attention: all board game geeks! no more long waiting list for a complete game of this popular retro jewel!
time to head to the planet zathura...
similar in tone to the original jumanji movie and based on the book by children's author, chris van allsburg, this is a 2005 pressman toy company game in excellent condition.
plucked from stacks of clean board games at a small sale, the other games, toys, and sports gear showed what an all-american, kansas city boy left behind when he grew up. mom said she was finally cleaning out his room.
the upper and lower parts of the box look pretty good, with the main issues only coming from a poor design of the original packaging. the box is extra deep, but built from average-weight material, probably not sufficient for the fairly heavyweight items contained inside.
the colors on the box look vivid and in perfect condition. the game is beautiful and quirky-looking. even if you're not a collector, it's so gorgeous that you could display the box on its edge on a shelf, like vintage artwork.
this set has a tiny bit of normal household and age wear/tear, but is in outstanding shape overall.
everything was checked over, counted, and organized into plastic baggies, with many photos taken for you to check out. if anything, condition is probably better than stated. i take a lot of time with each product. for this game, i took more than three hours getting it carefully researched, evaluated, and documented.
it includes everything and is missing nothing from the original set:
- instructions sheet (a front page, middle double-page spread, and a back page, all printed on one piece of folded, legal-sized paper)
- game board (folded-into-quarters style; looks brand-new)
- zathura bridge (the plastic, two-part bridge is colorful and in very good condition, with all the decals intact)
- 55 order cards (yes, all 55! and they look great)
- card ejector/spinner console (per other online comments, the original design isn't the greatest and doesn't function as it should, even when using only one card, but note that this console literally looks factory-new and the somewhat non-functioning card-ejector is what it is and not due to damage or age)
- 8 defense tokens (three different kinds--with two, three, and three of each kind; RARE to find all the tokens, especially in this perfect condition!)
- asteroid game die (the orange piece marked "safe"--flawless condition and often missing with games sold online)
- 4 spaceship movers (also called rocket movers; the green, red, yellow, and blue game pieces are all there and look brand-new)
- tsouris-3 (the strange-looking, round, "spotted," orangey-red, plastic piece that the spaceship movers are set into during the game; also in new-looking condition)
- 1 robot mover (he is often missing, so adorable that he gets stuck into some pocket of an imaginative kid who loved playing with him; he is still here!)
- 8-piece puzzle house (pristine)
2005 pressman toy corporation #4505/0710
box interior stamped 151118
online, prices for this game range from high to low, from $100-$200-ish for complete games in acceptable to very good condition, down to $45-$60 for incomplete games.
