2012 Topps Stickers - First (and only) Look

Baseball card stickers. I can take 'em or leave 'em. I bought a blaster of this product last year and it turned out pretty blah. This year I only bought a handful of packs. Still pretty blah. Not much change from last year. The logo cards have lost the foil look. The fronts have a variation of the 'surf board' from flagship Topps, which is, I think, I good idea and done well. The photos are the usual group of mixed action and posed shots. Topps also brought back the mascot cards. Here's a small sample of what I pulled.

I bought 6 8-card packs. These yielded 7 mascot cards. But at least I pulled the Phanatic.

If there is a Mantle card in the set I'm happy to see it. It's card #27. There are 7 of these Legend subset cards. This is the only one I pulled.

Like last year, this is actually two stickers, one for each logo. As such there are two numbers on the back, 152 (Cubs) and 160 (Phillies).

I pulled 2 Phillies, the Phanatic and the logo sticker, pretty good for only 6 packs. As I'm writing this (on 4/5), Halladay just won the first game of the season, a 2-hit, 8-inning 1-0 shutout of the Pirates. Paplebon for the save.

The craziest card I pulled. Man, that looks nasty.