I have five 3-D cards. 3 of 4 of them are from Marvel Universe 1994 (Fleer/1994) and the other 2 are from Batman 1995 Fleer, which I think are just labled as holograms. I love how the 3-D cards looks. My ? is was Fleer the only card company to make 3-D cards or did any other companies make 3-D cards. I only ask this ? because I don't see them made any more. Is it because of how much they cost to make or were they not populer enough.

There have been others, Skybox did "skydiscs" for Batman, Superman, and Vertigo, and it was either Fleer or Skybox who did these for Voyager, a hologram of the hologram doctor. X-Men 2 from Skybox had a Wolverine hologram, and there was also a Godzilla set that had 4 3-D holograms that were quite nice. I don't recall any such cards being issued recently, they were nice, it would be fun to see these again.

Thanks

There's also a complete set of Batman hologram cards and of Superman hologram cards (both issued in 1995).

More recently 3-D type lenticular cards have been used in the World of Harry Potter 3-D set and as inserts in The Golden Compass set.

I don't know how difficult it is or how much more expensive is it to manufacture these cards. They look very nice sometimes. Other times the effect doesn't show up well at all, either because the process wasn't done right or the wrong image was chosen.

I think that crisp looking 3-D cards could be used well as inserts, but not as base cards. Many of the Harry Potter cards were too dark and unattractive. I wouldn't buy any product just to get holograms.

As far as 3d lenticulars, of course, there are the Topps 3d Star Wars sets:

The excellent New Hope 3di
Not as good Phantom Menace 3d set
and the recent Empire Strikes Back 3di set...

Lenticulars (or 'motion' cards) are fairly common in Rittenhouse sets of about 4 years ago. They were one of the chase sets in the DC Legacy and Batman Archives, some of the later Stargate SG-1 sets, and at least the Star Trek Women in Motion and Star Trek Movies in Motion.

This is one of the oldest threads but I like 3D cards and holograms and lenticulars too and maybe it will get going again. Pro Set did holograms for their SuperStars Musicards and Yo! MTV Raps sets - both from 1991 when companies were starting to use them as chase cards. Pro Set made them the rarest level at roughly 1 per case though some have said they were even rarer than that.

And of course, a 3D card of any kind has to be seen in person. A scan or photograph can't capture the apparent depth of the image.

I don’t think true, sculpted 3D holograms are really done in cards anymore (as far as I know). They were quite popular in the 90s, especially in Marvel, so I don’t think it’s for lack of popularity. It’s probably the complexity and cost of creating them, when it’s so much easier for a company to just create a different color border parallel, stamp a # on it like 1/99, and voila, a chase that people go for. The 90s was a different era of the hobby than now- more kids collecting cards, and focus was on novelty like the 3D holos. Nowadays, at least in marvel which I collect, the focus is a lot more on #’d parallels etc which appeals to gamblers/investors and such.

As mentioned Skybox (prior to its Fleer merger) was doing 3D holos in the 90s, perhaps the most famous being the Spidey vs Venom 1993 Marvel Universe holo. Fleer was doing them in various 1994-1995 sets. I’m not sure how independent that was from the Skybox influence, it’s possible a lot of this was connected as the companies merged. Fleer/Skybox was by far the most groundbreaking company with the 3D holos-in-trading cards movement. I wish we could see more of these today.

Here is my uncut sheet of the 94 Fleer Amazing Spiderman 3D holos. I also have a sheet of 95 Batman Forever 3D holos.

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