These 1994 Fleer Marvel cards are so great, and wonderful to see the characters that disappeared

086 - Siena Blaze

Continuing the run of Upstarts - which might be the most 1994 thing about this set. Though Siena Blaze is a legit inclusion at this time, and this is a good card (even if it makes her power look like "makes snow"). #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #ScottHampton pic.twitter.com/JPGv5KTs9V

— Austin Gorton (@AustinGorton) July 17, 2026

Delightfully absurd Monsters of the Gridiron cards (how did they convince the players to participate?)

Thread: 1993-94 Cola-Cola Monsters of the Gridiron cards Cortez Kennedy

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Bruce Armstrong

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Renaldo Turnbull

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John Randle

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Eric Swann

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Jumbo Elliott

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Hardy Nickerson

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(more in the thread)

Who was the worst baseball player illustrated for a Donruss Diamond King card?

Three suggestions.

Lenticular trading cards featuring Dark Helmet and Lone Starr from Spaceballs

These limited edition 3D lenticular cards will be available this Friday for my new show Trading Cards 6 @Galleries1988! 40 new cards will go live at https://t.co/QvQpn62hAc at 11am PST. pic.twitter.com/cCSBEwfbWZ

— Cuyler Smith (@cuylersmith) December 5, 2024

Available now as part of Cuyler Smith's new show.

Topps made special baseball cards for the woman hit by a line drive (graphic image)

Hey @BlueJays I got my face mashed in by a 110mph foul off Bo Bichette's bat. I didn't even get the ball. I even stayed till the end of the game. Any way you can hook a girl up? #tothecore #bluejays pic.twitter.com/uXJqXenVLm

— Liz McGuire (@lizzzzzzzzzzy) May 19, 2024

𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: We made a custom Topps Now trading card of Liz McGuire: the fan who took a 110MPH Bo Bichette foul ball to the head and STAYED AT THE GAME.

We produced exactly 110 copies, and we’re gifting them all to @lizzzzzzzzzzy.

Liz, you’re a champ! 👑❤️ pic.twitter.com/7B9eKyharg

— Topps (@Topps) May 20, 2024

(In my brief search, I didn't see video of the foul ball)

Free tacos for life from Taco Bell if you have a Ketel Marte Topps TacoFractor card

🌮 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 🌮

Ketel Marte has stolen the first base of the 2023 World Series, and everyone who owns one of his Topps Tacofractor cards will now receive $15,000 of FREE Taco Bell.

This card (of which there are only 5 in existence) has sold for as little as… pic.twitter.com/OgKSdkhfbB

— The Collectibles Guru 🧠 (@ericwhiteback) October 28, 2023

A media write-up. Buy TacoFractor cards at ebay.

We should get a Baja blast for a walkoff

— Jessica Kleinschmidt (@KleinschmidtJD) October 28, 2023

New lenticular trading cards by Cuyler Smith

This is the second of three new limited edition 3D lenticular cards releasing this Thursday @Galleries1988! Stay tuned for more details and the reveal of number 250 in the series. pic.twitter.com/9kRqLPtWjD

— Cuyler Smith (@cuylersmith) September 6, 2023

I’m excited to share the first of three new 3D lenticular trading cards releasing this Thursday @Galleries1988! Stay tuned for more reveals and updates. pic.twitter.com/TPUk3Z55aI

— Cuyler Smith (@cuylersmith) September 5, 2023

Number 250 in the series!!! This 3D lenticular trading card will be available @Galleries1988 tomorrow afternoon. pic.twitter.com/85GpmfQssp

— Cuyler Smith (@cuylersmith) September 7, 2023

I picked up a basketball superstar Ripley+.

Apparent fraud in the trading card industry

Darren Rovell on what seems to be a timeless grift and some speculation as to what's going on:

Backyard Breaks is in the business of opening boxes and packs and selling the rights to particular cards in the pack or the pack itself to customers. The company is among the biggest of the groups who do this, breaking on live platforms and making highlights of their biggest pulls.

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Backyard Breaks pulled the No. 1 card in each of Panini’s NBA Flawless, Prizm and National Treasures products.

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Panini gives no odds on receiving any particular card in its boxes and doesn’t even say how many boxes it produces.

eBay restricted the account of a trading card dealer that supposedly sold $200 million worth in the last year

The company's response:

 

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Action Network:

The news created a ripple throughout the community since PWCC is such an integral part of eBay sales. A source said it is believed that PWCC did at least $200 million worth of gross sales on eBay in the last year alone. 

