Topps v Panini Stickers

Cardiffdaffs said:
The minefield that is football marketing in one story.

Top England players missing from official Euro 2024 sticker album | Euro 2024 | The Guardian

Phil Foden and John Stones among those reportedly absent as ex-Uefa partner Panini retains some rights
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I started doing the Topps album at the weekend with my 3 year old as someone was handing out free albums just outside London Bridge station (she likes stickers, but obviously has no idea about the context) and the numbering system is a pain in the ****. Pannini just used to have sequential numbers (IIRC) but Topps have a strange code system representing each page which means it takes a good couple of minutes to locate, peel and then stick (especially with a impatient toddler just wanting to stick wherever she can).
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
I started doing the Topps album at the weekend with my 3 year old as someone was handing out free albums just outside London Bridge station (she likes stickers, but obviously has no idea about the context) and the numbering system is a pain in the ****. Pannini just used to have sequential numbers (IIRC) but Topps have a strange code system representing each page which means it takes a good couple of minutes to locate, peel and then stick (especially with a impatient toddler just wanting to stick wherever she can).
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The album might be free but it will cost you a fortune to complete. It was mentioned previously that it would cost in the region of £900 to fill the World Cup album.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
The album might be free but it will cost you a fortune to complete. It was mentioned previously that it would cost in the region of £900 to fill the World Cup album.
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If you didn't send off for some.

I reckon it cost us £300-400 and that includes sending off for about the last 250.

I've told him we're not doing the Euro one, at least not with the intention of completing it. The cards are better as there's less sense of needing to 'complete' something.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
The album might be free but it will cost you a fortune to complete. It was mentioned previously that it would cost in the region of £900 to fill the World Cup album.
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Yeah I realise that, and have done it before a few years back.

To be honest I'll probably not bother beyond the 10 packets I bought the other day, as my little girl lost interest halfway through (other than the shiny badges) and so I can't see me doing much more.

To be honest the "thrill" isn't there anymore when you can just go out and buy enough stickers to complete the album in one go, it was far more exciting eeeking out your pocket money to buy 4 or 5 packets a week as well as doing the whole swaps thing.
 
atypical_boro said:
If you didn't send off for some.

I reckon it cost us £300-400 and that includes sending off for about the last 250.

I've told him we're not doing the Euro one, at least not with the intention of completing it. The cards are better as there's less sense of needing to 'complete' something.
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This article was from 2022 but it reckons it would have cost £883 to fill the World Cup album.

www.bbc.co.uk

Completing World Cup sticker book could cost £883 - BBC News

An expert says fans might have to shell out nearly £900 to fill the popular album - but do they have to?
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
The article in the OP contains details:-

"Five Panini stickers cost 90p, meaning that filling the whole album would cost £70, provided there were no duplicates, while Topps sticker packets come in at £1 for 6, making the equivalent figure £122."
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
The article in the OP contains details:-

"Five Panini stickers cost 90p, meaning that filling the whole album would cost £70, provided there were no duplicates, while Topps sticker packets come in at £1 for 6, making the equivalent figure £122."
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Yeah, but you have to take into consideration the shiny they hold back. 🤣🤣🤣
 
The only sticker album I ever completed was the Merlin 1995/96 Premier League album (The one with Barmby on the cover.)

I went to a swap event in Newcastle in order to complete it. I remember the Boro "shiny" badge was strangely common, the hardest b***r to get was Arsenal!
 
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The online swap shops are good. Still gives a feeling of "completing it" and does it a bit more economically than just buying packet after packet.

I might do it this year with my lads. It gives me a way if drip feeding little rewards and is cheaper than Fortnite V-Bucks!
 
I usually love a Panini sticker album when it comes to the Euros and World Cup, daft bit of fun with no real serious intention of completing them.

I can't look past Luke Thomas being in there though, what an absolute shambles.
 
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Panini madness and the prevalence of getting many swaps as a 10 year old when that 50p had high value and the Saturday purchase of 2 packs of stickers could make or break your week. Lovely. In fact it was the first thing that enticed me and my mate into nicking stuff. Prob 80 or 81 me being last year primary, we would go to WHSmiths on a Saturday , wait til the main till queue had quite a few people, then go to the till area where the stickers were, pick up a couple of packs then 'act' dejectedly and say , oh know look at the queue, will have to go all the way back there. :LOL: At the back of the q we would then take a minute to pick a time to slink off from the queue , round the back of the units then out the door. Lol. Didn't last long , maybe a few weeks, and didn't get caught thankfuly, but they then put the stickers back from the till and you had to ask for them when you got to the front. What a liberty !
 
atypical_boro said:
If you didn't send off for some.

I reckon it cost us £300-400 and that includes sending off for about the last 250.

I've told him we're not doing the Euro one, at least not with the intention of completing it. The cards are better as there's less sense of needing to 'complete' something.
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I completed the ?1981-2 football league. Lots of swaps at school, trading duplicate shiny badges for 3-5 players a time etc and eventually sent of for the missing ones. I still have it somewhere in the loft
 
Was it just Acklam Grange that briefly had the concept of "scrambles", before it got banned?

Once the sticker book was completed then the person who'd completed it, and had a fistful of swaps, would throw them all up in the air whilst scouting "scramble" and a punch-up normally ensued as people hoovered up what they could.
 
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Doing the swaps in the playground when practically everyone in the playground had a stack was great. Getting a few people to bid on specific stickers they all needed was really fun. Doing it as an adult doesn't have the same appeal. Even the whole process of figuring out what are duplicates and mass swapping for efficiency that I would do now just takes away all the enjoyment. I was never bothered about actually completing the book or sticking them in. It was all about the Got, Got, Got, Need!
 
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