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: 2018 Topps Series 1 (hanger)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (all formats)
Packs per box: 1
Cards per box: 72
Base set completion: 
65 of 350 (19 percent)
Duplicates: 1

Base cards of note – Mike Trout, Clayton Kershaw, Manny Machado, Mookie Betts, Andrew Benintendi, George Springer (World Series)

Rookie Cards (11) – Dominic Smith, J.P. Crawford, Jack Flaherty, Anthony Banda, Luis Santos, Zack Granite, Nicky Delmonico, Andrew Stevenson, Raudy Read, J.D. Davis, Ryan McMahon

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The box: 2017 Topps UEFA Champions League Showcase soccer cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 5 (four standard, one Orange parallels pack)
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 25
Base set completion: 19 of 200 (10 percent)
Duplicates: 0

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What: 2018 Onyx Platinum Elite baseball cards
Arrives: April 2
Box basics: Two autographs per four-card pack (24 packs per case)

What's buzz-worthy: This prospecting brand will once again include top young prospects, notable buyback cards and a super-low print run of just 80 cases.

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The box: 2017 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 48
Base set completion: 
27 of 300 (9 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Corey Seager, Stephen A. Smith, Rod Carew, Randy Johnson

Rookie Cards (5) – Andrew Benintendi, Yoan Moncada, Jose DeLeon, Robert Gsellman, David Dahl

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but big pulls to start the week.

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What: 2018 Leaf Cut Signature Edition History of Baseball
Arrives: April/May Aug. 31
Box basics: One slabbed cut signature card per box (14 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf's next cut autograph product will offer a mix of Hall of Famers, famous First Pitch participants, current stars and future Hall of Famers.

Keep reading for more info and a gallery of what's to come.

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but big pulls in this Sunday edition.

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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 Donruss Optic NFL (SE blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 24
Base set completion: 
11 of 100 (11 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Dez Bryant, Amari Cooper, Carlos Hyde, Demaryius Thomas, Julian Edelman, Tavon Austin, Lamar Miller, Alex Smith, Joe Flacco, LeSean McCoy, Devonta Freeman

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One of the most-remembered moments for the Philadelphia Eagles and their fans this past week -- beyond their Super Bowl LII win that is -- has to be Jason Kelce's eccentric look and his expletive-laden speech that was oh-so-Philly delivered to the masses at the end of the team's championship parade.

His only in-pack football cards are the same way -- colorful and eccentric, but without the expletives.

You won't have to dig that far back to find the Rookie Cards of this 2011 draft pick, though, as his first in-pack cards come from 2017 Panini Unparalleled.

That's the only place you'll find him on a regular-issue standard card in a pack, though you do have a couple of other card options that come via less-traditional methods and an insert appearance to chase.

Keep reading for a breakdown ... and make sure you've eaten breakfast. (It's some of Kelce's life philosophy or something.)

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What's Buzzing Today: Winter Olympic blasters deliver big -- just like several other boxes for collectors on the boards.

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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 impressive pulls as we head into the weekend.

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What: 2018 Score football cards
Arrives: April 25
Box basics: Four autographs per 10-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Hobby boxes here & retail boxes here

What's buzz-worthy: A new season of NFL cards is here with the arrival of a new Score set that continues to pack several autos into a smaller box but with huge packs filled with cards from one of the biggest sets of the season.

Keep reading for more info and a gallery of images released so far.

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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: 2018 Topps U.S. Winter Olympic Team & Hopefuls cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 181
Base US set completion: 
48 of 48 (100 percent)
Base USA set completion: 
45 of 45 (100 percent)
Duplicates (both sets): 36

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What's Buzzing Today: It seems like the Cleveland Cavaliers have traded everybody but LeBron -- and it has the boards buzzing with the NBA trade deadline here.

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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: 2016 Panini Certified NASCAR (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 3
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 15
Base set completion: 
12 of 100 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Bill Elliott, Darrell Waltrip, Glen Wood, Jimmie Johnson, Bubba Wallace, Brad Keselowski, Ryan Truex, Bobby Labonte, Alex Bowman, Joey Logano (car), Martin Truex Jr. (car)

Rookie Cards (1) – Ahnna Parkhurst

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but impressive pulls -- including a decade-old Tom Brady 1/1 -- in today's edition.

