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 Topps Star Wars: The Mandalorian Journey of The Child (aka the Baby Yoda set)
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Where to buy: Click here

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What: Star Trek: Picard Seasons 2-3 trading cards
Arrives: March 20
Box basics: Three autographs and one memorabilia card per 24-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: This series for Trek veterans arrives for a second time on cardboard with this one taking on two seasons this time and including more than a few memorable names -- no matter the Trekker's generation.

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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 Historic Autographs Famous Americans (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (other formats)
First Buzz preview: Click here (checklist is in gallery with break below)

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What: 2024 Pieces of the Past Eight Year Collection trading cards
Arrives: Feb. 7
Box basics: Eight hits per eight-pack box (eight boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Pieces of the Past tries its anniversary hits-only approach one more time with another release that's nothing but hits and an array of possible finds from throughout its past releases.

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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, NFL chatter, Superfractors, off-season baseball, strong college football breaks and more.

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What: 2024 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Kids At Play
Arrives: Jan. 24
Box basics: One hit per 24-pack collector box (eight boxes per case); 24 packs per hobby box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: TBD
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: The Kids play with their toys to open a new year -- everything from video games to oldschool gems that we all know (unlike these stickers) should remain in their wrappers -- and the chaos ensues.

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading and knows that there are many reasons that collectors choose to slab cards. Sometimes it's to enhance the appeal and protect them when selling. Other times it's to protect an investment for the long-term or to protect for sentimental reasons. Or, it might be just for fun or curiosity about a potential grade.

Here's this month's grading diary here on The Buzz ...

A FIRST FOR ME ...
The Card: Bo Bichette 2022 Topps Chrome Logofractor Edition Blue Refractor (/150)
The Reason Graded: If you're a regular reader, then you know that Bichette is perhaps my leading active player who I collect (casually ... as he's expensive). That means I dabble merely with what I like, what's a bargain and so on. In some cases, I'll grab a striking color of parallel or an appropriate shade from a certain brand that stands out from the rest and this Blue parallel fits right there along with this being a Logofractor parallel. Why did I grab this and then slab it? Well, the price was right (under $10 during the season) and it was one of few centered copies I saw and it was one that avoided a possible pattern gap in the logos that seemed to land on his cards often. When I grabbed this, it also became my first COMC pick-up to go directly to CGC for grading while all in their hands rather than starting out in mine.
The Grade: CSG 10

Reality Check: It came back with an ideal mark, which is what I had hoped for, though you never know with surfaces of cards ... that's about the only big risk of buying/subbing stuff there at the moment other than corners, which should be a smidge more obvious on screen -- but not always. My total cost for card and grading here? Under $24 and it only took about a month to get it back. That's a move I've actually done a few times late last year as my goal of sending in some new stuff for slabbing didn't happen on the card side of things before 2023 had ended. There will be plenty more in 2024 -- cards, comics, coins magazines ... 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: Funko Blockbuster Rewind National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Where to buy: Will take some looking in toy aisles ... BlowoutCards.com for non-sports cards

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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: 2006 Inkworks Veronica Mars Season 1 trading cards
Where to buy: Will take some looking ...BlowoutCards.com for newer non-sports cards

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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: Baseball cards that rarely surface, "impossible" non-sports sets, the Superfractor problem, college football free agency and more.

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What: 2023 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Edition
Arrives: Today via Topps.com
Box basics: Eight four-card packs per box
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: The Kids' blue take on Chrome cards arrives with new versions of the original Series 6 characters from the 1980s but in a more dazzling modern form.

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What: Historic Autographs The Mob Series 2 trading cards
Arrives: Jan. 31, 2024
Box basics: Four inserts or relics per 21-pack box (20 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Historic Autographs cxplores the culture, the personalities and the remnants of those on the other side of the law in a release that's packed with traditional cardboard as well as other hits.

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What: The Umbrella Academy 2024 Autograph Expansion packs
Arrives: Jan. 24
Box basics: 15 autographed cards per pack (A and B packs made for this format)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: This hit Netflix show based on a past Dark Horse Comics series arrives early next year with an autographs-only update and two different packs completing the release.

