What: 2016 Super Break Football Deluxe
Arrives: Sept. 20
Box basics: Five items per box. 

What's buzz-worthy: Super Break's latest football offering includes cards and memorabilia all in one box.

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What: 2016-17 Panini Noir soccer cards
Arrives: Oct. 19
Box basics: At least three autographs and two memorabilia cards per 10-card box (three boxes per case).

What's buzz-worthy: Panini brings Noir to the pitch with a mix of club and country cards in this high-end release that includes eight autographed insert sets and two memorabilia sets.

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What: 2017 Topps Star Wars Galactic Files Reborn trading cards
Arrives: July 19
Box basics: Two hits (one autograph guaranteed) per 24-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: A look back at all past Star Wars movies arrives with new touches and card types from all seven films and two animated series all in one place.

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What: 2016 Leaf Lumber Kings hockey cards
Arrives: October
Box basics: Four stick cards per box (10 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf takes another look back to the past with nothing but hockey sticks the sources of memorabilia cards in this release, which "features the most-comprehensive checklist of any stick-focused product ever."

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What: 2016 Topps Rocky 40th Anniversary trading cards
Arrives: Wednesday (Aug. 31) via Topps.com.
Set basics: 330 cards per set.

The Basics: Topps has teased a Wednesday arrival for a set examining all of the Rocky films that will apparently have inserted autographs from Sylvester Stallone. The standard cards appear to use the design from the Rocky II set previously made by Topps in 1979. Update: The set will consist of 330 cards covering six films with a price of $59.99. Autographed cards will be limited to just 10 copies apiece with four different signed cards found one in every 125 sets.

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What: 2016 Leaf Metal Draft baseball cards
Arrives: November/December
Box basics: Six autographs per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Trading Cards brings back Metal with the lowest print run in the history of the product -- fewer than 200 cases will be made.

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What: 2016 Leaf Perfect Game All-American Classic baseball cards
Arrives: December 2016
Box basics: Eight autographs per box (15 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf takes the Perfect Game All-Americans and creates their own brand with patch autos and Metal autos in boxes that have nothing but the hits inside.

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What: 2016 Leaf Perfect Game National Showcase baseball cards
Arrives: October 2016
Box basics: 25 autographs per box (15 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf makes the Perfect Game a big box with nothing but hits and one of the most-limited ones, too, with just 99 cases made.

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What: 2016 Panini Black Gold Collegiate basketball cards
Arrives: Oct. 19
Box basics: Two or three autographs and two memorabilia cards per two-pack box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The revamping of Black Gold Collegiate from a multi-sport brand to single sports continues here with the stars of the hardwood getting their due in this basketball-only release.

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What: 2016-17 Upper Deck Trilogy hockey cards
Arrives: Jan. 4, 2017
Box basics: Four cards per pack, eight packs per box (10 boxes per case; hits per box were not disclosed)

What's buzz-worthy: Trilogy is back with one of the biggest draws being 33 top rookies each on three different set designs -- that comes along with many of the things collectors have come to expect from the brand.

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What: 2016 Panini Prizm football cards (jumbo box)
Arrives: Oct. 26
Box basics: Three autographs and 10 serial-numbered Prizm cards per 12-pack box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Prizm is back for a new season with a familiar look and all the new names while including Tribute sets to a pair of retired legends, Peyton Manning and Charles Woodson and "more Prizm content than ever before."

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What: 2016 Panini Prime Cuts baseball cards
Arrives: Oct. 26
Box basics: Five autographs or memorabilia cards per box (10 boxes per case via two inners)

What's buzz-worthy: After four years on the bench, Prime Cuts returns with nothing but hits from stars of the present as well as the past in this high-end brand.

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What: 2016 Topps Chrome Sapphire Edition baseball cards
Arrives: Wednesday (Aug. 24)
Box basics: Thirteen bonus parallels and two Superfractors per set

The Basics: The 700-card 2016 Topps set gets Chromed for a factory set limited to only 250 copies that will only initially be sold via Topps.com. The sets will be Blue Sapphire for the 65th anniversary of Topps baseball cards. More details will come soon -- that or at least the cards will. ... One important nugget? Players who have Superfractors in 2016 Topps Chrome will not have a Superfractor in this release. While card numbers are not the same between Topps and Topps Chrome, that helps keep things simpler for those eyeing Supers and helps the math work out on the production run. Update: The sets are now live on Topps.com with a price of $1,500 per set.

