“Evryting you want.”
“Everything.”
“Evryting.”
If you are familiar with where all this stuff is from you’ll know that the dollar amount ends up being ten dollars and not five. But thankfully there’s no Ten Below store around and the Five Below by me had cards.
I’ve seen cards at Five Below before, but most times they’ve been older packs and are usually something along the lines of Score football from two years ago or something like that. This on the other hand was a Fairfield re-pack cube that I hadn’t see before. Those are usually some of the better re-packs so I thought I would give it a try. Well, I had twenty dollars so I gave it four tries.
The other thing you might associate with the movie quotes above (aside from the movie itself) might be 2 Live Crew, but I think that’s an entirely different post.
Fairfield Collector’s Storage Cube
You can see what this thing advertises:
- 100 total cards
- 2 packs
- 4 star cards
- 1 Hall of Fame card
- 5 cards! 1 from each of the past 5 decades
- Storage Cube
I’m going to check out each of those claims.
100 total cards – Yes. I’m not counting, but it sure as hell was a good chunk of cards.
2 packs – Yes. I saw a few different options: ’88 Donruss, ’90 Donruss, ’88 Fleer, ’88 Score. I’ve got enough ’90 Donruss so I doubled up on the ’88 Donruss cubes. The other pack in each of these was a 2017 Topps Opening Day pack.
4 star cards – Yes. Again, I’m not counting but there were enough stars in each cube to cover this. However, I will say that you can’t really define a “star”.
1 Hall of Fame card – Yes. I think I actually got more than one HOFer in each cube. But it might also be that I got six total or something like that between the four cubes.
5 cards! 1 from each of the past 5 decades – No. There’s two ways to this about this. The way I would like to read it is that you should get a card each from 2010-2019, 2000-2009, 1990-1999, 1980-1989, and then 1970-1979. The other way you could look at this is (and honestly this takes some fudging) a player who played in those decades. Well, the oldest card I got in any of these was one 1982 card. So this was a bit of false advertising. And given it was all four of them, I would say this is consistent from all the cubes.
Storage cube – Duh, yes. I love the storage cubes actually. They are nice for cards I am staging for certain things.
The other thing that these “advertise” is that there is always a card facing out. These were the only choices to be had among all of the cubes.
Hall of Famers
I got plenty of Hall of Famers. But I would think if you are going to have a good chunk of the cards come from the late 80’s and early 90’s (junk wax era) it would be really easy to do that.
They aren’t the most fabulous Hall of Famer cards, but this is the type of stuff you get. If you take a look at the Pedro you can see it’s damaged a little bit. Sometimes those cards stick to each other and you’ll see that snow effect when you pull them apart. The best you can hope for is that it’s the back of one card and not the front of the other.
Duplicate Hall of Famers
I have a feeling the Halladay (and the Lee Smith above) weren’t considered Hall of Famers when they went into these cubes. This is another thing you’ll see with these cubes is different cards from one player (there will be more).
The Halladay cards are right up my alley though. I love that I got Blue Jays cards. As for the Griffey cards, ’91 Donruss has always seem god awful to me. But then again, there isn’t much that screams the ’90’s more than that set.
Cube Theory
I’ve suggested this type of thing before, but my Cube Theory is a version of what you may have done putting packets together in high school. We used to have teachers that had us help put packets together and the printers wouldn’t collate (or ours didn’t). So we would have stacks of pages (page 1, page 2, etc.) and we would pick up one, the next and so on and then staple them together at the end.
I’m feeling that process for the way they put these together. I imagine folding tables in a warehouse and some guys who have stacks of Tim Hudson cards and others and they have rules. Take three Hudsons, then take 5 ’89 Topps, etc., etc., until you get to however many cards go in the cube.
Old Cool and New Cool
These are more good examples of what you’ll see in re-packs. There’s always some kind of oddball like a Post or Hostess card or two in each one. Then there will be some new (maybe not brand new, but i will be shiny) card to throw in there too. Konerko was one of those guys that I got a few of in a couple of these cubes.
Old Stuff
This was part of what was false advertising. That 1982 Joe Strain was the oldest card in any of these packs. It said “from the past five decades” and this card is not from the past five and Joe didn’t play that long ago to meet that criteria either.
I found two of these cards odd but for different reasons. The combo of players on the Sportflics card is just odd. And the Lance Johnson just struck me as off. I’ve seen so many cards of him as a White Sox player and it threw me to see him in a St. Louis uniform.
Gene Nelson is just posted because he look bad ass with that beard.
Minor League
You are bound to get some minor league cards in these and I got exactly four – one in each. These happen to be the guys who I recognized. The Van Poppel is so odd because of the socks and the practice jacket. It’s way weird to me. Dan Wilson on the other hand just looks so skinny.
Lots of Rockets
This was the biggest chunk of cards I got. Roger Clemens is now basically filler in these. I got a couple of these in some of these cubes. With these and the Bonds cards it made you really think about who are the Hall of Fame cards… and who aren’t.
The King and Hughes
I got multiples of these cards in each cube. The Hernandez cards were split up but I always got at least one of them in a pack. The Phil Hughes on the other hand, that was what you worry about with these. I probably got 4-5 and maybe more in each cube. That’s always disappointing to see.
From the Packs
These were my favorite cards from the packs. The Bregman is standard and the others are just cool inserts or parallels. The Blue Sale is pretty dope. I think the Kershaw is supposed to glow in the dark. At least the stars are, not sure about Clayton.
Muts Gone Nuts
There were plenty of Mets either in the cubes or in the packs. I must of picked some good ones because these seems like a pretty good concentration of them to me. I love the Mr. Met card. Maybe I’ll have to try to send that TTM.
A Little Trolling
A 2016 Papelbon in a Nats uniform… just to troll the Nats fans out there a little.
These were pretty fun. I don’t suggest getting four at a time. But for $5 bucks its a good time. And we all want to get everything we want for a good time.