Mistakes card companies have made creating a set

yankeeno7

This is all matter of opinion of course.

One of the best ideas and WORST designs is the 2003 UD Signature Pride of New York. The black and white...or is it blue and white...photography is horrid. Photos suck and card design sucks. The autograph choices to include were outstanding!

Sad to see such a nice idea look like crap.

Stingray

Topps 3D comes to mind. The technology made the photos very hard to see, IMO.

miklia

not printing nearly enough of these bad boys:

lawnmowerman

In 2007 all of the football sets made a mistake by including Jamarcus Russell.

Nascar360

In 2003 Press Pass created a commemorative insert series of Dale Earnhardt cards. They are numbered so when people got them they thought they had real signed cards.

Well you see them pop up on eBay and sometimes folks bid them up like they are real on card signatures.


It has to be the worst insert set Press Pass as ever made!

bishop

Stingray-- are you referring to their original 68 issue ? The two 80s issues ? The 2011 product. I think the 68 and 2011 efforts were great. The two 1980s issues were clunkers for sure.

The 65 Topps Embossed issue gets my gets my vote as one of their worst . The 61 Rub Offs are a close 2nd. The 74 Emblems get an honorable mention

Stingray

They are 1995 Dimension III Topps, ugly.

That Earnhardt is a real auto, no?? Based on what the back states, it is??

frankhardy

How about Topps or Fleer NOT making a 1984-85 basketball set? Those would be epic!

gemint

1981 Donruss. Lousy design and even worse paper stock. I'd add the '65 Topps Embossed as well. There's also an oddball sticker or stamp set that looks like the photos were drawn in crayon with a split tip. I don't even recall if it was early 60s or prewar.

mlbfan2

I think these are ugly.

bishop

But you can improve them

TheMick6

I am surprised no one has mentioned Sportsflics. Those things were awful and for a time it seemed they where getting pushed as a legitimate every year set like Topps, Fleer etc. As a kid I never knew why anyone bought them. Glad they had such a short run.

LarkinCollector

Forgetting to put serial numbers on items 'limited to 25'.

TheMick6

Pretty sure sometime in the mid nineties there was an attempt to get kids back into collecting with a Looney Tune set. No offense to whoever liked those but they where horrific!

bsavage

These are pretty ugly, but I think they are kinda cool. I've never seen them before.



<< <i>I think these are ugly.
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BaltimoreYankee

<< <i>Pretty sure sometime in the mid nineties there was an attempt to get kids back into collecting with a Looney Tune set. No offense to whoever liked those but they where horrific! >>



A card with Ken Griffey Jr and Bugs Bunny comes to mind.

bishop

I have the first Sportsflics set. I like it. The Topps Kids set was a tad weird...but I have it . Anything Topps put out baseball wise until 1994

lanemyer85

It seemed to be par for the course for mid-90's issues, but sets that made you immediately flip to the card back in order to simply see the player's name. The set that immediately springs to mind was '95 Fleer.

BuenoDawg

1980-81 Hockey. Stupid black scratch-offs.

itzagoner

1976 Topps Basketball Billboards. i'm surprised they weren't captioned with "Have You Seen This Child?"

Stingray

<< <i>It seemed to be par for the course for mid-90's issues, but sets that made you immediately flip to the card back in order to simply see the player's name. The set that immediately springs to mind was '95 Fleer.
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I agree with that one, there where like 5 or 6 different front designs throughout this set.

3BoyzTrading

Any modern day set that creates and releases a 2013 set in 2014.

elsnorto

<< <i>I am surprised no one has mentioned Sportsflics. Those things were awful and for a time it seemed they where getting pushed as a legitimate every year set like Topps, Fleer etc. As a kid I never knew why anyone bought them. Glad they had such a short run. >>



For reasons unknown to even myself, I am working on a 1995 Sportflix Football master set.

My vote probably goes to 2009 Topps National Chicle. I've coveted 1935 Chicle since I first saw them in a price guide as a kid. I'm close to finishing up my PSA 3 ghetto set. I dig the form factor and unique (at least to football) art deco design.

So I was excited when Topps announced they were resurrecting Chicle... but some of the art work was so horrendous... as this Dan "Butthead sans Beavis" Marino card attests to:



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