FIRST LOOK: 2012 Topps Heritage WWE

[pwaldo]

http://www.beckett.com/news/2012/08/...-heritage-wwe/

After a four-year rest, the Topps Heritage WWE line is back for another run at the world championship.

And while past years used past baseball designs as the form for the newest retro-styled WWE cards, this year’s edition will do something that hadn’t been done in the four previous standalone releases.

It will utilize the heritage of Topps‘ first wrestling release, the 1985 WWF set, which featured the likes of Hulk Hogan, the Iron Sheik and Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka on the cusp of wrestling’s emergence onto the national psyche. This time, some of those stars return — along with the oldschool design.

Set to arrive in late-November, 2012 Topps Heritage WWE will include a 110-card base set in the style of the original release, a 55-card Ringside Action set also styled after subsets in the original and several insert sets including Relics and autographs whose odds are still yet-to-be-determined but there will be a total of two in every 24-pack hobby box.

There will be at least eight signers, according to the preliminary checklist. They include a few first-time signers, too. It includes Vader, Paul Bearer, “Mean” Gene Okerlund, Doink The Clown, Papa Shango, The Godfather, Kama Mustafa (the last three all the same athlete, ironically) and Michael “P.S.” Hayes of Fabulous Freebirds fame.

[Greengoblin782]

Nice old school look. Why are the releases so close together for both new WWE sets?

[mavsfan]

It'll be something different, looks like they have sketch cards, hoping that those fall one a case.

[geoffyb]

may grab a couple boxes but see nothing to warrant buying a case. also the sketch cards look like they will be as rare as always with there being 10 hand drawn ones

[YouthSuicideLives]

Will Matt Bourne be the Doink who signs?

[bootan]

Will Matt Bourne be the Doink who signs?

thats the exact question I asked myself when I read Doink auto, it should be Matt Bourne

[geoffyb]

the more i look at it the more i hate it. i never liked the heritage stuff a whole lot. topps, just give us an original card design that is eye appealing and not cheap feeling.

[kosar19browns]

this looks like garbage imo..

[MichiganMan]

WOW... In my opinion this looks to be the most disappointing wrestling release since they started including memorabilia and autograph trading cards. I will pick up the usual CM Punk cards for my "Super Collection", and several memorabilia cards of other wrestlers that I enjoy watching. However, there is not one signer that I am interested in.

-Robert Lewis

[YouthSuicideLives]

How you people cannot be excited about the prospect of buying variation autos of Kama/shango/godfather off eBay is beyond me. Philistines, all of you.