New Topps-Bob Ross card set...

[gt2590]

To be released on Topps.com on Thurs 10/5.

Have to admit I'm pretty intrigued...

 

[gt2590]

Set details...

2023 Topps X Bob Ross The Joy of Baseball Cards

2023 Topps X Bob Ross The Joy of Baseball checklist, set info, print runs, odds release date, reviews. Collector's Box has 2 autographs.

www.cardboardconnection.com

 

[gt2590]

Can't find a price anywhere though...

 

[banjar]

I effin' love this. I might actually buy a card or two. Bob was just incredible.

 

[finestkind]

Too bad Bob Ross and his family won't benefit from it.

 

[gt2590]

I effin' love this. I might actually buy a card or two. Bob was just incredible.

I won’t buy the probably overpriced boxes but def my PC guys, and probably even a set, once the price cools…

 

[mrmopar]

Too bad Bob Ross and his family won't benefit from it.

I would assume the family would need to grant permission to use his likeness, but why are they even making this set? The guy has been dead for almost 30 years! This is clearly an admission that cards are not for kids anymore, not that we needed one to see that happening. He didn't do anything to the cards, so how is his name associated with this issue? I could see the Baller set, because he apparently was part of the design. Or Topps Project 70, with artists doing their own thing. Ross didn't bring anything to this game. They are just using his name/fame as a painter. I don't get this one personally.

 

[mrmopar]

I just looked up the set. They did work with the Ross Estate and apparently these will be players superimposed onto Ross paintings. There is also a Ross Topps base design card like the 2023 set, a SP of some sort. Good luck to those wanting to collect it. Not for me (unless they slipped Garvey into it for some reason)

 

[gt2590]

I would assume the family would need to grant permission to use his likeness, but why are they even making this set? The guy has been dead for almost 30 years! This is clearly an admission that cards are not for kids anymore, not that we needed one to see that happening. He didn't do anything to the cards, so how is his name associated with this issue? I could see the Baller set, because he apparently was part of the design. Or Topps Project 70, with artists doing their own thing. Ross didn't bring anything to this game. They are just using his name/fame as a painter. I don't get this one personally.

Actually the kids today love Bob Ross. Some ironically as a meme to mock their parents age but all four of my kids, all artists in their teens and early 20s, absolutely love the guy…

 

[gitarst182]

https://www.topps.com/2023-topps-x-bob-ross-learn-more

This set looks pretty nice. On sale tomorrow at 9am PST.

 

[smapdi]

There's a documentary on Netflix about Ross and the people who worked for him who basically stole his identity and rights from his family. So when it says "Ross estate" I'm not sure exactly who is benefitting here. Lots of people are saying they won't buy this due to that.

I'm on the fence myself. I agree it's incongruous to have cards with ballplayers just superimposed over landscape paintings, but when you look at other sets like Fire or Cosmic, is there really a difference?

 

[finestkind]

There's a documentary on Netflix about Ross and the people who worked for him who basically stole his identity and rights from his family. So when it says "Ross estate" I'm not sure exactly who is benefitting here. Lots of people are saying they won't buy this due to that.

I'm on the fence myself. I agree it's incongruous to have cards with ballplayers just superimposed over landscape paintings, but when you look at other sets like Fire or Cosmic, is there really a difference?

That was the documentary I was referring to.

 

[K34PuckettAddict]

I like it, hope the set has a Puckett.


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[dano7]

Managed to get one! $199......listed on eBay at $399 or more already.

 

[Dazed]

Managed to get one! $199......listed on eBay at $399 or more already.

Got mine too! Now we wait & wait.....

 

[gt2590]

NIIIICE!

Although I'm pretty sure you guys are bots...

 

[dano7]

NIIIICE!

Although I'm pretty sure you guys are bots...

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[finestkind]

They're not bots. They just went to different schools together.

 

[mrmopar]

That is a sad state of affairs when there are people who want to buy, can't get through and miss out, yet people have doubled the price on them because they are successful at buying 1 or more boxes online. It's happening with most things these days that are limited or hot and it's not new, of course, we just see it easier with an online presence. Every year when I was a kid, there was a toy craze for something new that everyone wanted, but only a few people could get. In fact, "Jingle All The Way" with Arnold, Phil Hartman and Sinbad was a great movie that came out later that mocked that very situation well. Very funny movie, must see if you have never seen it.

It's capitalism at it's finest, but it still sucks for the end consumer who has to pay a flippers mark-up because they have no shot at getting one direct.

 

[finestkind]

My wife used to work for an airfreight company out of Boston. Around Christmas time, she would call her friends around the country looking for the HOT toy of the year for her nephews. More than once her nephews would leave the toy outside in a icy watery puddle within a few days after Christmas.