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: Bowman Mega Box breaks, Austin Riley, Topps' basketball return, Panini Legacy and more in today's edition.

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Update: This card sold for $920 on eBay Tuesday night -- keep reading for the details.

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Another monster game, another monster card? Pretty much ...

Ronald Acuña Jr. torched the San Francisco Giants pitchers Monday night with a homer on the first pitch of the game, then a double and another homer -- the kind of night that gets people looking even more for the cardboard from a few key sets last year that include his Rookie Cards.

Boxes of 2018 Topps Update have quickly become a simple hot commodity, especially with other rookies and the potential for parallels of this new star, but that's not the only place to chase this popular slugger.

And that's where the card you see up top comes in.

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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: Big pulls and National chatter lead the way here with some Ben Simmons heat in the mix.

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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: Big pulls and breaks from around the collecting world -- MLB, NBA, NFL -- in today's 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: 2018 Topps Update baseball cards (Walmart blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (several formats)
Packs per box: 11 (10 plus patch pack)
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 101
Base set completion: 
73 of 300 (24 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards of note – Albert Pujols, Mike Trout, Aaron Judge, Jose Altuve. Giancarlo Stanton, Chrsitian Yelich, Max Muncy, Luis Severino, Freddie Freeman

Rookie Cards (22) – Notables include Ronald Acuña Jr., Ozzie Albies, Shohei Ohtani, Gleyber Torres

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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: Big pulls, big arrivals, Donnie Baseball, The Orville and a huge pull ... dropped.

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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 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: A big BlowoutTV pull is above and there are plenty more big pulls and chatter 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: Nothing but big pulls in this Sunday 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: Nothing but 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: Nothing but break highlights in today's edition, including two Flawless Logoman 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: 2018 Topps Update baseball cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (several formats)
Packs per box: 36
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 360
Base set completion: 
315 of 300 (95 percent)
Duplicates: 4

Base cards of note – Aaron Judge, Jose Altuve, Max Muncy, Manny Machado, Alex Bregman, Ichiro Suzuki, Max Scherzer, Mookie Betts, Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, J.D. Martinez, Justin Verlander, Giancarlo Stanton

Rookie Cards (75) – Notables include Ozzie Albies, Ronald Acuña Jr., Juan Soto, Shohei Ohtani, Gleyber Torres, David Bote, Tyler O'Neill, Shane Bieber, Scott Kingery, Dylan Cozens, Rhys Hoskins

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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: Big pulls, big pulls and big pulls 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: Roman Reigns has leukemia, one case you would rip, Saquon Barkley's NFL status and big pulls to round things out.

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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: Pondering the greatness of Trubisky, Mahomes and Watson, inside new MLB and NFL cases, "my Topps conspiracy", if you won Mega Millions and more in today's 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: 2018 Topps Update baseball cards (Walmart blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (several formats)
Packs per box: 11 (10 plus patch pack)
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 101
Base set completion: 
75 of 300 (25 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards of note – Mike Trout, Javier Baez, Mookie Betts, J.D. Martinez, Paul Goldschmidt, Albert Pujols, George Springer

Rookie Cards (25) – Juan Soto, Ozzie Albies, Shane Bieber, Tyler O'Neill, Rhys Hoskins, Dustin Fowler, Jacob Nottingham, Daniel Palka, Joey Luccesi, Brandon Mann, Joey Wendle, Ildemaro Vargas, Anthony Banda, Michael Soroka, Mike Tauchman, Garrett Cooper, Billy McKinney, Yairo Munoz, Jack Reinheimer, Braxton Lee, Jacob Barnes, Jose Castillo, Walker Lockett, Elieser Hernandez, Merandy Gonzalez, Mike Gerber, Grayson Greiner, Trevor Oaks, Eric Stout

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Juan Soto will make an appearance in 2018 Topps Heritage High Number and that's the start for his Rookie Cards and autographs in Topps products this season.

The company revealed this nugget today in advance of that product's arrival next week.

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Talk about demand ... it's definitely already there for this one.

The countdown clock on the latest Topps On Demand set presently shows 48 days and a few hours remaining for the arrival of 2018 Topps 3D baseball card packs, but there's one other line that matters the most right now with this release that should be one of the rarer larger-size sets of the year.

More importantly, the page also says "sold out."

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What: 2018 Topps Update baseball cards
Arrives: Oct. 17 22
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
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: The third series of the the basic Topps baseball brand -- the flagship brand for the hobby -- will cap the season with its full-bleed feel and a number of inclusions that collectors expect from the brand.

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

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