Thieves stole $300,000 in gaming trading cards at Gen Con 2023

A pair of thieves waltzed into Gen Con 2023 and stole as a lot as $300,000 of gaming cards in Indianapolis (through IndyStar). The playing cards, which have been sitting in bins on a pallet, have been stolen utilizing a pallet jack whereas distributors have been organising for the long-running yearly gaming conference that Dungeons and Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax began.

As for what playing cards have been taken, that’s unknown. IndyStar reported {that a} employee at an area Indianapolis board recreation retailer thought the packaging resembled that of Magic: the Gathering, Pokémon Buying and selling Card Sport, and the unreleased Disney Lorcana. Ravensberger, the corporate that makes Disney Lorcana, tweeted that all of its product is accounted for. Conference-goers waited for as much as 16 hours for the cardboard recreation, which Ravensberger used Gen Con 2023 as a pre-release venue for.

Indianapolis Police issued a pair of tweets Friday and Saturday asking for assist from the general public in figuring out two folks caught on surveillance video taking the pallet:

This isn’t the one latest card recreation theft within the Indianapolis space. In Might, native media reported a thief broke right into a gaming retailer in Indianapolis suburb Brownsburg and shoved an estimated $15,000 price of Magic: the Gathering playing cards into a pizza delivery bag.