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 Today: Favorite Topps designs, fake autos on real T206 cards and break highlights as we work toward the weekend.

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We're less than 10 days away from the biggest shopping day of the year and Panini America has begun teasing its promo pack inclusions for Black Friday.

The first wave of teases -- and we'll add the rest right here as they come -- focuses on the parallels found in the eighth edition of packs for the promo packs, which will be bonuses with purchases of the company's products at participating hobby shops beginning on Nov. 23.

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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 Today: Derrick Rose's big night and plenty of highlights from MLB, NFL and soccer boxes.

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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 Today: Just big breaks and other from-pack highlights in today's edition.

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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 Today: Klay Thompson's new record, a collector's new Mickey Mantle Rookie Card, big pulls and more in today's edition.

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What: 2018-19 Topps Chrome Bundesliga soccer
Arrives: Jan. 16
Box basics: One autograph per 18-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps unleashes Chrome for the Bundesliga German soccer fans for the first time with all of the Refractor rainbows one would expect and plenty of ink to chase.

Keep reading for more as well as a gallery of images.

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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 Today: Nothing but big pulls in today's edition -- some highlights to get you ripping on Sunday.

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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 ... it's some of all of those.

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What: 2018-19 Topps Finest UEFA Champions League soccer
Arrives: Feb. 20
Box basics: Two autographs per 12-pack box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps brings Finest to the Champions League with a mini-box format that guarantees ink every time -- and that's a good thing because there's some international star power teased as being this one.

Keep reading for more as well as a gallery of images.

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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 Today: Christian Yelich MVP chatter and big breaks from around the collecting world in today's edition.

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What: 2018-19 Topps Chrome Premier League soccer cards
Arrives: Dec. 21
Box basics: One autograph per 18-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (when live)

What's buzz-worthy: Topps unleashes Chrome upon the Premier League for the first time with all of the Refractor rainbows one would expect and plenty of stars and highlights from the pitch.

Keep reading for more as well as a gallery of images.

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What: 2018 Panini Treble soccer cards
Arrives: Dec. 5
Box basics: One jersey autograph, two other autographs or memorabilia cards per three-pack box (10 boxes per case via two inners)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Panini offers a new product for soccer fans that includes some new inclusions that could get them talking.

Keep reading for more info as well as a gallery of early images.

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Soccer fans have a lot of stars from around the world to spend their hobby dollars on, but it seems more than a few of them have high-end rarities all in one place.

That's inside a box of the ultra-high-end 2018 Panini Eminence World Cup Soccer.

Those crafted wood boxes include at least 10 cards (nine autographs) but there also are Hot Boxes that include as many as 15 cards (one in four boxes). These scorchers have included gems like the Lionel Messi 1/1 diamond autograph you see above. Earlier this month, that card collected 38 bids on eBay and sold for $4,450.

And it's not alone ... nor is it the highest sale in recent weeks.

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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 Today: Nothing but big pulls from around the collecting world in this Tuesday edition.

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What: 2018 Leaf Soccer Immortal Collection
Arrives: Late September
Box basics: One autograph per four-card box (four boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf celebrates soccer's biggest stars with a premium brand that packs ink in every box and some of the most-notable names from the past and present.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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What: 2018 Futera Unique soccer cards
Arrives: Sept. 12
Box basics: Four autograph, memorabilia or gold-plated framed autograph/memorabilia cards per box (18 boxes per case via three inners)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Fans of the global game -- past and present -- get a new option from Futera very soon with this one including a number of inclusions beyond the hits, which are found in every pack.

Keep reading for more info as well as a gallery of early 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: 2017-18 Topps UEFA Champions League Museum Collection
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 8
Base set completion: 
4 of 75 (5 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards (4) – Thomas Muller, Radja Naingolan, Cesar Azpilicueta, Oguzhan Ozyakup

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The wrapper redemption programs at the National Sports Collectors Convention are a challenge, a pastime and a must-do for many attendees every year.

But there are drawbacks, too, hence that challenge part. There can be long waits -- depending on how long the lines are and, more importantly, how early you got in them -- and there's the possibility that your line could get cut off before land your treasures.

But the wait can be worth it with the surprises in your packs -- or your boxes you grab to get said packs -- and that's what Buzz opted to try a few times this year. Now up? The Panini America program.

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If you're headed to this year's National Sports Collectors Convention in Cleveland, odds are you have a few bucks in your pocket.

We want you to earmark $10 for a little something something at the show -- whatever you want from wherever you want, whatever you think is cool.

Why? We've got a package of 10 cards (see our gallery) that can be yours if you participate in the Blowout Buzz $10 NSCC Challenge. 

Keep reading for the details.

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Panini America's National Sports Collectors Convention wrapper redemption plans are starting to come into shape publicly with the first glimpses of the cardboard to come revealed today.

And the key color of everything so far is pink.

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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 Today: Check out a number of box and case breaks along with new NSCC chatter in this edition.

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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 Today: NSCC and Juan Soto chatter along with big pulls from around the collecting world in today's edition.

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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 Today: Nick Senzel is out for the year, breaking up a vintage collection, NSCC chatter, big pulls & 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 Today: NSCC chatter, potential NBA Draft stars, National Treasures soccer, big pulls and more in today's edition.

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What: 2018-19 Topps UEFA Champions League Match Attax soccer gaming cards
Arrives: November
Box basics: Six cards per pack and 50 packs per display box (16 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps unleashes a new edition of its international trading card game to the world of Champions League soccer.

Keep reading for more.

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