Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Archives Ahoy!

When I was at my local card shop -- The Collector's Box in Newark, Del. -- last week, I found a stack of promotional post cards near the register.   Their purpose: to herald the coming of 2013 Archives, along with some hobby-exclusive bells and whistles.

Can we please retire the "mom threw out my cards" schtick?  

Maybe your dad is Luke Perry?  

I didn't have a chance to swing by the store today to investigate these 25-cent packs (that's on the agenda for Thursday), but it's clearly worth a look.

As for the "Week 2" festivities, all I can say is, Damn we've all gotten old!  Are we really talking about "dad's old cards from the '80s" here?  The '80s!?  Shoot, how old is dad?  Anyhow, if a stack of '88 Topps will get me a new pack of cards with a "unique" parallel and a possible autograph, then count me in!

As for this year's Archives product...  Count me among those who thought the new cards were hitting shelves on the 29th.  However, I see the release date is actually this Friday, the 31st.  Kinda strange, no?  Wednesdays are usually new card days for Topps, or so I thought.  Anyhow, I'm starting to get excited for this set, especially since a quarter of the 200-card set features the 1990 base card design.  [Ed. Note: No, that isn't a tongue-in-cheek comment, actually.]

I'm absolutely looking forward to the weekend when bloggers from coast to coast will be posting the results of blaster breaks and pack rips, etc.  Always an exciting time!  I hope to find myself a blaster box to enjoy and share on the ol' blog, as well.

MK

5 comments:

  1. Old cards from the 80's??? I'm going to buy up some repacks!

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  2. Shoot, the only thing my dad had to do with cards in the 1980's was most likely thinking that I was too old to be collecting them. :-)

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  3. I'm so excited about the Archives that I almost went and bought a box of the football verison. I may be the creeper that stands at Walmart past midnight waiting for them to put it on the shelves tonight. Can't wait...

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  4. Reminds me of the time I heard Skid Row on classic rock radio. Dad is officially old.

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