Battlestar Galactica (Wonder Bread)

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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Star Wars (Wonder Bread)

Before I start, there was a little weekend activity here at The Toy Box. Scroll down past today's post to see my review of Funko's Married With Children figure set, as well as, an offer for some free CD's.

Star Wars
Wonder Bread
1977

Though the images may look familiar to fans of the original blue border Topps cards, make no mistake, these Wonder Bread premiums were not from Topps.

In 1977, Wonder Bread struck a deal which would allow them to produce a small batch of cards to be packed in with their bread at local grocers. One of sixteen cards could be found inside each loaf, making this set challenging (to say the least) for your average consumer to complete if doing so based on buying bread. Fortunately, Wonder Bread offered an easier solution, where customers could send in for a complete set. As such, while these cards are highly desirable to may Star Wars fans, they're rather in abundance.

Each card showcased either a character or ship on the front, and featured a beautiful (if I do say so myself) blue border Star Wars logo running down the side (or bottom if the card was horizontal). The outer black border helps not only this, but the yellow banner at the bottom "pop". In short, these cards are beautifully designed. Well, the fronts anyway.

The backs of the cards are rather bland with their all white color and plain black text. Sure, it provides a bit of insight to the character or ship on the front, but at the same time, it's yawn inducing.

Like I said above, these cards are fairly common. A full mint condition set can easily be purchased for as little as $20.00 to $25.00. However, it is because of this that several dealers have taken to getting these cards graded. Though the majority of the cards garner an 8 to 9 grade, those few which have gotten 10's can go for $2,000.00 each! I'm not personally a fan of professional grading systems, but dang! That's a heck of a price jump!

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