elizium Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Aw man, that 81 set is probably my favourite. I think the colour coded hats in the corner are so charming looking. That, 1980 and 1986 are my favourites for the decade. Special mention to the 83 and 84 sets for the picture in picture look, which I've always liked (1984-85 O Pee Chee/Topps hockey is one of my favourite ever sets and feature the same design element). Least favourite is the woodgrained 87 set. Just looks drab to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grilledcheese Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 See, and I really dig the 87 set. I like the woodgrain. Probably helps that I think that was the first set I built from wax packs, so I spent an inordinate amount of time staring at that design. I really like the reverses on the 81's but there is something about the whole setup of the faces of the cards I don't like. I think it's the fact that the borders aren't necessarily colormatched to the team color. Some are, the Bucs had yellow borders, as did the Mariners. But the Dodgers are like a weird pinky-purple, KC is a red-orange, Cincy is green. It weirds me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Could be worse, could be the eyesore disaster that is the 1990 Topps set. Those first three Leaf sets are all really good looking too. I have one card from the 1972 Topps set and it is one of my favourite looks as well. The team font is amazing. Best part is that Billy is sneakily giving the finger to the photographer, nice little precursor to the Frank Thomas card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Billy just wishes he was Old Hoss Radbourn, the first person ever photographed giving the finger. And then did it again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 3 minutes ago, Tabe said: Billy just wishes he was Old Hoss Radbourn, the first person ever photographed giving the finger. And then did it again. I actually forgot about the second one, which was on a tobacco card. It's a beautiful baseball tradition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 Anyone else buy any 2016 Donruss Football boxes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 On 8/15/2016 at 7:13 AM, Hail Sabin said: Anyone else buy any 2016 Donruss Football boxes? Picked up one today, felt like getting some football cards and the box was decently priced. Love the 80s throwback look. Hits were a /25 Marshall Faulk relic and a Wendell Smallwood auto. The Fans of the Game subset is pretty bizarre, never thought I'd have a Megan Fox card... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Yeah got a Megan Fox card # to 100 and a Daryl McDaniels auto in the 2nd box with an Amari Cooper relic plus Elliot and Wentz The Rookies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Those are decent, my The Rookies pulls are Derrick Henry and Sheldon Rankins, Elliott would have been great to find. A few of the die cuts as well, rarest being a /25 Karlos Williams, which would have been a lot better a week ago, and a /25 Dak Prescott. One thing I've noticed about football cards is that they seem even more rookie centered than even baseball cards. Pretty much every set I've seen seems to promise autos of pretty much every rookie coming in. Fun set though, love the mock 87 cards and the Dick Perez style Gridiron Kings, though its a bit weird for a football set to be paying tribute to a baseball set. Fucking hate The Sheriff Peyton Manning cards though. That Gruden nickname is the absolute worst. Probably won't get another box, as there are a couple other things I'm looking at, but will probably finish off the main set once singles start showing up online. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Love how wishy washy the card is about Fox's fandom. "Well, if she decides to watch football, she's in Hollywood...so Rams?" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 True! Hardcore NFL Fans buy season tickets to a team that your Favorite team is playing since it's the simplest way to get tickets (I bought Jags season tickets since the Packers game by it's self was over $200 and I could get Jags season tickets for less than $400). Last Night I bought a Prestige box on Ebay which should have 4 autos in it so we'll see what I pull in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 Best one was a Treadwell auto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Treadwell auto was looking a lot better before today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 That it was but he still could have a nice season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Well I couldn't help myself and bought a box of 2015 WWE Chrome cards. It was about $10 less than what you usually see online for the box. I pulled a William Regal Gold Refractor, a John Cena Night of Champions relic card, and a Naomi kiss card. I thought I hit the jackpot on the Naomi card as I saw it listed on for $75 on a particular online price guide (not Beckett) but then looked on Ebay and seeing that it was barely getting $5 in sold listings. so yeah nothing has changed on that. I will probably get another box to finish out the set Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Yeah I got a 2016 Trish Kiss card in a trade a few months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerome Miller Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 The dumbest thing I've seen are the same day "virtual" trading cards that the companies are pumping out now. Basically, if you pre-order a set from Topps or whoever, you get a chance to "win" a jpeg file with a player that was taken just hours earlier at the NFL Rookie Premiere or some such event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted October 19, 2016 Author Share Posted October 19, 2016 I'll agree the digital cards are dumb, I like having cards I can hold and organize on my shelf. I remember when they first did it with eTopps a decade ago and I thought it was silly then. I have a box of the next WWE box for pre-order, it is being released 11/2 I think. Just one box this time. I also ordered a box of WWE Slam Attax, my first of those boxes, so that will be exciting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted October 28, 2016 Author Share Posted October 28, 2016 I somehow missed this, but this week BBM released a new set of cards that has a variety of Japanese wrestlers in it. No one from New Japan of course, but legends from other promotions or retired wrestlers. Its an 'all sport' type box so I won't be buying any boxes, but I may have to pick up some singles. Look at this beautiful cards. Spoiler I don't care what I have to pay for them, those Mutoh and Nagayo cards are mine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted October 29, 2016 Author Share Posted October 29, 2016 Ok I lied, they are selling for a lot more than I was hoping. I did get a Chigusa Nagayo though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 Pulled a retail exclusive Elliott jersey card yesterday in a $20 Box! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 On 10/29/2016 at 6:14 PM, Kevin Wilson said: Ok I lied, they are selling for a lot more than I was hoping. I did get a Chigusa Nagayo though. What other Joshi stars have auto cards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted November 1, 2016 Author Share Posted November 1, 2016 26 minutes ago, Hail Sabin said: What other Joshi stars have auto cards? As far as I know, Nagayo is the only Joshi wrestler in that set. Since Joshi has their own BBM set it looks like they just focused on legends throughout. My dream auto would have been Bull Nakano but she either isn't interested in doing signed cards or is too expensive. I think the only wrestlers from the set I am missing in the picture above are Riki Choshu and Nobuhiko Takada. If you mean in general, well every Joshi wrestler has a signed card But I assume you meant from the new set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 Just got one box of the new WWE set. My hits were excellent. Bayley is /99 and the Lynch is /10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail Sabin Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 Is That regular 2016 Topps or something else? Those are two Sweet Hits! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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