MacGyver

MacGyver is an eighties legend.  I miss that show, it was my dad's favorite.  He was a fixer upper

type of guy.  He had the whole collection of those Time Life "Fix-It-Yourself" books; which were basically the YouTube tutorials of the eighties.

I stumbled across the picture of Richard Dean Anderson in Blackhawks gear used in this card and that was all that was really needed to motivate me to make a MacGyver hockey card.

I chose a 1985 Topps hockey inspired design for a couple of key reasons; I've not used it before and 1985 was the year MacGyver's pilot episode debuted on ABC.

This set is probably most notable for being the set with Mario Lemiux's rookie card.  The design itself is pretty mehhh.  In thinking about it Topps' designs for hockey, baseball and football were all pretty simplistic in '85.

Game On!

I think when Wayne's World came out in 1992 it was pretty much everyone's favorite movie at the time.  I know it was mine.

These Wayne and Garth cards are a couple that I probably should have made quite awhile ago.  Better late than never.

For these I chose to make them in the 1986 Topps style design for a couple of reasons.  For one, I already had it ready to go having first used it for my Cameron Frye card.  The other reason is that the 1992 Topps hockey is kind of blah.  In '92 Topps used the same basic design for all four major sports.  Plus, I wanted these to have a more vintage feel.  Although I'm not a huge hockey guy, I do really like the Blackhawks logo so I wanted a design that called for a logo.  I think it's one of the best looking logos in sports, all political correctness aside.

*You may notice that the name team name Blackhawks is two separate words which is how it was spelled until 1986.