The end of the line: Last float in this parade.

Kind of wishing I had scanned the other dozen Ornaments from this years release, but hey they'll be there next year.

Wrapping up this year with the full set of this year's Holiday release.

 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone and Happy Birthday Jesus!

Christmas Ornaments

 Getting back to more of a traditional Christmas theme. Ornaments. Specifically, the Oversized die cut Topps Holiday Ornaments in order of their release. Bare in mind I did just get a few more in, but they didn't make into the scans.

Topps came out with the Holiday release back in 2016 with a total of 601 cards. 200 card set plus the metallic parallel, 51 relics and the rest were basically autographs. No Ornaments or variations.

In 2017: 691 cards, 66 relics and they added an additional parallel.

In 2018: 1030 cards, 66 relics, they added another parallel.

In 2019: 1214 cards 64 relics and Topps added the 3 levels of variations (100 cards)

In 2020: 1265 cards and this is when The over size die cut Ornaments (box toppers) came into play. Now I actually collect all of the relics, and variations along with the ornaments. I have to the complete set since the start. Each year has 20 Ornaments (basic ornaments- I say this because Topps has thrown a few different ones in for the 2024 release). 

In 2021: 1663 cards, added 20 cards to the base set and its 3 parallels or is it 4 now, 78 relics and more parallels.

In 2022: 1487 cards, 49 relics (but they added 3 relic parallels)

In 2023: 1999 cards, 76 relics.

This year: 3,736 cards.  

 

2020: I have 17/20.

2021: I have 8/20.

2022: I have 16/20.

2023: I have 14/20.

As for this year I now have 12 of the 20 Ornaments plus extras for PC's. I believe this was Topps' best year regarding the design of the Ornaments and the base cards. It was my favorite set of the year.

In the last couple of weeks I have added a dozen or so ornaments to my ComC inventory. I just got my Black Friday shipment in and will be using that to kick off the New Year.

The Christmas Parade continues: The Naughty List

 Starting off with this week's giveaway: The 2017 Topps Now Ohtani. 

The task this week will be the heavy lift of the month.

Those eligible are: RJ, GINKO, FUJI, TDK, AND DIAMOND JESTERS.

What you need to do (comment here upon completion by midnight FRIDAY (EST).

1) Appreciate what you already have. Seriously now. Be thankful for it.

2) Physically help another person that is NOT related to you. (this could be as simple as holding a door open at a store for a stranger), or donate can goods or clothing to a local shelter/real charity/thrift store. You have until Friday to get it done, so I believe in you- you can do it!`

Now a heads up, scantilly clad women below. Although I covered up the one card that showed a bit too much I am still advising that if you are not at least 18 years old PLEASE exit this page now.

Just to throw in some actual baseball cards that are Christmas related 1 or 2 more scans for you.

Okay one more scan.

Now that is a wrap, speaking of which I had better wrap those last 4 presents.

Merry Christmas.

Christmas: Misc. A short post

 Just a hodge podge of over-sized misc. Christmas cards. A short post to get you into the weekend. Real quick on this week's giveaway: Fuji wins. And to think he almost bowed out. Next week will be the 2017 Topps Now Ohtani. There are still 5 eligible readers for that one.

I'm still missing a couple cards from this set. Don't think I have actually every tried to find them, I should do that.

As promised a short post. Monday is going to be the Naughty list post, so be prepared.

HO HO HO! Merry Christmas. Lots of goodies in here.

Lots of goodies tonight.

I had to pull a card from the above page as it was a dupe.

Some of you may remember when Gavin was sending out Bennie's. As for the bottom row, the first card is what all of the cards in this playing card deck looks like. The base cards nothing Christmas on them, but the there were 3 Jokers with 2 designs. These playing cards came in in a double deck tin which I have, but only the one deck. Now, I have placed another deck inside the tin to fill the space....You'll see it eventually.

Pepsi Cola.

Had to scan the back of these a couple fun things there.

Yes, these cards sit in the Coca-Cola binder (and a few below too).

If you're ever stuck on what to send me, those Pacific Ornament cards are extremely welcomed. You can see the most recent addition to the collection with the 2024 Santa Archives card from the Holiday release. I still forgot to scan another Santa phone card too.

More Santa's from the Coke binder. 

Tomorrow night will be a short "misc" post.

Merry Christmas everyone!