“Recently, it was determined that individuals associated with a trading card seller, PWCC, have engaged in “shill bidding,” which is prohibited on eBay,” the statement read. “As a result, eBay has restricted PWCC’s selling privileges and listings, effective today.

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eBay’s note and the action leads many in the business to wonder how much of the recent card boom, which peaked in February, was real 

Building a Rube Goldberg contraption at the beach; Giant outdoor 3d screen showing Ultraman; This is a real Magic The Gathering card

@cokernuts

I’m gonna take #ThisOppurtunity to #GoOutside #OnVacation and show off our track. #contraptionchallenge #marbletrack #summerinternship #cokernuts #fyp

♬ Only Useful on TikTok - The Cokernuts

@matadornetwork

These #3D screens in #China are becoming more and more realistic! 😳 🎥 IG: @khanjipeerwala #3Dscreen #chinatravel #tiktoktravel

♬ Super Mario Smash Remix shaeotmusic - THFC.SZN

Giant Fan

📘 Unglued
🖌️ Randy Gallegoshttps://t.co/HFLivcKSJW#MTG #MagicTheGathering pic.twitter.com/EOJ4lUnp9g

— Every Magic The Gathering Card (@everyMagicCard) July 17, 2021

This is a very good book cover. (via @robinsloan) https://t.co/JKkK1OlMR4 pic.twitter.com/OV8xANoMED

— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) July 16, 2021

ﾒｷｮｯ pic.twitter.com/PsWoFzSQX8

— すきば (@Skiba981) July 15, 2021

Alex Pardee's latest Topps 70 card is a Dennis Eckersley pun

Available for a few days.

Windblown Marilyn Monroe; Baseball card templates; Printable figurines

19-year-old Marilyn Monroe photographed by André de Dienes pic.twitter.com/LTVujtNRPO

— Diane Doniol-Valcroze (@ddoniolvalcroze) May 17, 2021

Added a pair of new ones; Donruss 1990 and Fleer 1991. pic.twitter.com/c1q6a2Bwfo

— Greg Schwanbeck (@GregSchwanbeck) May 17, 2021

If you missed the Kickstarter campaign and are interested in prints (both 2D and 3D), or you want to support our game, it’s not too late! See link below for more info. Thank you to all our backers, we’re so grateful for your support! https://t.co/Jg9z1oVk38 pic.twitter.com/2QbLMbIiMP

— Tom Booth (@TallTomsTales) May 8, 2021

Combining my love of design & love of food! My grandmother taught me how to make flour tortillas and I've been making them a lot these days. Designed some packaging as a tribute to her. pic.twitter.com/cpTWx0mVjg

— Lindsey Olivares (@lindseydraws) May 18, 2021

If the origins of Flamin' Hot Cheetos (just a few years ago) are so fraught and so contested, only imagine how corrupt the rest of history must be

— Maria Bustillos (@mariabustillos) May 18, 2021

Target will stop selling trading cards "for the safety of guests and store employees"

Verge:

the situation around the trading cards seems wildly out of control. People have reportedly been opening cereal boxes in stores to steal the included Pokémon cards out of them. And someone in Japan even climbed down a rope to steal almost $9,000 worth of the cardboard cards designed for kids.

Vice:

Man Pulls Gun in Trading Card-Related Attack in a Target Parking Lot

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“It’s common to have 50 plus people standing in line all day, 6 to 8 hours, waiting to see if they can get one box of cards”

A fresh take on dragons; One page horror comic; Very good basketball card

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One Small Step (my son has introduced me to Junji Ito's unsettling existential horror, so I thought "that looks fun" here's a one page story I wrote and drew) pic.twitter.com/3hBJy94iGz

— PJ Holden (@pauljholden) May 9, 2021

I think this is an all-time basketball card pic.twitter.com/tL0whzezNQ

— Noah Coslov (@NoahCoslov) May 10, 2021

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The obsession with artists "producing their best work in their 20s" is a byproduct of art existing in a corporate structure. Many of the best artists are pushed into management roles by their 30s because they need the money to support their growing families, mortgages, etc.

— Zac Gorman (@zacgormania) May 10, 2021

Bloodsport kumite trading card set

Phantom Cardboard:

This 20 card mini-set includes: Title card, Frank Dux, Chong Li, Ray Jackson, Senzo Tanaka, Pumola, Janice Kent, CID Officers, OK USA!, Suan Paredes, Record Breaker, Paco, Joao Gomez, Budimam, Toon Wing Sum, Sadiq Hossein, Sen Ling, Victor Ling, Chuan Ip Mung, Turn Back The Clock + a "mystery bonus" card Each card is limited to 50 hand numbered copies. Singles can be purchased separately using the You Pick Single option.

