Tano Monument Award?
So maybe this is self-serving, as I don't know how many people here were chasing the Tano Monument award, but has anyone heard anything about when it's going to come out?
I tweeted at @ToppsSteve and @ToppsDigital, but no luck, and we're coming up on two weeks with not a peep.
On a related note, has there been any communication about the Maul award and the screw up with the highest counts?
I just want to know SOMETHING! I worked really hard to try to get it (maybe not hard enough!) so I've been really anxious to just get the results and know, one way or the other.
Posted Jul 24, 2015, 1:37 PM UTC
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I'm hoping that they are taking their time to not only make sure the Tano award is given out accurately, but to offer a make-good to the people who were unfairly passed over for the Maul bronze first before moving on to the second hoard.
If I was a Maul hoarder who should have been recognized but wasn't, seeing the Tano bronze go out before Topps makes it right with me would be adding insult to injury.
That's a good point; I wonder if they'll do a second bronze with a different picture of Maul? So there'll be a variant award, like with the WV Hyperspace? EDIT: Though to be fair, that would also be infuriating to me, if they did that with Tano, as I'm trying to collect all the Tano cards..."Gee thanks, another ~20 count card I need to manage to get/pry somehow!"
Either way, I wish they would give both Maul and Tano hoarders a heads-up. Typical lack of communication though. :(
Honestly, at this point it almost feels like they're waiting for people to forget about their mistake...
The picture for Maul they used for the Darkside cards would make an amazing make-up Mounment! Who knows what they've got going on, they seem to be coasting along with daily green chase, daily comics, near daily TKs and Storyboards, bringing back Space Paintings and now rainbow cards. Seems like a lot of 'easy' content, add in the miserable state of the Transmissions and I'm wondering how badly the Week 20 awards process is going to go. Adding in some space for GMs and Connections might work to stagger them away from the others and instead of one crazy week you have 3-4 mildly crazy ones. Who knows though, tough to read my own mind half the time, let alone Topps'.
There is literally nothing Topps can do for the Maul monument that would be fair. Print more/do a variant? The monument is less special. Take them away from the wrongly awarded? Sets a terrible precedent that they can remove cards from your collection for a mistake they made. They just have to pick the best of the bad options (or do nothing and alienate a few hundred of their most hardcore fans).
You'd think, faced with that outcome, they would have been 1,000% sure of that first award. What a terrible wasted mistake. It takes like 2 seconds to check someone's card counts in-app (maybe like 5 minutes if you were on Android, and your app always crashed when sorting by anything other than Faction). Everyone immediately saw that. Why couldn't they?
Yes, if I was the guy who was going to take all the heat from disappointed fans, I would have pulled up a couple accounts to check their cards-this guy has less than a thousand? Hmm, maybe I should look into that.
THIS!
This!