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Indiana Jones Cards
It was stuff like this that had me worried about a new Indiana Jones movie playing the nostalgia card too heavily.
 Topps is introducing a trading card set to coincide with this summer�s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that will feature scenes from the first three films. Reading through the description (grey-back card stock, gum in every pack) makes them sound exactly like the sort of cards I bought as a ten year-old kid twenty-five years ago.
The last time I bought � or paid attention to � trading cards was back in the 1980�s when films like Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back were making their way through movie theaters for the first time (and Harrison Ford was still young and spry). My brother and I would ride our bikes up to the local White Hen Pantry to pick out packs of cards from our favorite movies. (I recall Kevin putting together the entire E.T. series) We would usually throw away the piece of pink cardboard that tried to pass as a stick of gum, and then flip through the stack to see what new movie visuals we had uncovered. In the days before the Interwebs and the vastness of online photos and screen-shots, the easiest way for a youngster like me to keep enjoying scenes from The Empire Strikes Back was to build up stacks of the trading cards from that movie.
Obviously, Topps has continued making cards based on movie and other pop-culture properties since I last picked up a pack in the mid-1980s, though the concept has been modernized and few more gimmicks have been thrown in (and it looks like they got rid of the bubble gum). I really shouldn�t fault the movie because Topps wants to trot out a �heritage� label for these cards and bank heavily on the nostalgia factor of guys like me. In fact, I kinda would like to hunt down a pack or two. If for no other reason than to get one more opportunity to toss a piece of cardboard gum into the bushes while loudly complaining about getting another Marion and the monkey card.Labels: 80's, Indiana Jones
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Topps is introducing a trading card set to coincide with this summer�s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that will feature scenes from the first three films. Reading through the description (grey-back card stock, gum in every pack) makes them sound exactly like the sort of cards I bought as a ten year-old kid twenty-five years ago.