Today's funny posts

imagine my dad trying to explain to me that this dude was good once. i mean this exact version of him. https://t.co/PQERdLoUDA

— bomani (@bomani_jones) October 7, 2020

(Get your stocking stuffer now, the Jeff Ruland card is available at ebay.)

Topps is selling a tribute card to Lonely Island's Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience

Matt Taylor's latest card for the Topps Project 2020.

If you haven't watched/listened to the concept album, the card is a reference to the start of this song:



And this is the best song on the album:

Alt "will allow investors to manage trading cards and other alternative assets similarly to the way they manage...stocks and bonds"

Axios:

Perhaps you heard about the Giannis Antetokounmpo rookie card that sold for a record $1.81 million this week? Or the LeBron James rookie card that sold for a then-record $1.8 million in July?

Both cards were purchased by Alt through the company's inaugural asset fund, Alt Fund I — and both now sit in the vault.

"We want Alt to be known for trust and security, so we're literally saying, 'We bought the two most expensive basketball cards in the world — and yours are going to be right there next to them,'" says Avidar.

The bottom line: The modern trading card industry has created a new type of collector whose less interested in nostalgia and more interested in building a financial portfolio.

And since a card's value is correlated to an athlete's performance — and not the stock market — it's an attractive option for people looking to diversify.

Eye-grabbing Mariano Rivera card; Batman movie fan art; Concept to cover the world's second largest man-made hole

On sale IMMINENTLY from @topps, my #Project2020 @MarianoRivera card. https://t.co/kqQUdND020 pic.twitter.com/YyRNip5PrM

— Matt Taylor (@MattTaylorDraws) August 25, 2020

This seems like the right week to expand Bill & Ted’s Excellent Collection with some sweet new shirts, right?
Available now – two brilliant new designs by the world's biggest Wyld Stallyns fan @mattryantobin. https://t.co/LSXxC1vsCv pic.twitter.com/kXRuiXir1u

— MondoNews (@MondoNews) August 25, 2020

Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon. pic.twitter.com/gSM92KIMXb

— Gavin Fullerton (@GavinFullerton1) August 24, 2020

Mr Freeze pic.twitter.com/wFiFKFJh0l

— Gavin Fullerton (@GavinFullerton1) August 22, 2020

I like the statuesque feel in this painting. 12x16 sized, watercolors and pencils. pic.twitter.com/D8y0CajiHJ

— Alex Maleev (@alexmaleev) August 24, 2020

They’ll each come with a stand which has the Word 2000 logo as its base. pic.twitter.com/ehcqnRpa8b

— Noah Feller (@Noah_Feller) August 29, 2019

I don't have a lot of thoughts about Windows 95 but I have always really loved this response from Brian Eno about creating its start-up sound pic.twitter.com/QfKJf0Rgbc

— Parker Higgins (@xor) August 24, 2020

John Berkey - High-Rise Cruise Ship.

I would watch this disaster movie. pic.twitter.com/xIPJ0Y6xej

— Graves Make RosesBloom (@GregRozeboom) August 21, 2020

THE COAL MINE SERIES, shot from a small helicopter in Germany. pic.twitter.com/meoPzmMafj

— Tom Hegen (@TomHegen) August 25, 2020

A (so far) unbuilt project to convert the world's second largest man-made hole, the abandoned Mirny Diamond Mine in Eastern Siberia, into a domed underground solar-powered cityhttps://t.co/xRct1jHndf pic.twitter.com/AKWooPvTt8

— Irène DB (@UrbanFoxxxx) January 18, 2019

Lenticular Tron Legacy trading card for Cuyler Smith's upcoming Gallery 1988 show

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This Tron lenticular trading card will be available @galleries1988 this Friday at noon for the opening of my newest show Trading Cards 5! #tron #tronlegacy #lightcycle #movies #film #classic #popculture #portrait #sports #sportsart #gallery1988 #cuylersmith #tradingcards #collection #comingsoon #newart #lenticular

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And speaking of custom trading cards:

Clubhouse is the absolute best app for trading TouchBase VC trading cards.

I got a Kutcher, Calacanis, and a mint Andreessen in the mail for just one Graham. Holy shit!

Where else can you find a deal like this? This app is unlocking a whole new marketplace for collectibles. pic.twitter.com/8MytG2Sp9X

— Danielle Baskin (@djbaskin) May 25, 2020

Also have a rare @justinkan to trade! (And I still kept my stick of gum from the original box.)

Anyone want to stay up late tonight on you-know-where comparing stats and values? pic.twitter.com/U6VmTMLuh4

— Danielle Baskin (@djbaskin) May 25, 2020