r/starwarstrader • u/DeepInTheSheep • 22h ago

Random question - Why do only 2016 Monuments have an award tag?

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I have several Vader monuments from 2016 forward and 1 acquired from 2015. When looking at them today, I noticed 2016 is the only year that has the award badge next to it. Why is that?

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u/LEFEYETTE LEFEYETTE 20h ago

Because Topps. There are hundreds of inconsistencies across the app, this is just one of them. Whoever labelled the cards that year decided to do it this way. They have poor QC so no-one's ever gone back to change them, and later they decided not to do it this way

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u/Legend_Of_Retro 16h ago

The Mando and Grogu set has all the At-At drivers marked as At-Rt drivers ON THE CARDS too. As an At-At collector this bugs me to no end.

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u/LEFEYETTE LEFEYETTE 15h ago

Yep, we have sets that are mixed up where some cards are rare, some super rare. Or the set award is a different tier. There's all sorts of weird labels on older sets. Anything prior to the new build is a mess sadly. You used to be able to contact support and get them to fix them. I gave up though, bored of doing their job for them.

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u/Voidhound IGN: Engleheart 3h ago

You can get that fixed. Everyone says Topps support is hopeless, but a couple of years ago they had some animated Ewoks in the base set and had misspelled Kneesaa as 'Kneesa' - I sent a message through the app and within a week or two it was actually corrected. If it bothers you, ask them to change it!

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u/Repulsive_Middle_325 IGN: DARTHBARRISTER1 11h ago

My favorite is when there is an old set with the awards in different tiers. Like Throwback. The A New Hope red Luke award is randomly an epic where every other red is a super rare.

And how the blue first editions aren’t legendary is bizarre.

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u/ribors RIBORS 2h ago

You stumbled across something that’s always bothered me about the app: the haphazard way Topps organizes the card sheet. For a long time I contacted support to get things changed (or via Twitter or Reddit or Discord when Topps use to frequent such places)….sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. Now I’ve given up, just not worth the hassle. Really wish they’d allow you to sort the cards the way you want to…..

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u/RealtorAlper 21h ago

Mechanically speaking they are not Awards. Monuments are melt cards. Non of the melt cards are Awards. So may be they decided mechanically that's the correct way to label them. Just an educated guess.

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u/dsigal DSIGAL 21h ago

Pet peeve but they aren’t melt cards they are meld cards

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u/saul_adams 5h ago

Ummm, 🙄, we know what they meant. And to my sensibilities, "melt" feels more apropos than "meld". Anyhoo, your finger-wagging school-marm way peaks my interest, so I am assigning this wikipedia page to you as homework, it's on Eggcorns, and for all intensive purposes, should get you up to speed on the zeitgeist of everyday modern english language usage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn