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[WhoKilledTupac]

@ Blake - Thank you for the update. Interesting to hear they are done printing up to card 151. I am curious how they will be doing the Trout on card auto's as well as Jeter.

[WhoKilledTupac]

Originally Posted by blitzaceod

Update on the Jackie Set with Fucci PR. Have to be honest, I like the card overall and still think it sits well next to the other Jackies (except Mr Cartoon of course)
Got tracking on the Vides this morning so looks like Topps is crossing the 100 mark for shipping soon.
I'm guessing next Jackie is Oldmanalan or Siff

I did not realize how awesome this Jackie set looks with all of them together.
I was just looking on the prjct2020 site the other day wondering who has the best current-looking player set. I was really liking Gibson & Rickey so far as a whole.

[Silas Barnaby]

Originally Posted by blakejamieson

Topps has printed through card 151. The bottleneck is cases.

They have an order of 500K cases arriving next week. These are magnetic one-touches (not snap cases we have seen in the past).

They have another 500K cases coming the 3rd week of August. As of now, they tell me they will be "caught up" on shipping by end of August.

Good info - thank you!

[Wh0sSaNe]

Originally Posted by blakejamieson

Hey guys, happy hump day!

Just had a good conversation with Topps and wanted to update you all on what I learned:

I am in the same boat as many of you, frustrated by shipping delays and the impact that is having on the project momentum. For me, it directly affects my business and brand, because if less people buy the cards, my art gets into less homes.

Topps has printed through card 151. The bottleneck is cases.

They have an order of 500K cases arriving next week. These are magnetic one-touches (not snap cases we have seen in the past).

They have another 500K cases coming the 3rd week of August. As of now, they tell me they will be "caught up" on shipping by end of August.

They are currently shipping through card 98. My Trout card is on deck, and once they get past it, the others should catch up faster (bc lower PRs).

I know it's been frustrating to wait so long to get cards you've ordered. I am just as eager as anyone to get my Trout (and Mo, and Willie, and Ichiro) in hand. Just figured I'd let you all know what I heard direct from Topps.

Stay Awesome.

Appreciate the update

Next convo with Topps, maybe you could suggest that they randomly insert APs or do random drop times within the 48hr window? I think ppl would appreciate the idea that they might actually have a shot at getting 1...

[Bleu Falcon]

Originally Posted by blakejamieson

Hey guys, happy hump day!

Just had a good conversation with Topps and wanted to update you all on what I learned:

I am in the same boat as many of you, frustrated by shipping delays and the impact that is having on the project momentum. For me, it directly affects my business and brand, because if less people buy the cards, my art gets into less homes.

Topps has printed through card 151. The bottleneck is cases.

They have an order of 500K cases arriving next week. These are magnetic one-touches (not snap cases we have seen in the past).

They have another 500K cases coming the 3rd week of August. As of now, they tell me they will be "caught up" on shipping by end of August.

They are currently shipping through card 98. My Trout card is on deck, and once they get past it, the others should catch up faster (bc lower PRs).

I know it's been frustrating to wait so long to get cards you've ordered. I am just as eager as anyone to get my Trout (and Mo, and Willie, and Ichiro) in hand. Just figured I'd let you all know what I heard direct from Topps.

Stay Awesome.

Great info. Thanks!

[Silas Barnaby]

Originally Posted by Silas Barnaby

Topps will catch up.

Based on Jamieson's update, sounds like this guy knew what he was talking about.

[Colonel Kurtz]

Originally Posted by blakejamieson

The bottleneck is cases.

[This is my failed attempt to post a GIF of Dustin Hoffman getting advice in The Graduate.]

[seanbros55]

Originally Posted by blakejamieson

Hey guys, happy hump day!

Just had a good conversation with Topps and wanted to update you all on what I learned:

I am in the same boat as many of you, frustrated by shipping delays and the impact that is having on the project momentum. For me, it directly affects my business and brand, because if less people buy the cards, my art gets into less homes.

Topps has printed through card 151. The bottleneck is cases.

They have an order of 500K cases arriving next week. These are magnetic one-touches (not snap cases we have seen in the past).

They have another 500K cases coming the 3rd week of August. As of now, they tell me they will be "caught up" on shipping by end of August.

They are currently shipping through card 98. My Trout card is on deck, and once they get past it, the others should catch up faster (bc lower PRs).

I know it's been frustrating to wait so long to get cards you've ordered. I am just as eager as anyone to get my Trout (and Mo, and Willie, and Ichiro) in hand. Just figured I'd let you all know what I heard direct from Topps.

Stay Awesome.

Thanks for your candor Blake. God forbid we ever hear anything from Topps directly...

[Mdrosenkrans]

Originally Posted by blakejamieson

Hey guys, happy hump day!

Just had a good conversation with Topps and wanted to update you all on what I learned:

I am in the same boat as many of you, frustrated by shipping delays and the impact that is having on the project momentum. For me, it directly affects my business and brand, because if less people buy the cards, my art gets into less homes.

Topps has printed through card 151. The bottleneck is cases.

They have an order of 500K cases arriving next week. These are magnetic one-touches (not snap cases we have seen in the past).

They have another 500K cases coming the 3rd week of August. As of now, they tell me they will be "caught up" on shipping by end of August.

