Last week I went and bought a set of 1992 Topps Micro Baseball cards. I had seen them off and on in repacks all the time and just wanted to have them as a set for my personal collection. Price on eBay $2.99 + $2 shipping, happiness when looking at the cards . . .priceless.
My wife even commented saying that if they still made these cards, she would even buy them and she doesn’t even like baseball cards. If you don’t know what I’m talking about here is it pictured with a regular sized baseball card.
The card is roughly 1/6th of a regular card and it has everything printed on it that a regular card would have. I know why these were pulled from the market but I don’t know why they haven’t figured out a way to make them again and package them.
Think about all the mini sets that have come out and how popular mini cards are. From Allan and Ginter to Topps Mayo to Goodwin Champions, people love the mini cards. Go back even further to 1975, and look on eBay, those minis sell like hotcakes. Topps and Fleer even did this in the 80s as well. The big problem as to why they never stick around? Not way to package them. They have all been issued as sets. I think if the big three were to really put their heads together, OK maybe just Topps, they could come up with a great way to market this again. I mean how cool would it be to have a set of 2011 Topps Chome minis? Forget about inserts, hell there isn’t even designing that has to get done, just shrink it.
Of course, the set wouldn’t have many inserts, but who cares? They are minis! Everyone loves mini cards, even your spouse / significant other can get behind these kinds of sets. I mean who wouldn’t want this card:
We could all say awwww . . . how cute. Topps can say awwwww . . . how profitable! What do you say? Bring back the micros? If you are still on the fence, just watch this video:
I love the minis. I had sets when they were first released (at least, I remember the 1992 set). I’m sure they’re in a box, somewhere, but I ended up buying all the sets again in a bulk deal a few years ago. I’m not sure there’s enough of a market for packs of these, but maybe Topps could issue them as a one-per-pack parallel set. Or maybe packs of them as bonuses in blaster boxes? I could be wrong – they could be a big hit. I’ll welcome them either way if they do make a return.
And that mosaic is totally awesome. I want one. I’d be willing to put one together myself if I had instructions. It looks like the poster of the video hasn’t done another (or at least not made a video of it).
I’d love to see mini or micro versions of sets now a days. That’d be awesome! I had a blast just completing the 2010 Topps Magic Football mini white and black border mini sets. I wish this would happen
But what do you do with tiny little postage stamp-size cards once you have them?
They are ok. To me it’s just another genius ploy to make more money. You’re buying the exact same card just smaller. To make people spend more money buying the smaller version of the exact same thing is pretty impressive marketing. It’s the same thing with the different color parallels where you buy the EXACT same card with a different colored border.
I have the Twins set, plus a couple singles floating around here somewhere. I can barely read the text on the REGULAR SIZED cards nowdays!
Yeah, but the way chrome curled this year, could you imagine trying to manage a pile of those. It’d be like collecting fritos.
Minis are cool. Micros aren’t. I had that exact same complete ’92 Micro set. It drove me loopy. I’m a collector who likes looking at his cards, and not only could I barely read the micro cards, I was dropping them all over the place and sometimes they’d get lost. I ended up selling the whole set, and I don’t miss it.
Now, ’75 minis, A&G and Goodwin minis, etc., those rock.
It’s all in the size, and whether you can store them adequately.