Monthly Archives: January 2017
First Buzz: Yu-Gi-Oh! Machine Reactor & Dinosmasher's Fury structure decks
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What: Yu-Gi-Oh! Machine Reactor & Dinosmasher's Fury structure decks
Arrives: April 14
Box basics: 41 cards per deck (eight decks per display)Gallery: Panini grabs NFL rookies' graphs at Collegiate Bowl event
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The NFL's rookie class of 2016 is mostly in the offseason now but that doesn't mean their action when it comes to cardboard is over.
In fact, 13 top guys have been busy signing for Panini America the last two days during the "NFLPA Rookie Closeout" as part of the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl's festivities. The rookies on hand for the event are catching up on signing for upcoming brands such as 2016 National Treasures, Flawless, Encased and Plates & Patches as well as recently released brands like Donruss Optic.
Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Jan. 20)
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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 breaks today.
First Buzz: Yu-Gi-Oh! Maximum Crisis
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What: Yu-Gi-Oh! Maximum Crisis
Arrives: May 5
Box basics: Twenty-four nine-card packs per box (12 boxes per case) or nine cards per blister pack (240 blister packs per case)New Hall of Famers usher in 2017 Topps #TBT + ongoing gallery
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A new year of Topps #TBT is here and it's bringing to us the newest Hall of Fame class and a few other stars of yesteryear all on a design from the past.
Tim Raines, Ivan Rodriguez and Jeff Bagwell are paired with one other Hall of Famer from their primary franchise's past to round out the first pack in a weekly series.
Topps Now lets fans of Raines, Bagwell & Pudge get head start on Hall of Fame memorabilia hunting
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Three new Hall of Famers, 21 new Topps Now baseball cards.
That means fans of Tim Raines, Ivan Rodriguez and Jeff Bagwell don't have to wait for their first commemorative cardboard thanks to Topps' on-demand baseball card platform.
Only initially available on Topps.com, the three standard Topps Now cards are printed to order and available for just 24 hours at $9.99 per card with quantity discounts available. Each of them also will sign six different cards, including one where all three will be shown.
Buzz Movie Trailer Vote: Logan (opens March 3)
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The final trailer for Logan has arrived in advance of its arrival on March 3 and it appears that the latest movie in the X-Men/Wolverine franchise will carry a darker and more violent tone despite having one of its main characters being just 11 years old.
Surprises in 2017 Topps include MLB Network, Stephen Colbert's first pitch, Cubs World Series cards
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Although the MLB Network has its share of Hall of Famers like John Smoltz, "Rookie Cards" for some of the other names who bring you the highlights begin arriving on Feb. 1 in packs of 2017 Topps Series 1 baseball cards.
A 10-card release begins a set that will continue in Series 2 and Update later this year and this series will include Lauren Shehadi (RC), Kevin Millar, Mike Lowell, Greg Amsinger (RC), Ryan Dempster, Sean Casey, Harold Reynolds, Dan Plesac and Smoltz as well as an MLB Tonight card.
A number of that crew's members already have cards as players (click to view a Buzz archives piece) -- but there will be several debuts in the forthcoming releases. Meanwhile, a number of them haven't had many autographs and all nine found in Series 1 will have ink.
The 2017 Topps Series 1 baseball card checklist is here
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Update: The final numeric checklist has been added here.
We're less than two weeks away from the arrival of the first baseball card set of the year and that means we have the first checklist.
It's the checklist for 2017 Topps Series 1 -- and there's still a bit of mystery as it's an un-numbered version in advance of card No. 1's unveiling at a later date.
Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Jan. 19)
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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 pulls, the Topps Transcendent party and the worst players in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
First Buzz: 2017 Leaf Metal Draft football cards
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What: 2017 Leaf Metal Draft football cards
Arrives: March
Box basics: Five autographs per box (15 boxes per case)What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Metal Draft returns "with a vengeance" according to the company with a "very strong draft class and top-notch production quality."
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
Gallery: Scenes from the Topps Transcendent Collection party
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Topps' priciest brand of baseball cards -- 2016 Topps Transcendent Collection -- included more than 50 autographs inside each of its silver briefcases but even more with the contents of one envelope.
They also included an invitation to a party with the reigning National League MVP, Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant, and that soirée was Wednesday night in Las Vegas.
Buzz Break: 2013 Press Pass Total Memorabilia NASCAR (blaster)
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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: 2013 Press Pass Total Memorabilia NASCAR cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)
Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 5
Base set completion: 2 of 50 (4 percent)
Duplicates: 0Base cards – Sam Hornish Jr., Josh Berry (Rising Stars)
Baywatch & The Godfather coming soon as Funko Pop! toys
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A pair of TV and movie icons are headed to the toy aisles soon.
Funko revealed today its plans for Pop! toys for Baywatch and The Godfather which are set to arrive next month.
Tim Raines' Rookie Cards are easily affordable ... unless they're graded
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Update: Raines was voted into the Hall of Fame Wednesday night along with 1991 rookies Jeff Bagwell and Ivan Rodriguez.
