2020 Adventures in Repacks: Part 24.4 - Football From The Source

I'm returning to the 100-card football repack I was in the process of posting pre-Score.

2017 Contenders Draft - Khalil Mack - A Buffalo card of the Buffalo football team I don't collect starts it off.
2013 Topps - Jamar Taylor
2015 Prestige - Latavius Murray

2017 Classics  - Doug Martin - Cartoon on the back! Kinda...
1991 UD - Fredd Young
1990 Fleer - Chris Bahr - Kicker card!

2004 UD - Kurt Warner - A nice entrance photo, and it still acknowledges a new team.
2002 Certified - Rich Gannon
2001 Certified - Keyshawn Johnson
2002 Maximum - Ron Dayne

2005 Legends - Merlin Olsen - "Yeah, here's your loser actor bouquet"

2009 UD - Nic Harris - Bills card!
1991 UD - Jerry Robinson
1989 Pro Set - Tyrone Braxton
1990 Pro Set - Tim Krumrie
1991 Ultra - Mark Rypien
1991 CFL - Darryl Hall

1991 Pro Set - Lemuel Stinson - I have no idea what to make of this photo. It might simultaneously be one of the worst photos ever used on a football card, or one of the most uniquely great.
1991 Platinum - Eugene Robinson

1991 UD - Warren Moon/Darryl Hall - This starts an interesting run of Hall of Famers.

1994 Topps - Barry Sanders - Here's one of the greatest running backs of all-time.

1999 Supreme - Jerry Rice - Followed with the one of the greatest receivers of all-time.

2000 SAGE - Brian Urlacher - How to follow that? A pair of rookie cards of a HOFer. If COMC can be believed, the purple one has a 4500 print run.
2000 SAGE - Brian Urlacher

1996 UD - Marvin Harrison - And this half ends with another two rookies for a HOFer.
1996 Skybox - Marvin Harrison

That was a fun run of cards near the end. Definitely better than I'd expect from a repack. The other half next post!

It's Just One More Auto, You Should Really Just Relax

As the distribution phase of Series 3 of the MST3K cards ended, there was an opportunity to purchase some of the remaining autographs.

So I got one more. Seeing as I had the Comedy Central era represented with the Jim Mallon auto, and the Netflix era with Joel's, I decided the third should be a SciFi era card. So...

So here's my Bill Corbett/Brain Guy auto! He's easily got the best penmanship of the three I have in my collection. This is the base white metal autograph.

Here's the authentication. This is the white metal base version.

But there was some more in that package.

More rock climbing cards.

A Richard Basehart card, likely borrowed from Gypsy's scrap album.

And a promo card for a upcoming Manos set! Yeah, I'll probably get something from that as well. Because who wouldn't want a whole bunch of Torgo cards?

But there you have it!

It's Just a Box Break, You Should Really Just Relax - Part 3

All good breaks must come to an end, including these two boxes of MST3K cards. But here's some hits to take the edge off.

I didn't get any plates in the first two series of cards, but that changed here with a trio of them. Here's the cyan from the Vance mini-poster of Season 6's Girls Town.

Servo looks delightful here in nurse garb from Season 10's It Lives by Night.

Also Season 10 for plate #3, with the web making it obviously from Horrors of Spider Island.

Bat Servo! Even though I am Team Crow, it was nice to get a little bit of variety in my Bot art. This was sketched by Mai Irving, who also drew the P.T. Mindslap card from yesterday. You see, there was some method to my madness of which cards I showed off.

And my first sketch card of one of the humans! This Kinga is by Amanda Pattison, who also did the Donna St Phibes and Growler/Waverly cards from yesterday. Again - method. Madness.

And there were autographs in this as well! Each box contained one, and the first provided a Jim Mallon, who was an Executive Producer, but also provided Gypsy's voice. This is one of the white metal cards, which are the base versions.

Base versions means that there's parallel versions as well, and I got one of them! And it was of just another face in a red jumpsuit! WOO-HOO! I'm more of a Mike guy, since I work as a temp and feel a kinship. But in terms of hosting, I'm pretty neutral.

These gold parallels are hand-numbered to 6! And I really like how the certification is done with the photograph!

That was fun! Now I just have to get a binder, and a pile of pages to give these an even more worthy home!

It's Just a Box Break, You Should Really Just Relax - Part 2

And now, a whole bunch of drawn cards from the insert sets. Between these two, there's about 100 cards total, so I'm just hitting my personal highlights.

