2016 Topps Archives Baseball Cards

I just picked up a 1-300 base set on ebay for $19.99 delivered. I love this set!!

I opened an entire case and boy was that a MISTAKE. Never again Topps. Pulled 3 #d autos and all were to 50 and we’re kris benson, Hentgen and Bones. Got a couple of the SP but only the 300-310. I got 2 total. No shield no SSP auto no nothing. I took a gamble and lost. If I was a flipper, it would be close to a 90% loss. AVOID THIS PRODUCT AT ALL COST. Crap checklist and hardly any variety. It’s like they were trying to sell a bunch of retired veterans pictures on new cards and thought the only way to sell the crap was to offer cards with Andy Bones and Jeff Nelson autos. COMPLETE CRAP and I feel duped. STAY AWAY. NOT WORTH IT

love the cards better now then the past, I heard there a lot of doubles like back in 87 88 era of cards

Having the 1953 design is great but I am only so-so on the others … I would like to see more variation in players picked for vets …. too many repeated from year to year —I like the orioles, nationals, mets and pirates —– maybe try archives with three new designs . . . and how about having a H of F manager set w-in the 300 cards – like weaver, Anderson, Piniella, Cox, Dick Williams, Stengel, Mack, Durocher, Alston, Lasorda, Houk, Torre, Larussa, wtc. with a view current greats thrown in Maddon, Showalter, Bochy, etc, — headed for the Hall.

Bought 2 blaster boxes. Box 2 exact same cards that were in box 1. Thanks Topps

Zero value and horrible auto checklist. Avoid at all cost.

After a few hobby boxes and atleast a dozen blaster boxes under my belt I think I have a grasp on what the 2016 Archives are about. And it is my personal opinion that the 2016s are about as exciting as the 2015s. Sadly, I didn’t find last year’s offering of Archives to be very appealing nor exciting. In fact, you’d have to go back to 2013 to find the last set of Topps Archives that really do anything for me. I know that the “newness” of the Archives series might be wearing thin for me but that’s not really all what’s got me feeling somewhat down on these 2016s.

All the inserts are cardboard. No? Mostly all? Where’s the fun in that? I’ve gotten a fair amount of blue #’d parallels to date. And the Fan Favorite Autos are something that I still really look forward to unwrapping. Card $$$ value and what I might be able to sell a card for isn’t anything that concerns me – I’m a hoarder through & through and love my cards too much to part with. But still, I like to pull something different than the average card or #’d parallel that stands out from the crowd. Stuff like the Gallery of Heroes and limited runs of shiny foils/chromes make me atleast feel like I’ve gotten a bit more for my $20 or $90 box than what I’ve gotten the last few years out of the Archives. I’ve purchased and added to my collection a ton of Archives “fluff”. Too much.

Even though it seems they’re a dime a dozen, the plethora of relics and various kinds of shiny cards found in other releases have a noticeably stronger pull on my wallet than these Archives. I wish it weren’t this way but I’m having a hard time coming up with a reason why I should buy any more of this incarnation of Archives when the same amount of money can snag me the same, if not more, boxes and packs to open that are sure to yield some of the glitz and sparkle Topps seems to have left out… again. Perhaps I’ve become spoiled? Expect too much? Or has the Archives offerings gone bland? Topps seems perfectly happy to lean on a few baseball related celebrity signatures to be exciting and enticing enough to sell this series. I find going online asking prices for 2014 & 2015 Archives to be obscene at times. And it’s a scant few autos that have set those prices. $40-$50 for an 8 pack blaster of 2014s??? Yeah. Charlie Sheen.

There are other sets out there full of what I’m looking for and not finding in the last few years of Archives. But the bar was set pretty high by earlier Archives releases. The kid collector in me that started with Topps in the 80’s just wants to have that bit of nostalgia along with the modern day flair that brought him back into the hobby in the first place. I found it once in some Archives. I hope to find it again some day soon before Topps shuts them down again.

Archives is always a favorite, I love the old school look. Short prints aren’t my thing and you wont pull anything that will wow you but still a good nostalgic product.

