What: 2016 Elite Extra Edition baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 7
Box basics: One autographed Silhouette, six-to-eight autographs and two-to-four memorabilia cards and four parallel inserts per five-pack box (20 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Elite gets a revamp on the packaging side to bring this year's latest crop of draft picks and prospects with a $20 per pack suggested retail price that Panini says is "streamlined for collectability."

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What: 2017 Topps Tribute baseball cards
Arrives: March 22
Box basics: Three autographs and three Relics per six-pack box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The high-end brand is back with a new look, new inserts and some new stock approaches but with the same number of hits for a new season.

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There's a new look -- and a new place to keep track of all that's going on -- with BlowoutTV and a box of the new 2016 Panini Infinity football cards is part of it if you check things out.

While the breaks are regularly happening over at breakers.tv/blowoutTV, there is a new section of the Blowout Cards Forum where you can see all of the breaks that are planned in advance. You can post your claimed spots there, pay up and stay tuned for when the break will take place. That new section -- BlowoutTV with Matt -- can be found here and has all the info you need to know along with the latest lineups for larger breaks.

So, how does the Infinity box come into play? Head on over to Twitter and follow @Matt_BlowoutTV -- that's where you'll find up-to-the-minute updates on breaks as they happen as well as looks at the latest pulls you won't see here on The Buzz. Once that account gets to 500 followers, the box of the new 2016 Panini Infinity football cards (they officially arrive tomorrow) will be given away to a random follower.

Follow Buzz on Twitter @BlowoutBuzz or send email to BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com. 

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but impressive rips in today's edition.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2016 Bowman Chrome baseball cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 12
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 60
Base set completion: 
23 of 100 (23 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Yoenis Cespedes, Miguel Cabrera, Madison Bumgarner, Jason Hayward, Paul Goldschmidt, Jose Abreu

Rookie Cards (5) – Corey Seager, Luis Severino, Kyle Schwarber, Gary Sanchez, Henry Owens

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The wait is almost over for new 1967s.

Tomorrow is the official arrival date for 2016 Topps Heritage High Number baseball cards but early rippers and retail rippers have begun posting their results on eBay.

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What: 2016 Leaf Ultimate hockey cards
Arrives: November
Box basics: Six autographs or memorabilia cards per box (six boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf brings Ultimate to the ice once again with what it says is "an unprecedented combination of autographed cards and rare memorabilia cards."

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The Emmy Awards may not have drawn the ratings Sunday night, but the Garbage Pail Kids will make sure that people will be talking about TV.

The 2016 Garbage Pail Kids Prime Slime Awards set is here with 20 stickers of those who were up for honors or watching from the audience as winners came and accepted their awards in typical Hollywood fashion.

Among them? Spoofs of Cuba Gooding Jr. as O.J. Simpson and Amy Schumer to name a few.

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What: 2016-17 Totally Certified basketball cards
Arrives: Dec. 7
Box basics: One autograph and two memorabilia cards per eight-pack box (16 boxes per case via two inners)

What's buzz-worthy: One of Panini's more colorful foil-board creations returns for another year on the hardcourt with on-card autos of top rookies and top players of the past and present in its Signed, Sealed and Delivered insert set.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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A new brand of football cards arrives on Wednesday with a new look from Panini America.

It's 2016 Panini Infinity and it looks to include a mix of foilboard, acetate and more with a look that starts with its unusual box.

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What: 2016 Donruss Signature Series football cards
Arrives: Nov. 23
Box basics: Four autographs per box (16 boxes per case via two inners)

What's buzz-worthy: Signature Series returns with nothing but ink with one of the four autographs in every box being a parallel limited to no more than 50 copies from a mix of past and present stars as well as this year's top rookies.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Tebow's a Met, big Walmart hits, big breaks and ... where in the world is Manny Ramirez?

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The end result was the same old, same old for the Cleveland Browns, but how they got there wasn't the same.