First up, a Rowsdower card. A trading card featuring one of Canada's most incredible superheroes (tied with Mr. Canoehead). This was all that this needed to make it a spectacular insert set.

But a card of Mr. B Natural also helps. Mr. B would also be seen in the sketch card gallery.

And let's show these off, starting with a ROBOT ROLL CALL! This one is done by Andy Moore, who drew the 1/1 sketch cards of Crow that I got in my Series 1 and 2 boxes. With all respect to Mr. Moore, I was happy that the ones I got this time were from different artists.

And let's not forget the newest bots aboard the ship, with Growler and M. Waverly.

Although he can also be found in the Claudiu sketches, I opted for the full colour version of Mark Hamill as P.T. Mindslap. Even if does give flashbacks to another legitimate contender for the worst movie ever shown aboard the SOL - Carnival Magic.

A little late for Turkey Day, but here's a suitable sketch.

He can do stupid things!

Nummy Muffin Coocol Butter is the babytalk name I use when I want to annoy my dog, That's worthy of a scan.

I'm not sure if this version of Dr. Forrester is one of the stranger entries into an interpretation of a character, or one of the best.

All ready to take care of the place when the master is away.

Dr. Donna St. Phibes might be the most recent character to make an appearance on one of these cards, having debuted in episode 1203 of the last Netflix season.

And I'll end this portion with the simple hope that your Christmas was the Swayziest.

Tomorrow: 3 printing plates! 2 sketch cards! 2 autographs!

It's Just a Box Break, You Should Really Just Relax

It took a few weeks, but I'm finally showing off the cards from a two box Kickstarter break of MST3K Series 3. Now there were a lot of cards in this final release - well over 400. So, I'm really just going to hit the highlights of many of the subsets, but I will highlight some of my favourite sketch cards tomorrow, and follow that up on Wednesday with the 1/1 plates, the 1/1 original sketch cards, and the autographs.

One of the continued insert sets were the Steve Vance mini-posters. I'd contacted the maker of the set hoping for maybe an extra Pumaman insert from this set, since it debuted in theaters on 2/14, making this a 2/14 card.

I got 20 of them. None of them fly. Like a moron or otherwise.

But only 1 will go into the 2/14 binder.

And here's the back. I've got 20+ of them. Might as well show it off as well!

The Episode guide portion of the set wraps up here, as it goes through the Sci-Fi and Netflix runs of the show. Here's the Screaming Skull's episode.

3D cards are back as well.

And the Riff-It series wraps up with three more public domain movies - Eegah, Night of the Blood Beast and Bride of the Monster.

Best of all, this adds a second new card to my 2-14 collection! One of the actors in this movie was Tyler McVey, who played the ill-fated, but still stinger-providing Dr. Alex Wyman. He is the 4th MSTed performer to make an appearance in the collection, joining Lois Maxwell, Edward Platt and Crash Corrigan. McVey was also in Attack of the Giant Leeches, but at doesn't appear that he made it into the set's Riff-It cards for that episode.

"Wounded animal that large isn't good!"

So, what's new in this? Lenticular cards! Think Sportflix. These all highlight the MST3K 'Poopie' blooper tape.

Also new in this, Rock Climbing cards!

Rock climbing, Joel. Rock climbing.

If only there were a fourth series, we could also get Sandstorm cards.

Puzzle cards are also in this. There's a fairly random scene on the front, with 9 images on the reverse to form a complete puzzle. There's both promotional photos like this one, as well as some more Vance posters in this.

Stickers!

And here's a very familiar design for 1984 Topps fans! I'm not sure why they used 1984 for these, seeing as the show didn't debut until several years later. But that's definitely a nerdy complaint.

And there's Part 1!

One Card Only: Please Punt Me

Today is the perfect day for a football-themed card post, but I'll go really weird with mine.

A couple weeks into the new year, I received my two boxes of Series 3 of RRParks Mystery Science Theater 3000 release. The set was a little larger than the previous two, and with it being 400ish cards with only 360 in a box, I decided to practically guarantee a complete set by kickstartering for two boxes.

These go through the most recent episodes of the show, to include the two Netflix seasons. Invention Exchange cards also resumed here, with there being cards to salute those.

So, as I start recapping those boxes over the next few posts, here's the punt bunnies from episode 1111.

"What a Happy Little Screamer!"

More next time!