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First thing is, Inception is a great idea by Topps. A early season set with on card autos, patches and some other cool inerts (of which I will get into) on nice thick cards with "interesting" artwork/pictures.
The on card base autos are outstanding and the dual Griffin and Luck autos are equally awesome.
However, last season people went nuts over the Silver Signature version of the base rookie autos. Numbered to 25, with huge autos on their standard rookie cards, collectors couldn't get their guys fast enough.
Fast forward to 2012, Topps decides we should have more of everything so they do a Gold Signature set with a patch. Sounds good in theory but wait the autos are stickers and look pretty small and crappy. But that isn't even the worst of it.
They then decide to make the Silver Signature set, you know the best pulls in the previous set, an insert set and not a parallel to the base rookie set. You gotta be kidding me. The main reason people loved the set was because it was a awesome looking parallel to the base rookie card, same picture, same design just a badass silver signature. How easy is that to do. Apparently pretty tough for Topps.
Not only are they now on their own unique design, they decided to make them horizontal and added a stupid small background photo on every card. Now this photo isn't actually of the player on the card playing in a game, no every card has the same stock photo on it. And it is not a background photo it is like a horrible Panini design where it is just stuck to the right of players photo and above the signature area.
They also left a much smaller area for the player to sign so many cards I have seen have the auto either on the players photo or on the stupid stock photo.
Way to ruin a set Topps.
The on card base autos are outstanding and the dual Griffin and Luck autos are equally awesome.
However, last season people went nuts over the Silver Signature version of the base rookie autos. Numbered to 25, with huge autos on their standard rookie cards, collectors couldn't get their guys fast enough.
Fast forward to 2012, Topps decides we should have more of everything so they do a Gold Signature set with a patch. Sounds good in theory but wait the autos are stickers and look pretty small and crappy. But that isn't even the worst of it.
They then decide to make the Silver Signature set, you know the best pulls in the previous set, an insert set and not a parallel to the base rookie set. You gotta be kidding me. The main reason people loved the set was because it was a awesome looking parallel to the base rookie card, same picture, same design just a badass silver signature. How easy is that to do. Apparently pretty tough for Topps.
Not only are they now on their own unique design, they decided to make them horizontal and added a stupid small background photo on every card. Now this photo isn't actually of the player on the card playing in a game, no every card has the same stock photo on it. And it is not a background photo it is like a horrible Panini design where it is just stuck to the right of players photo and above the signature area.
They also left a much smaller area for the player to sign so many cards I have seen have the auto either on the players photo or on the stupid stock photo.
Way to ruin a set Topps.
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