As a sports guy who also collects Marvel - just want to clarify that case hits do NOT have to be #'d to be desired. Case hit parallels (i.e. Galatics or Genesis or Nebulas) are huge hits. Inserts like Color Blasts, Downtowns, Blank Slates, KaBooms are all huge hits. That being said - seeing what Topps has done to Star Wars - not sure things bode well for Marvel/Topps. The way Topps/Fanatics approaches collecting is in such stark contrast to the OG Marvel Card collectors. They want to push everything toward that Fanatics to Breaker to PSA pipeline - they want prospecting, pumping, and flipping. Topps has always been about the rookie card and they do well in baseball because of prospecting nature of baseball cards. Not sure how that will translate to Marvel - its a completely different beast with character collectors. Topps will have to dig deep into their bag of historic sets to try and make Marvel work. They can't just rely on flagship, chrome, bowman chrome, finest and Masterworks because that will get old FAST - especially since Topps is not creative with inserts. Not sure the market will support the ultra high end sets like Transcendence. But something like Topps Reserve or Topps Gallery could be interesting with box topper sketches or comic cuts or whatever. For MCU - Topps will probably be able to get bigger name signers than UD - so that will be good for MCU collectors. But from the comic side - I'm worried - don't have much hope they do it properly.
Most excellent stream guys! I was on a lift installing siding so I missed this but watched afterwards. I have many questions though. Will this change in license create FOMO with previous UD product? Will the Vintage product see increased buyouts? How will the current sketch card market fair with the consideration that Topps will possibly not make them or not make them as easily obtainable? Will the grading market explode in demand for the UD product thus increasing registry and drive current market prices down? Sorry Fausto, I have an incredibly large amount of questions because I have been collecting Marvel product since 91' 😊
@@cletuskasadycollector These are wonderful questions and I appreciate you asking them. I think this will create FOMO. I hope people do go backwards and become more familiar with Marvel Cards. The current sketch market imo will become more niche and it will become too late for people to realize how wonderful sketch Cards were because they’ll never see certain ones again. This has happened in the past with 98 sketch cards and others that are very difficult to find on the open market now. I think grading will become much more streamlined, which will create a larger audience. I hope people can just enjoy marvel cards without necessarily having to participate in the current card market.
IMO Topps being Fanatics flagship brand when it comes to cards is kinda trash. Topps isn't really exciting when it comes to their brands and like somebody in the comments mentioned Fanatics wants you to keep all things in house with them. I feel like Fanatics needs to buy Upper Deck and/or Panini cause they are already in Monopoly territory. I get a lot of folks want to be positive but I just don't see the light at the end of the tunnel cause prices are already high for not so much return.........they are only going up now. Also if this is gonna be ~70% MCU sets going forward, I"M OUT!
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Great vid as always!
As a sports guy who also collects Marvel - just want to clarify that case hits do NOT have to be #'d to be desired. Case hit parallels (i.e. Galatics or Genesis or Nebulas) are huge hits. Inserts like Color Blasts, Downtowns, Blank Slates, KaBooms are all huge hits. That being said - seeing what Topps has done to Star Wars - not sure things bode well for Marvel/Topps. The way Topps/Fanatics approaches collecting is in such stark contrast to the OG Marvel Card collectors. They want to push everything toward that Fanatics to Breaker to PSA pipeline - they want prospecting, pumping, and flipping. Topps has always been about the rookie card and they do well in baseball because of prospecting nature of baseball cards. Not sure how that will translate to Marvel - its a completely different beast with character collectors. Topps will have to dig deep into their bag of historic sets to try and make Marvel work. They can't just rely on flagship, chrome, bowman chrome, finest and Masterworks because that will get old FAST - especially since Topps is not creative with inserts. Not sure the market will support the ultra high end sets like Transcendence. But something like Topps Reserve or Topps Gallery could be interesting with box topper sketches or comic cuts or whatever. For MCU - Topps will probably be able to get bigger name signers than UD - so that will be good for MCU collectors. But from the comic side - I'm worried - don't have much hope they do it properly.
I can tell you now that topps chrome is stocked in all the toy stores here in Australia: it will definitely grow the hobby for sure. 😊
Thanks for having me on sorry about the microphone
Personally, I believe that I will continue to bulk up on sealed 90's product as usual 😊
Most excellent stream guys! I was on a lift installing siding so I missed this but watched afterwards. I have many questions though. Will this change in license create FOMO with previous UD product? Will the Vintage product see increased buyouts? How will the current sketch card market fair with the consideration that Topps will possibly not make them or not make them as easily obtainable? Will the grading market explode in demand for the UD product thus increasing registry and drive current market prices down? Sorry Fausto, I have an incredibly large amount of questions because I have been collecting Marvel product since 91' 😊
@@cletuskasadycollector These are wonderful questions and I appreciate you asking them.
I think this will create FOMO. I hope people do go backwards and become more familiar with Marvel Cards.
The current sketch market imo will become more niche and it will become too late for people to realize how wonderful sketch Cards were because they’ll never see certain ones again. This has happened in the past with 98 sketch cards and others that are very difficult to find on the open market now.
I think grading will become much more streamlined, which will create a larger audience.
I hope people can just enjoy marvel cards without necessarily having to participate in the current card market.
Its just cards, print baby, print lol
IMO Topps being Fanatics flagship brand when it comes to cards is kinda trash. Topps isn't really exciting when it comes to their brands and like somebody in the comments mentioned Fanatics wants you to keep all things in house with them. I feel like Fanatics needs to buy Upper Deck and/or Panini cause they are already in Monopoly territory. I get a lot of folks want to be positive but I just don't see the light at the end of the tunnel cause prices are already high for not so much return.........they are only going up now. Also if this is gonna be ~70% MCU sets going forward, I"M OUT!