Buzz Break: 2020 Bowman Chrome baseball cards (Mega Box)

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The box: 2020 Bowman Chrome baseball cards (Mega Box)
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Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a couple formats)

Keep reading for what was inside this one ...

Packs per box: 7 (five standard, two Mega Box)
Cards per pack: 5
Cards per box: 35

Set completion: 
24 of 100 (24 percent)
Duplicates: 1

Notables on base cards – Kris Bryant, Aaron Judge, Juan Soto, Matt Chapman, Xander Bogaerts, Rhys Hoskins, Mike Clevinger, Alex Bregman

Rookie Cards (12) – Bo Bichette, Shogo Akiyama (2), Randy Arozarena, Yu Chang, Nico Hoerner, Yoshi Tsutsugo, Michel Baez, Logan Allen, Sheldon Neuse, Adbert Alzolay

Insert cards: 9 (all in gallery below with some base)
Mega Box Prospects (8) – Alex Kirilloff, Forrest Whitley, Nolan Jones, Michael Busch, Michael Toglia, Dane Dunning, Braden Shewmake, Noah Song
Mega Box Dawn of Glory (1) – Isaac Paredes

Autographs/memorabilia: 1
Mega Box Prospect Autographs (1) – Matthew Lugo

What's Buzz-worthy: Here's something different out in the retail wild -- at least for the five minutes that they were on the shelf -- that you haven't seen much of in recent years at Walmart ... a Bowman Chrome mega box. You get just base cards with no inserts in the basic packs -- kind of like some of the stripped down retail packs out there for some brands from some companies -- with the only chase here appearing to be in the Mega Box packs. (Those have odds, the standard packs do not.) The Refractors start at one in 12 ... so one in six boxes ... there. Dawn of Glory inserts should drop in every box while the Farm to Fame cards are one in 80 packs and image variations are also in play at tougher rates (see the gallery for odds). The autographs are one in nine packs -- so every fifth box -- and parallels are far tougher there as well. These boxes carry a bit of a premium price -- $35 -- and will sell well like everything Bowman and Chrome this year but if you're expecting ink or color regularly that won't be happening. This seems like something to help satisfy collectors more than ripper/flippers but I'm betting they'll still leave nothing for the kids. The standard version of this is a hobby-only release but this one is probably the company's easiest way to get some new stuff out on retail shelves to help meet demand -- though it appears this one may have been planned out, too, with on-card autos. All in all, it's a decent option to look for if looking for a rip, but with 25 base cards per box and a 100-card set, you could see some base volume piling up fast if you rip several boxes. All in all, I'd rather have this one show up than not ... because the way shelves are still being cleared there will be many people who never even see it.

Product Grade: A-
Box Grade: A (thanks to ink ... beyond that only my RCs were a highlight here)
Fun Grade: B

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