Monday, May 7, 2012

2012 Topps Gypsy Queen review



Product: 2012 Topps Gypsy Queen
Box Price: 110$+
Distribution: 24 packs/box  10 cards/pack
Hits: 2 Autographs + 2 Relics in each hobby box

My Grade:  B   Topps has followed up its base set, Tribute, and Heritage with another solid set with unique inserts and parallels. I love the look of the base cards and most of the inserts with only a couple minor gripes.
Pictured below are the base cards from the set. Grey borders along with cream colored accents and a small, but not too small, name and product logo banner along the bottom. It is nice that each pack has 10 cards in it and typically has one or two insert/parallel cards in it. not always though. The base card set is not too large to collect as a secondary set at right around 300 base cards + 50 SP's.


These are the mini parallels that fall one per pack. The minis also have parallels like the green border(1:24 packs) you see in the top left of the picture and pictured below as well. But the minis also have different parallels that have different designs on the backs of the cards. there are the 'straight cut' backs, 'gypsy' queen' backs.

Most of the different inserts are shown here. Future Stars, Hallmark Heroes, Glove Stories, Moonshots. also show here are the retail framed paper parallel cards that are almost a bronze color and add a great parallel to the collectability of this set. One of the inserts from the Gypsy Queen sets is the Gypsy Queen/King inserts that actually depict real gypsies and have relic and autograph. Although they are very rare and the autos and relics are even more rare does something like that really belong in a baseball card set? I am gonna go with no on that, but thats just me. I feel that it detracts from the legitimacy of this set.

shown below is another picture of the retail Framed Paper parallel cards. This type of parallel/insert almost makes up for the Gypsy King insert cards because they look so good.
 Shown here is a Mini Green Border parallel of Cal Ripken Jr. These mini green border parallels fall 1:24 packs and also have black parallel versions that fall 1:12 packs.
 I wish I had a relic and an autograph to include in this post. but from what i have seen online they have a framed relic that resembles very much the Allen and Ginter framed Relics. The standard relic is not framed and looks just like the base card with a jersey swatch in it. The autographs look very nice There are large variations and mini autos and are written right on the card.
Topps has created yet another solid product and hopefully they keep up this momentum through the rest of the sets this year.Thank you for taking the time to read my blog, and as always, Peace and Baseball cards!!

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