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

What's Buzzing: NBA trade deadline deals, MLB favorites, overhyped NBA parallels, Jeremy Giambi and more.

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What: 2022 Break King Premium Baseball
Arrives: March 11
Box basics: Two buybacks -- one autographed -- per box (three boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Break King hits the diamond with nothing but buybacks in play here as part of a release with half the production volume of last year.

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What: 2022 Super Break Slabbed Stars Multi-sport Edition
Arrives: March 9
Box basics: One "slabbed buyback" per box
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Super Break offers up its "lowest SRP price multi-sport box ever produced" with this one that includes bonus hits in some boxes, too.

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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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: A new 1/1 Topps NFT drop, new pulls, a fun error card from the past and more.

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What: An auction for an NFT featuring Beetlejuice
Click here for the Goldin listing

Why it's Buzz-worthy: As part of its Elite Comic, Video Game and TCG Auction, Goldin is selling a 1/1 NFT of Beetlejuice – not the 1988 Tim Burton film, but the star of many internet memes and a member of the vaunted Wack Pack from The Howard Stern Show. This is just the most recent example of a celebrity selling and profiting from an NFT of their likeness.

There's something different about this auction, though. In addition to owning the NFT and receiving a video of Beetlejuice telling his own life story, the winning bidder gets a physical 1/1 Rookie Card that has been autographed by Beetlejuice. The card is stylized after T206 tobacco cards with some additional twists.

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What: SportKings Volume 3 sports cards
Arrives: Mid-March
Box basics: Two autographs, one memorabilia card and one other hit per seven-card box
Pre-order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: SportKings takes the field for a third time from SAGE for a few crop of retro-styled cardboard that showcases legends, current stars from perhaps non-traditional realms and a whole lot of chase in its hobby format.

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

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and break down 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: 2021 Upper Deck AEW All Elite Wrestling  cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby) 

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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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Some huge NFL breaks to come, eBay authentication packing growing pains, Alvin Kamara, Philip Rivers and more.

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Fast Five is a quick list that might offer a basic starting point for a themed collection or new focus -- five things that could be fun for a beginner or a new way to add something to your stash if you're a grizzled veteran.

This time? Five past movies Buzz wants to see on card sets. New Oscar nominations? No need for me -- I'm not sure I have seen any of the movies up for honors this year. I'm too busy Buzzing with cardboard but I can do a film twist here today. How about some films that I'd want to see on cardboard? I can totally do that ... though it's not easily said and done for card companies to do so with licensing costs and the reality that sets need autographs today -- so Hollywood A-lister ink is a big obstacle.

NEED THIS ONE IN WIDEVISION ...
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Remember the days when Topps took its "tallboy" card size and flipped it sideways to show off widescreen scenes from Star Wars movies? Fury Road is one of those kinds of movies where landscapes and dramatic visuals would make for some cool cards. Among the cast members are some big names then and some names that are perhaps bigger now, too. Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Riley Keough are of note here. (If you don't know some of them, Google them.) You have seen some of them elsewhere on cardboard already but this one would be far about more than just ink. It's not my flashiest pick here but it's the newest film from my top-of-my-head list ... you know, a fast five.

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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: 2021-22 NBA Hoops basketball cards (blaster box)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of images in this one.

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What: 2022 Panini Prizm Draft Picks football cards
Arrives: This product has been canceled by Panini America. (Updated Oct. 31.)
Box basics: Four autographs per four-pack box (16 boxes per case)
Order: This product has been canceled.

What's buzz-worthy: Panini opens its 2022 football card season with new college stars and past greats in their school colors, an autograph in every pack and some other inclusions that fans of the brand have come to expect.

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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: New pulls, an unusual thread, AEW blaster boxes, Tom Brady and more.

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What: 2022 Topps Archives Signature Series Retired Player Edition baseball cards
Arrives: July 13
Box basics: One encased and numbered buyback autograph per box (20 boxes per case)
Signers list: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps' buyback line brings more autographs from retired MLB stars to the masses with this one, which will be a "limited production" run, according to the company.

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What: 2021-22 Panini Mosaic Premier League soccer cards
Arrives: March 23
Box basics: One autograph per 10-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Mosaic makes its debut for Premier League soccer with the familiar look and format for this brand -- and with plenty of star power, too.

