Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Bringing all three Ds

I have spoken before about my love for McDonalds cards. McD hockey cards in the 90s were a great thing and evolved over the years. Though the who behind them changed over the years (Upper Deck and Pinnacle to name a couple - there are others, I know), they were always something a little special to me.

Highlight:

Here we have not one, not two, but a 3D McD card of Mr. Rhodes. Only would have been better if it was of his Leaf days, but the 3D net effect is pretty nice in separating the face on pose from the net background when the card is moved back and forth.

The rest
Keepers:

The somewhat confusing to me Gold Reserve because it is such a parallel/insert set, but here is a base set separate release if I recall correctly. Bonk indeed.

Traders:


I will say, Nick Van Exel, given the way the card is done, really pops nicely on the card with the out of focus background. Not done as nicely on the 2007-08 Topps cards here, and the 2008 Donruss Threads football just take the pose completely out of context.

In a quick update on the number of cards I have traded off - I sent off a small envelope, so up to 1,099 cards now toward the 5,000 goal.

Through 10160 cards:
Specific Accomplishments:
- Complete 2003-04 SP Authentic Basketball (90 card pure base)
- Complete 2005 Upper Deck Classics (100 card pure base)
- 3 Complete 2007-08 UD McDonald's Hockey Checklist Subsets (6 cards)
- 1973-74 O-Pee-Chee Hockey #30 Bobby Orr (All-Star)
- 2004-05 Upper Deck Legends Classics Platinum #64 Marcel Dionne Platinum 06/10
- 2007-08 Topps Base and 1957-58 Variations Basketball  #112 Kevin Durant (Rookie)
- 2009-10 Topps #321 Stephen Curry (Rookie)
Hockey Baseball Basketball Football Austin Powers Other
Toronto 161 19
Inserts / Var Kept 344 49
Error 16 2
Keep 1984 312
Doubles/Sell 1651 226 1563 3020 299 41
Doubles Inserts / Var 124 4 134 211

2 comments:

  1. Grew up collecting those 3D and acetate McDonalds cards. I really need to pick up a few of those sets!

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    1. They are quite nice - I didn't remember this specific set as much as others.

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