Topps 2026 Redemption Card -- as seen on another site
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This is the most accurate depiction of ripping modern.
It's also starting to feel like the companies have kind of run out of ideas on what to put in their sets. Kind of feels like the same old inserts each year/issue. What's going to be the next thing that keeps collectors interested?
Maybe a sealed,graded vintage pack in 1 of every 200 boxes. Something along those lines. Would be different.
The companies will keep on finding ways to bring more excitement into the void, especially when the current crop of wealthy pro ballplayers and celebrities are ripping high value stuff to find rare cards.
"It's also starting to feel like the companies have kind of run out of ideas on what to put in their sets. Kind of feels like the same old inserts each year/issue. What's going to be the next thing that keeps collectors interested?"
Ummmmmmmm it's going to be faux gold chains with the cards. 1/1 of 1/1 and you Will not get a McGwire!!
Watch out! 1989 Topps would be considered vintage in their eyes.
One day 1989 Topps probably will be promoted as vintage.
Well, it is 37 years old at this point...in 1989, 1952 Topps was 37 years old. So.... I've always thought that "vintage" was in the eyes of the beholder. It seems to have shifting definition, depending on your age, when you started collecting, and relative scarcity of the product. There are a lot of collectors who think "modern" started in the late 70's when Topps really turned up the speed of the printing presses. There are others who thing that "modern" is really everything post-2000. Some older collectors think that "vintage" really means pre-WWII, and that everything Topps made post-war is "modern" and not "vintage." Is 1989 Topps vintage? Maybe not yet, at least in terms of being universally accepted as vintage. But in the next decade or so, as it approaches being 50 years old, at some point it will have to become "vintage."
kevin
Perhaps, but It will always be Junk Wax
It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)
Not even a minute do I buy the whole buh buh buh I'm a man-child japery - Me (2025)
I still buy S1 and usually some s2 and Update. The boys are less interested than they used to be. But will keep my little guy into it.
I also dabble in Heritage. If we get a hit we get a hit. If not then we pull the players we like and into the sheets.
It’s still fun to us. The return is certainly far better than opening any 80s. I’ve opened so much 80s wax and hit zero 10s of the big star rookies. It’s astonishing.
John