So, what is a card set that you collected that you've come to accept you will never complete? Perhaps the price of some inserts are too high, maybe it has a one-of-one card in the set, maybe it's just too rare a set. But for whatever reason you know you'll never be able to fully collect the entire thing. Do you have a set like that?

Some folks would say that it is not complete until you have a master set however others say the set is complete when i say it is and are happy with that.

A set i seem to have had a part set of forever is the James Bond art & images set which is 22 cards and i have about half of them.

At one time I would have said you need every card in the set and promos. The hobby is now so expensive it is diffivult to complete. In many situations you have to be a case buyer to complete the saet.

When I first got back into card collecting one of the first old sets I started was the 1953 World on Wheels. I quickly put together the 160 card set, but even though I have some of the 161-180 cards, I pretty much have accepted I wont finish this one. Too expensive, and these cards just hardly ever pop up.

The one I will most likely never complete is the Terminator 2 set by Filmcardz. I've completed the autographs, need 1 relic and the one card I will probably never own. The FilmFX Wear card #FX1. Only 30 were produced and have zero interest paying $1,000 + for it. It comes up every so often, but at ridiculous prices.

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Originally posted by Chilly55:
The one I will most likely never complete is the Terminator 2 set by Filmcardz. I've completed the autographs, need 1 relic and the one card I will probably never own. The FilmFX Wear card #FX1. Only 30 were produced and have zero interest paying $1,000 + for it. It comes up every so often, but at ridiculous prices.

I'm sure I've told this before, but I'm still annoyed that many years ago I bought a master set of this on eBay -- All the cards were in sheets in the binder, and I asked the seller to remove the cards from the sheets/binder, but they refused.

When the cards arrived the FX1 card slipped under the binder ring and was badly dented. I returned the set and was never able to get the FX1 card again.

The set that I may never complete is Mars Attacks. I was putting together a low grade set many years ago -- then people started grading these cards and overnight the prices of low grade cards increased by about 10x.

I haven't looked in a long time, so maybe it is feasible to get a set of these now.

The only master sets I completed were a couple of the early Game of Thrones sets. The later sets just got too complex and with far too many levels of parallel which amounted to the exact same cards with a foil addition in various colours or a number edition. Add in sketches and incentive cards, some of which were nearly impossible to find and I soon gave up and was content to just collect the cards I liked.

Before that I tried collating several Xena sets, but those were tricky too. I will still pick up the odd card when I see one from those sets, but only what I like, not for some master set-building plan. It's much more enjoyable to be selective, rather than try to chase down everything in a set....and MUCH cheaper.

There has been a company which has been around for more than 15 years called Zoloworld which produces these sword and sorcery/barbarian action figures, sort of like the old He-Man/Masters of the Universe ones.

Back in the early 2010s, I learned that if you bought waves of the action figures from the company's website, they'd include with the order promo cards which show photos of the figures. They resemble the Mego Museum cards

They'd release 3 or 4 new sets of figures every year. By the late 2010s, the company sent me over 50 different cards !

I emailed the company and asked how many cards they'd done to see what I was missing. They told me they didn't know what they made and there was no list/checklist.

From what I recall, most of the cards actually have tiny numbers on the backs but even with a magnifying glass you can't really make them out

After the late 2010s, I gave up on collecting these. From what I can see, the company is STILL producing new figures and new cards. There must be 200 plus different cards out there. Too many to chase down for me !

The simple answer is all sets I own. Even when I think I have all the cards, some obscure costume relic cards, or sketch card pops up (not even including all the variations).

I also collect Promo Cards, but when you need to buy the binder, or DVDs, or attend a collector show in Hawaii just to get the promo, even this has become un completable

But I realized this a long time ago, after collecting all the Autos and insert sets for the Star Trek 35th Set, only to realize there are costume and sketch cards as well. I have tracked some down, but alot are hard to find, or
to expensive to justify spending the money to complete a 20 year old set.

I don't think I'll ever be able to finish some form of a complete set of just Topps 75th from 2013. When you got a box of that, you did get a full base set out of the packs and you pulled one rainbow foil parallel (one of 150 made per base card) out of each pack. That meant you ended up with 24 of 100 of those from the box. If you didn't get the in-demand rainbows like Star Wars, GPK, Mars Attacks, or E.T., you were going to have buy those one by one later unless you decided to roll the dice on another box or two. I see that people are picking up rainbows when they are about $5-10 each and patient people have picked up a Star Wars one in that range.

Some people have gone after a set of Diamond foil parallels (75 of each base card made). The problem there is that some collectors not interested in the set have been hunting some of those too (Star Wars, Mars Attacks, GPK).

I'm happy with having a base set, a few autographs and about 25% of the rainbow foils (nice-looking cards). I might get more if I see them - maybe add a couple of autographs too.

Still looking for the last card #24 of Flash Gordon test cards (1969). So close... yet so far away!

The only master sets I have are a couple of Inkworks sets. I've got pretty close to a couple of Dexter & Farscape Masters but the last few are hard to find (and damn expensive!). I've done quite well on my Inkworks & Rittenhouse promo's but gave up on Cryptozoic as they had some very hard to find cards. Nowadays I'll buy a box, enjoy the base set and whatever else is in there and leave it at that.

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Originally posted by monsterwax:
Still looking for the last card #24 of Flash Gordon test cards (1969). So close... yet so far away!

This this because it isn't available or because you are holding out for a specific price?

It took a long time for me to complete some sets because I was not willing to overpay, also I apparently like to torture myself.

I decided not to try to complete the American Vintage Cycles promo set by SkyBox from the 1990s

All 200 cards from the base set come with a PROMO stamp on them.

Too much to chase after !