#big sets

[dancingboy-742]

you don't know how much I want my school's theatre program to do beauty and the beast next year!!!!!! Like it would be so awesome to do for my last musical in high school. Big sets, awesome costumes, and the rising seniors we have now would be awesome for it!!

[thecontinuouscardboardfire]

Sets of yesteryear used to be big, usually between 700-900 cards. The caveat was that those 900 cards were split up over 2 or 3 series. As premium brands started popping up in the 90's set sizes shrunk. In the early 2000's though the two top cardboard dogs tried to bring back the big set. The problem is they released the sets in one shot. Topps' Total and Upper Deck's XL sets were monster sets released in just a single series. Topps Total's checklist nearly doubled XL's but XL took the cake with its rookies. Out of 600 cards there were 100 rookies, primarily junk as with any football set but XL's RC's were inserted one every two packs. Shenanigans! I bought nearly half a box of this garbage and was left with just former Northwestern legend Zak Kustok as my lone first year shiny card. But alas Mr. Kustok did not incur my wrath today but instead I went back to the white wideout well and burned Brandon Stokley's 2002 Upper Deck XL. Now if I can just track down a Topps Total of Brian Finneran I'll have all my bases covered.