2023 Throwback Thursday Star Wars Edition Set #1 - 1952 Baseball

[Dukefett]

Glad I checked here, I don't think I got an email for the new set. Just ordered.

[greatgradegrate]

Surprised to get Week 3 the day after Week 2 -- lucky to pull the Yoda variation:

[jdandns]

Congrats on the Yoda, and beyond that, for already having 75% of the first set.
Living here at the edge of the world (sorry, Hawaii), I've yet to receive Week 1.

[eldavojohn]

Originally Posted by jdandns

Congrats on the Yoda, and beyond that, for already having 75% of the first set.
Living here at the edge of the world (sorry, Hawaii), I've yet to receive Week 1.

Two days ago I cleared my driveway for the sixth? time this year, the snow banks are taller than me now. It's supposed to snow today and tomorrow. But yeah, I have 50% of the first set so ... silver lining?

[Dr. K]

Hit a Boba Fett in Set 2. Missed out on Set 3.

[eldavojohn]

New set is up: https://www.topps.com/cards-collecti...-baseball.html



Loving 1984!

I missed any SPs or parallels in my five of 1952 #2 and my five of #3. Oh well, so happy with #1 it don't matter

[finfangfan]

Originally Posted by eldavojohn

New set is up: https://www.topps.com/cards-collecti...-baseball.html



Loving 1984!

I missed any SPs or parallels in my five of 1952 #2 and my five of #3. Oh well, so happy with #1 it don't matter

Yeah… love all 3 cards this week… even the Jar Jar!

[dd316]

Originally Posted by eldavojohn

Loving 1984!

I'm glad you guys are enjoying these. Hopefully sales are decent enough that they'll keep getting creative with Star Wars.

[finfangfan]

Originally Posted by dd316

I'm glad you guys are enjoying these. Hopefully sales are decent enough that they'll keep getting creative with Star Wars.

Here’s hoping!

[fulltritty]

2023 Throwback Thursday Star Wars Edition Set #6 - 1984 Baseball

[jdandns]

Originally Posted by finfangfan

Here’s hoping!

Those '77s (and '78s) are a natural for this retro set being the Topps baseball cards that were on the shelf at the liquor store right next to the original Topps Star Wars cards.

I'd love them to use the Wonder Bread design for one of these sets, or even the Sugar Free Gum Wrappers design.

Here's some Mandalorian cards made in the style of Wonder Bread cards, for example:

[dd316]

Originally Posted by jdandns

Here's some Mandalorian cards made in the style of Wonder Bread cards, for example:

Who made these?

[jdandns]

Concept Cards (stylized as "cncpt crdz" or something like that), a small Etsy-like concern that would make small batch runs of Star Wars related cards like these. They also made some mini-card sets featuring the packaging designs from vintage G.I. Joe and Star Wars action figures, pretty cool stuff, especially since all the cards came in wax wrappers that wouldn't look out of place on a late 70's/early 80's store shelf.

They got my attention when they did a reprint of the Star Wars Wonder Bread set, but expanded on it by including characters that weren't included among the original 16 cards. It was a total of 3 packs with 9 cards each for a 27 card set. I skipped pack #1 because it had cards 1-9 which I didn't need because I have the original cards. I wish I hadn't because these new editions looked fantastic, sharper, and clearer than the original. A comparison, with the originals on the right:


I got pack #2 just to get cards #17 & #18 (Owen and Beru). This picture shows those two cards with the other 7 being originals, so they match really well.



Pack #3 was the real winner, with all 9 of the cards being new.




They did the same 3 pack thing with Mandalorian which, of course, were all new cards. Those came out great, too. Here's the rest:

[dd316]

^^^^ very cool! I tried looking them up, they've kinda fallen off the planet. Their Instagram hasn't had an update in nearly a year, and their Twitter is inactive. Bummer I missed out on these.

[eldavojohn]

Set 5 is 2,034

So far:
1952 Set 1: 4,521
1952 Set 2: 2,934
1952 Set 3: 4,283
1952 Set 4: 3,039
1984 Set 5: 2,034

[finfangfan]

Originally Posted by eldavojohn

Set 5 is 2,034

So far:
1952 Set 1: 4,521
1952 Set 2: 2,934
1952 Set 3: 4,283
1952 Set 4: 3,039
1984 Set 5: 2,034

Dang… that’s tiny. Wonder if we get a big boost for Han Solo week or if people are getting burnt out with the weekly featuring “newer” templates (if 40 years old can be considered newer).

[eldavojohn]

New set is up! https://www.topps.com/cards-collecti...-baseball.html

[finfangfan]

Not the greatest lineup but I do like the Kylo Ren card (even tho the character was disappointing in the movies).

[billyp258]

Shut up and take my weekly $14.99. Topps might as well set up a deduction on my paycheck at this point.

[finfangfan]

Originally Posted by billyp258

Shut up and take my weekly $14.99. Topps might as well set up a deduction on my paycheck at this point.

LOL… that’s why I don’t want to commit to these. You love one week and then the roster gets a bit more random later on and you feel “stuck”. It’s a one packer week for me. Only one more week left!

[fulltritty]

2023 Throwback Thursday Star Wars Edition Set #7 - 1984 Baseball

[Dukefett]

I got lucky and hit a bronze /10 Mace Windu. I took some looking on eBay and was surprised almost no parallels from this series have sold, that I can find anyway. I saw some people mislabel it orange and not bronze.


And yeah I'm loving the series so far!

[finfangfan]

Print run up… 2023 Throwback Thursday Star Wars Edition Set #6 - 1984 Baseball - PR: 1704

This week will likely even be tinier!

[Dr. K]

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[zworykin]

I'm still waiting on week 4 to arrive.