Super Duper

Another Topps online product, but at least 20% cooler. 

 

Topps Super 70s (officially stylized Topps X Super 70s, but I'm not with that 'X' thing) is the latest offering in a year that can only be considered the year of being online. Everyone is online all the time. It makes sense, I guess, for Topps to keep cranking out online-only products. This one happens to be based off of the hilariously cool Super 70s Twitter account, which has of course taken on life of its own and has its own merch store. I was excited, in theory, about this product until I looked at the checklist, which was very short on cards for my collection.

There's only one base Cardinals card in the 100 card set (Bob Gibson), which is still in transit to me. Instead of jumping in on some box breaks, I took to eBay to buy what I really needed because I'm extremely online. The two cards that did arrive first to me are both insert cards, although they look very much like the base cards and don't seem to be all that much harder to pull than the base itself.

The cards are similar some of the older, thinner Topps Archives cards. I think there has been an online-exclusive Archives set or two in recent years that this fits right in with.

The team font on the front is very 1978 Topps, but also includes some design elements from 1975 (the dual-colored border) and 1979. All in all, it's not a bad looking mash-up. Was Ozzie's hairdo really "happening", though? The sideburns, sure, but... maybe we should have gotten a whole "Slick Sideburns" insert set?

It's no '79 Ozzie Smith, but it'll do.