Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 12 in 12 -- a series of a dozen breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. We'll post one every hour all day long ... this is our finale for today.

The box: 2018 Championship Collection Shohei Ohtani baseball repack (MJ Holding)
Where to buy: Walmart ($19.99)

What's inside this one? Keep reading ...

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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 Championship Collection Shohei Ohtani baseball repack (MJ Holding)
Where to buy: Walmart ($19.99)

Packs per box: 15 (five packs are bonus items) plus one Leaf Shohei Ohtani card
Cards per pack: Varies by brand
Cards in this box: 121
Base set completion: N/A

Notables on base cards – See gallery for key pulls

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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 Championship Collection Shohei Ohtani baseball repack (MJ Holding)
Where to buy: Walmart ($19.99)

Packs per box: 15 (five packs are bonus items) plus one Leaf Shohei Ohtani card
Cards per pack: Varies by brand
Cards in this box: 118
Base set completion: N/A

Notables on base cards – See gallery for key pulls

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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: Fairfield Baseball 20-pack retail repack (mock image above)
Where to buy: Target ($19.99)

Packs per box: 20 -- plus bonus toy pack and bonus hit
Cards per pack: Varies by brand
Cards in this box: 262
Base set completion: N/A

Notables on base cards – See gallery for better pulls

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and break down 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 Topps baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 10 -- plus one manufactured Relic pack
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 101
Base set completion: 
78 of 350 (22 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable names pulled on base cards: Mike Trout, Miguel Cabrera, Matt Harvey, Jose Abreu, Yasiel Puig

Rookie Cards pulled: Aaron Nola, Greg Bird, Henry Owens, Ryan Lamarre

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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 five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: 2016 Topps, 2016 Topps and more 2016 Topps on the day of 2016 Topps' official arrival.

Contest >> Click here to win a box of 2016 Topps Series 1

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A new baseball card season is officially here tomorrow with the arrival of 2016 Topps Series 1 and we want a box to be yours.

How?

Leave a comment here telling us what you think of the product before Saturday, Feb. 6. We'll select a winner from all entries received through Friday. (Winner will be contacted via the email account left with comment on Saturday.)

If you haven't seen the cards yet, check out our two galleries below.

2016 Topps baseball card gallery

2016 Topps First Pitch baseball card gallery

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Contest >> Click here to win a box of 2016 Topps Series 1

This one will be purely visual -- a sampling of 2016 Topps baseball cards already pulled by collectors. Keep reading to see more and Buzz will update this one as more interesting cards surface. (Looking for the First Pitch cards? You will find them here.)

Look for camouflage uniforms as part of the photo variations in this set, too.

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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 five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: 2016 Topps Jordan Spieth First Pitch, big breaks,  a 264 collector, Johnny Manziel & more.

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The first retail pulls from 2016 Topps have begun to hit eBay in advance of its widespread release on Wednesday and that means we get out first glimpses at the surprise inclusions in the First Pitch set.

A checklist has not been released for the insert set, but it appears that this year's version will include golfer Jordan Spieth who has not had any official PGA cardboard despite dominating successes this past year.

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An early version of the 2016 Topps Series 1 baseball checklist arrived on Tuesday and that first glimpse offered a few surprises before its arrival on Feb. 3.

But there are also undoubtedly more still to come.

The First Pitch cards showing celebrities making ceremonial appearances? They're not on the checklist but are confirmed as still coming. There's no note of variations or short-printed cards for the release -- we all know those are coming. They always do.

What else? Keep reading for a rundown of what's known and notable from the checklist

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Update: The final (numeric) checklist is here.

The arrival of 2016 Topps Series 1 is not far away but the wait for a checklist is over as Topps revealed the subject list on Monday.

The numerical order of the base set will wait, though, since the reveal of card No. 1 is still to come before its Feb. 3 release. (All cards are listed, though.)
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When 2016 Topps Series 1 arrives just a few weeks from now, it will include something different for baseball cards that is bound to have some people excited about the brand and one particularly unique set inside.

The insert is called Perspectives and it's a 23-card set that features unusual angles and some visual wizardry -- at least on on the Ozzie Smith card teased by the company on Monday.

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The start of a new baseball card season is coming as 2016 Topps Series 1 is set to arrive on Feb. 3.

Uncut sheets like you see above are rolling off the presses in Texas in advance of packaging for the arrival that's just 26 days away as of this moment, according to Buzz's calendar, and Buzz has just one question ...

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Check out Topps' teaser video for its buybacks to be found in 2016 Topps Series 1. They will have five shades of foil-stamping to denote their scarcity.

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