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** [[Pokémon Trading Card Game|''Pokémon'' trading cards]] were this for '90s kids. People would play for their cards and try to collect the rarest ones. Some in the 2020s will retail for as much as 2,000 dollars for one card! |
** [[Pokémon Trading Card Game|''Pokémon'' trading cards]] were this for '90s kids. People would play for their cards and try to collect the rarest ones. Some in the 2020s will retail for as much as 2,000 dollars for one card! |
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** Similarly, some ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' sets and cards can fetch a high price. Some collections cost as much as $4000. Hasbro has come under fire for sending the Pinkertons, historical mercenaries, after YouTuber Dan Cannon for receiving a May collection two weeks early and terrorizing his family. |
** Similarly, some ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' sets and cards can fetch a high price. Some collections cost as much as $4000. Hasbro has come under fire for sending the Pinkertons, historical mercenaries, after YouTuber Dan Cannon for receiving a May collection two weeks early and terrorizing his family. |
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* Even earlier than CCGs -- and one of their ancestors -- were bubblegum cards, most prominently baseball cards. Until ''Magic'' appeared in the 1990s, if you heard about a trading card being sold for an outrageous amount of money, it was almost certainly a rare card for baseball player. |
* Even earlier than CCGs -- and one of their ancestors -- were bubblegum trading cards, most prominently baseball cards. Until ''Magic'' appeared in the 1990s, if you heard about a trading card being sold for an outrageous amount of money, it was almost certainly a rare card for baseball player. |
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* During the 1960s and 1970s Topps (publisher of almost all baseball cards) released ''[[w:Wacky Packages|Wacky Packages]]'' gum, which had stickers parodying various consumer products instead of cards. Because the stickers were, naturally, stuck to things by the kids who bought them and were consequently destroyed by wear-and-tear, very few of the original stickers have survived, and command high prices from collectors in the 21st century. And because of their popularity (and of course nostalgia), the line has been revived and/or reissued several times over the ensuing decades, although no single revival run was anywhere as close to large as the original release. |
* During the 1960s and 1970s Topps (publisher of almost all baseball cards) released ''[[w:Wacky Packages|Wacky Packages]]'' gum, which had stickers parodying various consumer products instead of cards. Because the stickers were, naturally, stuck to things by the kids who bought them and were consequently destroyed by wear-and-tear, very few of the original stickers have survived, and command high prices from collectors in the 21st century. And because of their popularity (and of course nostalgia), the line has been revived and/or reissued several times over the ensuing decades, although no single revival run was anywhere as close to large as the original release. |
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** ''Wacky Packages'' was so successful that some of Topps' competitors [[Follow the Leader|issued their own parody sticker lines]]. Usually featuring notably lower-quality art and looking visibly shoddy compared to the high-end cartoon art used by ''Wacky Packages'', lines like [http://www.bubblegumcards.org/Crazy%20Covers/CrazyCovers.html ''Crazy Covers'' from Fleet] (which parodied various magazines and comic books) still garnered their own devoted followers and have their own obsessed collectors half a century later. |
** ''Wacky Packages'' was so successful that some of Topps' competitors [[Follow the Leader|issued their own parody sticker lines]]. Usually featuring notably lower-quality art and looking visibly shoddy compared to the high-end cartoon art used by ''Wacky Packages'', lines like [http://www.bubblegumcards.org/Crazy%20Covers/CrazyCovers.html ''Crazy Covers'' from Fleet] (which parodied various magazines and comic books) still garnered their own devoted followers and have their own obsessed collectors half a century later. |
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