I got home from work today to discover I'd received another envelope from Kenny (aka Zippy Zappy) in Japan. Like the last one I got from him, this one contained several cards from the 2026 Calbee Series One set. This time, all the cards were base cards from the set:
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| #008 Kota Tatsu |
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| #014 Kotaro Kurebayashi |
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| #023 Hiroshi Kaino |
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| #021 Shuta Tonosaki |
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| #T-21 |
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| #C-03 |
That final card is one of six checklist cards in the set. The checklist cards for Calbee used to feature some of the best and most interesting photos in the set but for the past two years have featured images of the mascots instead. Last year they were drawings but this year they seem to just be dull photos. It's one of many decisions that the company has made over the past four years or so that make me scratch my head.
But despite that, I'm, as always, very grateful to Kenny for sending me the cards. Thanks again!
2 comments:
I wouldn't really mind the mascot cards as a seperate subset, but like you say since they started putting them on the checklist cards there have been zero Calbee cards with interesting photos on them which is a real problem.
I've got my little stack of 2026 Calbees sitting in front of me as I type this (I open a bag a day at lunch and keep them on my desk) and all they are is ugly Title Holder, Legend and Star Card subsets with kind of trashy looking designs on the one hand, and regular cards with the usual boring photography on the other.
Oh, and the mascot cards of course.
Oh what I would give if they would only make a set that looked like the ones they put out in the 70s. I'd be buying them by the caseload if they went back to doing that.
Yeah, I really wish I knew why Calbee decided to just basically give up on making a decent product.
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