I would love it but I have a feeling that I would be very disappointed with it. A box of BTP was around $100 give or take. Two autos and two game used cards with many of those as patches. Many boxes had a 5th and some even a 6th hit. Will UD use game used jerseys or would they use photo shoot jerseys? If UD was to use game used jerseys would they then have to go and buy those jerseys or do they have some sitting at an UD warehouse? If they need to buy those jerseys the cost of that would be reflected in the product price. The Canadian to USD was closer to at par then which equates to about $125 Canadian a box now. Do you really feel as if UD could create a similar product with four plus hits and then all of the cool parallels for $125 Canadian a box?
Also look at how good Heroes and Prospects was and compare it to what UD has done with the CHL license. ITG did much better of a job.
I agree very much with this.
I think a goalie set (ONLY goalies, not like the old Mask Collection releases) would work well, if it was done right.
I think the biggest issue is that sets that followed the old BTP formula don't really get made anymore. How many sets does UD do... where there is a simple, unnumbed, base set of 200+ cards ?
Say they do a 24 pack box... each pack is 7 base cards + a hit. Your 24 hits (on average) are two autos, two GU, 6 inserts, and 14 parallels (let's a say an unnumbered Foil parallel of which you get 12, and an unnumbered Gold Foil parallel of which you get 2).
What would a product like that cost today? I'd image that UD would be charging $200+ a box, and most of the hits wouldn't be worth much.
Let's say you did a 153 base cards (three checklists included in there, the base set would fill 17 9-pocket pages): Who are the 153 goalies? Let's say you did 3 active goalies for each team - that would be 96 of them. Maybe you can bring the active totals up to 100 or even 110 (depending on how many rookies, one game call-ups there's been) - but I think 110 would be tough.
So you're filling it out with past players. UD doesn't seem very imaginative with getting new old names. You're going to see a base card of Patrick Roy, using a photo they've used 33 times already. Would they go out of their way to find goalies that never had cards before? I think that would be cool - but how many people would be interested in pulling a Bob Dupuis Rookie Card?
That last point: It's one thing I loved about some of the later ITG releases (and to some extent, current Leaf ones). You'd see autographs & game used cards from guys who never had autographs or game used before. I can't see UD ever following that model.
If they made it, you'd likely see a much smaller base set (80 current guys, 20 legends) using mostly photoshoot jerseys they have in their warehouse already, it would just be the same guys that already have GU & autos, the only unique thing is that you might get some base cards of backups that otherwise wouldn't have a card with their current team.
I don't think my tastes are really in line with the mainstream though. I'd big into a BTP style set, but probably not a watered down version of it... that's somewhere between BTP & Paini's All-Goalies.
