* The idea of pulling a 1/1 version of an iconic wacky very much appeals to me. I get a buzz out of that which is hard to describe but is real and I look forward to it. * I am a chase card junkie and love the thrill of pulling a super rare card out of a pack. * I like chrome cards and have always enjoyed the ANS Series subsets where Chrome was used. * I like the older wacky titles and would find it quite pleasurable to open packs of them. I am interested in these for the following reasons: Quote from: Fanatical_and_Sickly on January 16, 2014, 04:14:44 PM to me, they are one of the lowest of the current gimmicks in the card world, compounded with this being a reprint set done for the sole intent to milk more money from the collectors using the absolute minimum of effort on Topps part. If you just like looking at refractor-paper, it's sold in hobby and craft shops for a lot less than what topps will charge. (yes, we've already had 50 foil stickers in the ANS sets)Īs bad as the alternate border colors have been, this would be worse, as it obliterates the ability to appreciate the art like Dave says, which is kind of the whole point of Wackys. Many of the foil cards in ANS had too much silver within the image and they couldn't be seen clearly. While a foil background completely outside the border isn't too bad, like the 75th Anniversary Gadzooka, if they decide to make the art silverized, refractorized, prismaticized, or whatever other term they have, it's obscuring the art and looks hideous. The only thing different here from a regular set is that they are shiny. Par for the course in this town working at this Target.To me, they are one of the lowest of the current gimmicks in the card world, compounded with this being a reprint set done for the sole intent to milk more money from the collectors using the absolute minimum of effort on Topps part. And it wasn't just about the cards, I was also pissed because I had other stuff in the hand cart too which didn't need to get thrown around. I wanted to smack him in the face for what he did. I imagined the cards having huge dented corners because of this jackass cashier guy. I cringed while I saw the rack packs smack down onto the conveyer belt on their edges and corners. When it got to the cashier dude, he literally picked up the hand cart, held it two feet above the conveyer belt, turned it upside down, and dumped out my stuff onto the conveyer belt without one bit of care. I had my stuff in one of those hand carts. I took my two rack packs and food to the cash registers to pay for them. I wouldn't be wholly surprised if some of their people even read this blog or the two pack searching websites to glean information on how pack searchers figure out what are in retail packs of cards. I actually think Topps' movement towards packaging more and more products in rack packs is a conscious effort to thwart pack searching. Surely, they must know that it is always easier to search a single individual pack of cards for a hit rather than trying to search a whole sealed rack pack (or sealed blaster). The truth is, by putting the retail packs in sealed rack packs (and blaster boxes), instead of having loose retail packs, it makes it much harder for us pack searchers to find the autographs. Here are two clips from the blog article. Before I knew there was a transparent window in front, I did a search to see if any pack searchers had posted info how they were searching Chrome, and read this article about baseball Chromes.
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