Yeah, the chrome legends and rookie variations are awesome. The Red Hot Rookies are great too. I went a little nuts and finished off both small sets for my "2010 Topps variations" binder. Also in that binder is my work-in-progress legends variation sets from series 1, 2 and Update (if you have any please let me know, I'll trade well for them). So these get here today, and coupled with the ones I received in the mail, I noticed something. NO WARPING! These cards are pretty flat, as they should be. Ok, they aren't perfectly flat, and there is a little curve to them but no more than Chrome has seen before 2010. Every year of Chrome I've seen so far has a little curl to it. This years Chrome and Bowman Chrome are inexcusably warped beyond storage. They still are too! Go out and buy a pack of Chrome and open it up, don't worry, I'll wait.
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See? Still warped! I can't believe Topps hasn't gotten this issue under control. I can't even stack these cards on my flat desk here without them falling over. It's absurd. How come all these redemption cards are normal but the packs aren't? I just don't get it. Don't get me started on the Chicle and Heritage chrome front/old cardboard stock backs. Those are terribly terribly warped. So warped they almost make a half-circle when you look at them laying on a table. Come on Topps!! Get with the program!
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I'm interested in the Santana and Jackie if they're available.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Just terrible. Warped in more than one direction.
ReplyDeleteWell they can't really go and unwarp the warped cards, can they?
ReplyDeleteWord on the street was that the warping was a production error that came from using a new printing company. It was so bad that Topps thought about not even releasing chrome this year, but decided to go forward anyway, and offered the wrapper redemptions as some (meager) compensation.
Redemptions etc. are not warped because by the time they were produced the production issue had been fixed. That still leaves us with a ton of ridiculously warped cards, but I don't know what anyone can do about them at this point. They print and package everything in one fell swoop, not in waves, so any Topps Chrome packs you buy now are part of the same warped batch that went out originally.
The Dominic Brown Red Hot Rookie I got about 2 months ago came flat. I think part of the problem is the card stock Topps is using. It cannot withstand the finishing they have applied, thus the curl. They should have been using a thicker point/pound weighted card stock.
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