I really liked the four years of Fleer's Authentix. They were based around a ticket design. and while my thoughts on them have cooled a bit over the years, as I've refined what I prefer in cards, I still have very fond memories of the sets and am actively working on trying to complete them- especially the 2002-03 set. I was able to add 6 that I needed in this round from COMC.
When I was pulling up the set, intending to go after the missing rookies, I found this card for less than the base cards were going for...
so I snapped it right up. Club Box is the second tier parallel, with 100 copies produced. Balcony is the first level parallel, with 250 copies, and Standing Room Only is limited to 25. One of the first "rainbows" I ever completed was the Elton Brand card from this set, which I have
posted in the past.
With these new additions, I now have 121 of 135 cards from the base set, or 89.6% according to the Trading Card Database. These are the cards I need, so this set should be doable at some point in the not too distant future. At one point the Amare Stoudamire would have been a bit of a stopper, but his decline and fall with the Knicks, Mavericks and Heat (and Israel) have lowered his prices immensely, now. In fact, lately I've had to pay more for Tayshaun Prince cards than Amare, and I need his here, too. Neither Drew Gooden nor Caron Butler is well loved in the hobby though both were good players, but none of them should prove outside my price range.
I wasn't familiar with this set. Interesting design that I like on a first take. I'll have to check into the set more and see if there are some players I'd want to pick up. Thanks for the post.
ReplyDeletethanks for the comment! I really liked the design when it first came out, and I still like it. But nowadays I prefer sets with unaltered images rather than a player in front of some computer generated backdrop. Now it's more the nostalgia factor for me.
DeleteI agree. I'm the same nowadays and would rather see a nice full photo as opposed to generic backgrounds.
DeleteThe Fleer Authentix sets were something that I was briefly enamored with when I started collecting cards again, but it didn't last too long. I don't really know why I lost interest in them so quickly, but I did, and now I'm just grateful I didn't buy too many before I decided that they weren't for me. Looking at your want list there, I can't imagine why you wouldn't be able to complete this set :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, this one is definitely something I could complete. Just going to take a little time...hopefully by this point next year, it'll be done!
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