2020 Topps Chrome Baseball Forum

A pretty minor thing, but just curious if anyone knows why Topps uses the "Refractor" label under some of these parallels but not others.  For example the Prism and Negative refractors don't.  

I think the simplest answer would be because it's Topps.  Topps has been terribly inconsistant lately especially since the pandemic hit.  But it's most likely an oversite in production.

I wish they had done so for all Refractors right from the very first one they issued.  

No, Topps has been doing this for years. You want to know why? 

I have no freaking clue. It makes zero sense to me. The only explanation I can think of is that the refractor kind of looks like the base card and can be easily missed if you don't know what you're looking for. However, for the other parallels (xfractors, blue, red, orange, negative, etc.) anyone could tell that those cards are special, so Topps didn't bother putting refractor there. It still bothers me though, I wish Topps would be consistent. 

cynicalbuddha wrote:

I think the simplest answer would be because it's Topps.  Topps has been terribly inconsistant lately especially since the pandemic hit.  But it's most likely an oversite in production.