Futera Unique 2012

Futera Unique 2012 was released in December 2011. I managed to get my friend who goes to Hong Kong to get me a couple of boxes of it. They are similar to the Unque 2011 series.

Again there is 200 base cards with a Ruby Parallel set the design this year is different as expected, the cards are thicker and in 2011 only England players were not in their National Jersey's but this round both England and Spain are not in their jersey's due to licensing issues I expect.
  

There are more chase cards this year to get althought they limited the number of boxes being produced. 1 Case has 12 boxes and each box has 6 packs. There are only 200 cases produced. The specials you get in the packs are Hero (1 in each pack), Legends (1 in 3 packs), Memo (1 in 3 Packs), Autographs (1 in 4 packs), Managers (1 in 6 packs), 1 of 1 MemoCell (1 in 1 CASE !!) and Myhticals (1 in 2 CASES !!!!)

  

I never got the Memocell or Mythicals. Basically the Memocells are 1 of 1 Autograph on a gold plated card. The Mythical of which 10 cards were produced and limited to 10 each are legendary players and have 5 raw diamonds embedded in the card. These  are the most sought after cards for collectors and players on the online game as they have game codes.

Hero are plain cards with gold coloured stamp there are 40 to collect in the set. They don't come with codes and this I like the design and plan to collect this set but am still short of about 5 cards to complete the set.

Legends are Acetate cards with one side red and in colour while the other is green in sepia tone. They also don't have any codes and I don't really like their design as such I am not going to collect this set except for Ian Rush which I will keep for my own PC.

The Archies or Jersey cards this year are better than the Unique 2011 series they are simple with double embossing. There are 24 to collect 16 Single Memo cards (limited) and 8 Double Memo cards (limited) which are memo cards with 2 players and 2 pieces of swatches, There are some with terrific colours 3 or 4 colours and these go for big bucks, Messi and Ronald command the most. I managed to complete this collection quickly with trading and buying them off ebay. They all have game codes and the dual memo would display the country name, the 8 were - Argentina, Brazil, China, England, Germany, Holland, Italy and Spain

Autographs this time round they were 4 different design in Brown, Silver, Mint and Blue not all players have 4 designs some have 2. As with Unique 2011 I only collected the liverpool players. They all have game codes and each is limited to 60. I managed to purchase them from ebay and some I got in my packs. The list I got consisted of

Pepe Reina - (2 types)

Daniel Agger - (4 types)

Luis Suarez - (4 types)

Kenny Dalglish - (2 types)

Andy Carroll - (2 types) ... the last one to complete my collection was the Andy Carroll Brown version.

There are 10 Mangers to collect and these are used in the online game to boost your team. They are gold plated and limited.

I am still looking for Base and Ruby cards for this set and have lots to trade plus I hope to be able to trade for my Hero's that I am missing.