Dodger Cardboard & Other Random Finds

Over the last couple of weeks, I have been (rather slowly), adding my collection over at the Trading Card Database. Everything except stuff that really gels with me is going into the For Trade Collection. I never realized how much stuff I have amassed over the years that really has no internet presence. I think I finally have all the motivation I need to go ahead and get a scanner now. Some of these oddities have really cool backstories. 1995 Tonka/Kenner Star Wars Power of the Force Remember when Kenner relaunched the 3 and 3/4 Star Wars figure line as Power of the Force back in the 90's? Well, they also went into a collaboration effort with Tonka and produced some little 1 inch die cast figures. Those figures came in 3 packs and had these amazing trading cards packed in with them. No listing on TCDB. 2007 Topps Hollywood Zombies Bonus Cards Hollywood Zombies are listed on TCDB, but these Bonus cards are not. I think there was only 2 of them and the...

When I was in school, everyone knew about Michael Jordan. Everyone knew who Nolan Ryan was. there was no argument, even from non-hockey people that Wayne Gretzky was the greatest to ever skate on ice. Ask anyone at the school I went to who was the best skateboarder in the world though, and you would be met with silence. Ask them who their favorite freestyle BMX rider was, silence again.  All of that changed in the late 90's thanks to the X-Games, the success of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater video games and the video masterpiece, Crusty Demons of Dirt. Extreme sports blew up. They made covers of Sports Illustrated. They made the late-night tv talk show circuits. They got all the sponsorships and endorsements they had dreamed of. Then, they got trading cards. To me this was a huge deal as I had always been a fan of collecting cards and extreme sports. to me, seeing some of these childhood heroes of mine immortalized on cardboard somehow made what they did more legitimat...