What: 2017 SAGE HIT Premier Draft High Series football cards
Arrives: Late March
Box basics: 15 autographed cards per 20-pack box (16 boxes per case).
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: SAGE continues its early start on the prospective NFL Draft picks with HIT, which includes more packs and cards per box as well as some chromium cards, too.

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The Golden Globes meet the Garbage Pail Kids -- and that means Meryl Streep's speech gets visualized.

That means Donald Trump gets an up-close look at her trophy.

That scene is one of five sticker pairs available in the 2017 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Golden Groans set available for just one week from the company and only initially available on Topps.com.

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What: 2017 TRISTAR Hidden Treasures Chicago North Side autographed baseballs
Arrives: March 1
Box basics: One autographed baseball of a current or former Chicago Cub per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: TRISTAR's autographed baseball chase goes to the north side of Chicago with some chase baseballs and memorabilia items to be found in some boxes.

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What: 2017 Topps Definitive Collection baseball cards
Arrives: May 3 Aug. 30
Box basics: Six autographs or autographed memorabilia cards and two additional memorabilia cards per eight-card box (three boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: Definitive comes to the diamond with nothing but hits and plenty of parallels.

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What: 2017 Topps Bunt baseball cards
Arrives: May 10
Box basics: Seven cards per pack, 36 packs per box (20 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: Bunt returns to the physical card realm for a second season with new design, new inserts and new energy that can translate over to the company's card app.

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What's Buzzing Today: Big football pulls, Giannis, caution on Marvel variants, Walmart MLB exclusives, Kris Bryant's Chrome values and much more.

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Five catches, 124 years and two touchdowns.

That's the final line for Pittsburgh Steelers WR Antonio Brown in Sunday's 30-12 victory over the Miami Dolphins in their playoff-opening game. At this point, it's the kind of showing that we expect from one of the league's elite who had 106 catches for 1,284 yards and 12 TDs this season.

His 2010 Rookie Cards show him fresh out of Central Michigan and can be found in more than 20 brands that season, including Absolute Memorabilia, Bowman Sterling, Certified, Classics, Crown Royale, Donruss Elite, Epix, Exquisite Collection, Limited, Gridiron Gear, Plates & Patches, Threads, Contenders, National Treasures, Prestige, Rookies & Stars, SP Authentic, SPx, Score and Sweet Spot. You can expect to pay top dollar for anything of him that's relatively rare and his auto RCs (Exquisite, Plates & Patches, Contenders, National Treasures, SPA and SPx) will be even more volatile and in-demand. It just comes with the territory.

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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: Error pulls, big pulls, Star Wars pulls, elusive pulls and more.

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Who's an SP in 2016 Panini Contenders?

One day after its official release, Panini America has begun teasing who's tougher than you might think -- and some of the biggest names in the rookie class have some of the rarer regular Rookie Tickets of the bunch.

>>> Checklist & gallery for 2016 Panini Contenders football cards.

Keep reading for a rundown of who's rarer ... so far.

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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: Tracking Superfractors, busting Star Wars, NFL hits, collecting Jose Canseco & more.

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What: 2017 Leaf Originals wrestling cards
Arrives: April/May
Box basics: Five autographs in every box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf turns to its Originals brand for the third time with nothing but autographs in the mix from stars of several wrestling promotions.

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Chicago Bears RB Jordan Howard had one of the more-impressive seasons for a rookie this year and he's got at least one "variation" in 2016 Panini Contenders that's even more interesting than his showing on the field.

At least one collector has found one of these cards -- and it's unknown whether others even exist -- but this on-card auto above appears to have been by someone else.

Who?

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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, bummer boxes, Giannis show-offs and much, much more.

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With all of the high-end releases from Panini America this week, it's this one that might have the most global appeal -- with a lower price, too.

It's 2016-17 Panini Black Gold soccer, and it's a brand that includes stars from around the world inside its boxes, which arrives in hobby shops beginning today.

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What: 2016 Panini Honors football cards
Arrives: Feb. 22
Box basics: Two autographs and one base card or parallel card per three-card box (10 boxes per case).

What's buzz-worthy: Want to own notable autographed cards from past Panini/Donruss releases? They're here along with some new creations spotlighting today's top stars and rookies.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery.

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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: Landing big Cubs, some Super MLB breaks, comics cosplay, NXT, golf & more.

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What: 2017 Leaf Pop Century Signed Photograph Edition
Arrives: Late March
Box basics: One autographed 8-by-10 photo per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf's latest autograph product for pop culture arrives with certified autographed photos from the biggest names in Hollywood as well as big names from elsewhere.

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What: 2017 Topps Tier One baseball cards
Arrives: Spring 2017
Box basics: Two autographs and one memorabilia card per box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: This hit-driven brand returns with a new wave of bat knobs, memorabilia and more "from the most-collectable baseball players in the game."

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Demand for autographs from the new UFC Bantamweight champion is high.

How high? Here's what the card above went for -- and it's not even the priciest one.

That's not the only Cody Garbrandt card available, either, though he doesn't have many.

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It's going to be a blockbuster and Funko has the toys to prove it.

The Everett, Wash.-based company unleashed its plans for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 toys on Wednesday with 40 different items across six brands for fans to chase beginning in February.

The follow-up to Guardians, which made $333 million at the box office world-wide, is set to arrive on May 5.

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What: 2017 TRISTAR Signature Series
Arrives: Feb. 8
Box basics: One autographed item per envelope (10 boxes per case).

What's buzz-worthy: TRISTAR's Signature Series returns with just 100 10-box cases of authenticated autographed memorabilia.

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What: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Ultimate Collector's Set Series 2
Arrives: Feb. 1
Hobby box basics: One autograph per set

What's buzz-worthy: Buffy is back with a premium-priced set that will include either a Sarah Michelle Gellar or Alyson Hannigan autograph in every single box.

Keep reading to see a gallery and more.

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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 for baseball, football, basketball and more.

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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 Gypsy Queen baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 48
Base set completion: 
34 of 300 (11 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players on base cards – Noah Syndergaard, Alex Rodriguez, Anthony Rizzo, Jose Altuve

Rookie Cards (7) – Corey Seager, Gary Sanchez, Stephen Piscotty, Jerad Eickhoff, Zach Davies, Matt Duffy, Aaron Nola

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It's time for the college hardwood to come to National Treasures.

That time is Thursday when 2016-17 Panini National Treasures Collegiate basketball arrives with a high-end take on the college game with some of the biggest names of the past mixed with the stars of the present.

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