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As previously noted here on The Buzz, Panini America's first baseball card release of the year will include autographs of new Los Angeles Angels signee Shohei Ohtani.

But now we have the specifics for 2018 Donruss and the cardboard to prove it after the former Nippon Professional Baseball star signed for Panini last week.

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Would you be mine? Could you be mine?

The answer is "yes," when it comes to stamps for children's television icon Mister Rogers as the U.S. Postal Service will issue a new stamp featuring him late next month.

It will be formally unveiled at a dedication ceremony on March 23 at WQED’s Fred Rogers Studio in Pittsburgh -- an event open to the public -- and should go on sale at that time, too. These Forever stamps will cost 50 cents each and will also be commonly collected as sheets. He'll share the stamp with one of his puppets, King Friday XIII.

Believe it or not, it's also not his first collectibles appearance.

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What's Buzzing Today: Collectors react to Kristaps Porzingis injury news, ponder Shohei Ohtani's impact in 2018 Bowman, pick NBA Rookie of the Year contenders & more.

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This is a twist on a Buzz Break -- one where Buzz breaks more than one box and you get to vote on which one you would have wanted.

The box: 2018 Topps WWE Road to WrestleMania (Walmart version) blaster 
Where to buy: $19.99 at retail (hit BlowoutCards.com for hobby)

Keep reading to see the boxes and cast your vote ...

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Update (March 22): The R-rated first full trailer (NSFW, language) has been added. (Scroll down.)

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The CGI isn't done? Who needs CGI when there are toys ... err, action figures.

That's the early sentiment in a new teaser trailer for Deadpool 2 that dropped today that lets "The Merc With a Mouth" introduce viewers to a big player in the Marvel Comics universe who's making his big-screen debut in this one.

It's Cable -- and he'll apparently be sparring with Wade Wilson and company in the film.

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Imagine a world where New York Yankees star Aaron Judge had just a single product where you could find his one Rookie Card and one rookie autograph -- okay, okay, throw in some parallels of them and maybe a variation or two to make it a more realistic scenario.

What might those sell for? How tough would that wax become over time? It's something to ponder.

That hypothetical is much, much closer to reality for Olympic athletes and the heavy focus on the few cards they do have gets amplified a million times over during the Olympic Games, no matter whether they are of the summer or winter variety. While we're still on the cusp of this year's Winter Olympics, some of the notable first-time autographs already are selling very well -- but there's clearly room for more as they become true household names. One of those likely names belongs to 17-year-old snowboarder Chloe Kim, who'll appear on the cover of ESPN The Magazine's Olympics Issue dropping on Friday when the Winter Games open in South Korea.

The Kim 2018 Topps U.S. Winter Olympic Team & Hopefuls Gold autograph (/25) you see here already sold for $199, which seems low compared to the hype that already comes before she takes to the halfpipe and her dominating success in the Winter X Games. It's also impressive considering it comes from a box guaranteeing ink that's presently less than $75.

But it's not alone.

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What: 2017-18 Donruss Optic basketball cards
Arrives: April 4
Box basics: One autograph per 20-pack hobby box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Optic arrives with an on-card autograph for every Rated Rookie and a rainbow parallel that should make for some rim-rocking reactions.

Keep reading for more info and a gallery of what's to come.

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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: 2016 Panini Certified NASCAR (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 3
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 15
Base set completion: 
12 of 100 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Richard Petty, Danny "Chocolate" Myers, Terry Labonte, David Ragan, Greg Biffle, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., David Gilliland, Trevor Bayne, Jamie McMurray, John Hunter Nemechek

Rookie Cards (1) – Garrett Smithley

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He might be best-remembered as the curmudgeon father of Frasier Crane on NBC's Frasier, but decades in acting only led actor John Mahoney to appear in a number of memorable roles.

But only one led him to appear on baseball cards.

The actor died on Sunday at 77 after a brief health battle, years after he played William "Kid" Gleason, the manager of the 1919 Chicago White Sox in Eight Men Out. 

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