In the movie "Iron Eagle" from 1986, (Jason Gedrick, Lou Gossett Jr...) Doug's kid brother is in a scene where he is talking to a girl on the phone in his room pretending he's older. There are lots of 1985 Topps cards up on the walls. This led me as a 9 year old kid to subsequently tack up '86 Topps cards on my bulletin board walls, I'm assuming at some point after I saw the movie. Some survive in my collection to this day, only slightly worse for the wear with the thumbtack hole as a reminder. I think one is Reggie as a California Angel, and some of the box bottom cutouts that year (Rose, Fernando Valenzuela...) that I still have also have the thumbtack hole.
Thankfully the movie / me as a collector came out when they did, and not say in...1952.
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Last edited by jchcollins; 01-05-2021 at 02:42 PM.
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