I wouldn't hold my breath. I don't think these sold as well as they thought. I think original series reprints have become totally over produced. So we put up with it because of the chase stuff but the cards are swill.
I collected a lot of ANS and OLDS and it was fun having Wackys again but now they are reproducing OS too much with Flashback and Chrome. Also, now new ANS are repeat titles from the other ANS series. It's now getting stupid. I won't even buy the new ANS series as I've seen all I want to see in the promo pics. OLDS 5 is a fun series but the sketch characters are horrible and that is why they have been trying to sell boxes/cases at half price. Almost every wacky character sketch has been done now. Sketches are cool but with anything Topps does they run it until it's dead.
I would agree with that 100%. Seems they are milking it for all its worth and they seem to be squeezing out the last remaining squirts at this point, not just with WP's but elsewhere with the Mars Attacks and with Garbage Pail Kids too. I think the Dinosaurs Attacks line will be next to get this treatment. I picked up some of the earliest wacky packages sets a few years back solely for the art but i wouldn't do it again seeing as how the same pieces are just being released again on a new cardstock or with a different colored border. Might as well wait for rock bottom prices once the market collapses then to pay premium for supposed investment value. I have only seen prices plummet since 2010 in every topps product that's been released. I don't personally collect the sketches so they don't draw me in. Now adays i just pick up a base set and a few parallel sets on ebay and call it a day. I hardly ever go for bonus or promo cards and it hardly ever entices me to purchase a "limited" item, instead i simply opt out and dismiss it all together. Kind of like this wacky packages chrome set. The chrome treatment was cool, but the art doesn't stand out and/or enhance it any. The old cards still win out in a matchup vs chrome any day of the week.
looks like most of the supers are still sitting in unopened boxes somewhere not be reopened again until the next anniversary in 15 years or so from now. Prices have been dipping on these things anyways. gpk supers went from 500 to 1000 and then back down to 750, 500 and now 350. So that would explain why people aren't selling them, although if their true intention was to profit, they missed that opportunity months ago already. I only saw the wp chrome packs in stores for a very short amount of time and noone was buying them so that probably explains why they cancelled any follow up set.
Old5 was a cool set but as you said how many of the same characters can they sketch out before it gets stale for collectors. The one positive for collectors is how good artists are becoming at their craft as sketches are only getting better and better in most sets. A silver lining in an otherwise stale hobby. Luckily the artists will still be around for commissions long after the last sets sell!