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by Ray Decay
(68.96.6.98)
on July 7, 2008 at 07:52:26: |
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posted by patrick7632 (67.189.44.193)
on July 7, 2008 at 00:11:33 |
| I don't think kids collected these cards. I'd bet only a tiny fraction of their target audience bought them. I'd say 90% of their sales came from adults. That is were it went wrong from the start. Same for all the products cashing in on nostalgia. I don't see kids buying up the new G.I. Joes. I have seen adults fill their carts with them. (Likely to try and make a buck on E-bay) Though I don't collect the new stuff, what is cool about the new G.I. Joes, Transformers re-issues, even Madballs, is that they stuck to the original look of the product. GPK went wrong with foil packs and day glow boxes. I'd like to have seen the return of the wax pack with gum and 5 cards, old school. I understand the large retail chains would shun a controversial product, but I say f' em if they don't want to carry it. They should have kept it real. > I love the all new series. I feel that the base cards have consistently gotten better. The scratch n stink and motion cards are fantastic and the sketch cards were a must have. And, maybe I'm alone here but I enjoy chasing the more difficult sets. > > I won't argue that the originals are by far superior. They were the first and were made at a time where images of guns, booze and cigarettes weren't so heavily controlled. These days, larger chain stores would refuse to carry such cards killing their distribution and sales. > > I do feel that gpk is alive and well and that there will be a new series...just not this year. If not I think, down the road, it will looked back on fondly. Maybe not by all of the original gpk fans but the children who grew up with them these last few years. > > > Does anyones else feel like its over? I do. Or, sadly, at least kind of hope so. Now that I have just about everything I want or wanted, there isn't much left to collect, I'm all caught up really. So for now, it is over for me. Looking back, I'm not so sure I've enjoyed collecting these new series, especially not the last one. I just kept collecting them because I'd came this far, might as well keep the collection complete. Collecting the new stuff was routine. I'd just buy a couple hobby boxes, sort out a set and be done in one day. I didn't like having to chase around the scarcely available bonus boxes afterwards either. I also didn't like needing anything and looking at a huge pile of extras, then needing to go on E-bay and pay way too much for a couple needed cards. (remember the gold game cards or recent inserts). I wasn't really excited about a series after the first new release, we all know how weak the second got. Collecting all those variations for the first lame foil set was no fun either. The first all new series capitalized on nostagia, it made me go back, dig up my old cards and fullfill a childhood dream of having every card there was, and with the help of this site, I did. That was fun, but these new ones, I don't know. It's a shame really. I think the newer releases has somewhat tarnished the legacy of GPK, at least for me. They could have been so much better, had they read this message board and listened. GPK got way to PC, too toned down. I liked my GPK with guns, beer, cigarettes, etc. Pushing the envelope really made them the cultural phenomena they were. They needed to recapture that, instead just offered a watered down product (pee, poop, puke).Maybe I'm just old school, but when I go back and look through my collection from time to time, I usually just look through the original ones, then quit. Maybe it's the nostagia and memories that the new ones lack? I think that likely has a lot to do with it. I guess I'm just too old and didn't have the friends this time around who could share the joy of collecting GPK's with like as a child. Or maybe it's the lack of bang for my buck with these new ones. I've dropped a ton of cash on these new series and got some very lame cards to show for it. Every insert set was horrible (pop-ups, punch outs, seriously, who came up with this crap?). Every base set only had a few good cards. Maybe it's all of the forementioned combined that has my interest in continuing the brand on life support. I wonder with the current state of Topps, sliding down a slippery slope and looking to sell the failing company will there be another overpriced crappy set to collect? I'm sad to say, I hope not. I wonder what other collectors think. I'd like to hear. |
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