So, I have seen videos of this collection for the past week. Overall, I can get past the unlicensed teams. I think they dealt with it here better than in Match Attax. I don't mind seeing head shots of players. I much prefer it over having the wrong colour kits on them. My complaints with it: all the playoff teams. Such a bad decision. It's also hella weird that they waited to release the album after the playoffs were over, only to have all teams featured in there. What was the point of waiting so much? Parallels do not belong in sticker collections. They just don't. I wish they would have kept the Star Players with the signatures as the default version. You can't deal with sticker parallels the same way you do with cards. Lastly, I'm a bit disappointed in the stadium stickers. I would have wished for real photos of the stadiums instead of drawings. The whole design of this competition (which came from UEFA) is just not doing it for me. All the colourful abstract stuff just doesn't hit, it doesn't feel like a tournament in Germany, and the fan graphics in the album don't even make it feel like a European championship.
I don't get why you have some cards with purple or green around the edge, and some don't. I got the same card 3 times, 1 with green edge, 1 with purple edge, and 1 with no edge, i dont get it
The colored stickers are more rare than normal stickers, same for gold stickers with autographs. They are basically special types of those stickers not meant to be sticked in bur to be collected so that the stickers also have value for people who do not want to stick them in to the binder.
My humble opinion: awful collection. The unlicensed teams; the designs are terrible; the rush to release the album, including teams that won't be on it, just because they couldn't wait a couple of extra weeks. I said it somewhere in another video: I refuse to do this collection.
It's awful, just the fact that they put Bonucci as Italy's captain (he has left the team >1 year ago) shows how bad this collection is. The images are terrible. Worst WC/EC collection ever. Will wait several months/years to buy the full set off eBay for 30-40 euro.
Was willing to give this a go until i saw the checklist of stickers, no mbappe, saka,foden, stones to name a few, players like luke thomas who i dont even think has made a england squad, what a waste of a collection.
Personally having all the playoff teams in there is meh, should have just waited until playoffs were over. And uh, parallel stickers again. Overall not for me. Edit: And yeah, due to Panini being arseholes, Topps don't have licences for certain teams, so why the headshots.
@@Jackbnufc2000 Panini should have put in more effort to keep the licence. Failing to do that they've now tried every dirty handed trick to sabotage Topps attempt at the album purely out of spite and greed. A great demonstration how these companies don't care about their customers.
England (and Iran) started it all in 1998, not giving the license to Panini, and the famous drama of the stickers of Fowler, Ferdinand and Adams which were impossible to find. So you reap what you sow.
