[corbin21]

Just wondering what everyone's opinion is about this years Topps Archive set. Good, Bad, or Indifferent. I have the 2012 and 2013 sets. Not sure if I am willing to pay the price to complete this years. I need to hear some voices to steer me in the right direction. I already know the direction my wife's voices are going... LOL

[reagle beagle 37]

To me, Archives was awesome in 2001 when it first came out and through, like, 2004ish. These newer versions though just don't do it for me. Why do I want a Bip Roberts card in the Topps 1985 design?

[waynetalger]

To me, Archives was awesome in 2001 when it first came out and through, like, 2004ish. These newer versions though just don't do it for me. Why do I want a Bip Roberts card in the Topps 1985 design?

Actually it was 1993 and had the 1953 topps design. I bought a box myself and pulled the david wright mini auto.
Me I have mixed feeling about the set myslef.

[Phillies_Joe]

IMO, should be an insert set within another product. This is the one product that I most def. only collect my pc stuff through trade or single card purchase. Everyone has thier own fav. year designs, but a rehash of a rehash...overkill .

[zeprock]

There are a lot of cards in the set depicting players that I collect but I will try to trade for them or pick them up off the secondary market. The cards I've seen so far from this year's set seem a little less inspiring than the previous couple of year's sets. The photos don't look quite as clear and the inserts I've seen don't seem to have had a lot of effort put into them to make them look nice. The All-Star Boggs card I have from that set looks like a cheap knockoff on inferior card stock and produced with a less detailed printing process.

[jacobystealshome]

i picked up a case last year, and really liked it. this set in 2014 was massively shortprinted in comparison to last year (thus the higher prices), but the major league inserts didnt do much for me

i like the fact that they didnt print as many this year - im hearing less than half - because in general i like to see that. that being said, i wish they hadnt done it with archives because it's a GREAT set at 50/60 dollars a box

[muz0]

I was always a fan of archives. Yeah you may get Bip Roberts and some other commons from the 80s and such.. Sure beats having an auto from an unknown prospect whos like 12 years old and who knows if he'll even play in the majors? (sarcastic..). Still. I dig the fan fav autos. Plus it's on card. If I didn't go for the gypsy set this year, archives would have been a strong second.

[reagle beagle 37]

I was not counting the '53, '54, or Brooklyn Dodgers archives set because they came out, like eight years before the 2001 topps 450 card set.

[DrMitchJ]

I love retro designs of cards, but Heritage does a really great job of that, on the heavier card stock, so I'm not a huge Archives fan. I actually liked Lineage more than Archives, because it had the retro feel with new designs and a good mix of old/current players. 1980-2000 card designs .... Do they really need to be revisited at all? The (only, IMO) best thing about Archives is the on-card autos!

[mmahoney]

Not a huge fan. Bought a couple of blasters from Target with the $5 off coupon from series 1. Will take out my PC cards and then trade the rest. Will look to trade/buy rest of my PC cards.

Got lucky and got a couple of Tanaka SP rookies and Bill Russell gold auto (/50) so that will almost offset the cost.