Buzz Break: 1999 DreamWorks Galaxy Quest Collector Cards

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The pack: 1999 DreamWorks Galaxy Quest Collector Cards
Where to buy: Will take some looking ... hit BlowoutCards.com for newer stuff

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

Cards per pack: 9
Base set completion: 
9 of 9 (100 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Title card, Commander Peter Quincy Taggert (Tim Allen), Lieutenant Tawny Madison (Sigourney Weaver), Dr. Lazarus (Alan Rickman), Thermians from the Klatu Nebula (Missy Pyle, Enrico Colantoni, Patrick Green and Jed Rees) Episode 41 -- "The Bivrakium Element"(Allen & Rickman), Episode 52  -- "Today is the Tomorrow of Our Yesterdays" (Rickman), Roth'h'ar Sarris (Robin Sachs), The Crew of the NSEA Protector (Sam Rockwell, Rickman, Allen, Daryl Mitchell, Weaver, Tony Shalhoub)

Insert/short-print cards: N/A

Autographs/Memorabilia: N/A

What's Buzz-worthy: It’s Throwback Thursday time ... so here’s an oddball break. No, this wasn’t some release that you missed out on almost 30 years ago ... it was a promo set released in pack form that I’ve seen included with media preview materials but, well, I didn’t know it existed until a few years ago, myself. Was it released other ways? Maybe. At the same time, these don’t appear to have been too mass-produced or there would be a lot more of them out there for people to pick off. These cards have a real Fleer vibe to them with the look and materials and I thought I had a gem here for some cool slabs when I found it a couple years ago -- yes, years -- but, well, there was a plot twist that led to no grading and it sitting all this time. What was the deal? The pack, while sealed and clean, was a bit bricked ... so all cards here have some kind of color issue or edge spotting from the high gloss breaking down and the cards sticking together a bit as they aged inside the pack. Combine that with a meatier cost -- they are about half the price I paid when they do pop up now -- and this one was a bummer. Why? This movie is a classic spoof of a genre (uust watch it -- I'm not explaining it, but here’s the trailer, though that’s still a dog in comparison to the full film) and the cast is loaded beyond even those who made the card set. Really, a legit card set should have been made here. A lot of the stars of this one do have cards elsewhere but this is all there is for legit cardboard back at that time other than lobby cards.

Product Grade: A+ 
Pack Grade: A (except .. see below)
Fun Grade: C- (cards were bricked so there’s some kind of damage on every card ... maybe not every pack but it’s possible)

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