Monthly Archives: June 2024
First Buzz: 2023-24 Panini Prizm Deca NBA cards (updated)
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What: 2023-24 Panini Prizm Deca basketball cards
Arrives: TBD
Box basics: Two autographs per 10-pack hobby box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (when live)What's buzz-worthy: Panini America will celebrate 10 years of Prizm with a new NBA set that uses past looks while showcasing stars of today and the past per teasers released today.
Keep reading for more info.
First Buzz: 2024 Leaf Electrum Multi-sport trading cards
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What: 2024 Leaf Electrum Multi-sport trading cards
Arrives: Aug. 30
Box basics: Three autographed cards per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click hereWhat's buzz-worthy: Leaf introduces a new line that meshes the world of sport with notables from pop culture all in one spot that's solely about autographs.
Keep reading for more info and a full gallery.
First Buzz: 2023 Panini Contenders Optic football cards
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What: 2022 Panini Contenders Optic football cards
Arrives: July 31
Box basics: Two autographs per six-card box (20 boxes per case)
Order: Click hereWhat's buzz-worthy: Contenders Optic drops for a new year with some new inclusions, new stars, some new looks and plenty of colorful autographs with big-pull potential.
Keep reading for more info and a gallery of images.
Explore Prizm affordably with this potential-packed format
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If you like to crunch the numbers and chase things without breaking the bank, this box might be for you.
Especially if you're a soccer fan and into Prizm.
Buzz was scrolling The Soccer Sale and noticed that the 40-box lots of 2021/22 Panini Prizm Premier League Soccer cereal boxes were up for grabs with a slasher price that might entice anybody to rip in there.
Why? Keep reading ...
First Buzz: 2024 Pieces of the Past Eight Year Coll. Series 2
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What: 2024 Pieces of the Past Eight Year Collection Series 2 trading cards
Arrives: Aug. 8
Box basics: Eight hits per eight-pack box (eight boxes per case)
Order: Click hereWhat's buzz-worthy: Pieces of the Past revisits its anniversary hits-only approach for a second time this year with another release that's got a wide array of possible finds from throughout its past releases.
Keep reading for more info and a selection of images.
Darkwing Duck shows drawing power with Kickstarter push
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Never doubt the duck ... especially Darkwing Duck.
A Kickstarter campaign to bring back the entire collection of Darkwing Duck comics from the past all in one spot -- as well as first dibs at a reboot with a new series -- hit its goal in mere minutes this week. The total raised is pushing 10 times that right now with a number of advanced options available to collectors before the campaign ends in about two weeks.
Dynamite Entertainment is behind it all, which includes a trio of trade paperbacks as well as an omnibus-size and oversized 9-by-12 hardcover edition -- both being the Darkwing Duck Complete Comic Collection -- that revisit all of the past comics based on the early 1990s TV series. There are several other choices in the campaign, ranging from new comics, original sketches and other artwork -- nearly 30 options for fans to get a piece of the action.
First Buzz: 2024 Panini Select NASCAR cards
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What: 2024 Panini Select NASCAR cards
Arrives: July 19
Box basics: Two autographs and three memorabilia cards per 12-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click hereWhat's buzz-worthy: Select hits the NASCAR circuit for the first time since 2017 with an array of potential collecting finds with a tiered set, plenty of parallels and a hit in every fourth pack.
Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.
Buzz Break: 2024 Bowman baseball 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: 2024 Bowman baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview & checklist/odds: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)
Keep reading for what was inside this one ..
Board Buzz: Must-read threads on Blowout Forums (June 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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.
What's Buzzing: Collectors react to the Willie Mays news, new pulls, The National, rare cards and more.
Buzz Buys ... A LOT: Powered by holograms, promos & more
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Buzz buys a lot of stuff these days and for a few reasons, really. Sometimes it's just bargain-hunting, sometimes it's just something that strikes me. And other times it's a lot -- a group of things -- and that has happened enough lately I figured I'd try something different as a regularly appearing item. Sometimes my lots will be wins, sometimes they won't be ... but I'll let you decide.
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A MYSTERY MIX ... THE FINALE
The Lot: A mix of 50 assorted non-sport inserts and promo cards
The Price: $9.99Keep reading for more on this one ...
Collecting Game-used: Finding humor after swing from Nimmo
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Four bounces and then a short roll ... and then it just sits there.
Spoiler alert: That's the "action" sequence for this latest ball in the Collecting Game-used series but for a random grab-bag ball -- one picked only by its game date -- this one stands out from the pack to a degree. Why? It's got a modest bit of scarring from what it hit off the bat of an All-Star caliber player and it's got a blooper-caliber whimsy to it all, too, with a sequence in a pandemic-era stadium that's quiet enough for you to also hear it all and notice that there are no background reactions at all, either, save for an ump giving it a brief glance.
Keep reading to see the details this time ... and the ball in action.
First Buzz: 2024 Wild Card AutoMania American Football
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What: 2024 Wild Card AutoMania American Football Edition football cards
Arrives: July 12
Box basics: Eight numbered autographed and encased cards per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click hereWhat's buzz-worthy: Wild Card adds some patriotic themes to its football autograph chase for nearly 180 players of the past, present and future with an encased 1/1 auto in every box and with everything else limited to no more than 25 copies.
Keep reading for more info and a gallery of images.
