Something that invariably needs to be brought up whenever Kellogg's cards are discussed is the inevitable cracking. What a downer it was when you grabbed your 3-D cards from years past and saw they all (or many) were starting to crack all over the place. Even though we loved those cards, that is definitely one of the reasons why they were considered of secondary importance, for lack of a better term, to my friends and me. We knew that eventually all our Kellogg's cards would curl up, dry out and be all crackly. I grew up in New York (where it's hot and humid in summer, cold and dry in winter), but I've always assumed this phenomenon happened everywhere. Am I wrong? Did other climates across the country treat these cards more humanely?
And on a side note, what happens when you get one of those suckers graded (say, a PSA 8) and over time it starts cracking inside the slab? This is a kind of 'Schrödinger's Cat' type of thought experiment. It has already been graded out as an 8 within its plastic home…but is it still truly an 8?? Weird.
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