One Man's Error is Another Man's Treasure

by Crazy Ivan

Amongst the most coveted Myachis of all time are the mismade ones; the mess-ups, the oversights, the patchwork attempts to keep things together when stuff goes wrong. In some companies, the worst thing you can find is that some of your product is mismade. In Myachi, we're always pretty stoked when we run across a blister pack that's mounted backwards or upside-down. When we found out that part of the the 3.2 had Red Lines instead of Starting Lines, far from being upset with our manufacturer, I was stoked enough to hustle into the city and buy a couple.

Well, it would seem that there's another semi-rare (possibly very rare) mismake in the Myachi world. I only learned about it a few days ago so I'm still trying to hammer out the details, but it would seem that in the 5.0 series we had some percentage of the Tidal Wave Reds made with the corduroy lines going vertical instead of horizontal.

Like I said, I don't have details. I've jammed with both configurations and I know that almost all of the Tidal Wave Reds I've seen are horizontal, but there is definitely a significant portion that are vertical. I'm still trying to figure out approximately what percent we're talking about. Is it 10%? 5%? 25%? Clearly this will make a big difference in determining how rare they are and how much their Trade Value needs to be adjusted.

So my guess is that if you have a Tidal Wave Red, you've either already checked it or are planning to as soon as you get done reading this. After all, you might have something pretty rare sitting in your collection that you didn't know about. But if, after checking it, you discover that it's the more common horizontal corduroy, don't be too disappointed. It is still rarer than you thought.

Consider this: If it turns out that a high percent of the TWRs are vertical (say, one out of every four), that means that a horizontal corduroy, while not as rare as the vertical, are still quite a bit rarer than any of the other 5.0s. We made 8,250 of each of the 5.0s, but if 25% of the TWRs are mismade, it means that only about 6200 horizontal Tidal Wave Reds.

One way or the other, the sack becomes rarer and is suddenly the most rare sack in the series.