Digital Cards, Nostalgia is Back…

The other day I saw a report in RTVE.es and Noticias 2 called “Llega el Cromo Digital” and all my childhood came into my head, especially all that picture cards collections…

I still remember those amounts of children in the school trying to get the latest collection album and the picture cards for free (what a marketing strategy!), the waiting in your house for your father or grandfather to come with new envelopes, happiness or disillusion when opening it and find new or repeated ones, those Sundays in the park trying to get those cards you still haven’t got, to get those impossible to find ones; that innocence…

I still remember those albums and picture cards, those huge stacks with the repeated ones, that paper list, torn out, so bended and written, those unique cards you have to make business to give and get; that happiness…

I still remember those football collections, the League ones, the NBA basketball albums, The Return of The Jedi and Star wars cards; those fantastic paper cards…

And now, digital collecting arrives, the collections of the near future, but… can these collections give us back the childhood illusion? Will we talk about them after a few years as we are talking about past ones now? Will we make it together with our children? We will see…

What do you think about this? Can paper and digital collections co-exist together? Which were your favourite ones? I wish I could be a child again and start enjoying with this again…