stratochamp wrote in Palace of the Silver Princess mod B3:while Bracton questioned my sanity.

throwi wrote in Palace of the Silver Princess mod B3:I actually have one of the outer-wrap cardboard boxes of the original orange B3 - got it with my SW OB3 purchase years ago... I also have written provenance from the former TSR employee that "fetched the last remaining book and box" from the trash...

~throwi

PS - I'm guessing there will be requests for pictures, I'll try to pull the box from its secret location and take a few pictures this weekend...

I would LOVEEEEE to see this! yes, pics please =)

--Thor

Okay, here's my box... it was used by the former TSR emp for storage for many years before I got it...

~throwi

stratochamp wrote in Palace of the Silver Princess mod B3:I bet you're feeling pretty good about that purchase in retrospect, aren't you Thom?

Honestly, was just happy to get the OB3, the box was a little extra bonus at the time.  

~throwi

throwi wrote in Palace of the Silver Princess mod B3:Okay, here's my box... it was used by the former TSR emp for storage for many years before I got it...

~throwi

That's amazing!!!

That's incredible, thanks for posting the pictures.

Thanks Foul for the site update,

1993 Harold Johnson interview here:  Print Run

Recollecting they went out as pre-orders and 2000 may not have been returned, not sure who is CTV?

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CTV:  ...  Back to modules, one in particular, the first printing, the one with the tan border, module B3 Palace of the Silver Princess, was recalled and destroyed.  Would you like to talk about that?

HJ:  [laughs] No, it happened during my time as director of games, so no thank you.  I guess I'll say this about it - TSR has always been sympathetic to our retailers and our distributors.  We published that product and we were on a deadline and the first version rushed out, probably not in the shape in it should have been, with possibly objectionable things in.  When we heard that from a number of distributors and retailers, regarding their objections, we thought it would be better to pull it back, and modify it.  To identify it, the new one had a green border.

CTV:  Well, let's just say that there were some illustrations that you decided were in poor taste.

HJ:  Uh, yeah.  [laughs]

CTV:  So, it was formally distributed.  How many do you think are out there roughly?

HJ:  Well, originally we did what was called outer shipping which meant that the product was prepackaged by the printer and sent directly to the distributors and the shops, and did not come to our warehouse, so the full pre-order was shipped before we recalled it.  I would suspect that maybe 10 percent did not return their order.  Most of the rest did.

CTV:  So, there may be only 2,000 out there.

HJ:  Yes.

Coolest thing I saw all month.