I'd love to hear some others opine on how much the Topps Holiday set is a good/bad idea to others. I have never seen the need - just another release to try and milk more out of collectors as the set isn't really that creative/different to flagship to warrant the run. Again, just run it as a parallel to the flagship set with whatever odds you like, and done.
For what it is though, the design tweak is good for the theme - nice use of holiday colouring, can't deny that, and the snowy design on the fronts is nice too - just a whole lot of unnecessary. Not sure if I got the remnants of a set picked over a few times, but no dupes and about 35% of the set as a whole with nothing special variant or short print wise, so a slow day that way.
No Jays as they must have been plcuked out at some point along with most/all rookie cards. The back designs are consistent to flagship with the holiday colour tweak.
Most of the cards are above, but all are listed on TCDB for trade. Being the middle of March, not sure I like the reminder of more fun times like the holidays, but a reminder this was indeed!
I used to like the Holiday sets. Before the Golden Mirror SPs came around, I felt the image variations in flagship were pretty lackluster, so a 20 dollar box with a GU relic and better variations were a done deal, especially with the levels creating a nice chase. Nowadays, however, the relic seems to be 50/50 between GU and “player-worn” BS, the IVs are 1 level and honestly look much worse, and flagship actually has decent SPs now. So I agree, but it wasn’t always a cash grab.
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