Cards Accompanying the 1994 Flintstones Movie
Yesterday, we took a trip down memory lane for a look at the 1994 Topps The Flintstones cards in honor of the movie’s 30th anniversary. Today we’re back with our picks for the best cards to collect from the set. We’re not going to pretend like anything from this set holds any real value on the market, so we’re just picking a few of the cards we find the most amusing, weird, or interesting. Deal? Ok let’s check them out. We’ll have a yabba-dabba-do time. A dabba-do time. We’ll have a gay old time.
Top 1994 Topps The Flintstones
Topps The Flintstones Foil Inserts
The grail cards in this set are the four “Flint-Foil” inserts randomly inserted into packs. Here we have a look at all four of them. All are equally as beautiful, but my favorite is definitely the Dino and Pebbles card.
Topps The Flintstones Sticker Card #8 “From Rocks to Riches”
I wanted to include an example of one of the sticker cards here, so I went with this one titled “From Rocks to Riches” because that’s what you’ll be after collecting this whole set… at least figuratively.
Topps The Flintstones #8 “Fred’s Personal Secretary”
Here we have the Sharron Stone rookie card. No, not that Sharon Stone, but Halle Berry as Sharron Stone, Fred’s secretary and co-conspirator with the evil Cliff Vandercave. This is my personal favorite rock-related pun of the many, many in the movie.
Topps The Flintstones #66 “An Old-Fashioned Man”
This card is interesting because it features a scene that was deleted from the movie. (Yes, I really watched the entire film for the first time since 1994 before writing this.) Apparently the cards were produced before the final cut.
Topps The Flintstones #77 “Taking a Ride
”One of the big criticisms of The Flintstones when it came out was that for a movie marketed towards kids and families, the script that included plot points like office politics, embezzlement, mother-in-law problems and extra-marital affairs was more for adults and not kids. And it’s true, the movie doesn’t even give much screen time to the two main child stars, Pebbles and Bam-Bam, who definitely could have been utilized more. (I think they speak less than 20 words throughout the film, combined.) So I thought I’d give them a little shine here to close things out. And no, that’s not Mary-Kate and/or Ashley Olsen, but Pebbles does look a lot like them, don’t you think?
