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What's Buzzing Today: Legendary maildays, NFL Draft scenarios, big pulls & more.

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Captain Phasma autographs are coming to Topps Star Wars packs.

The company announced on Friday that Gwendoline Christie autographs will be coming in future releases for the legendary movie franchise.

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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: Aaron Judge's hot start, pondering retro Topps Now cards, big pulls & even some Daisy Ridley ink.

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What: 2017 Topps Star Wars Masterwork trading cards
Arrives: Nov. 8
Box basics: Four hits in every four-pack hobby box with two autographs guaranteed (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: Topps' high-end Star Wars brand ups the ante with the ink while continuing to offer other hits with a mix of the past and present films in the sophomore third release of its highest-end set for the franchise.

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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 Topps Star Wars 40th Anniversary trading cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 11 (10 standard plus one medallion pack)
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 62
Base set completion: 
50 of 200 (25 percent)
Duplicates: 0

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Star Wars Day ("May the Fourth be with you") is here and Topps has a new set -- and new on-demand card platform -- to show for it.

The 2017 Topps On Demand line begins here with Set No. 1 -- Star Wars May the Fourth. 

Each and every set in this one will include an autograph, 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 a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls and big breaks as we work toward the weekend. (Yeah, we know it's still Thursday ... the caffeine still hasn't kicked 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 from around the collecting world & 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: Who would you want to sign for Americana or Pop Century? Plus big pulls and other talkers from the boards.

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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 Topps Star Wars Rogue One: Series 2 trading cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 192
Base set completion: 
100 of 100 (100 percent)
Duplicates: 15

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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: Plenty of baseball and some impressive pulls and projects.

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Update (Oct. 9): Scroll down for the first full trailer and a look at the latest advance poster.

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The first teaser trailer for the next Star Wars movie is here.

Nothing else needs to be said. Just watch the first glimpses at Star Wars: The Last Jedi above as released just minutes ago at Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, Fla.

Also released as part of a panel discussion was the first teaser poster for the film, which is at right. (Click for a closer look.)

Offer your thoughts in a comment below or with a vote in our poll.

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Update (Oct. 9): The new one sheet (big thumbs up) is above, while the first full trailer has been added below.

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If you're a certain age, you may remember Little Golden Books, which are beginning readers' first licks at the literary world.

They've been around since the 1940s -- and are still around today -- but one illustrator has created a new take on these stories with a series of prints and a book that collects his past works all in one.

His name is Joey Spiotto and the Los Angeles-based artist is big on Storytime.

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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: Unopened wax collections, big pulls and advice for a young collector.

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It was a busy one on The Buzz this past week. Here are 12 stories worth a look if you missed out. Check 'em out & hit the subscribe button at right if you want email updates.

Bowman Chrome gets a revamp
HTA Choice boxes with nothing but autographed cards inside are now one option for Chrome fans. Get all the details in our 2017 Bowman Chrome First Buzz preview here.

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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 breaks today as the weekend nears.

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When it comes to autographs in the sports world, there are plenty of ways that collectors and the autograph industry itself has helped commodify ink.

In other words, there are a number of common items that are commonly signed that help us all figure a common value that we'd expect to pay or expect to get if we have to sell something we own. Jerseys, balls, helmets, cards, photos -- there are a lot of ways to collect sports autographs.

But for celebrity autographs, it's a lot less complicated as the 8-by-10 photo is arguably the most-commonly solid piece across the whole spectrum of television, movies and others of note who we might find, say, at a comic book convention or other similarly organized signing session. Not all films have massive toy lines, not all celebs have book deals and TV shows often don't have posters you can find all that easily.

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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 National Treasures, Gypsy Queen hits retail early, other breaks and ... buying underwear to complete a set?

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Ok, it's not the weekend, but this further proves that Buzz's fantasy baseball draft just took waayyyy too long yesterday. (Hear that, commish?) Here are several stories worth a look if you missed out. Check 'em out & subscribe at right if you want email updates.

This Week's Big Hit?
We're less than a week away from WrestleMania 33 in Orlando and Topps dropped the biggest mic of them all ("pipebomb" in WWE-Punk parlance) for collectors with the arrival of autographs from Undertaker for the first time in Topps packs -- and just the third time in hobby history. Get all of the details on which brands get his legendary ink here.

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What: 2017 Topps Star Wars Journey to The Last Jedi
Arrives: Sept. 1
Box basics: One autograph guaranteed in every two-hit box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: The next Star Wars movie is coming and the first set leading toward The Last Jedi arrives in September with autographs and new cards for the new wave of movies' stars.

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

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Star Wars fans will have to hit more than the card shop to collect 'em all very soon.

Set to arrive on April 18 is a new book -- Star Wars Widevision: The Original Topps Trading Card Series Volume One -- and it will arrive from Abrams ComicArts and Topps with an added bonus.

That bonus? Additional trading cards as part of the overall package.

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Ok, it's not the weekend, but this was slated to be sent last night -- further proving that it was a busy one on The Buzz this past week. Here are 10 stories worth a look if you missed out. Check 'em out & hit the subscribe button at right if you want email updates.

This Week's Big Hit?
It seems that 2017 Donruss' arrival has collectors talking and there's fun to be found inside its packs. Click here to start with variations and find links to checklists & more. After that, check out a Buzz Break of a hobby box right here.

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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: Nothing but breaks 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 five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but breaks from new and old products from around the collecting galaxy.

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Mark Hamill likes to have some fun with his autographs from time to time and it's good business, too, as he's a pricey signer -- and also one that can be found in packs of cards after decades of Star Wars sets from Topps.

But there's one thing that still gets Luke Skywalker's robe in a bunch and it's when pieces like this one -- a 16-by-20 photo with some extra personality -- hits the open market.

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