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03-09-2009, 04:14 PM #1
98-99 Skybox Thunder Rave and Super Rave
Have any of you ever seen/own any 98-99 Skybox Thunder Rave or Super Rave cards? I remember the product from back in the day but I don't ever remember seeing any rave or super rave cards from the product till about 2000 or 2001. They seem to be pretty tough to obtain. I also noticed a Michael Jordan Rave ended up about $400.00 on the bay a while back. When Ive searched for either parallel on ebay I see many baseball/football cards, but raley any NBA cards. So, anyone have any experience with the cards or any idea as to why they were so difficult to get?
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03-10-2009, 07:14 PM #2
Yeah, they are awesome looking cards...one of the better ideas Skybox ever had.
They are difficult to nab because its from a late 90s set, numbered cards was still new then so they were not prevalent. Hard to pull and not a lot out there. A lot are probably still sitting in wax too.
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03-10-2009, 07:21 PM #3
Since there was so little foiling on these cards they were most likely often looked over just as a regular base card, so some people may not even know they have any.
I know that that Patrick (the huge Larry Johnson collector) still doesn't have the Rave #/150 or the Super Rave #/25. Those are the only to LJ cards that are not 1/1's that he doesn't have
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03-10-2009, 08:33 PM #4
Here's what one of them looks like:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Shawn-Bradley-19...QQcmdZViewItem
The Super Rave versions have golden-brown glowing stamps instead of silver glowing stamps.
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03-10-2009, 08:39 PM #5
Nope..all non-base 98-99 Thunder stuff seems to be hard to obtain. I remember trading my Grant Hill $300 autograph from 96-97 SkyBox Autographics back in the day for 98-99 Thunder Lift Off inserts of Kobe Bryant and Antoine Walker - idiotic trade, yeah, but I was 13 and didn't fully comprehend what I had at the time. I have no idea what I did with those inserts, which sucks since I am an Antoine collector and haven't been able to reclaim the card since I started collecting him in 2005.
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03-10-2009, 09:23 PM #6
yeah, skybox produced some tough inserts late in the 90s...i like the 97-98 zforce rave and super rave a lot more than the 98-99 thunder...i do like the noyz boyz from 98-99 though, i have this one, but am selling it
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s...zboyz_0001.jpg
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03-10-2009, 09:25 PM #7
1020chase, thats a sweet kobe!
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03-10-2009, 10:35 PM #8
Thanks for the comments everyone. Although the 97-98 Z-Force cards started the Rave and Super Rave idea, I have always been more attracted to the Thunder cards since it seems so few of them ever surfaced and the low serial numbering, which at that time actually meant something. Even today, the Z-force cards seem to be there for the taking compared to the Thunder.
Great stuff.
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03-13-2009, 12:21 PM #9
because more product was made back then. i dont remember exactly how the basketball was but i remember you got 1 rave card per case in baseball, i believe they were /150 if im not mistaken. i also believe you got 1 superrave in every 5 cases. see much more product was made back in those days. it was actually way more fun to collect, and thats why more people did.
i pulled the drew bledsoe one from 1997 in football. it was /150 i believe and i sold it for $200. now can you imagine that happening today with a veteran card just #ed, not autographed or patch?Last edited by lavalav; 03-13-2009 at 12:24 PM.
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