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Originally Posted by jchcollins
I would disagree with that as a blanket statement. The most popular time in hobby history was the late 80's and early 90's - when new packs of current product were available everywhere.
If you are one who buys into the hobby-only, super limited contrived scarcity thing - well then yeah. You might not want those cards.
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There have been massive cultural changes since the junk wax heyday, most notably involving technology, the fragmentation of mass culture into countless consumption options, and what kids are into as a result of the first two.
Responding to this and the post above, color me skeptical that kids will ever again be into collecting pieces of cardboard with athlete photos on them simply for the sake of having them, at least on anything approaching a mass scale. That's not how 21st century kids relate to sports, or the broader world around them for that matter. I know this is not a unique view around here.
Also - even if cultivating a base of youth collectors were a viable strategy, when do corporations ever focus on long-term sustainable development over short-term windfalls these days?