This Week's Best: Week 4

1995-96 SkyBox Meltdown Exchange

As awesome as the regular Meltdown insert is, SkyBox decided to offer two of the cards with a lenticular (3-D) effect available only with two series 2 wrappers and $9.99. These are now a little tough to find since 1: When's the last time you read the back of the wrapper? and 2: $9.99 was a little much for one card you knew very little about. Sure, it would've been cool to get a Jordan or Robinson version, but it makes sense that it was only the company's spokespersons (at the time).

This Week's Worst: Week 2

1994-95 SkyBox Head of the Class Exchange Set

SkyBox had a good thing going with the Head of the Class exchange card starting with the 1991-92 Hoops release. But in a possible attempt to mirror the success of the Hoops Draft Redemption sets, they decided to go with a multi-card format instead of the single card with three players on each side. With a simplistic, blurred background, bad photography (specifically the Grant Hill), and the absence of individual serial numbers (differing from the previous issues), only Topps remains as the leader in ruining a popular series (Beam Team).