Has anyone seen a ’89 Dennis Eckersley auto card with a white border? All I have seen so far are blue border version’s…

Can’t understand why Topps recycles photos of players. Yu Darvish Archives this year is the exact photo as 2015 Gypsy Queen SP. At least Topps can do is get different photos if they are going to have 38 different sets.

Wow, finally some Oakland A’s autograph cards with players that actually played the years they are depicted, ’71 Fingers (of course), Campy, and Rick Monday (in a Kansas City cap no less). And a ’89 (World Series win) Eckersley.

I enjoy this product for a variety of reasons every year, but most of all because they smell like phart boxes. Yum.

Hey Topps there are other teams then the Red Sox, Yankees, and Cubs. They all get a card for there whole entire team in every set. Being an Orioles fan all we get is Davis, Machado, Jones, and Britton in every set. The Orioles have more then 4 players, apparently Topps doesn’t realize that. It was all the same in Gypsy Queen as well, Topps just plays to all the popular teams at the time and gives the other teams squat. MAKE YOUR SETS MORE EVEN TOPPS !!!!!!!!!

This has always been my favorite product (I still hunt boxes of it’s predecessor, All-Time Fan Favorites). The reign as “favorite” is officially over; as with most products Topps currently offers, this just plain s*cks. Opened 2 hobbies and 2 blasters so far; 5 autos (got “lucky” with a blaster and pulled an auto)–3 of the autos are Aaron Nola. The same auto–two from the same case of hobbies. And he’s a rookie; evidently rookie autos have been added to water down the already wet auto pool of the past couple of years. The paper/print quality reminds me of something from the early 90s (the paper quality of the “super” cards is a joke). Yes, my disappointment is complete. This is, simply put, a bad (dare I say, lazy) product. Once again, Topps’ arrogance becomes obvious, as does my own stupidity: they put out an grossly inferior product and I buy it. Shame on both of us.

More of same. Gar-bajjjj Pass.

My favorite box to open year in and year out. Can’t say that I’m excited about the use of the ’91 design, and every year I’m frustrated by Topps putting players on cards designs where that player already has a card. I already own a 1979 Willie McCovey that I pulled from a pack in 1979 – I’m not that excited to pull another 1979 design McCovey in 2016. I wish the movie inserts would go away. Love the thought of the #1 Draft Pick set. Overall, anxious to tear into these packs!

Heck…..I bought three boxes and did not pull the first SP…..

Only 10 this year…..wonder what the odds are?

I still love the product though….I am a sucker for nostalgia. Archives and Heritage….get me every year.

TOO EARLY TO GRADE THIS PRODUCT YET, IF IT’S LIKE LAST YEAR “1”SHORT PRINT PER 3 BOXES IT WILL STINK FOR SET BUILDERS. LOOKS LIKE THE PRICE MAY BE WAY MORE THAN THE PRODUCT IS WORTH. WE SHALL SEE.

why do I love this product? No chicken scratch autographs! The way it should be! The players come from a time where they cared about how their signature looked!

Obviously its too early for me (or anyone really) to give an actual grade and review at this point. But as far as new releases are concerned, waiting for the newest Topps Archives to drop excites me the most. Hitting the nostalgia bulls eye is only half the draw. I love all discovering all the new & different inserts the series often provides. Last year aside, I personally feel that the Archives’ inserts and subsets are stronger and over all more fun to collect than what can be found in other Topps sets. Can you say Gallery of Heroes and Fan Favorites?

Sure, collecting A&G can be really fun at times. Opening up mass quantities of GQ has proven to be a good time as well. But unless the store shelves are bare I try to avoid the snorefests that break out whenever I mess with anything labeled “Topps Series 1, 2, or Update”.

I really can’t wait to get my hands on a few 2016 Archives blasters and hobby boxes! I’ll always have a man crush on all things Chrome. But I think I’m in love with my Archives ;)

I am beginning my 61st year of baseball card collecting. I do it the old fashion way. I buy 4 packs on Tuesday,4 more on Saturday. The first two years of Archives I collected, then they became harder to find in single packs. I stopped. Too many cards, prices too high. But thanks for the update.

Ugh…whose idea was it to choose the 1979 & 1991 designs….two of the ugliest Topps designs ever!