Beast Wars Charapika Seal
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Beast Wars Charapika Seal[1] is a series of Beast Wars stickers published by Irifune in 1997, notwithstanding that they read "© 1996, 1997". They were sold in mystery packs of thirty-one stickers.
There are forty stickers in total to collect, composed of two groups of twenty. The first group are normal stickers numbered one to twenty, each depicting another Beast Wars character. The second group are those exact same stickers, but shiny. These shiny prism stickers are rarer than the normal ones. To entice customers, each mystery pack comes with one prism sticker on display as the one non-mystery purchase. The other thirty stickers are stored individually in bags within paper bags that are bound in the manner of a tear-off calendar. The idea is for a group of children to buy one pack and take turns tearing off a bag to acquire the sticker inside. A few of the inner bags are marked 当り もう一度おひきください ("Success! Please draw again") and the person who gets one of these gets to draw a second time within their turn. As the entire Charapika Seal collection contains only twenty different stickers, doubles are to be expected, which in turn promotes trading among children to bring together a full set.
Each sticker is actually more of a sticker sheet and contains two to three smaller stickers. The main one is drawn art or CGI art of a Beast Wars character and the others are screenshots of the first season of Beast Wars that, for the most part, depict the character. The exception are those five characters that are in the sticker line-up but aren't in the cartoon, that being Insecticon, Convobat, Armor, Megalligator, and Cybershark. The screenshots on their stickers are random.
Stickers
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Notes
The screenshots are taken from the following episodes:
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References
- ↑ "Chara" (キャラ) is short for "character" and "pika seal" (ピカシール) is a Japanese word to indicate glossy stickers, with pika being short for pikapika, "sparkling", and "seal" being a Japanese term for "sticker".
