TTM Success

After having some luck with TTM autograph requests this year I decided to continue with some of my favorite actors and this includes Mel Brooks.

I was first introduced to Mel Brooks when my parents took us to see History Of The World: Part I in the theater. Sure the movie was a bit over my 9-year old head but the jokes that I did get made me laugh and created a Mel Brooks fan for life. Over the years with movies like Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men In Tights I began to appreciate Mel's humor and looked back to his older movies like Blazing Saddles and shorts like The 2000 Year Old Man.

I came across a TTM autograph website and saw that Mr. Brooks does respond to autograph requests but that it is usually in the form of an 8x10 but I took a chance and created 3 custom cards (including the backs) similar to the Randy Couture card that I got back signed not long ago. These are the digital versions of the cards I sent.

I sent the cards and waited, it took about 3 weeks and I got a large envelope from Brooksfilms and honestly did not put it together in my mind until I opened it. Inside was a black and white signed 8x10 along with a business envelope. Inside the business envelope was my SASE and three cards, which were not signed.

I love the photo, I am a bit bummed because I would have loved to have his signature on the cards and be able to put them in to a binder but the photo is hanging prominently in my workspace near my Dalai Lama signature.

Coming Soon To A Pack Near You (Not Really)... Mel Brooks The Trading Card Set!

I was watching Robin Hood: Men In Tights this morning and I started thinking about how cool it would be to have a Mel Brooks set, I really respect him as an actor, director and producer. I grew up watching his comedies and I could see Panini or Rittenhouse putting something together. A set built on some of his best movies like Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, History of the World Part I, Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men In Tights.

 

Obviously the highlight of the set would be the autographs. The list would be legendary and could be made up of cut signatures and preferably on-card signatures. Just some of the people who could be included, besides Mel Brooks: Cleavon Little (cut signature), Harvey Korman (cut signature), Madeline Kahn (cut signature), Alex Karras (cut signature), Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle (cut signature), Marty Feldman (cut signature), Dick van Patten, Cloris Leachman, Don DeLuise (cut signature), Gregory Hines (cut signature), Orson Welles (cut signature), John Candy (cut signature), Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis and Dave Chappelle.

 

Now who wouldn’t be happy pulling an autograph from that list? Almost all of them would be a great pull. I think this set would be more geared towards the older generation of collectors but if you think about recent releases like Leaf’s Muhammad Ali and Pete Rose releases and Panini’s Beach Boys release, these sets are also geared towards the older collectors and have done well.

 

I put together some of the cards for fun to give an idea of what I have in mind, excuse the limited design flair I literally put these six cards together in 45 minutes. But I think it gets the point across.