This blog has been looking at the back of my head for a year, daring me to put another post together before another year elapsed. As you can see from the date, I didn't make it.
That is why my blog is laughing at me. I guess it doesn't matter much, since nobody reads it anyway.
In any case, since I'm here, I might as well make my time worthwhile. I noticed that today is, according to some people, "Star Wars Day". As in, "May the Fourth be with you."
While I was gathering breakfast yesterday morning, not long after I read that little calendar fact, this caught my eye on the fridge:
This Star Wars magnet has been on my fridge for roughly four years. I remember buying some 2007 Topps Star Wars 30th Anniversary packs from Target back then, and I got this little flexible magnet chase card in one of the packs. It feels a lot like the freebie magnets I got from cereal as a kid, and the kind you can get now from dentist offices, restaurants, and sports teams.
Turns out, in 2011, boxes of the 30th Anniversary set are not terribly easy to come by. As of this writing, there aren't any on eBay, and a deeper web search will net you results ranging from $125 to $170 per box (Amazon and Blowout seem to have them the cheapest), though you also can find 8-pack retail blasters for about twenty bucks. eBay also currently doesn't have any of the magnets from this set listed as singles either. It seems that they are a little tougher to find than I would have expected.
It got me to wondering, we've seen a lot of attempts at innovation with sports cards lately, including bulky video cards, giveaway websites, and augmented reality cards. With all that effort, where are the easy-peasy to make magnets that I would love to put on my fridge of some Giants or Oakland Athletics? Just even make them look like the base card, and I think collectors will be falling over each other to get them.
Here's to the future. May the Fourth be with you. Even if it's practically the Fifth.
That is why my blog is laughing at me. I guess it doesn't matter much, since nobody reads it anyway.
In any case, since I'm here, I might as well make my time worthwhile. I noticed that today is, according to some people, "Star Wars Day". As in, "May the Fourth be with you."
While I was gathering breakfast yesterday morning, not long after I read that little calendar fact, this caught my eye on the fridge:
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| Although cute, I don't mean Squirt from "Finding Nemo". |
Turns out, in 2011, boxes of the 30th Anniversary set are not terribly easy to come by. As of this writing, there aren't any on eBay, and a deeper web search will net you results ranging from $125 to $170 per box (Amazon and Blowout seem to have them the cheapest), though you also can find 8-pack retail blasters for about twenty bucks. eBay also currently doesn't have any of the magnets from this set listed as singles either. It seems that they are a little tougher to find than I would have expected.
It got me to wondering, we've seen a lot of attempts at innovation with sports cards lately, including bulky video cards, giveaway websites, and augmented reality cards. With all that effort, where are the easy-peasy to make magnets that I would love to put on my fridge of some Giants or Oakland Athletics? Just even make them look like the base card, and I think collectors will be falling over each other to get them.
Here's to the future. May the Fourth be with you. Even if it's practically the Fifth.
