What: 2017 Super Break Basketball Buyback Cards Edition
Arrives: Feb. 21
Box basics: One buyback NBA card per box (five boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Super Break's first NBA product of a new year includes nothing but cards.

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What's Buzzing Today: Tough pulls that shouldn't be, mysterious promos, cool finds, chasing non-sports characters and biggest collecting mistakes.

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

Packs per box: 12
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 72
Base set completion: 
21 of 65 (32 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards of note – Mike Trout, Buster Posey, Carlos Correa, Francisco Lindor, Yu Darvish, Anthony Rizzo

Rookie Cards (11) – Kenta Maeda, Blake Snell, Dae-Ho Lee, Miguel Sano, Nomar Mazara, Jose Berrios, Jameson Taillon, Willson Contreras, Kyle Schwarber, Aaron Nola, Michael Fulmer

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The NFL's regular season may be over, but the next card set comes on Friday -- and we have a new look at what's to come.

It's 2016 Panini Limited and it's packed with memorabilia cards featuring some of the biggest young stars in the game as well as others.

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The box: 2016 Donruss Optic football cards (Mega Box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 10
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 40
Base set completion: 24 of 200 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards: Cam Newton, Odell Beckham Jr., Rob Gronkowski, Derek Carr

Rookie Cards (10) – T.J. Green, Austin Johnson, Vonn Bell, Yannick Ngakoue, Shilique Calhoun, C.J. Prosise, Tajae Sharpe, Rashard Higgins, Myles Jack, Wendell Smallwood

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What: 2017 Rittenhouse Game of Thrones Season 6 trading cards
Arrives: April 19
Box basics: Two autographed cards per 24-pack box with some boxes also including memorabilia or sketch cards (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The latest set for this hit franchise arrives with an array of autographs, inserts and more for the sixth season with "lots of first-time signers" and what the company says are the first memorabilia card for Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke).

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Younger collectors may not know it, but there was a time when Topps published comic books and magazines

And that time is back with the first issue of Garbage Pail Kids issue No. 1 -- "The Worst of 2016" -- which is being sold only initially via Topps.com. The books are $19.99 with a pair of stickers (Grim Jim and Nervous Rex) also included. A discount is available for those buying five copies of the book. It will be printed to order just like its other recent online GPK releases, according to the company's site.

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What: 2017 Topps The Walking Dead Season 6 trading cards
Arrives: June 14
Box basics: Two hits (at least one autograph) per 24-pack box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: Topps' third release for The Walking Dead picks up where its first left off with the sixth season of the long-running hit show documented on cardboard.

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What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls from the past and present take center stage on this Friday.

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What: 2017 Topps WWE Undisputed wrestling cards
Arrives: June 21
Box basics: Eight autographs and two Relics in every 10-pack box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: Topps' high-end WWE brand arrives for the third time with some new energy, a new look and new inclusions within a familiar hit-per-pack formula.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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Carl Edwards' surprise exit from NASCAR for the upcoming season puts the spotlight on his replacement and, in turn, is likely to warm things up for what cardboard there is for him.

Replacing Edwards in the No. 19 Toyota of Joe Gibbs Racing is Daniel Suarez, who's already made a little history in recent months before becoming the newest rookie in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.

Suarez was the first Mexican-born driver to win a NASCAR national championship when he took home top honors in the Xfinity Series last year.

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Bo was one of the biggest stars of the 1980s as a college football star, a professional baseball and football star and a marketing star. Everybody knew his name and they still know why.

And then suddenly one day it was gone.

Sure, Vincent Edward Jackson played some baseball after his final NFL game -- that hip injury was 26 years ago tomorrow -- but he was never the same. And in an interview today he had a different take on his career.

"If I knew back then what I know now," he told USA TODAY Sports, "I would have never played football. Never. I wish I had known about all of those head injuries, but no one knew that. And the people that did know that, they wouldn’t tell anybody."

His career as a pro -- in both sports -- lasted less than a decade but he's easily one of the biggest icons of his time. It's a story worth checking out if you missed it and it's worth revisiting if you didn't.

Here, though, we simply have one bit of curiosity presented below.

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The box: 2015 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes Longevity 
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for standard version)

Packs per box: 10
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 50
Longevity set completion: 
32 of 100 (32 percent)
Duplicates: 0
Regular set completion: 
10 of 100 (10 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base/Longevity base cards of note – Trea Turner, Albert Almora, Addison Russell, Tate Matheny, Robert Refsnyder, Tayler Naquin, Blake Rutherford, J.P. Crawford, Daz Cameron

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What: 2017 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes baseball cards
Arrives: March 15
Box basics: Five autographs or memorabilia cards per five-pack box (20 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: USA Baseball returns to the field after some time off with a new configuration but the same patriotic value and potential with a mix of current USA stars and big names from the program's past.

Keep reading for more as well as 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: We're heavy on the NFL breaks along with the Los Angeles Chargers and the curious case of a Carlos Correa card.

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What: 2017 Elite Draft Picks college football cards
Arrives: March 15
Box basics: Five autographs per five-pack box (16 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: Elite comes to the college ranks with Panini America offering an autograph in every 15-card pack in a product that focuses on the stars of the college game from the past and offer a selection of 2017 draft pick hopefuls, too.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery.

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The memorable characters from Street Fighter II are greeting another cult icon of the 1980s, M.U.S.C.L.E. toys.

The first wave includes four three-packs of figures with Ryu, M. Bison, Vega, Ken, Dhalsim, Balrog, Blanka, Guile, Sagat, Chun-Li, Zangief and E. Honda.

These toys, which are available from Super7, aren't the lone new M.U.S.C.L.E. creations available, either.

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If you're a Jeremy Lin collector, you might need to find a comic book shop.

The Brooklyn Nets' point guard from Harvard makes his second appearance in a Marvel Comics release that arrives in shops today. It's issue 14 of The Totally Awesome Hulk.

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We're less than a month away from the arrival of 2017 Topps Series 1 -- and that means we're less than a month away from the newest crop of MLB Rookie Cards.

Topps revealed the RCs on the checklist and a sampling of images on Wednesday.

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The box: 2013 BenchWarmer Bubble Gum trading cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 144
Base set completion: 110 of 110 (100 percent)
Duplicates: 21

Notables on base cards: Carmen Electra, Sara Underwood, Brande Roderick, Maria Kanellis, Torrie Wilson, Kara Monaco, Nikki Ziering, Angela Fong

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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: Transcendent hauls, Star Wars, NFL breaks, 2016 Bowman Draft and plenty more.

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The box: 2013 Topps WWE Dog Tags Signature Series
Where to buy: Poke around online.

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 1 plus one dog tag
Cards in this box: 24
Base set completion: 
23 of 30 (77 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, John Cena, Randy Orton, Undertaker, C.M. Punk, Dolph Ziggler.

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New information has come to light, man.

Fans of The Big Lebowski and other Hollywood creations from the big and small screens may have an extra reason to visit the toy aisle or thanks to GreenLight Collectibles and its Hollywood line that has been bringing vehicles from the reel world to us all.

Ok ... these specialty toys aren't exactly new -- they've been going since roughly 2011 -- but there have been as many as 15 series so far and Walter Sobchak's van was among them and that's enough that Buzz needed to take a look.

And we've found plenty more cool stuff.

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Autographs have a buddy every time you see them in the newest Panini America NBA release.

The brand is 2016-17 Panini Limited and it arrives next week with those two in tandem quite often -- a bit of a new twist for the brand's signed cards.

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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: Transcendent Collection, Bowman's Best and Panini Contenders breaks along with prospecting, elusive cards, player collectors and ... Ronda Rousey's future?

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