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 LeBron James Triple Logoman ends at $2.4M, new pulls, talking NFL parallels, MLB chatter, a WWE haul and 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: Project 2020 chatter, MLB breaks, opening a pack of 1986-87 Fleer, big pulls and ... The National in December?

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You should know all about him after his dominating 2017 arrival that ended with the National League Rookie of the Year award in his hands and a World Series run that came up one run short of a championship. Last year? Not quite as bold statistically but still strong with another World Series loss.

This year?

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Cody Bellinger leads the NL with nine homers in his first 17 games -- that's 36 percent of his total all of last season, three more than the closest slugger in his own league and just one short of the only player in the game today tops him today (American League slugger Khris Davis). It's a hot start.

He appears on more than 3,200 different baseball cards but only 600 or so of those are certified autographs (Buzz is waiting on a redemption) and, while these numbers have all exploded since his arrival they're not that big in the big-picture as he's dominating once again.

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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 from new boxes and retro breaks, pondering Josh Gordon's next move and all of the 2018 Topps Heritage High Number breaks you can handle.

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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: Iconic cards, big pulls and new brands hitting retail early.

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What: 2017 Panini Flawless football cards
Arrives: March 21 April 4
Box basics: Two gems, six autographs and two memorabilia cards per 10-card box (two boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Flawless returns for another ultra-high-end season with some new touches and some new signers from NFL's recent past.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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The NFL's rookie class of 2016 is mostly in the offseason now but that doesn't mean their action when it comes to cardboard is over.

In fact, 13 top guys have been busy signing for Panini America the last two days during the "NFLPA Rookie Closeout" as part of the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl's festivities. The rookies on hand for the event are catching up on signing for upcoming brands such as 2016 National Treasures, Flawless, Encased and Plates & Patches as well as recently released brands like Donruss Optic.

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A new year is almost here and Buzz has a few questions for you about your collecting habits.

Simply put, we want to know more about what you collect and here are 10 questions we hope you'll take a few minutes to answer.

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See the rest of the questions after the jump.

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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: Big breaks and chasing ink ... and the start of Flawless to come.

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Panini America's 2016 Flawless soccer cards are coming soon -- next week, actually -- and one of the thing that will give more than a few deep-pocketed collectors some kicks will be the Studs found inside those silver briefcases.

You know, the game-used cleat cards.

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The recent arrival of 2015 Panini Flawless football cards marked a new wave of high-end cards for fans to consider and a new wave of impressive possibilities for autographs and dazzling memorabilia displayed within cardboard.

Sometimes it's simple, sometimes it's not.

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Will it be a standalone brand? Will it be an insert? We're not sure, but after this photo was teased online by Panini America one thing is certain.

Flawless baseball is coming.

We'll have more on this as soon as it's available. Update: Our First Buzz preview is here.

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What: 2016 Panini Flawless soccer cards
Arrives: May 25
Box basics: 10 cards -- six autographs, two memorabilia, two gems -- per box (two boxes per case).

What's buzz-worthy: Panini takes the stars of the pitch to its highest of high-end levels -- at least so far -- with the debut of Flawless, which will include "a wide assortment of the world’s best footballers of the past and present with all players shown in action for either their club team and/or their national team."

Keep reading for more.

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One collector took the challenge of completing the 2012-13 Panini Flawless basketball set -- something that can only happen a few times because every card from the super-high-end brand is limited to just 20 serial-numbered copies with a diamond embedded inside.

Now, it's time to see just how priceless Flawless can be as the set is on the auction block.

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