Ho Ho Ho

Quick post.

I was expecting to get the A&G box past Friday but I'm having some issues with my karma...that or Santa thought I wasn't a good girl and made the mail go for a bigger round.

So I will not have any pack to open on Christmas Eve.

But I do still have the last cards I bought inside the packs. I might go and make it soud like I'm oppening new packs and discovering all new cards.

I just hope the mail won't get lost in so much rain.

Here we don't have snow, but you bet we do have rain!

So I'm picturing to open the A&G box by new year. That would make it like a New Years gift.

Not bad thou.

I'm trully worried about the gap between the end of NFL season and the start of the new MLB season.

Those months were dedicated to NHL.

Hope the new year bring some light to all those involved in this madness.

Now, for you lot, I wish a Happy Christmas and a great 2013 with all good coming your way.

Collect and be happy.

Christmas present

I know Christmas Eve is only on Monday but I was expecting to get my Christmas present this week.

I order a value box of 2011 Allen & Ginter's.

I opened a couple of packs from one of those repack boxes and got pretty excited about the set.

And the insert sets.

Those with nothing to do with baseball.

I have the info in may eBay that it was shipped from France on Monday.

It should be here by now...

It's karma. Isn't it?

I know it's Christmas time and all the services tend to hibernate.

But please!!!!!!!!!

I was not planning to open the box this week!

I was planning to open it only on Christmas!

So pretty puesyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Santa make my A&G box arrive today.

Dragon Ball cards - Extra Inning post

One of my favourite animes/mangas is Dragon Ball.

It was a historical moment in Portugal.

Everyone would stop what they were doing, from students to workers, to see what was up with the Son Goku and friends.

It was a mark in history because it was with Dragon Ball that the merchandising related to some 'cartoon' surpassed the barriers and we got a lot of different kind of merchandising.

There were t-shirts, toys, posters, etc etc etc...and cards.

Panini had some cards from the many sagas presented in the manga/anime.

Here are a couple of packs of them.

And here an example of one of the series cards.

It's hard to find examples on the web.

I'll go and have some work getting pictures from my album.

Well...I don't have the exact album of them. There were an album for each serie.

I don't have of them because I have them all in binders in a huge dossier.

But this Panini cards were not the jewel of the crown to me.

They had anime/OVAs pictures and some description on the back.

It was ok. But the design and *feeling* (card material) to it was truly amateur.

But I collected others. They were pricier than this Paninni ones. Like Panini use to sell the packs around 1€ and these ones I'm talking about were around 2€.

At the time I was a mere student so I had little money.

But ohhhh they were worth it so much!

I could only find an example of them in the web.

Can anyone help me find which collection is this?

They are awesome!

A couple of years ago I tried buying some trading game cards.

They sure are pretty cool too!

But the prob with the trading game cards is there is less space for the picture.

I like the collecting kind over the gaming style.

I'll be gathering info about my Dragon Ball cards just like I do with my Baseball collection.

Dragon Ball deserve it.

Inconsistencies

We all are familiar with error cards, misprints that got pretty good attention from collectors. And they even get to value a lot.

I can live with errors like those from this year Topps Series 1 cards with all the 2B/3B and other errors.

But I cannot understand why Topps change some sets attributes from Series 1 to Series 2.

I got some packs from those repack boxes. I posted about having 3 a few posts ago.

In one of those boxes I got a pack of 2010 Topps Series 1 and other for Series 2.

In both packs I got 1 card of the "The Cards Your Mother Threw Out" insert set.

I like the set a lot. Since it's they way of getting to know many vintage cards that are hard for me to get to my collection.

I even like the trivia on the back about the original card.

Since the majority of cards from 2010 Topps sets I have are from the Update Series set I never paid much attention to this.

Look at the back of this CMT card from Series 1:

You have the card number as 'CMT-18'.

You have the info about the original card: # and year.

Now look at this Series 2 card back:

This card ID is now 'CMT104'. Where did the '-' go? Do Topps have something against the hyphen?

Then you have the original card info: year. Where did the original card # go? Do Topps lost their records?

The Update Series cards are just like the Series 2:

Why did Topps change this?

Was there a hidden motive for that?

Was because the parallel cards of this set with the card back reprint would give the original card # info?

I just know I like the Series 1 card back with the original card info consisting in both original card # and set year.

I like consistent things.

Late bluckbuster doens't count

I got this card the other day from some 2012 Topps Update Series. (I'll show the rest of the packs results in future posts.)

First.

I don't like Beckett.

I don't like the way he plays the game.

So getting this card, the only Blockbusters insert card from the pack, was a quite blahhhhhhh.

Second.

After the first blahhhhhhh impact I had an other.

The Update Series is for the collectors to get the first cards of traded and new signing players.

Beckett was part of the famous trade between Red Sox and Dodgers.

Beckett should be on the set as a Dodger.

Oh, wait...

US3 Josh Beckett - Los Angeles Dodgers

There is a SP card picturing a (photoshopped ?) Beckett as a Dodger.

If the set purpose were present past famous trades and signings, I'm ok with it.

But after the trade from Red Sox to the Dodgers I feel a bit disappointed that the incarnation of the Beckett card is the trade to Boston and not to Los Angels.

Perhaps the best time to sell the Update Series should be around the playoffs.

It would be more accurate for the end of the past season and yet keeping save from all the offseason madness.

Third.

I don't trade cards unless I have dups. But this time I open an exception.

If you need this card say. I'll trade for any other from the same insert set or other.

Good news

I won't lose my job!

Besides the main things that the fact brings to my life, it also means I'll be able to keep this hobby of mine: collecting cards.

eBay my heart

Quick post to show you what arrived in mail today.

5 '88 Fleer packs and 8 packs from a Topps T206 value box.

I pay less if the seller just send me the packs without the box.

And when I say less is around 5/6 € less.

Those € will help me get my Christmas present for myself: A value box of 2011 Allen and Ginter's.