As we inch closer to the holiday season, we continue with the gift of trades and what they bring to the collection. Today, a PWE trade with TCDB member George1369 who was kind enough to send along a bunch of Panini cards, which I am appreciative of, but which we can discuss one of my biggest complaints about Panini.
My complaint - all of these cards are in the 2022 Panini Chronicles base set. I can understand having a subset design or a couple different designs. I can understand Archives, which isn't my preference, but using a few different throwback designs for a single base set.
Here, in 13 cards, we have 11 different designs. Thank goodness that the back of each card does reference the set, but man, how many different designs do you need for a single base set? I love when a set has uniformity to it. Put it in a minder and page after page looks similar in design, but different in photo/subject.
The good - there are actually a couple designs here I do like, and wouldn't mind as a full set - See Stone Cold and Queen Zelina, but this mish-mash set for Chronicles - just not my thing. It's still wrestling though, so I still collect it.
As for stars on cards - though I appreciate Stone Cold, Ripley wins as she's become such a great talent these days. Here's to seeing if Roxanne Perez can do the same, though she's built a bit different.
As always, appreciate the trade!
That would bother me I'd be kind of half thinking there should be more of a certain design and the other ones are like a parallel.. I like the Guerrero.
ReplyDeleteCan't say I ever liked the Playoff cards..