Battlestar Galactica
Wonder Bread
1978
George over at G.I. Jigsaw is the person who hipped me to the existence of these cards. In doing so, I not only learned about this particular set, but also several others which Wonder Bread ran as a promotion in their bread bags throughout the 1970's. As such, there's definitely more to come in this regard here at The Toy Box. For now though, let me focus in on these 1978 Battlestar Galacatic trading cards.
Much like the 1977 Star Wars set, the concept was simple. Buy a loaf of bread, and inside specially marked packages find a single trading card. However, unlike that aforementioned set, which included sixteen cards, this all new series consisted of thirty-six cards in total! If you thought you were making a lot of sandwiches before to make a complete set, try going for this one!
Let's do the math!
A single twenty ounce bag of Wonder Bread houses twenty-two slices of bread. Considering most people don't eat the lackluster thinly sliced end pieces, we'll drop that down to twenty. So ten sandwiches per bag, times thirty-six cards, giving a high luck roll on your D20 that you're going to get each card in just one attempt, that's three hundred sixty sandwiches. If you eat one sandwich a day, that's just shy of one year it's going to take you to get a full set. Again, that's considering you're lucky and don't get any duplicates.
Or...You could just fill out the form and submit for a full set in one fell swoop to Wonder Bread via their mail in offer. But who wants to do that? That would defeat the purpose of "collecting" a set.
Anyway, regardless of how one would have gone about obtaining this series, below is what you would eventually end up with as a full set.
Much like the prior Star Wars set, it's relatively easy to obtain a complete for very cheap. Ten dollars was the last price I saw these hovering around. If you're a true fanatic, you can also try your luck at obtaining a full graded set. However, doing so will set you back between $10.00 and $25.00 per card.
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Wanted this set so much as a kid, but yeah, that's a lot of Wonder Bread. The only ones I had were the Cylon Raider ships and the one with the clone dudes, which I don't remember from the movie. Maybe it was in an episode from the television show.
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