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PopShots 3D cards!
PopShots may sound like the name of a gay porn site specializing in scenes showing daddies busting nuts (What?! It only sounds like that to me?), but it was a mind-bogglingly magical greeting card line that is responsible for causing eyeballs to shoot out of sockets from being hit with theatrical pop-up perfection.
The U.S. education system has truly let me down, because here I was thinking that PopShots 3D cards were born in the 1980s and died in the 1990s. Why was I not taught the truth in school?! PopShots sprouted from the ground in the greeting card garden in 1977. Pop-up cards are still around today, but PopShots were the first pop-up cards that blew my corneas off in amazement. They were sold at Spencer’s Gifts in the mall. Spencer’s put out a sample card for each design, and the new ones were kept safe behind plastic with a cover that looked like this:
PopShots later became a card company called Up With Paper, and they’re still proving they’re the da Vinci of the greeting card game by making highly artistic 3D cards to this day.
Beginning with just six original designs, the company developed pop-up greeting cards so ingenious and inventive that they grabbed the attention of greeting card fans around the world. Ever since, the company has been raising the expectations of consumers and retailers alike, for intricate designs, unique techniques, and for the magic that makes each card a collectible. The company has been recognized for developing some of the most outstanding greeting cards, winning more than 45 of the International Greeting Card Association’s coveted LOUIE Awards honoring design excellence, including the 2004
Sadly, “Up With Paper’s” current designs don’t even come close to the gloriously majestic designs they put out in the olden days. Every Broadway set designer and Hollywood production designer wishes they could come up with magnificent scenes like this!
Sadly, no one ever bought me a PopShots card, and probably because they weren’t about to spend (insert the price of a PopShots card in the 80s) on some damn card. There’s many on eBay, and I’m tempted to by myself one, but I won’t. I really don’t get shit done during the day, and I really wouldn’t get shit done if I had a PopShots card. Because I’d repeatedly open it, get my mind blown, close it, collect my mind from across the room, put it back in my head, and open the card again. I’d do that over and over again.