They are currently shipping through card 98. My Trout card is on deck, and once they get past it, the others should catch up faster (bc lower PRs).

I know it's been frustrating to wait so long to get cards you've ordered. I am just as eager as anyone to get my Trout (and Mo, and Willie, and Ichiro) in hand. Just figured I'd let you all know what I heard direct from Topps.

Stay Awesome.

So awesome of you to come here and give us these updates, appreciate that (and super happy to know they'll be in one touches, the snaps are driving my mild OCD crazy lol)

Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

[CardFarmer]

Originally Posted by floridaman92

Love the look of today's Don C, but I'm hesitant after seeing how the Frank Thomas looked in hand. Wonder how many people will feel the same way.

Did you see the Don C Ripken in hand? It's even worse, believe it or not. I will not purchase another Don C card outside of my player sets.

[redauto5]

Originally Posted by tysonbeck

Reached the half way mark. Card 10/20 dropped today of mine!

Hope you like it.

Its...elegant. I do not mind the massive white borders either for some reason, its super clean. My favorite Mariano so far, such a hard card to work with. Well done man thank you.

[AirplaneDon]

Originally Posted by redauto5

Its...elegant. I do not mind the massive white borders either for some reason, its super clean. My favorite Mariano so far, such a hard card to work with. Well done man thank you.

It simplifies the piece, and appears to make it enjoyable at both a distance and close up for different reasons. Extremely strong composition IMO.

[Wh0sSaNe]

Originally Posted by Silas Barnaby

Based on Jamieson's update, sounds like this guy knew what he was talking about.

Yea, 500k cases is enough for about cards 101-150. If the low PRs continue, the next 500k cases should last until about card #250, which brings us to about mid-September, so hopefully in the next month or so they'll be all caught up...

[redauto5]

Originally Posted by Bleu Falcon

Certainly a good time to bring back the pirate hats.

DO IT Keith, puleeeeeeeze. Pirate hats and elongated mouse noses FTW.

[hammertime]

Originally Posted by Wh0sSaNe

Appreciate the update

Next convo with Topps, maybe you could suggest that they randomly insert APs or do random drop times within the 48hr window? I think ppl would appreciate the idea that they might actually have a shot at getting 1...

Random drop times only helps the bots.

[ketchupman36]

If Topps catches up by the end of August AND we start getting proper mags I think we'll see a definite bump in cards for the back half of this project.

[ThoseBackPages]

solid print runs on mondays cards

[mossoholic]

Originally Posted by hammertime

Random drop times only helps the bots.

On AP cards? They sell out in 1-2 seconds. No human being can get an AP order without a random drop time.

There is zero chance Topps will insert them randomly especially with print runs down under 4k. If print runs were what they were 6 weeks ago Topps wouldn't care as much about the extra $12k a day from AP cards. Zero chance they are going to give up over $1 million dollars in AP sales by randomly inserting AP cards the rest of the run.

[AirplaneDon]

Originally Posted by hammertime

Random drop times only helps the bots.

Yeah this pretty much would only serve people with monitors and/or bots with keywords ste up. If anything I wish they had a more precise drop time every day. Topps should add a question in order to check out. Doesn't have to be a hard one, something like what other card dropped today? Or what is the name of the baseball team from Cincinnati? Would help tremendously.

[samcam]

Thanks for the update Blake! They should be paying you hourly. Gods forbid Topps sends actual information themselves!

Got my Ermsy companions! Both came today...they are fantastic! Got JK5 stickers today and they are sweet too!

Agree on the Beck being a strong piece, especially for Mariano!

Can you feel it!!!!!!!!????

[The Accountant]

Originally Posted by AirplaneDon

Thanks for passing along the info. Always interesting to see where the hold up is in the supply chain.

you really up'd your game this week Don! keep up the good work

[The Accountant]

Originally Posted by blakejamieson

Hey guys, happy hump day!

Just had a good conversation with Topps and wanted to update you all on what I learned:

I am in the same boat as many of you, frustrated by shipping delays and the impact that is having on the project momentum. For me, it directly affects my business and brand, because if less people buy the cards, my art gets into less homes.

Topps has printed through card 151. The bottleneck is cases.

They have an order of 500K cases arriving next week. These are magnetic one-touches (not snap cases we have seen in the past).

They have another 500K cases coming the 3rd week of August. As of now, they tell me they will be "caught up" on shipping by end of August.

They are currently shipping through card 98. My Trout card is on deck, and once they get past it, the others should catch up faster (bc lower PRs).

I know it's been frustrating to wait so long to get cards you've ordered. I am just as eager as anyone to get my Trout (and Mo, and Willie, and Ichiro) in hand. Just figured I'd let you all know what I heard direct from Topps.

Stay Awesome.

thanks for the greatly needed update - really appreciate your time and art work

[DioBrando]

I got my Ermsy Gooden bought off Ebay today. Such a great looking card in hand, glad I bought it

[hammertime]

This set is like a Shakespearean tragedy...or maybe Faulknerian...I'm enjoying the beautiful agony. I just hope it's more positive than negative for the artists.

[Silas Barnaby]

Originally Posted by DioBrando

I got my Ermsy Gooden bought off Ebay today. Such a great looking card in hand, glad I bought it

I love the background on that one. The trees, clouds and little sun in the sky.