From: chim@sfu.ca (Alan Chim)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting
Subject: McDonald's UD All-Star Collector Series
Date: 2 Jan 1993 16:07:37 -0600
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Presenting --  McDonald's Uppper Deck All-Star Collector Series

The Hype:  "The McDonald's Upper Deck All-Star Collector Series consists
of a limited edition set of 27 NHL All-Star Player Cards, plus an exclusive
Hologram Card subset featuring 6 NHL post-season 1st team All-Stars.
We've even included a checlist card.  Look for these exciting Hologram Cards
randomly inserted in a limited number of our packs.  Collect all 33
McDonald's Upper Deck Limited Edition Cards."

The Cards:  The regular cards are a considerable improvement over last years.
The player's pictures seem crisper, the player selection is considerably
better, and the card design is improved.  Last year, the back of the card
had a "compressed" photo of the player that filled roughly half of the back
of the card.  This year, the photo is stretched length wise across the
back of the card and the width was reduced.  A write up in both French and
English is included.  The write-ups also seemed to be much improved over
last year, providing more pertinent information about the player.  The
holograms are not "stickers" anymore, rather cards.  The holograms are
nicely designed with the player in action in the inset, and the player's
face enlarged in the back ground that provides a good effect.  As was
mentioned up top, the holograms are randomly inserted instead of one
per pack as was done last year.  Regular Cards are number McD - XX while
holograms are numbered McH - 0X

Collation:  Typical Upper Deck collation.  Terrible.  In four packs I
received back to back doubles of the same card.  In one pack I got:
Sakic, Lemieux, Lemieux, and Sakic.  I'm not complaining :-) but it
makes it harder to complete a set.  I opened 15 packs and I didn't
receive any cards of Kirk Muller, Owen Nolan, Mike Richter, and
Scott Stevens.  I did receive two holograms of Patrick Roy and Ray
Bourque.  Here's how it all broke down for the 15 packs I purchased:

Regular Cards

Card #    1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10 11 12 13 14
Quantity  1  3  1  3  1  4  2  5  4  1  1  3  3  2

Card #    15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Quantity  3  1  1  4  1  2  3  2  0  0  0  6  0

Randomly Inserted Holograms

Hologram #      1  2  3  4  5  6
Quantity        0  0  0  0  1  1

Other Comments:  Absentees this year include Wayne Gretzky, Mark
Recchi and
Pat LaFontaine.  Mark Messier, Kevin Stevens and Brian Leetch were featured
in the hologram cards but not in the regular cards.  Notable players in
the set include Fedorov, Roenick, Jagr, Lemieux, Mogilny, and Nolan.
Overall, a pretty good set.  If collect hockey cards, this is a must-have
set, especially those hologram cards.

Checklist:

All-Star Checklist

CAMPBELL CONFERENCE

McD-01  Ed Belfour
McD-02  Brian Bellows
McD-03  Chris Chelios
McD-04  Vincent Damphousse
McD-05  Dave Ellett
McD-06  Sergei Fedorov
McD-07  Theoren Fleury
McD-08  Phil Housley
McD-09  Trevor Linden
McD-10  Al MacInnis
McD-11  Adam Oates
McD-12  Luc Robitaille
McD-13  Jeremy Roenick
McD-14  Steve Yzerman

WALES CONFERENCE

McD-15  Don Beaupre
McD-16  Rod Brind'Amour
McD-17  Paul Coffey
McD-18  John Cullen
McD-19  Kevin Hatcher
McD-20  Jaromir Jagr
McD-21  Mario Lemieux
McD-22  Alexander Mogilny
McD-23  Kirk Muller
McD-24  Owen Nolan
McD-25  Mike Richter
McD-26  Joe Sakic
McD-27  Scott Stevens

HOLOGRAMS

McH-01  Mark Messier
McH-02  Brett Hull
McH-03  Kevin Stevens
McH-04  Ray Bourque
McD-05  Brian Leetch
McD-06  Patrick Roy

Alan.
chim@sfu.ca