Leaf will be releasing a new
wrestling set in July titled 2012 Leaf Originals Wrestling, The set is based on
the 1948 Leaf baseball set and every card will be signed on-card by the
wrestlers.
Some of the announced wrestlers:
Rowdy Roddy Piper
Iron Shiek
Ric Flair
Hulk Hogan
Bruno Sammartino
Scott Hall
Shawn Michaels
Jake the Snake Roberts
Bret Heart
Kevin Nash
Additionally there will also be
managers and other personalities tied to wrestling like:
Bobby Heenan
Pete Rose
If you are a wrestling
fan/collector this would seem like an awesome release, at $80/pack you get 5
on-card autographs of some of the best wrestlers to have ever stepped in to the
ring. The problem is that Leaf decided not to use a similar styling with the
players from the 1948 set but instead went the artistic route. No artists were
named but whoever did the work took some serious artistic licensing with the
cards. Some cards look ok like the Iron Sheik and Bobby the Brain Heenan but
Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash are horrible.
To add to the chase there will be
parallel versions, some as low as #1/1, as well as alternate art cards, which will also
have limited parallel versions. These are just early preview images so the autographs have not been signed yet, these are just mock-up autographs.
Uhh... why are their names printed twice?? Weird.
ReplyDeleteThe blue script is where the on-card autograph will be located, it is only a place holder on the mock-ups.
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