Buzz Break: 2019 Panini Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide cards
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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: 2019 Panini Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide wrestling cards
Where to buy: Will take some looking ... BlowoutCards.com for WWE boxes
Keep reading to see a full breakdown and gallery of highlights from this one.
Buzz Break: 2023 Topps Heritage baseball cards (value pack)
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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: 2023 Topps Heritage baseball cards (value)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few other formats)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click hereKeep reading for a full breakdown and gallery for what was found in this one.
Board Buzz: Must-read threads on Blowout Forums (June 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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.
What's Buzzing: Celtics win it all, WWE takes a long-awaited alternate-reality twist, Fun Face, Paul Skenes, The National and more.
First Buzz: 2024 Wild Card Five Card Draw baseball cards
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What: 2024 Wild Card Five Card Draw baseball cards
Arrives: July 12
Box basics: Five encased autographed cards per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click hereWhat's buzz-worthy: Wild Card brings its very numbers-based presentation to the baseball diamond with five serial-numbered cards inside numbered packs that add some certainty to the chase -- every card is numbered to no more than five copies across the entire release and every box includes a 1/1 card.
Keep reading for more info and a gallery of images.
First Buzz: 2024 Topps Chrome baseball cards (updated)
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What: 2024 Topps Chrome baseball cards
Arrives: July 17
Box basics: One autograph per 24-pack hobby box (12 boxes per case); three autos per 12-pack jumbo box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Sapphire Checklist: Click here
Logofractor Checklist: Click here ... Logofractor odds here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click hereWhat's buzz-worthy: The full Topps Chrome details are still to come but a checklist and early teasers are here for when the neon of 2024 Topps flagship goes Chrome next month.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
Buzz Break: 2024 Topps Series 2 baseball cards (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: 2024 Topps Series 2 baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview & checklist/odds: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (hobby & jumbo)
Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.
Check it out: The first payday during a memorable MLB journey
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Dave Dravecky's tale is perhaps a somber one in MLB history, but this story isn't that ... this is one from the very beginning.
And, short of a contract signing bonus -- if there even was one -- this is about something at the absolute start of it all.
The newest piece in my collection wasn't some discovery curated and placed on the block with an auction house marketing team pumping it up to be something more, something beyond what it is. In fact, this was a random find over on eBay of all places where it had been sitting for at least months -- if not longer -- as part of a dealer run. It was simply one of many similar items bought in bulk years ago and I actually even passed over it a few times before some curiosity got me to stop and do some research. That's when I realized what I had found. Is it a monster? Probably not unless you like monster-sized trivia while digging on the cheap ... to be honest that's kinda my thing. Sure, it's not finding Earl Weaver's 1977 gamer at a thrift store or a razor-sharp Walter Payton Rookie Card for a buck at an estate sale ... but what I found seemed interesting to me and I think it might be to you, too.
Dravecky's story, to a degree, is captured on his 1990 Score baseball card above, but that's not where it all ended -- or where it began -- and that's something that got me to stop and look when it seemed unfamiliar on eBay. I first knew Dravecky as a San Francisco Giant and, of course, how his career ended, but his time in baseball didn't start around the arrival of his 1983 Fleer and 1983 Topps Rookie Cards as a San Diego Padre, either. No, no ... that's not the life of a 21st-round draft pick. It was a bit more complicated than that.
Buzz Break: 2023 Panini Chronicles WWE cards (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: 2023 Panini Chronicles WWE wrestling cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
Keep reading for a breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.
Board Buzz: Must-read threads on Blowout Forums (June 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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.
What's Buzzing: NBA and WWE chatter, The National, Connor McDavid, Fun Face and more in this Monday edition.
Make your picks to win free cards at YourDozen.com
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Take a minute and make some predictions and picks -- and if you're at the top of the mountain when it's over then you get free cards.
It's always that simple.
YourDozen.com competition returns with free cardboard up for grabs to one lucky winner -- this time it's a mix of picks for Saturday sports action as well as some hot-take Majority Rules questions. Majority Rules questions are simple -- whatever gets the most votes is the winning answer -- and we've sprinkled in those along with the traditional picks. The end result is still the same -- whomever has the most correct answers once the dust settles wins free cards.
You have until 2 p.m. on Saturday to get your picks and predictions in. (Do it now -- one of the tiebreakers is who entered first.) The prize is once again a mystery item.
Did you get in on last week's action? Check the leaderboard and contact fish@blowoutcards.com to claim your prize if you're the winner.
How does it work? It's short and simple. Register and you'll get a dozen questions where your answers will be compiled and compared to others. Whomever gets the most correct gets the prize -- or at least a shot at it if there's a tie.
The goal with YourDozen.com? Have a little fun and get free stuff into some of your hands.
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Follow Buzz on Twitter @BlowoutBuzz or send email to BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.
Board Buzz: Must-read threads on Blowout Forums (June 16)
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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, 2024 Topps Series 2, Fun Face, The National and more in this Sunday edition.
Board Buzz: Must-read threads on Blowout Forums (June 15)
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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: NBA pulls and NBA Finals chatter, Fun Face, soccer pulls and more in this Saturday edition.
Buzz Break: 2024 Topps Series 2 baseball cards (hanger)
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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: 2024 Topps Series 2 baseball cards (hanger)
First Buzz preview & checklist/odds: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (hobby & jumbo)
Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.