What is your All-Time favorite card release?

[Hckyfan47]

It's been a little bit since I have opened anything new, but I was sorting through some of my PC & misc stuff the other night and started coming across some sets & inserts that got me to thinking about some of my favorite sets. I found a bunch of 99-00 MVP Stanley Cup Edition cards and couldn't help but remember how much of that stuff I opened. Everyone seems to have that one set that draws them in, and this was mine.

It was a cheap set, but the card design was awesome, stellar photography, some nice foiled inserts and even chances at some cool autos & memorabilia cards. The Silver, Gold, & Super Scripts are still some of my favorites to this day. Granted it was one of the worst rookie classes possible(Brendl, Kraft, Beech, anyone?), but it ended up spawning my PC of Taylor Pyatt(yes, he fits nicely in that terrible rookie class), so I am slightly biased :beer: Some of his game used stick cards from the release are still some of my favorite PC cards.


I'm curious to read some of these trips down memory lane, whether it be vintage or a recent release. What is your favorite all time release & what do you love about it? Did you just pickup singles or bust packs/boxes/cases until you couldn't anymore? Did it inspire any part of your collection?


-Adam

 

[WatchMyBreaks]

Its a tie between 99-00 BAP Millenium and 01-02 Pacific Titanium.

 

[k_northrup]

01-02 & 02-03 BAP Memorabilia were my favorites, always was a fun rip for the price

 

[bamlinden]

2011-12 Parkhurst Champions is a gorgeous set. Affordable base build, wire photos done right and hard signed signatures of players from all eras.

Tops on my list.

 

[habscards]

ITG Canada Vs the World.

 

[Triple B]

1990 Pro Set. I don't think there has ever been a more comprehensive set in the history of hockey cards than 1990 Pro Set. That and the memories seeing it brings back.

 

[hckycdn93]

Most releases from 2005-06, particluarly Series 1&2 + Fleer Ultra

 

[dahabsfan]

04-05 Ultimate Memorabilia. Was all downhill from there.

Darren

 

[coxy15]

03/04 BAP Ultimate was awesome.Love everything
about it.

 

[nhlderek]

That’s really hard. I didn’t have much money( was a pre-teen) but when I was able to work up enough money to buy something my favourite was 02-03 Crown Royale. A dual patch per box, great rookies and variant colours, die cut base set and lots of inserts, and 2 jerseys per box. Hands down my favourite. Close second was 03-04 Exhibit. Those time warp cards are something else

 

[yzerberg]

05-06 UD Ultimate, truly a beautiful set and subsets. loved it all.

 

[30ranfordfan]

5 way tie?

90-91 Pro Set is the first set I ever did. Cards are worthless, but i still think they look great. 705 cards was massive!

91-92 Score. Took me YEARS to finish this. Couldn't find the Ed Belfour from Series 2. I remember in 1993... Busting packs for 50 cents a pop at the LCS, and comeing home with 40 packs worth of cards, at a time, still Belfourless. Then my neighbours, who were good guys... and ran the more expensive LCS in town (I didn't shop there much as a result... but they also didn't have the Belfour) were giving out packs for Halloween, in 1994. My brother got the Belfour in his pack, gave me the card. Lol.

93-94 Leaf. The city scapes on the back of the cards are still one of the best designs ever, IMO. Have a master set of this, minus the Lemieux Auto.

2010-11 BTP. Not sure why i liked this one so much, but 7 years later I'm still picking away at some of the GU sets.

2012-13 UD Oilers Collection. Not a perfect release, but I loved it. Did a few cases, and still have most the good stuff. Cracking that first box, 100 cards, and all PC!

 

[cburt]

Hands down 1990-91 Pro Set. Though I'd have to give some credit to Donruss baseball from that same year, with their Rates Rookies. These two sets inspired me to collect UD from the same year and Score. Really these sets were the foundation for my hobby love. To this day, and I have collected ever since, I always go back to those nostalgic times when collecting was the most fun.

 

[TMLFan3]

03/04 Parkhurst Original 6, HANDS DOWN!!

 

[TanguayFan]

The set that started it all: 90-91 Upper Deck.

Iconic set design, huge checklist between Low and High Series, unbelieveable photography.

Favorite AU set would be a tie between Topps Stanley Cup Heroes, and the Upper Deck Ultimate 1997 Legends set that I am currently working on.

 

[brian045]

07/08 ITG superlative, great 50 card on card auto set, great memorabilia, cool subsets.

 

[TheGriceBoys]

1985 Topps Baseball, 1987 Donruss Baseball, 1990-91 Score Hockey, 1990-91 Pro Set Hockey.

Nothing more to say, just really liked em all.

 

[penguinsChief]

1983 Fleer Baseball, first set my brother and I ever came close to finishing. Packs were selling for 10 cents a piece!

1998-99 Black Diamond, was hooked on those parallels. Have loved BD ever since (welll not it's new version but the old way)

 

[Ohka]

00/01 Pacific Titanium Draft Day ; 03/04 ITGU ; 04/05 ITG Ultimate Memorabilia ; 10/11 ITG Ultimate Memorabilia ; 13/14 ITG StickWork ; 2016 ITGU ; 2018 ITGU ; 16/17 Leaf Ultimate ; 17/18 Leaf Ultimate ; 2014 Leaf Q ; 2010 Ringside Boxing Round 2 ...... tough to choose just 1 ;-)

 

[GoCanGo]

For busting wax, 06-07 BAP Signatures was an awesome product. An auto in every pack, a dual auto or better in every box, Auto rookie parallels of Malkin and Kessel, tough auto parallels /10, an 8-pack box for about 65$ a few months after release, and best of all NO REDEMPTIONS, PERIOD!

For the cards themselves I remember loving to build 91-92 Pro Set and, when a bit older, the 98-99 Topps Gold Label set when premium cards and parallels were still fairly new.