Upper Deck comes through! (eventually)

 Back on Christmas day, I got the 2020-21 MVP factory set, which includes an exclusive blue parallel. When I typed it into my Excel collection chart, I was dismayed to discovered I had only gotten 249 of the 250 cards. A message was sent to Upper Deck the very next day, and finally...on May 11th...the missing card arrived! That makes it only my second completed NHL parallel, after the 2018-19 MVP factory set.

You get a picture because my scanner is not currently plugged in. 

Pretty cool that they actually took care of a problem. Less cool that it took more than 5 months to solve such an easy problem, but the fact that they solved it is what's important. 

As a bonus to this post, here is the rare Racing Champions car I mentioned last time...

Terry Labonte drove this car at Michigan in 2001. The real car was Chromalusion, but the diecast version is just metallic brown. This car was only available as a model kit packed in with the hauler. I didn't know it existed until last month. I thought I had completed the 2001 Racing Champions line in 2001...but I was wrong. I discovered that the Elliott Sadler Air Force car was also made as a standalone model kit, and I discovered that one completely by accident. I was searching for Elliott Sadler cars to use as donors because they are fairly cheap and easy to strip, and there it was for sale on ebay. 

Needless to say, I bought it. I didn't find any donors to use though. 

Fun with Screencaps - MVP Parallels

 A couple weeks back I traded for 12 cards from this year's MVP set. I normally don't trade for current year stuff, figuring it'll just end up being a duplicate, but with cards so rare right now I did it. Just for the heck of it, after I scanned the first 9 of them, I pulled out the Blue factory set parallels that were awaiting scans. Luckily, I hadn't done any of the Blues of these nine cards yet, so I did them back to back. 

I don't recall ever doing anything like that before, and I thought it would be fun to screencap it. 

I have not labeled them yet, if I had done that they wouldn't have been stacked like this. As you can see I also did some pages of 1990-91 Pro Set, one of my favorite NHL sets. I hadn't cropped three of the Pro Set scans yet when I took the screencap. 

I think I actually like the Blue parallel better than the basic card, which is tan in color. I have not yet seen any of the other parallels. Last year my favorite was the Green, which was epack exclusive and which I was picking up on COMC. I never saw the Blue parallel from last year unfortunately. 

These are the first two Brady Skjei Hurricanes cards in my collection. That makes me sad, he should still be a Ranger, but our clueless GM decided to trade him. Defense was our weakest point and he was the best Defender we had, which made it even worse. At least we actually got a player back this time, unlike when he traded Mats Zuccarello for magic beans.