss as they were both a novel product for the market as well as being one of the few to actually make sense given the source material.
Goblin
Posted to toys on 30 June 2008
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This is not meant as a put down of tarot fortune telling, but if the cancellation of that Buffy deck is related to any controversy about tarot cards, I think it's time for tarot to be rebranded in the US.
The fact that tarot cards are sold in the US only for fortune telling is limiting the ability of those cards to fully become a part of our culture. In Italy where people play real card games with tarot, they had dancers dressed as tarot cards as part of the Olympics ceremony. Try to do that in the USA and the fundamentalists will shoot it down.
I have this thought that entertainment corporations could make more money with the gaming side of tarot than they would always stressing the fortune telling aspects. In France where tarot is recognized as a game there are all kinds of pop culture tarots. There's even been a Disney tarot published for game playing in France. If American companies knew what the French know about tarot cards, that they could be used for card games, tarot could be like all the different versions of the Monopoly boardgame on the market. We could buy tarot decks based on Star Wars, Elvis, Betty Boop, Looney Tunes, the Simpsons, Scooby Doo and much more!