The quarterback looked good in the first half, the running game looked decent and rookie Corey Coleman made it look impressive early on. The rookie out of Baylor had only five catches, but they went for 104 yards and two touchdowns before the Browns browned as usual. Last week Coleman had just two catches but one was for 58 yards as part of a 69-yard day so we have seen so far that this former Baylor standout will be a receiver to watch this year when it comes to big plays that translate into big attention on cardboard.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2012 Sportkings Series E sports cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 5
Base set completion: 
3 of 48 (6 percent)
Duplicates: 0

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but heat from MLB and NFL breaks for today, including three 1/1 autographs out of five packs.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big breaks, Superfractors and the Ben Simmons question.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2016 Bowman Platinum baseball cards (20-pack box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 20
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 100
Base set completion: 
47 of 100 (47 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Ichiro Suzuki, Madison Bumgarner, Jose Altuve, David Ortiz, Clayton Kershaw, Miguel Cabrera, Yu Darvish, Byron Buxton

Rookie Cards (16) – Gary Sanchez, Kenta Maeda, Trevor Story, Aaron Blair, Stephen Piscotty, Miguel Sano, Henry Owens, Robert Stephenson, Tyler White, Carl Edwards Jr., Jose Berrios, Jon Gray, Raul Mondesi, Luis Severino, Trea Turner, Albert Almora

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What: 2016-17 Topps UEFA Champions League soccer cards
Arrives: Feb. 15
Box basics: Two autographs per hobby box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: UEFA Champions returns for a second season on the pitch with the top stars of the global game -- "an extensive base set, complete with captivating imagery and colorful parallel cards of the world’s best footballers" and the "elite stars of the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga and Serie A" among others.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery.

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Call it Topps Now With a Twist.

With the Chicago Cubs clinching the National League Central, Topps has unveiled a new take on its real-time baseball card program.

Team sets.

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What: 2016 Panini Pantheon baseball cards
Arrives: Nov. 16
Box basics: Eight autographs or memorabilia cards per box (eight boxes per case via two inners)

What's buzz-worthy: This new high-end line from Panini America includes nothing but retired players and Hall of Famers with every card signed or including a piece of memorabilia at a suggested retail price of $350 per box.

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After five years, he has signed.

Atlanta Falcons receiver Julio Jones has signed his 2011 cards -- Rookie Cards that were all issued as redemption cards a half-decade ago.

"The folks inside the Panini America Acquisitions department never lost hope," read a statement on the company's blog. "And they never gave up. They kept working the phones, and remained in frequent contact with the NFLPA and Jones’ representatives in hopes of one day landing that elusive 'Yes' that would lead to Jones signing the thousands of key cards that had been safely in his possession since he received them during his rookie season."

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The original art from an iconic story re-told in an iconic magazine will hit the auction block next month via Heritage Auctions.

It's a six-page story from MAD magazine issue No. 6 and it's Jack Davis' art re-telling "Casey at the Bat" in visual form.

"From the classic poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer," the auction description reads, "the saga of the Mudville Nine and the mighty Casey are depicted in this story that was reprinted at least five times in other MAD publications. (Proving they were too cheap to pay for new material.) One of the finest stories ever produced by the Usual Gang of Idiots at America's premier low-brow humor mag."

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but baseball breaks today ... check 'em out.

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"I must break you" will have a new twist next month as Ivan Drago becomes one of the Bleacher Creatures next month.

The Plymouth, Pa.-based company has revealed a line of six plush toys for the Rocky franchise, which is celebrating its 4oth anniversary this year.

Drago was of course the main opponent of Rocky Balboa in Rocky IV and he's not the only foe in the Bleacher Creatures lineup.
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What: 2016-17 Donruss basketball cards
Arrives: Nov. 16
Box basics: One autograph and one memorabilia card per 24-pack box (20 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Panini's Donruss brand comes to the hardcourt with a mix of familiar looks and even a preview of more to come later in an Optic NBA release.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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