Congrats to Barry on being the lucky winner of the Julius Jones 2004 Upper Deck Legends – Future NFL Legends Jersey. Once Barry sends me his mailing address, I will ship this card ASAP. Thanks!
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This contest is for a Julius Jones 2004 Upper Deck Legends – Future NFL Legends Jersey. Good luck!!!
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Before OYO and C3 Toys showed up, the only sports licensed minifigures on the block came from a team-up between LEGO, Upper Deck, and the NBA. This all took place between 2002-2003. It was a short-lived relationship, but created some unconventional items that can easily stand out in your basketball collection.
LEGO made a handful of NBA licensed building toys. Some contain generic NBA minifigures, while others are player specific. A majority of the player specific minifigures can be found in the NBA Collector Sets.
There are eight different NBA Collector Sets. Each one comes packaged with (3) minifigures, (3) stands, and (3) Upper Deck cards. They include:
Every minifigure within the NBA Collector Set has a corresponding Upper Deck card. You’ll find (1) gold parallel inside each pack. Randomly inserted are autographs of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Jason Kidd, and Kobe Bryant. When I mean randomly, its almost to the point where they don’t even exist. You rarely see them. The autographs aren’t serial numbered, but the print run on them has to be extremely low. I sent an e-mail to Upper Deck attempting to obtain an actual print run, but all I got back was “We are not releasing print run information on those, rather letting the market determine scarcity levels.”
Instead of using a regular photograph, I think Upper Deck should’ve used an animated image of the player’s LEGO minifigure. That would’ve been something different, at least for the autographs.
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Its no secret that box prices can get expensive. Sometimes an older product might take care of that pack busting itch for a much lower cost. Just because that new box guarantees ten “hits” doesn’t mean you’ll come close to pulling something anywhere near what you paid. One “hit” from an older set could easily be better than ten from that newer product.
If you’re looking for an affordable box from the 90’s that has an autograph checklist which hasn’t dwindled, I’d suggest 1998 Upper Deck SP Authentic Baseball. Upper Deck introduced the high-end SP brand in 1993, but in 1998 they changed the name to SP Authentic. This was mainly due to each box containing an autograph.
The 1998 SP Authentic set consists of (198) base cards. I really like the way these look. They’ve got a foil-photo in the middle which is then surrounded by an all white border. Magglio Ordonez is the most notable rookie of them all. David Ortiz has a somewhat popular second year card too. As far as inserts go, there really is only one – Sheer Dominance. These come in Silver, Gold #’ed/2000, and Titanium #’ed/100.
What you’d be opening a box for would mainly be the autograph. Glancing over the checklist you’ll notice its fairly solid. Of course there are some duds, but what product doesn’t have those? Key autographs include Alex Rodriguez, Chipper Jones, Gary Sheffield, Ivan Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr., Mike Mussina, Mo Vaughn, Nomar Garciaparra, Paul Molitor, Roberto Alomar, Roger Clemens, Scott Rolen, Tony Gwynn, Todd Helton, and Vladimir Guerrero. Every Chirography autograph is signed on-card.
Upper Deck included various Trade Cards for oversized 5″ x 7″ jersey cards as well as full size autographed memorabilia. If this were 1998, you could redeem them. Given that they’re nineteen years old, I highly doubt you could receive anything for them today.
On the bottom of the box, Upper Deck lists how many of each Trade Cards was made, and the approximate retail value of that item.
Browsing over this price list is fun. I certainly wouldn’t use it as an official guide though. There is no way to know if everything on that list was even redeemed. Quantities could be lower.
If you’re patient, boxes can be found for $50.
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