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What: 2017 Topps Heritage baseball cards
Arrives: March
Box basics: One autograph or Relic per 24-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Final checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: The burlap is back as Topps revisits 1968 for the newest edition of Heritage with much of the same formula that has made it a hobby staple for the last 16 years.

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Bowman Platinum is apparently making a comeback.

How do we know this?

Topps released a final checklist for the baseball brand on Wednesday -- and that makes it a likely candidate to be arriving very soon as a Topps.com exclusive. Update: Make that a Walmart exclusive.

It will arrive on Aug. 24 with a parallel rainbow that includes Purple (/250), Green (/99), Orange (/25), Black (1/1) and printing plates (1/1) parallels as well as Ice parallels only available two per "value box."

Update 2: There will be two autographs per 20-pack box, while blaster boxes (value box) will have seven packs and a four-card Ice parallel pack. Fat packs will include 12 cards.

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What: 2016 Topps WWE NXT wrestling cards
Arrives: December
Box basics: One autograph in per mini-box.

What's buzz-worthy: The first online-exclusive Topps WWE product will focus on the newcomers from NXT, the company's developmental level, with an autograph in every pack.

The Basics: More info and images to come soon -- the product was merely teased by Topps on Tuesday night.

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What: 2016 Panini Phoenix football cards
Arrives: Oct. 19
Box basics: Three autograph or memorabilia cards per 12-pack box (16 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: A new brand for NFL collectors that Panini says "is sure to catch fire" features players from the past and present with nine inserts and six rookies per box atop the base cards and hits.

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What: 2016 Rittenhouse James Bond Archives: Spectre Edition trading cards
Arrives: Nov. 16
Box basics: Two autographed cards per 24-pack box with some boxes also including memorabilia cards

What's buzz-worthy: The James Bond universe's newest movie gets cardboard treatment with members of the Spectre cast woven in with stars from past films.

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What: 2016 Leaf Autographed Football Helmets
Arrives: October
Box basics: One autographed full-sized helmet per box (three boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf offers "the return of one of the most popular and innovative packaged memorabilia items of all time" with every box yielding either a Hall of Famer, current NFL star or rookie, past stars and even "a few more surprises."

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What: 2016-17 Panini USA Soccer cards
Arrives: Oct. 12
Box basics: One autograph and one memorabilia card per 75-card box set (10 boxes per case).

What's buzz-worthy: Panini America spotlights the stars of the USA Soccer squads -- b0th the men's and the women's National Teams -- in this annual box set that's jam-packed with inserts atop the standard cards.

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What: 2016 Panini Playbook football cards
Arrives: Oct. 5
Box basics: One autograph or memorabilia booklet, one autograph or memorabilia card per three-card box (15 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The formula of last year returns with a new crop of rookies and plenty of booklet-based potential and some new touches.

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What: 2016 Panini Impeccable football cards
Arrives: Sept. 28
Box basics: Five autographs per eight-card box (three boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: A new high-end NFL brand arrives with a number of autographs per box from "a diverse autograph checklist of past, present and future stars with several on-card autograph inserts that focus on retired and Hall of Fame players."

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What: 2016-17 NBA Hoops basketball cards
Arrives: Oct. 12
Box basics: Two autographs per 24-pack box (20 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The NBA season tips off on cardboard with this release, which arrives a week after Panini America's Contenders college brand gets collectors started on the hardwood.

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What: 2017 Topps Series 1 baseball cards
Arrives: Feb. 5
Box basics: One autograph or Relic per 36-pack box (12 boxes per case); One autograph and two Relics per 10-pack jumbo box (six boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view.
Gallery & SP info: Click here to view.

What's buzz-worthy: The newest edition of the Topps baseball brand -- the flagship brand for the hobby -- arrives with a modern look and plenty of new looks that break away from some of the formulas from recent years.

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What: 2016 Upper Deck Marvel's Doctor Strange trading cards
Arrives: Oct. 26
Box basics: One sketch, autograph or "premium insert" card and two memorabilia cards per seven-pack box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The next Marvel movie gets a premium card treatment where every pack includes a one-card "hit" of some type for the film that Marvel hopes will be a new hit franchise. This is also a brand that also will be released as an e-Pack product.

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