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Just curious. With thousands of sets out there, does anybody have a card set bucket list? A bucket list is a list you want to try to achieve in your lifetime. I'm thinking of starting one. Here's what I have so far, in no particular order.

1.  MLB 2005-06 Topps Turkey Red Red.  I like the base set, mainly due to the canvas look. Add the color red and it seems to look better to me.

2.  MLB 2005-06 Topps Turkey Red White. Harder set to complete but looks great and fun challenge.

3. MLB 2014 Topps Wal-Mart Blue.  Big parallel set, plus it's from Wal-Mart.

4. MLB 1975 Topps base. Just a very cool looking colored set, challenge to complete did to it being vintage and condition.

5. 1986 G.I.Joe Hasbro Action cards. This set bring back memories for me. Set has scenes from the cartoon plus artwork from the figures and vehicles.

6. 1985 Transformers. Same as the above, plus I recently found out there are color variations!

7. 2014 Topps Yellow. From what I remember, these were available in hangers. Like the challenge of completing this!

Well, it's a start. Anybody else want to share their list?

I've already got that list put together:

Profile > Collection > Want List

LOL!

-Tom

I have a slightly different take on this. I have given up on actually completing sets- this is mostly due to Panini doing stupid stuff- so I set the goal of getting at least one card from every set ever made for the NBA and NASCAR. I got very close, needing only Panini's Eminence, which was a $6000 pack. The cheapest card I could find for sale was $150 and I have a mostly strict limit to $20 on a single card...and a hard limit of $50. 

I completed the project for NASCAR, and let it slip away for the NBA, besides Eminence, there have been more recent sets for the NBA I don't have. I didn't get any from last year's National Treasures or Prime for NASCAR either. 

I've found my project of getting one of every person much more rewarding and have focused my energy on that instead. 

I will probably, at some point, try and find out what I'm missing and look for them...or at the least put them on my list so if/when I get one I will know I need it. (Actually, this post has inspired me, and I am going to update it as soon as I hit post)

Since I've gotten into the NHL, I have been focusing mostly on that. I don't think I can do the one from every set project for the NHL. They started getting sets in the 1920s and they are out of my price range. I did make a list of the sets missing from my collection but I have not gotten around to typing it up yet. I'll do that at some point but not tonight.

I have a list of specific non-sports sets I want on the linked list, but there are a ton more I don't know about and would have them on my list if I knew they existed. Several times I've found something for sale and added it to my collection before even knowing I wanted it.

I just updated my chart...it jumped from 32 missing NBA sets to 60, and just about every single one of them is a "memorabilia delivery system", and not a true card set. Is there any wonder why I barely collect the NBA anymore? It's because Panini is terrible. And they have the exclusive license to two of my three main sports. 

Anything 2006-2008 topps or upper deck baseball. But the one I would most like to is 2006-07 upper deck basketball. Just missing Antoine Wright and almost all of the Star Rookies.

I'm with Lea DeFoote in that my Want List is my bucket list. Mainly because I don't go for sets. The '69 Topps Deckle Edge set was an insert I was able to complete and have others like that.

BUT...If I was a base set collector these are the three I'd collect:

1. 1966 Philadelphia Football - it's the set that started me collecting as a 5th grader in Del Rio, Texas
2. 1975 Topps Baseball - had stopped collecting as I went to college and was unaware of the set until re-entering the hobby back a few years ago and fell in love with the color coordination - reminded me of the '60s psychedelic era
3. 1951 Bowman Baseball - I own a couple of cards from this set and have an affinity for the size, texture, thickness, and depictions of players on the cards

Well, there's the cliched desire to complete all of the Topps base sets from the year of my birth to present. So that leaves 1.4% of the 1969 set and much of the 1965-1968 sets. That should keep me occupied. Then there are little sets, as defined by me.

I want the eight "gettable" T207 Cubs; need two HOFers. 

I've stumbled into the fact that I can complete the 1955 Cubs set. Working on that with no major obstacles in my way. 

Dream? I'd love to have all the T205 Cubs and all the Goudey 1933 Cubs. Unlikely. 

But I keep finding new "sets" to shoot for. 

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To stay within the parameters of the question, I'll say 1970-71 Topps basketball, 1987 Topps Tiffany baseball, and 1996-97 Finest basketball.

1956 to 2015 Topps Football base sets. Last time I calculated I was 65% complete. 

My short term goal is to complete 1975 to 1985 sets this year.

For a lifetime set bucket list, a complete run of Topps from 1966 to present. Halfhearted working on 66 and 67, would be easier to buy the sets, than to individually pick up all those high number cards..have 68-present complete.

My real bucket list for cards is to collect ALL the Red Sox cards from every set. It's totally unacheivable, but I never run out of cards to find...

Scott