Maybe I'm a purist, but I have to admit, I'm not crazy about these 'chromes'. I bought a stack of packs from Target (very glad I didn't pre-order a box or cae), and a bunch of them were irreparably & undetectably bent in middle (because some store clerk probably crammed them down into the gravity box). Regular stickers or cards are more resilient than these weird, curled, thick-stock ones. When I opened them, I was shocked to see that all my 3 bucks bought me just 5 cards. And there's not much difference between the refractors & the regular ones. It's interesting to see the Wacky-Ads small, but really this is just yet another "reprint set" in a long line of other reprints of the same titles that frankly look the best in their original 1970's state, without art-backs, flashy borders, or goofed-up switched-around titles. I'm really surprised that all the Wacky veterans are buying into the continuous flood of re-packaged packages! If ANS-1 had just started where the 16th series left off (set of 30, brand-new Saunders-like artwork for currently-sold products rather than long-gone companies, plain backs, regular checklists, no alt-backs or chase cards), it would have been so much cooler!!! If it was a matter of the new kids being the demographic for them, and these new kids wanting chases, etc., I'd be fine with it. That idea sort-of worked for Lucas when he released his Jar-Jar-filled 'Star Wars, ep.1' at the dismay of the die-hard fans. But I don't buy it with the Wacky thing. If kids were really the true demographic for these, they wouldn't be releasing countless reprints of old titles. Today's kids have NO clue what some of these products or comedic references are. They're only funny or interesting if you were born back when sugar and lead, rather than high-fructose-corn-syrup and BPA, ruined our teeth and brains. Some of the comedy on the old Wackys even pre-dated our knowledge, but we only knew the gags because our dads & grand-dads used to say stuff like that. If I want to spend hundreds of hard-earned dollars putting a set together, I'd rather just have an extra 'real' 1st series than the same titles printed on the business end of a DVD. But that's just me. I'm OS.