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If Tim Raines makes it into the Baseball Hall of Fame later today, he just might be one of the easier Cooperstown residents to collect based on his early cardboard.
He's got just four regular-issue cards and one team-issued release from his Rookie Card season of 1981 and all but one of them can be easily found for a few bucks. These quickly printed and often roughly cut gems of the past are not easy finds in high grade, though -- even straight out of packs opened today -- so graded copies have been where the biggest action has been of late.
Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Jan. 18)
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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 pulls, The Big Hurt's big-name autograph, impressive art & more.
Chicago Cubs' White House visit gets Topps Now baseball cards
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The Chicago Cubs went to the White House on Monday and today's the day we get the baseball cards to prove it.
Topps ended an offseason card streak of more than a month without new Topps Now cardboard by unveiling eight new cards spotlighting the visit -- and some of them are autographed.
Buzz Break: 2008 TRISTAR TNA Impact wrestling cards (blaster box)
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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: 2008 TRISTAR TNA Impact wrestling (blaster box)
Where to buy: Check eBay (hobby on BlowoutCards.com)
Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 35
Cards in this box: 35
Base set completion: 21 of 69 (30 percent)
Duplicates: 2Notables on base cards – Consequences Creed, Don West, ODB, Jim Cornette, Christian Cage, Angelina Love, Sharmell, Rhino
DC Bombshells will be landing in Funko Pop! collections soon
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The Bombshells are coming to a toy aisle near you.
Funko is readying a series of eight World War II pinup-style takes on iconic DC Comics characters that we have seen elsewhere but now they will be found as Pop! toys.
Collectively, they're known as the the DC Bombshells.
Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Jan. 17)
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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 and new finds from around the collecting world.
Reds Hall of Fame Pete Rose Hit Collection focuses on autographs
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When is a Pete Rose autographed baseball a 1/1 creation but also one of 4,256?
When is a Rose autographed baseball an item that costs $170 ... or more?
When it's a part of a new exhibit in the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum -- and potentially part of your own stash -- as part of the Hall of Fame Pete Rose Hit Collection.
Buzz Break: 2016 Panini Certified NASCAR cards (blaster box)
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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 Panini Certified NASCAR cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
Packs per box: 3
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 15
Base set completion: 12 of 100 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0Base cards – Martin Truex Jr., Trevor Bayne, Clint Bowyer, David Gilliland, A.J. Allmendinger, John Hunter Nemechek, Michael Annett, Dylan Lupton, Danny "Chocolate" Myers (Immortals), Ned Jarrett (Immortals)
Rookie Cards (2) – Garrett Smithley, Nicole Behar
Buzz Break: 2000 Team Best Graded minor league baseball cards
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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: 2000 Team Best Graded minor league cards
Where to buy: Check eBay
Packs per box: 18 plus one graded card (Packs: six 1998 Team Best Top Prospects Signature Series, six 1999 Team Best Player of the Year, six 2000 Team Best Rookies)
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 1091998 base set completion: 27 of 50 (54 percent)
Duplicates: 6
1999 base set completion: 24 of 50 (48 percent)
Duplicates: 7
2000 base set completion: 33 of 225 (15 percent)
Duplicates: 1Base cards of note (1998) – Rick Ankiel, Eric Chavez, J.D. Drew, Mike Lowell, Ruben Rivera, Jimmy Rollins, Vernon Wells
Base cards of note (1999) – Rick Ankiel, Josh Hamilton, Corey Patterson, Aaron Rowand, CC Sabathia, Jayson Werth
Base cards of note (2000) – John Lackey, Ben Sheets, Josh Hamilton, Barry Zito, Pat Burrell, Mark Mulder
More of Tony Gwynn's legendary memorabilia hits market via SCP
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Nearly 30 lots of memorabilia from one of MLB's most-legendary hitters has hit the auction block -- the balls from his first home run and his 3,000th hit, his Hall of Fame ring, his Silver Slugger awards and plenty more could soon be in collectors' hands.
That legend is Tony Gwynn and Laguna Niguel, Calif.-based SCP Auctions is handling this second sale of his estate's memorabilia. Just like before, a portion of the sales will will go to the Tony & Alicia Gwynn Foundation, which focuses on improving opportunities for kids.
"My husband was a man of honor and integrity who really wanted to make a difference in this world," said Alicia Gwynn, the Hall of Famer's widow. "Just like the first auction, this one serves two objectives: to share his baseball memorabilia with the fans who loved him and to give something back to the city that treated us so well."
Buzz Break: 2016 Topps Premier Gold soccer cards (hobby box)
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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 Topps Premier Gold soccer cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
Packs per box: 12
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 115
Base set completion: 97 of 100 (97 percent)
Duplicates: 4Rookie (logo) Cards (12) – Nathaniel Chalobah, Anthony Martial, Joshua King, Dele Alli, Granit Xhaka, Patrick VanAanholt, Xherdan Shaqiri, Roberto Firmino, Marcus Rashford, Kevin De Bruyne, Memphis, Zlatan Ibrahimovic