Vacor / Mega Marbles Supernova Sorting - Working on assembling 15 sets

[The Nickel Guy]

Some are dark, some are bright, some are heavily iridized, some less so, some not at all. Some are larger, some are small. but they are all most likely in acceptable condition and I am fussy. There are 395 in this picture. I have been going through my collection and doing this with all my Mega Marbles. I have them all alphabetically cataloged and arranged in showcases and tubs. I started with A and I am going to start with the letter T hopefully today after this job. Almost done. I am very OCD. lol

Supernova is the most populated variety in my collection out of probably 12,000 Vacors. I am sure I am not alone, these were probably one of the more produced types found in assorted net bags in recent years. I don't rank them in my top 10 favorites, but the best 24 and best shooter out of this project will be quite a super net bag when I am done.

Thank you for looking.

[akroorka]

Hmmmm, I have a bunch of Vacor and I researched them for years now.

"Super Nova" is a new name to me.

(Vacor has a lot of names to keep up with so excuse me here---Vacor has been guilty of renaming marbles for years)

I would call all of these "Spumoni". ( I thought that they were retired?)

I am just and old Fart with old Vacor names in my mind.

Nice marbles regardless of the name--nice collection as well.

Marble--On!!

[The Nickel Guy]

1 hour ago, akroorka said:

"Super Nova" is a new name to me.

Spumoni have a yellow opaque base with blue and red swirls. I have a lot of those too but not half as many as these orange base mibs.  These Supernova orange ones are also sometimes known as Intrepid Girl too. Here's link for Supernova from Beakers World.

https://beakersworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Supernova-MM-Net-Bag-front-scaled.jpg

[akroorka]

OK, those are Mega marbles--made by Vacor.

Mega has not been around for some time--just another name for a Vacor.

Trust me here--or not.

I gave my best here and appreciate your input as well.

Marble--On!!

[The Nickel Guy]

Hey, I appreciate every post you put up and your thoughts behind them. Mega Marbles sometimes changed the names more than twice or called a completely different marble a same name as what used to be something else.

Heck, sometimes I dream up my own name and lables for the hybrids or wacky strange ones. It's all good. If we were only kids again playing marbles at the playground we sometimes made up our own names for our favorites. I never remembered calling my green patch and ribbon marble kings by name. I might have called them "green eyes" huh?

[akroorka]

Vacor has a pretty freindly site nowadays-they used to carry a warning as not secure---Spumoni are still listed as a current model. Who knew?

Look -em up---and as always---

Marble--On!!