Category: Wax Pack Flashbacks

by The Retro Rambler

Opening Old Packs of Baseball Cards

Baseball Cards

With a new season of baseball starting, I find myself reminiscing about the good old days of collecting and trading baseball cards with my friends.  It was an annual summer event in our little neighborhood, and probably the most fun thing about the hobby, was opening a new pack of cards.

You never knew what you would find inside, even though your were always hopeful of getting a superstar card, a rookie card, or some special insert.  Well, to relieve that fun feeling, I pulled some old packs of cards out of my collection and opened them.  I filmed the opening of each pack, and though you might enjoy seeing what treasures were found inside.  If that tickles your fancy, watch the videos below, and then feel free to leave a comment sharing your own memories of tearing open a new wax pack.

1988 Topps Baseball

 

1989 Donruss Baseball

 

1989 Fleer’s Baseball’s Greatest Gross Outs

by The Retro Rambler

Wax Pack Flashback: Masters of the Universe Cards from 1984

Wax Pack Flashback

I don’t know about you, but when I was younger, trading cards were a big part of my everyday life.  I would spend plenty of my allowance on packs of baseball cards as well as non-sports cards of all kinds.  Then I’d smuggle my cards to school and trade them with friends, or sometimes just drool over their collection.  There was actually a summer where every single day with my friends was spent trading cards.

There is something very nostalgic to me about opening a pack of cards.  I’ve went on a bit of a binge lately and purchased a lot of old wax packs on ebay.  Everything from old baseball cards to Dick Tracy movie cards to Young Indiana Jones Chronicles cards.  I’ve bought a lot.  So with that said, it’s time to start opening these bad boys up and seeing what’s inside in what I like to call Wax Pack Flashback!

Up first is a pack of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cards from 1984.  This was an 88 card set, that also featured 21 different stickers, with one being randomly inserted into each pack.  The cards are in the animated style of the He-Man cartoon, and actually re-tell the episode titled “Like Father, Like Daughter” in comic strip form.  They used scenes from the episode along with word bubbles to tell the story, and the backs of the cards went more in-depth about the story being told on the front of the card.

 

He-Man Trading Cards

 

Just looking at the pack, it scream cool.  It’s funny, but I was a super huge mark for all things He-Man back in the day, but at the time, I didn’t even know these cards existed.  When I first came across a pack of them, I thought the packs themselves just looked really cool.  The packs featured four different characters on them.  He-Man, Skeletor, Teela, and Orko.  I’ve got one each of the He-Man and Skeletor packs featured prominently in a display case in my living room.

 

 

The back of the pack shows the Topps logo quite well, but nothing else of note really.  A lot of card packs from this era would feature some kind of candy ad on the back of the wrapper.

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