HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE. NOT FOR ME, MY FRIDAYS ARE TERRIBLE. BUT IF I SURVIVE TODAY I GET TO HAVE A TERRIBLE SATURDAY TOO. BUT SUNDAY! WELL, THAT COULD ALSO BE BAD BUT ANYWAY, HERE IS ONE OF THE WEIRDER THINGS YOU WILL SEE ON THIS FRIDAY
1993 SGW KROME CAPS #12K CAVEMAN ROWDY RODDY PIPER
FINALLY I FOUND SOME REAL INFORMATION ON ONE OF THESE THINGS.IT'S HARD TO TELL FROM THE SCAN BUT THIS POG IS A STRAIGHT UP CHROME REFRACTOR WITH SOME KIND OF BRICK/STONE TEXTURE IN THE BACKGROUND. WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS I HAD NO IDEA WHY A POG EXISTED OF CGI RODDY PIPER AS A CAVEMAN WITH NO WRESTLING STUFF AT ALL. I MEAN THIS WAS OBVIOUSLY UNLICENSED BUT WHY A CAVEMAN? WHY IS IT A REFRACTOR? WHY DO WE THINK OF 1993 TOPPS CHROME AS A GROUNDBREAKER WHEN THIS SHIT BLOWS IT OUT OF THE WATER? THEN I DID SOME DIGGING AND FOR THE FIRST TIME FOUND THE ACTUAL POG ONLINE IN AN EBAY AUCTION
LOOKS LIKE THEY DID A WHOLE EVOLUTION SERIES WHERE A DUDE MORPHS FROM AN APE TO A TERMINATOR SPACEMAN LOOKING DUDE. IT WASN'T RODDY PIPER AS A CAVEMAN, RODDY PIPER JUST KINDA LOOKS LIKE A CAVEMAN. IT ALSO LOOKS LIKE THIS IS ANOTHER INSTANCE OF A COMPANY THROWING A WHOLE BUNCH OF DESIGNS TOGETHER AND HOPING THE KIDS LIKED SOME OF THEM. THIS IS THE SAME THING TOPPS DID IN 1948 WITH THEIR MAGIC PHOTOS SET SO WHO CAN BLAME THEM. THESE DINOSAUR CAPS LOOK PRETTY DOPE AND I AM PARTICULARLY FOND OF THIS DESIGN FROM A LONG GONE EBAY AUCTION
HAHA BUTTS
BLANK BACK. A SHAME, BUT UNDERSTANDABLE SINCE THEY WENT OVERBOARD ON THE FRONT
No comments:
Post a Comment