2025 Topps Shoebox Treasures #15 Bubble Gum Foil

 

   

Card Review: 8.2

This is the "Bubble Gum Foil" variation.  These aren't numbered individually.  Online they are described as "Single Box-exclusive."  I'm not sure what that means, but there is another insert labeled as "Collector's Box-exclusive."  Do what you will with that information, I'm going to choose to ignore it.

I like the idea of "bubble gum" themed cards.  I've long lamented the loss of gum in packs and lobbied for it's return, so this feels like a step in the right direction.  Maybe we'll get cards printed on gum down the road.  If I recall, the last packs to come with gum were Heritage packs a decade or more ago (and I could very easily be wrong about this), and that the gum came wrapped in cellophane.  I wasn't wild about that.  The crunchy staleness of Topps gum is part of what made is so "great."  I suspect it was to appease the cranks who would otherwise whine about a gum stain or two and not to keep the gum fresh, but again, I'm just guessing here.  In any event, I picked up a second copy of this card (it was actually my first copy, the one in the scan was my second) that was still inside a cellophane wrapper, the way I remember gum being at the end of it's run with Topps.  

I've opted to leave this card in it's wrapper.  That makes it hard to store, and it will likely mean it ends up in a box with other odd ball items rather than filed away with my cards, but I like the idea of preserving one as is.  Not that I think I'll be adding too many more of these.

Number of this card in my collection: 2