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Does anybody know if Topps is producing an Opening Day set this year? It's my yearly tradition to bust a box of Opening Day on Opening Day, but I can't find any information about a release anywhere. No pre-sales, either. Does anybody have any better info than I do and can say when/whether we'll see it this year?

I just asked my neighbor & he thought March?

I checked a couple of sites that have release dates and it doesn't appear to be listed anywhere. Ryan Cracknell said on Beckett's release calendar that they (Beckett) does not have any release information.

From what I've been hearing, Topps isn't releasing a lot of info about future sets going forward. Fanatics has seemingly ended their practice of releasing sell sheets months in advance.

I had started a thread here about it:
https://www.tcdb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/G/ID/0/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=41109&C=14

It sounds to me like they aren't doing that set this year.

I'd be bummed to see them gone if they really are gone. The set has been around in some fashion since 1998, back when we still had Topps, Bowman, Fleer, Donruss, Leaf, Score, Upper Deck, and Pinnacle brands in the baseball market. 

I like the irony of the fact that Opening Day cards started out as the flagship cards with an extra foil logo and somehow ended up as the flagship cards with the removal of all foil. It's a weird, quirky set. Last year, it featured some designs from Series 2 flagship cards that we wouldn't see anywhere else until months later. 

I''ve *almost* completed my sub-collection of every Orioles Opening Day card...

RIP (?) Topps Opening Day! Somewhere, you're hanging out with Topps Big League and Topps Stickers. 

And for the record, Topps Opening Day did take one year off before -- there was no 2009 Opening Day set. 

It's not happening.

https://www.beckett.com/news/these-topps-baseball-products-wont-be-back-in-2023-tom-brady-baseball-autographs-will/

Its definitely not being released this year

Goodness, are there any cheap sets left for kids to collect? Flagship is not "cheap" for an 8 year old -- my age when I first started collecting in 2007. $2 for a hobby pack back then was a lot for me -- a lucky kid who got $5 per week in allowance. I don't think 8 year olds have the means to collect anymore unless their parents are uber rich and give them a massive allowance, or just buy it for them. It's really sad.