Well, I'm a day late. Thanks to Topps Cards That Never Were for bringing this to my attention yesterday.
The 2025 Topps flagship design has officially been publicized. Let's take a look, shall we?
My first thought is 'Confound it, I shouldn't have had a white background for this post!' All cosmetics aside, this design is very interesting.
The team name coming across the left-hand side of the card looks pretty nice, but when you acquire a few hundred of them, I think it might get a little bit annoying and difficult to read. The bottom of the card looks good, with everything you need, except the position. Now, there is a little circle on the diamond showing what posisiton the player is, but I never would have noticed that had Night Owl not pointed it out. I think I can live with it, even though there's plenty of space for a written-out position.
The color scheme is perfect. By far the best part of the card. Topps literally could not have done better on that.
Overall, it's not my favorite design, but it's pretty good. I think that behind 2024 Topps, this is probably the best design since at least 2018 Topps.
I'll do a better analysis once I get a first-hand taste of 2025 Topps. Perhaps I was being too hard on the design just because its predecessor was legendary. It's really a decent design, most definitely one not to complain about. Topps has picked up the slack on decent designs the past two years (I wish they'd slow down the pace on the near 20 parallels and the ton of inserts coming out this year).
Well, thanks for reading my analysis, have a great rest of the week (hold on just one more day) and happy collecting.
I just posted my thoughts on the design as well. I wasn't expecting it to top last year's design, but this is a solid follow-up!
ReplyDeleteThe position indicator and the team name traveling along the race track make the set interesting, because everything else is the same-old.
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