Adding Orange to the Barney Rainbow

The release of the Topps Factory Complete set means I needed to add another card to the Barney rainbow.  Each Factory Set comes with a pack of five orange-bordered cards, numbers to /230.  An Ebay seller had a bunch of these orange cards including #299 of Darwin Barney.

This makes the 17th variation of his card for my rainbow and there are still two more to go.  I just bought the mini version and in October, the update set will have a sapphire version.  For now, here is what the 17 cards look like.

In addition to adding to a rainbow, the orange cards give us the print run of the Topps factory set.  There are 660 cards in the set, with 230 of each, making a total of  151,800 orange cards.  Divide that by five cards per factory set and you get a run of 30,360 sets.

Here is a listing of factory sets made over the past few years, based on the numbering of the colored border parallel cards

2013 - 30,360...cards numbered to /230
2012 - 25,118...cards numbered to /190
2011 - 32,340...cards numbered to /245
2010 - 39,468...cards numbered to /299

You can see that this year represents the first time in a couple years that Topps didn't decrease the run over previous years.  I guess that would be a positive sign for the hobby.