1990 Topps Big Baseball Forum

Thanks to the work of MANY on this effort, we were able to add variations for 321 of the 330 cards in the set. (If you find the other version of any of those 9, please submit an IR so we can add it.)

For this one, we used the images that were already here as the guide to where collections would stay. All 330 cards had images. Collections did not move from the images. This means if you had cards in your collection (collection, want list, for sale/for trade lists), it has the possibility of being incorrectly listed now. If you're concerned about such things, you may wish to check your physical cards and see if they match. Additionally, this also means there are many opportunities for scans of the newly-listed cards to be added. Please only add full cards (front and back images from cards that match off). Please, no "franken-cards". Thanks.

(Also of note, we recently updated the 1988 Topps Big set with many variations as well. Collections there also followed the pre-existing images.)

Is there a reason we're not getting messages about these anymore when we have cards in the set? It's easy to miss forum postings like this.

The only reason being I was the only one who would write these up and then have to send it to Admin. And considering how many sets we've been updating like this, it's extremely time-consuming on my side to make all the edits, create a checklist to append, append, and now do all the formatting within the set, AND then on top of that, create a communication to go to all the members with cards from these sets in the collections. Sorry, I thought a forum post within the set's forum would suffice.

I applaud all the work that goes into these, and I am all for getting these variations added, but I just feel like if people's collections are going to be altered a more direct communication would be appropriate.

As mentioned at the beginning of this post, the collections followed the images. For me in particular this is a problem for FS/T lists, as I've been getting trade offers for cards that I don't actually have. This may be beyond the scope of this discussion, but I feel like the rush to get these variations in has overshadowed a need to maintain the integrity of people's collections. For me ideally there would be a way to have a card marked with an "unknown" variation, at least until the user can adjust it accordingly if they so choose. I understand this is more of a new feature request, but in the meantime I feel like communication is crucial.