Cheap Wax Wednesday Box Breaks: 1997 MotionVision Digital Replays Football
This is it. The end of the football season is upon us. With that, it’s the end of Cheap Wax Wednesday football breaks for the season. I figured I would finish off with something different. This is technically a counter top display, but as far as I can tell this is the only way they were available.
1997 MotionVision Digital Replays Football features a 28-card base checklist including five players who appear twice. Each base card is limited to 30,000 copies. In addition to the base set, there was one insert set, Limited Digital Replays. LDR’s, as they call them, are limited to 6,250 copies. One of the LDR’s, Terrell Davis, was available in rare autographed versions that are signed on the back.
Another inclusion in the set were redemption cards for a full uncut sheet. Only 97 redemption cards were inserted in the product run. By my math, 35,000 counter display boxes were produced for this release.
The packs looked an awful lot like CD cases.
I will apologize ahead of time for the terrible photography on this one. It was difficult to capture a good photo.
1997 MotionVision Digital Replays FootballBox Break
Cards per pack: 1
Packs per box: 25
Price paid: $32
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Pack 1:
Dan Marino
Pack 2:
Brett Favre
Here is a short GIF to give you a better idea of the motion of these cards.
Pack 3:
Jerome Bettis
Pack 4:
Deion Sanders
Pack 5:
Reggie White
Pack 6:
Brett Favre Limited Digital Replay (one per counter display box)
Pack 7:
Jerry Rice
Pack 8:
Kerry Collins
Pack 9:
Jeff Blake
Pack 10:
Barry Sanders
Pack 11:
Mark Brunell
Pack 12:
John Elway
Pack 13:
Emmitt Smith
Pack 14:
Terry Glenn
Pack 15:
Antonio Freeman
Pack 16:
Barry Sanders
Pack 17:
Isaac Bruce
Pack 18:
Joey Galloway
Pack 19:
Galloway again
Pack 20:
Eddie George
Pack 21:
Jeff Blake
Pack 22:
Terrell Davis
Pack 23:
Jerry Rice
Pack 24:
Curtis Martin
Pack 25:
Kerry Collins
These are actually fun cards. They’re something different and a step up from something like Sportflics. As far as I can tell, 1997 was the last hurrah for Motion Vision.
Next week I will do something different and feature a multi-sport product. After that, baseball breaks start up as I look forward to spring.
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