General Forum

Only 2 things to add to the thread this time:

#1. ROY G BIV and Yes, Indigo should be a dark blue instead of a light blue. Those are the colors of the rainbow and Pink, Camo, Wave, Ice, Disco and so on are NOT colors of the rainbow. I wish they would just stop it with ridiculous parallels. I'm okay with black and/or white parallels because those tend to look really good beside the base card.

#2. @Bruno - Topps did have a ToppsGold logo on the back of 1992 MLB cards, but they did not continue that after 1992. Several years later, they added the SN's on the back. I'd be fine with your statement of just a base card and a single parallel in todays cards. It's just not going to happen. I'd LOVE to see insert sets backed down to only a few (maybe 3-5), but that will also not happen any time soon. It's amazing how long-time collectors are wishing for things to get simple again like they were in the 80's when everything was overproduced but you only had a few inserts and a bunch of oddball or food issue products.

I like slowly chasing a parallel baseball set now and then.

and slowly building a player PC now and then, including parallels 

I'll split the baby and put it this way:  I have a love-hate relationship with parallels

Should be none, instead of having a parallel have a SP variation, one card can be home jersey the other the away one or for baseball one batting one fielding etc

Why not copy what 98 Pinnacle baseball did. The base had the player's regular stat count and then there were 2 parallels, one with only his home stats and one for his away stats. Yep, couldn't even change the front image

I personally hate all these parrallels. A couple is fine but its out of hand at this point. I love the challenge of collecting sets and my Raiders pc but Panini makes it impossible.

Yes, 100 times what Sandyrusty said!

Card collecting should be fun.  I get it if card companies want to put something rare out there to get people to buy pack after pack long after they completed the main set but having multiple identical runs in different colors that you can only get 1 card of in every x million packs isn't fun.  It was already hard enough to collect the gold sets where you knew you would get 1 card in every pack.  You could collect the set eventually.  What is the point of a set that 99.99% of all collectors would never be able to complete?

Or maybe that means we are in the parallel universe and that other universe is the base universe...

Lildog7:  "Card Collecting should be fun"

Card collecting / set building is different from pack ripping.

Some people have fun, building a set, based on buying lots of cards on eby, and

some have fun buying a complete factory set at Walmart, and 

some like to rip wax, and chase the rare insert / hot RC [play the lottery]

The current complaint I hear a lot, is that so many people liked to build a hand collated set from ripping, and the cost is increasing to do that, with higher demand than supply driving seconday market prices up, from prices that Panini & Topps have jacked up already to begin with.

You know what they say?  The only certainty in life is death and taxes.  There is no promise of a Topps Flagship pack for $1.99 every year for life.  [nor 5 cent / 10 cent / 99 cent and so on]