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The box: 2016 Topps Gypsy Queen 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: 
34 of 300 (11 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players on base cards – Noah Syndergaard, Alex Rodriguez, Anthony Rizzo, Jose Altuve

Rookie Cards (7) – Corey Seager, Gary Sanchez, Stephen Piscotty, Jerad Eickhoff, Zach Davies, Matt Duffy, Aaron Nola

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What's Buzzing Today: Some big MLB breaks, new Griffey autos and big questions about collecting now, then and in the future.

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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: Busting Donruss Optic, National Treasures & more including "What could save the hobby?"

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What's Buzzing Today: The first Board Buzz of 2017 is nothing but impressive pulls.

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What's Buzzing Today: The final Board Buzz of 2016 is nothing but impressive pulls.

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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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What: 2017 Donruss baseball cards
Arrives: March 1
Box basics: Three autographs or memorabilia cards per 24-pack box (16 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The Donruss brand returns for another season with a new-but-1990s-retro look, more from The Famous San Diego Chicken and three hits in every single hobby box.

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As the calendar change to 2017 comes closer and closer, there's only one season on cardboard that's basically over -- though there are still two brands to come (*noted below) -- and that's the baseball card season.

The NBA, NFL and NHL will still carry over their cardboard seasons into the next calendar year, making a Best of the Year vote here more complicated. But it's in MLB where we can do that here a bit easier.

There were plenty of interesting developments among new baseball card products in the last year for collectors -- notably the unconventional arrival of Topps Now and the priciest box ever, Topps Transcendent Collection. While those are very different highlight-worthy card experiences that helped define 2016's baseball landscape, perhaps there's another set that defined the year for you.

And that's why we want your vote ... check out your options below and pick one. Feel free to add a comment or tell Buzz what you think on Twitter as to why you chose the product that you did.

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What's Buzzing Today: Some beefy mixed breaks from MLB and the NBA as well as a first 1/1 card, some In The Game hockey and an Allen & Ginter Rip Card that really delivered.

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The wait for the newest National Treasures is almost over.

Panini America offered a teaser of what's to come in its latest edition of the high-end baseball brand on Monday.

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What's Buzzing Today: Big NFL breaks, a retro MLB case break and ... who are Superman's top villains?

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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 pulls, big surprises and "describe your local card shop."

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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: Holiday gift-giving, The Bambino, Totally Certified & Crown Royale breaks.

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Once again, the Bowman Draft rainbow is colorful -- and pricey.

Topps' recently released 2016 Bowman Draft baseball card set which is the first look at MLB cardboard for future stars such as No. 1 draft pick Mickey Moniak.

Rarities for guys like him? Well, they're in demand. One of his five Red Wave Refractors has sold for $2,327, which isn't too shabby considering the price of the pack it came in.

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What's Buzzing Today: Dominating WWE, Rogue One and Bowman's Best breaks -- and questions about a cut autograph.

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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: MLB logos, big breaks (new and old), a look at new NXT cards and one collector glad to grab Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

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In an interview with Dan Patrick this week, Kevin Costner said he'd be opening to reprising the role of Crash Davis in Bull Durham 2 if creator Ron Shelton was open to the idea and could draft the next chapter in the story of big-screen players that have become minor-league baseball icons.

But there's one cardboard icon in the real world who's partly responsible for the creation of the 1988 film in the first place.

He's Steve Dalkowski.

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The final Bowman brand of the year arrives in hobby shops today with autographs from notable players of the past, the present and potentially the future.

You know, guys like No. 1 draft pick Mickey Moniak.

He's not alone in packs of 2016 Bowman's Best -- keep reading for more info and a gallery of what's been found so far.

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With 52 autographs in every box -- as well as a posh party invitation -- it doesn't take a lot to see the dollar signs inside each $25,000 box of 2016 Topps Transcendent Collection baseball cards.

Those invites alone get a good chunk of change back (details here) and each case's 1/1 Kris Bryant autograph using one of the 65 historic Topps designs commands some, too. Those cards have sold for as much as $2,182 on eBay (so far) and all seven sold have gone for at least $1,000.

Meanwhile, the asking or bid prices in current auctions are over the $1,000 mark in all but one instance and range as high as $7,250 for those in the historic set.

But the priciest find found inside one of those 65 silver briefcases? It's much more impressive.

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What's Buzzing Today: We'll just start with the gem ... "Is Tom Savage the next Brett Favre?"

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The days on the calendar are moving closer and closer to an evening in Las Vegas next month where 65 high-rolling baseball card collectors are guaranteed to meet one of baseball's biggest stars.

The priciest box of baseball cards ever made, 2016 Topps Transcendent Collection, recently arrived packing 168 cards inside -- 52 of those autographed -- inside along with an invitation to a Jan. 18 party in Las Vegas to meet reigning National League MVP and World Series champion Kris Bryant.

That invite is arguably the big-ticket guaranteed item in every box and it includes hotel accommodations in Vegas, cocktails, dinner and a special gift in addition to meeting Bryant. To some fans, it's the item to own. So far, nearly 10 percent of the 65 passes have sold on eBay, selling for as much as $5,499.99 (in tandem with another card) and one of them can be found over on the mothership. How much? Click here to find out.

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There are many iconic baseball cards from the past that you probably can't own -- that certainly applies to this collector -- but there is another option to enjoy high-grade copies of stars from the past.

That option? Wall art.

Nestled among the various photos and artwork available in poster form over on Art.com are a number of vintage baseball cards that allow fans to collect and enjoy these small creations in a big and different way.

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but breaks from around the collecting world.

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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 Bowman Draft baseball cards (jumbo box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 12
Cards per pack: 32
Cards in this box: 384
Base set completion: 
200 of 200 (100 percent)
Duplicates: 73

Base cards of note – Mickey Moniak, A.J. Puk, Delvin Perez, Kyle Lewis, Joshua Lowe, Alex Kiriloff, Bobby Dalbec, Bobby Ray, Ian Anderson, Tyler O'Neill, Gleyber Torres, Eloy Jimenez, Bo Bichette, Braxton Garrett, Corey Ray, Forrest Whitley, Gavin Lux, Joe Rizzo, Will Benson, Zack Collins (and others)

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What: 2017 Topps Series 2 baseball cards
Arrives: June 14
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 to view  Silver-pack checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: The second wave of the Topps baseball brand -- the flagship brand for the hobby -- arrives with a modern look and new touches such as stars who have performed the National Anthem at MLB games.

Update: The National Anthem cards didn't make the final cut and the First Pitch checklist will be revealed at a later time.

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

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