Who wishes all early 90s card would just disappear?

And there's nothing wrong with early 90's stuff, some of the insert sets from basketball anyways from 94-97 had some very rare inserts worth 20-140 bucks, yeah that's right just regular inserts, not #d stuff!
 
I love cards from the early 90's. Sure there are millions of them but that was the joy of collecting back then. Everyone collected and there was a ton of fun affordable cards to collect and trade.
 
Although the cards may not be valuable these days, and for a lot of people they are just dust collectors -- they are awesome for me! I love looking at the complete sets I have in binders from years back, they bring back all sorts of memories for me. Not to mention they are great for those of us who get autographs either IP or TTM. Take me back to the days of OPC, Topps, UD, Pro Set, Platinum, and Parkhurst anytime! Least then I wouldn't have to give up my bank account for a pack of cards!
 
Maybe I am old fashioned but when I crack some of the new stuff, I still seperate my Leaf cards, type them into a word document, dig out the binders and slide them into the 9-pocket pages. Passed this onto my daughter when she took an interest in the hobby also. And beleive it or not, still read the backs of the cards and wish for the days of the old OPC and the silly little stats.. think it was the 71-72 set where you found out Jim Dorey took boxing lessons from George Chuvalo.
This will also be the 6th year Ill be doing the Kards for Kids project, so before you start that bonfire, keep me in mind.
 
I love the old sets, mainly because they were meant as a set, with all the crappy 4th liners out there and players I don't even remember.

The 600 cards OPC set were really, really fun to gather. You remember the 'Russian Stars' subset in 1991? I was like 7 at the time and I didn't even know where Russia was but I knew a hockey team named the Moscow Dynamo.

I was actually learning crap from these cards, now I'm just getting grey hairs when I hit an expired redemption.

I also miss those collecting days.

And I will hang on to my Fleer Ultra rookie card for ever. And the very first 'Leaf Series' with the Gold signatures subsest that still look really really good.

Ah, good old' times.
 
I don't care that they are still around. What I care about is people charging too much for them. Like seeing Pro Set football wax boxes for $10 or higher is so dumb. Usually you can tell these things have been sitting there since they were originally bought.
 
Who cares about value with those cards? That was when collecting was fun--huge sets, great photography, the rise of inserts, and cards numbered to 10,000 or more. A lot of us collected back then when we were younger. There's no need to make history disappear.
 
Send them to your favorite elementary teacher if you don't want them. The kids in my class (gr.3) love them (well the guys do),and they don't care how old they are, or even if the team isn't in the league anymore.(Winnipeg, Quebec) I use them for prizes & rewards every year. I love seeing them get excited about getting a "new" card just like I used to when I started collecting.
 
I like the 90's stuff. I did build a UD 91-92 master set minus the Hull AU from wax breaking around 5 years ago and it was really fun. That's what got me hooked on to this hobby.

Topps Total is the only product that did give me a similar fun, breaking blaster after blaster to kill the set, getting multiples of key RCs.

But, I'm slowing moving my early 90's stuff that isn't in completed sets form.
 
This is why I liked collecting Alexandre Daigle about 6 years ago. He was pretty much done and all the tough '93-'94 pulls were going incredibly cheap. I just started back up Frank Thomas stuff as well, just '90 - '97, because I know how tough some of this stuff, back in the day, was to acquire.

With hockey, I made a major gaffe :doh:. I traded a '65 Topps Joe Morgan / Sonny Jackson RC away for 2 boxes of '91-'92 French Pinnacle. It was fun opening that stuff, because I got 3 Felix Potvin's and 4 of the Lindros', but, now, I wish I had the Morgan :(. Live and learn, and, like everyone else has said, 20 years from now it'll be, "Why'd all the companies make so many jersey cards ?!?!?!"
 
I'll jump on the "I Love the '90s" faction of this thread. The last two good old fashioned cardboard Topps issues, '90/91 UD, refractors, and 95/96 is probably my all time favorite year for inserts. Of course, that was back when our local card shops (now card shop, no plural) carried all of the hockey and I actually had money to spend before it all went to my kids. I was the "Supercollector" one month back in 2000, and I laugh at my Kurri collection at time. It was probably 95% of everything made at that time, but only about 20% of what I have now. Good time, good times.
 

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