OT: 2015 Topps Heritage Adds Gum Stains to New Cards

[z28jd]

Topps has a strange sense of nostalgia in their new packs. Here is an article on it with pictures and a quote from Topps today about the cards

http://www.cardboardconnection.com/i...topps-baseball

Remember the days when you got a stick of gum in a pack of baseball cards? The smell lingered on the pieces of cardboard and the sweet treat lasted for hours.
2015 Topps Heritage Baseball is bringing back some of those memories with special limited Gum Damage back cards. The cards mimic a stain left by a stick of gum and if you get close enough, you might even smell it.
There are three different patterns found throughout 2015 Topps Heritage Baseball, but the cards are rare pulls and appear on all 500 subjects in the base card set.
Heritage Baseball came out today with an homage to the 1966 Topps Baseball release using today’s stars and rookies. Look for 2015 Topps Heritage Baseball in local hobby shops and retail outlets....

Since most of us collected cards that came with gum in the packs, this is a little less off-topic than most posts about shiny new cards would be. Not only do they look like 1966 Topps cards, but the tried to replicate the feel without actually just putting gum in there.

Thoughts? The initial reactions I saw were all over the place. Some loved the idea, some really hated it and others were in the middle.

[almostdone]

Well, I guess at least it's an original idea. So now chase cards are the damaged ones?
Drew

[ullmandds]

seems kinda silly to me to "create" a gum stain?

[packs]

I don't think it's silly. These sets exist to connect the modern collector to the past collector. Modern collectors have no experience with gum in packs. And past collectors haven't had that experience in a long time. Short of putting gum into packs, this seems like a reasonable connection to the past and present. And collecting cards is supposed to be fun.

[bn2cardz]

Makes me wonder if they will purposefully do miscuts and wrong backs in the future.

[Section103]

If they're going to the trouble of putting gum stains on the cards, I'd just assume have the gum (awful as it always was).

[conor912]

Originally Posted by Section103

If they're going to the trouble of putting gum stains on the cards, I'd just assume have the gum (awful as it always was).

....just what I was thinking.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

Makes me wonder if they will purposefully do miscuts and wrong backs in the future.

That's kinda my rationale...everything seems so contrived...created scarcities...created short prints...now created gum stains?

[quinnsryche]

Absolutely stupid. Who the hell wants stains on their cards? These should actually then be worth less than the regular ones just like it would be if you bought a vintage card with/without a stain. I get the concept, it's just dumb.

[freakhappy]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

Makes me wonder if they will purposefully do miscuts and wrong backs in the future.

That would be sweet! Miscut inserts...I could go for that

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by packs

I don't think it's silly. These sets exist to connect the modern collector to the past collector. Modern collectors have no experience with gum in packs. And past collectors haven't had that experience in a long time. Short of putting gum into packs, this seems like a reasonable connection to the past and present. And collecting cards is supposed to be fun.

If topps wants to recapture the older collectors like myself...how about pricing the cards more like they were priced back then!?

[rats60]

Originally Posted by packs

I don't think it's silly. These sets exist to connect the modern collector to the past collector. Modern collectors have no experience with gum in packs. And past collectors haven't had that experience in a long time. Short of putting gum into packs, this seems like a reasonable connection to the past and present. And collecting cards is supposed to be fun.

How does this connect to the past? I've never had a gum stain on a card except when opening a 1954 pack in 1988. I agree with those saying it's dumb. I used to love Heritage, but Topps has ruined the brand, in my opinion.

[Eric72]

Fail.

[z28jd]

I'd like to get one just for the heck of it and I usually buy the Pirates team set anyway. I don't collect new cards, but sometimes I want to just open up packs, so I will get a few, just never a box of cards anymore.

Anyway, I just looked at Ebay sales and they are going $20+ for the stain cards. I think I'll wait