What Kind of Trading Cards Did You Collect as a Kid?

[SammyPops]

Baseball cards. You know, like a normal boy.

Or hockey cards, you know like a normal Canadian boy.

Anyone want to buy a Yzerman or Messier rookie card?

 

[Kingz]

NBA almost exclusively. I got a football and baseball set every now and then but I was huge into basketball cards. I have a Michael Jordan refractor...somewhere

 

[TeTe]

Garbage Pail Kinds when I was in elementary school. All four major sports in middle school and high school. Started buying/selling and collecting sports cards again in 2006.

 

[TeTe]

Panini Stickers were my shit back in the day too

I had the Panini baseball stickers and books back in the day.

Also dude above looks like poster child for meth addiction

 

[FyrFytr998]

Baseball and those Panini sticker books.
Football
Star Wars
Superman
Garbage Pail Kids

 

[weed]

my neighbors, growing up, these two creepy Russian kids - they used to ask to borrow my Marvel cards, so I'd let them. then one day, as they were returning them to me, the female superhero cards were all curved/rolled up.

to this day when I see them, they're afraid to look me in the eye haha

 

[GSP_37]

Almost anything.

I really want to dig up my old Milton Bradley G.I Joe and Transformers cards that had the actual toy box/cardart.

 

[Sleestaxk]

Panini Stickers were my shit back in the day too

New to the sport so only know Moyes as a manager but man he was an ugly duck

 

[Sleestaxk]

Hockey cards, we used to throw them up against the wall, god knows how many Gretzky rookie cards I wrecked

 

[MardyBum]

I was at the perfect age during the CCG boom to be suckered in. Star Wars, Star Trek, Aliens/Predator, Magic, Middle Earth, The DBZ/Ani-Mayhem ones, Pokemon and Digimon. On top of that all of the Marvel sets they had. I'm sure I'm missing some.

So much wasted money.

 

[GSP_37]

I saw an article yesterday saying crazy MF'ers now are paying crazy prices for the first Impel Marvel trading cards, sets, unopened boxes.

I was too late to buy by the pack, but bought maybe Colossus as a single card. Bought a bunch of series 2, which had John Romita Jr. art on a bunch and also Art Adams. The 3rd series with borderless black space background didn't really have great art, just Ron Lim art, I think. I barely bought any series 4 and that also had crappy art.

The Jim Lee X-Men cards had good pencils, but the inking and coloring seemed really low effort.

 

[Gene Tunney]

Football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and alf.

Also

 

[GSP_37]

Used to be you could find Star Wars, WWF cards, sports cards in medium drugstore chain. Even Costco carried baseball and basketball boxes at one point.

I noticed Walmart now has trading cards behind the counter along side cigarettes and a sign saying sales final as if douchebags would open and try to return or exchange. Only saw Magic though.

 

[Tone C]

New to the sport so only know Moyes as a manager but man he was an ugly duck

Lol, he's had some work done. I didn't know him as a player either so that was a shock...at least his missus didn't marry him for his looks...

 

[Kaybee]

Pokemon, Digimon, Yu-gi-oh, and football/baseball

Gave my pokemon cards to my brother who still collects them and threw away most of my football cards except for a few cool ones.

 

[GSP_37]

I just saw Amazon as seller has a Magic pack costing $20! One pack! Listed some special sounding cards in it.

 

[Pizza Werewolf]

Batman 89
TMNT the movie.
Fangoria
Marvel Masterpieces
Marvel Universe
Spawn
All kinds of basketball cards. (Fleer, Skybox, idk what else there was)

 

[GSP_37]

I specifically bought Post Honeycomb cereal for the crappy unlicensed baseball cards on decent cardstock but with photos omitting MLB team logos. Also bought Mother's Cookies for the crappy borderless cards.

A while back I saw one cereal had maybe Topps MLS soccer cards uncut on the box back. Passed.

 

[Oeshon]

None. Cards were for nerds.

 

[horc00]

Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell's were the shit.