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What: 2023 Topps Disney 100 Chrome trading cards
Arrives: Today via Topps UK
Box basics: 18 four-card packs per box
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: The Disney 100 celebration comes to Topps Chrome in the UK -- also maybe elsewhere but it's not yet been revealed -- and we've got the full checklist, odds and more to show what's in store.

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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: Shohei Ohtani chatter, NFL Week 14, Patrick Mahomes throws a fit, some impressive sketch cards and more.

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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 ...

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THIS SET IS A CLASSIC
The Card: Tua Tagovailoa 2023 Panini Luminance Gold (/250)
The Price: About $5.50
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This set was among many recent NFL releases on the high-end spectrum when it comes to box price, so, well, I'm not ripping it ... but when this one popped up in an online search I did some scrolling and I quickly realized that this set just might be one of the best photo-editing jobs done in all of modern football card history (view a lot of them here). I scouted listings and opted for this clean parallel of a top guy in the NFL this season and this one arrived so clean that there's a very good shot this will end up slabbed and in a future Making The Grade ... that's how much I like this card. The base set is full of strong images. Strong, strong images.
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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 Historic Autographs Famous Americans (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (other formats)
First Buzz preview: Click here (checklist is in gallery with break below)

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What: 2023 Topps Star Wars High Tek trading cards
Arrives: Live now (previously launched at New York Comic-Con in October)
Box basics: Two serial-numbered parallels per six-card box
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: Topps revives Tek for the first time in several years with boxes where the autographs are not found every time, making the show here the various textures and parallels found in the brand.

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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 Leaf Metal Pop Century 1/1 Pre-Production Proofs (two packs)
Where to buy: Click here (when available)

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What: 2022 Topps Star Wars Masterwork trading cards
Arrives: December 2023
Box basics: Four hits in every four-pack hobby box with two autos guaranteed (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: TBD
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps' high-end Star Wars brand arrives once again by year's end packing a hit in every box and stars from throughout the galaxy on both film and television.

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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 Hall of Fame WRs, MLB and NFL chatter, Black November, baseball trivia and talking Bruce Lee cards.

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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: MLB's got two new MVPs, Joe Burrow, Jim Harbaugh, Black November, completing a set from 1890 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: 2023 Leaf Metal Pop Century 1/1 Pre-Production Proofs
Where to buy: Click here (when available)

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If you hadn't noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices right now right here as the new wave of Blowout Cards' Black November sales is here

Many of the discounts were dramatic enough that Buzz once again had to ponder the possibilities in many of the boxes and cases -- and here are five that caught this collector’s eye ... and there's far more that just might suit your tastes in the big sale.

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BLACK IN NOVEMBER
2021 Topps Allen & Ginter X Baseball Box
Most boxes in this wave of picks are ones I have personally opened in the past, but this one is the lone exception for Allen & Ginter X as in it's the only one that I missed landing since 2018. Why? I actually don't remember -- it was likely timing of arrival -- but Ginter X is a pretty safe buy as there's an autograph in every box with the ink here typically trending rarer than the standard stuff. Almost everything here is in the trademark black take on the Ginter designs and among the autos this time are Aaron Judge, Chipper Jones, Corey Seager, Johnny Bench, Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto, Mike Trout, Pete Alonso, Ronald Acuña Jr., Ryne Sandberg, Vladdy Sr. and Vladdy Jr. and more from the MLB realm. From beyond baseball, there's Bobby Moynihan, Jose Andrés, Rocky Bleier, Randall Cunnignham, Sara Spain and Trevor Lawrence to start. Again, regular Ginter doesn't include ink every time and these boxes do ... and some years of X could statistically deliver two.

Keep reading for a few more boxes you should consider (and are likely to end up in Buzz's cart).

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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: The Rock's Leaf autographs, NFL Week 10, non-sports cards, MLB chatter, Connor Bedard and Black November deals.

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