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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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Jasson Dominguez's six-figure card, players to invest in (not), Wander Franco's Rookie Card and plenty more in this Monday edition.

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What: 2022 Super Glow Opal Edition sports cards
Arrives: March 2
Box basics: One autograph per five-card box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Super Glow's first planned spot for 2022 includes an autograph in every box and more deluxe hits such as auto-mem and multi-auto cards also found one per case.

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Buzz buys and busts a lot of boxes right here for Buzz Breaks, but one of my goals is to rip a little less and talk more about cardboard that I -- and you -- might like. One way to do that? Simple show and tell -- present a few pick-ups and say why they captured my attention.

So, with all that said, here are a few Buzz Buys ... and this time around it's a super-sized edition with buys from last year as well as some from recent weeks.

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THE RAMS & PRIME TIME
The Card: Joe Namath & Sam Bradford 2011 Panini Certified Fabric of the Game Combos Prime (/25)
The Price: $27.75
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This is one of only a few Joe Namath memorabilia cards from his career-capping 1977 season with the Los Angeles Rams -- and it's on the rarer side of things as a prime patch card along with another notable past QB for the team who people had tapped for Super Bowl stardom. I figured I'd have this one lead off this time as the Rams are in the Super Bowl on Sunday and, to me, this is a Super Bowl-caliber card on the cheaper side of things. It's a part of my school ties part of my stash ... Namath Rams jersey cards are always worth the look in my book.
Grab a box right here: 2011 Panini Certified NFL

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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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Showing off Joe Burrow slabs, even more Super Bowl and NFL chatter, new pulls, Albert Pujols 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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Super Bowl and NFL chatter, pondering pop reports, new pulls, MLB lockout and a deep AEW break.

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Fast Five is a quick list that might offer a basic starting point for a themed collection or new focus -- five things that could be fun for a beginner or a new way to add something to your stash if you're a grizzled veteran.

This time? Five strategies to find bargains in today's hobby.

COLLECT LAST YEAR & PAST YEARS ...
Dabbling in the new stuff is fun, of course, but it can get pricey these days with an influx of new buyers with possibly deeper pockets than the typical collectors going all Galactus, gobbling up everything in the world out there in the retail wild and plenty elsewhere. Some are flippers, some are rippers ... but both are affecting the prices and volumes of boxes available -- and they don't necessarily make the results inside better. (That's still where luck can be in play.) But one way to fight with them if you're not a Silver Surfer might be to shop with recent past years in mind -- not just the newest rookies. Finding past-year bargains isn't as easy as it once was price-wise, either, but dabbling with boxes where others aren't can still have good results if you know what you're looking for and scout checklists and odds. The Dash Deals section and Bargain Breaks are two places where I'd look while keeping in mind the basic adage that should apply with cardboard ... buy low, sell high. This also leads into my second tip ...

Keep reading for four more making up the list this time.

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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: 2020-21 Panini Chronicles NBA basketball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

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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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Pondering dollars lost on a Patrick Mahomes RC sale, Cooper Kupp, memorabilia cards, a Superfractor from an old Bowman box 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 pack: 2020-21 Panini Illusions basketball cards (value pack)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

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Minor league baseball cards from the past can include some weird stuff ... stuff you wouldn't imagine to be found on a baseball card. Here are some some new oddities in this latest edition of MiLB Madness. 

A LIFE IN THE GAME & A LOT GOING ON HERE ...
The Card: Ron "Roady" Plein 2011 Perfect Game USA Cedar Rapids Kernels #31
The Buzz On This One: There are a lot of guys like Ron Plein out there in the baseball world -- on MLB payroll and not on MLB payroll -- who have a lifetime spent in the game but never, ever appear on baseball cards ... except maybe in MiLB releases. This card? It's not his first as he was 67 years old here and in his 37th year in baseball. (Learn more about him here.) Check out that card back -- peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! Random fact about this team? One of its players the previous season was Mike Trout ... this guy probably made him sandwiches and fixed his gear quite a bit after all those stolen bases that season.

Keep reading for more examples of weird baseball cards you can (almost) only find in MiLB.

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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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Trevor Lawrence, Roger Clemens, Wander Franco's Rookie Card and plenty more.

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