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cdorso
Posts: 202
Joined: Aug 2019
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| Sunday, October 18, 2020 11:41 AM | |
...and yet I also want to go back to Target and buy another blaster or two, because it's also kind of fascinating?
I bought one blaster and pulled a Kaleb Cowart auto that doesn't appear in the checklist here - does anyone have the checklist for what appears to be the "Ascension" autograph set? This is /99, and I don't know if it's a parallel or not - plus a bunch of other zany parallels and numbered cards. I'm... guessing I got them correctly indicated here for trade, but I'm not sure because it's not 100% clear how the parallels lay out.
Really, really weird box of cards!
Edited on: Oct 18, 2020 - 12:23PM
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ketchupman36
Posts: 778
Joined: Feb 2016
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| Sunday, October 18, 2020 12:04 PM | |
I like the set, just not in the blaster configuration. $20 for 20 cards with no guaranteed hit. I also got the same player several times albeit different cards. My Target had a lot of these blasters left and for good reason.
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cdorso
Posts: 202
Joined: Aug 2019
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| Sunday, October 18, 2020 12:17 PM | |
Yes, the "collation" (even though it's not that, it's more a function of the oddly designed checklist) is a good point. Four packs, and each one of them had a Gavin Lux in it. That was really weird.
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Godzilla8you
Posts: 349
Joined: Jan 2019
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| Sunday, October 18, 2020 12:17 PM | |
I really only collect Topps brand cards, but last year I bought a blaster box of these cards at Target. Now I am kinda hooked. I like that they have different sets within the Chronicles set. The only thing I am not crazy about is that they use a lot of the same pictures for the different sets.
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BrewerAndy
Posts: 592
Joined: Sep 2018
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| Sunday, October 18, 2020 2:15 PM | |
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BrewerAndy
Posts: 592
Joined: Sep 2018
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| Sunday, October 18, 2020 2:46 PM | |
Also the /99 are the Gold parallel Ascension Autographs. Woukd need someone to go through the 25 card checklist and verify card numbers
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captkirk42
Posts: 2,170
Joined: May 2011
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| Sunday, October 18, 2020 4:55 PM | |
UGH. I recently got a 2019 Carter Kieboom card in a trade, a very thick card that has the Spactra Brand and the back is labeled Prizm. It took me a long time to figure out what it was. I looked under Spectra but there was not a Spectra checklist, not even an insert for any Panini cards for that year. The Prizm cards didn't match. I couldn't find the dang thing. I had to search in the Player Checklists for Carter in the 2019 releases and found out the thing was a dang Chronicles - Spectra. The Kieboom card is not scanned and there are only a coupe of cards from the entire checklist that are scanned so I had to rely on looking at a different player to determine that my card was a bloody "Chronicles" card. NOWHERE on the card does it say "Chronicles". It looks like it should be SPECTRA. It is a serious problem with today's modern cards. As if having thousands of inserts for each set isn't bad enough, and houndreds of parallels of each of those inserts, and parallel sets that have even more inserts with even more parallels.
So how are collectors supposed to know where a card came from when they get them second hand? Thank goodness for TCDB and other sites/communities like it.
https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/211674/cid/13482092/2019-Panini-Chronicles---Spectra-89-Carter-Kieboom
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I collect: Baseball, Football, Hockey, Mostly Vintage pre1980, My Homie teams - Washington/Baltimore Teams Senators (Twins, Rangers), Expos/Nationals, Redskins, Capitals, Bullets/Wizards - HOFers - Non-sport (mostly TV shows and movies). My Trade List is very much a work in progress CaptKirk42s Trading Card Blog Curly W Cards Strive For '65 YouTube klandersen42
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IfbBirdsCards
Posts: 823
Joined: Aug 2017
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| Sunday, October 18, 2020 6:00 PM | |
Absolutely love this set because of the variety of the designs, a majority of them are great! However, they are a pain to log in the database.
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#3 Bowie Baysox, T-#9 Trey Mancini, & #2 Austin Wynns collector on the site. Collecting and sorting baseball cards since 2011 (Age 8). Also some hockey and MMA cards in the mix. -Ian
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switzr1
Posts: 6,332
Joined: Dec 2013
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| Sunday, October 18, 2020 8:37 PM | |
I love Chronicles. Billy got me on the basketball version a year or two ago. Fun to collect. I love buying a pack or a box and getting cards that don't all look alike. I wish my Walmart had some. Despite what was said above, this is the kind of stuff that makes the modern hobby pretty awesome.
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I'm going to reevaluate how I collect after the new year. It's just getting way too expensive for the new stuff. Sometimes I just want to buy a pack, not a whole box or even blaster.
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Billy Kingsley
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