2018 Topps Baseball Forum

I was fooled and thought this was a new thread, but I had commented on it in Aug. I forgot they had previewed the 2018 design so early. As I said then I don't like this previewing things 6 months or more before they come out. By the time they do come out I've seen the thing so much it isn't even "NEW" to me anymore.

Other than the similarities to the last few years it seems that Topps has been catering to digital desin looks. I think someone mentioned it in some other thread for when '17 was being previewed about the "digital" look/design. It seems that they concentrate so much on making the digital version look so crisp and clean that it doesn't translate to when they actually make the cards. 

I like it better than 2017.  But it doesn't separate itself.  They should make the consecutive years' designs look very different from each other. No set in the 70s looks even remotely like the year before.  I would be all in on a base set with a colored border, but then you lose the player collectors who try to build their guy's rainbow.  I realize I'm not their target demographic, but I feel like I should be.  Its better than their final 3 football sets, or A&G, or some of those early 2010s Bowmans, but still too much like the last couple, and in ten years I doubt I'll have instant recall if you show me any card from this decade and ask what year it is.

That's a good point. It might just be the differences in how I've collected various sets, but I can look at any of the Topps sets from 1951 to about 1998 and identify what year it is in a second. And I don't even have one of those kinds of minds. But in the 2000s, they just don't register. And 2016-2018 will be a blur in about two years.

Of course, everything might be a blur to me by then. 

v3 

That's about my range too V3.   Actually I could get 2000 too, because it says the year on the front.  But I'm clueless after that.  And what if they did 62 and 87 back to back?  Or 63 and 83?  Or 74 and 80?  I don't think it would be quite as easy, and those sets would lose some impact.

That being said, I do like 2018 design when not comparing it to 2017.

please for the love of god, just put the card number in the back in the top left hand corner.  Most people are right handed and that is how i sort to look at card numbers when flipping them over.  I dont want to have to turn to the side, upside down and reading by standing on my head. 

I thought it was just me. Also the font is italic making it even harder to read.

I like the design, but this is the third straight year with Topps going borderless, and the designs are becoming similar. I feel like Topps should change it up. I definitely think it’s a lot better than 2017, and let’s hope that all stats will be included again, and not “recent performance.”

And now I wait for the Bowman preview.

You can see it now if you go to the 2018 sets > Bowman > Sell sheets/Ads

Topps released a checklist for Series 1. Card numbers are not finalized yet though.

https://www.topps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-Topps-Series-1-Checklist-FinalA.pdf