Rogue One: A Star Wars Story doesn't arrive until December, but the first poster and a making-of highlights reel were unleashed upon the masses today at Star Wars Celebration Europe.

If the poster didn't tell you, it's the back story before A New Hope (the first Star Wars film) with a focus on the Death Star.

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What: 2016 Topps The Walking Dead Survival Box trading cards
Arrives: Nov. 23
Box basics: One hit per pack, four packs per box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Topps' Second The Walking Dead release is billed as a high-end brand with a hit in every pack (a five-card mini-box) that looks back at the first six seasons of the series.

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What: 2016 Topps Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Series 1 trading cards
Arrives: Dec. 16
Box basics: Two hits per 24-pack box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The next Star Wars movie comes to cardboard with plenty of mystery as Topps can't yet unleash any visuals for its forthcoming brand.

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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: More big breaks, Leaf Pop Century, collecting vs. investing and The National.

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Fans of NXT will have a collecting challenge on their hands as the new deluxe edition of a WWE video game will include one of 14 different Topps Relic cards -- each with 10 versions -- inserted as a bonus when purchasing the deluxe version of the game.

The game is WWE2K17 and its NXT Edition is now available for pre-order via WWEShop.com -- and the Topps card is far from the only bonus.

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Topps and WWE have joined forces to launch a virtual trading card app for fans of the squared circle.

Topps WWE Slam launched on Thursday for iOS and Android devices, allowing fans to collect and trade virtual cardboard as well as buy tokens to acquire even more packs of cards besides their daily allowance.

"WWE has been an incredible partner with Topps for many years, and we are thrilled to be able to offer WWE fans worldwide a new way to collect their favorite WWE Superstars from today and the past," said Jeremy Strauser, Vice President and General Manager of Topps Digital. "WWE has been at the forefront of pop culture and entertainment for many years and we are excited to add WWE Slam to the Topps apps portfolio."

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Topps Now has a new first today with the first Relic card that's part of the real-time card line.

This time, the card will be limited to only 99 copies on a first-come, first-served basis and it features Eric Hosmer, who was the MVP of the MLB All-Star Game last night.

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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 big breaks of new, old and the memorable.

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The annual eclectic look at baseball, unique people in pop culture and "world's champions" in several other pastimes is almost here.

It's 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter and it's just 10 days away.

As the clock counts down to the hobby release date on July 22, we've gotten our first look at the final checklist to see who's included in the 11th edition of the brand since its 2006 revival by Topps.

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One of Topps' most talked-about high-end brands of the last couple years arrives once again tomorrow -- and packs of 2016 Topps Tribute will include plenty that collectors have come to expect.

Each six-pack box will include three autographs and three Relics with high-end potential like the Ichiro Suzuki ink above teased by Topps on Tuesday.

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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: Another day with nothing but the breaks from the forums.

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She's a former Stanford softball All-American and a member of the U.S. Olympic team that won gold in Athens. She's a former fastpitch softball pro and a pioneer for women in the broadcast booth for ESPN as its first female analyst for MLB games.

She's Jessica Mendoza and she's going to be found in packs of 2016 Topps Allen & Ginter.

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Houston Astros prospect Alex Bregman stole the show early in the All-Star Futures Game Sunday night in San Diego, but Boston Red Sox prospect Yoan Moncada stole the show.

And to the victor go the spoils -- the MVP award and the Topps Now card appearance.

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One of the NBA's most-successful big men and under-rated talents has retired.

A member of the San Antonio Spurs for 19 seasons, Tim Duncan was a five-time NBA champ, a two-time league MVP, a three-time Finals MVP, a 15-time All-Star and his next stop will undoubtedly be the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.

He averaged 19 points, 10.8 rebounds and three assists a game for his career and retires as the Spurs' career leader in games, minutes, field goals, rebounds, blocks, points and plenty more. He's also a guy who's not signed autographs much at all in recent years as he's turned down impressive amounts per sig from card companies.

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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 Topps Stadium Club baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 40
Base set completion: 
37 of 300 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players on base cards – Tom Seaver, Ted Williams, Albert Pujols, Buster Posey, Miguel Cabrera, Jackie Robinson, Cal Ripken Jr., Wade Boggs

Rookie Cards (5) – Trea Turner, Peter O'Brien, Blake Snell, Miguel Almonte, Tom Murphy

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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: An all-breaks look at the chatter on the boards.

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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, Tom Brady Rookie Cards, Panini Rewards, The NSCC & more.

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When the new Doctor Who trading card set arrives from Topps in November, there may be a familiar face found in packs even if someone has never seen a second of the long-running sci-fi show.

One of the signers is James Corden, who is the host of The Late Late Show.

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Topps Now takes an All-Star twist today with eight new cards offered on the real-time platform.

Five of those are the starting infield for the American League All-Stars -- the start of some grouped offerings celebrating The Midsummer Classic.

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This year's edition of Topps Tribute baseball cards is just a week away and it will include plenty of hits -- simple as that.

In fact, there will be one in every pack -- and six in every box -- when it arrives with the newest crop of rookies and new looks at old names, too.

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The newest edition of Bowman Inception arrives tomorrow from Topps and that means autographs from the newest crop of prospects and rookies and plenty more without the sometimes-insane Chrome rainbow to complicate things when it comes to prices on the secondary market.

Don't get the wrong idea that this one doesn't pack the big names, though -- it does.

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When Superman first came to the big screen in 1948, Lois Lane was played by Noel Neill, a Minnesota-born actress whose father was a newspaper editor.

It tuned out to be a role that helped define a career.

Neill went on to appear in 78 episodes of the Adventures of Superman television series that lasted six seasons and then have cameos in other Superman films as part of a career that spanned seven decades. She died on Monday at age 95 after a long illness.

"Brave, smart, and witty. She embodied the very best qualities of Lois Lane. RIP Noel Neill," read a message on the DC Comics Twitter account.

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The second high-end brand in WWE trading card history arrives tomorrow in the form of 2016 Topps WWE Undisputed, which packs a new wave of action and some new names for collectors to chase when it comes to autographs.

We've already given you a gallery of what the basic cards and inserts will look like, but here are the first glimpses of autographs and Relics that are live on eBay.

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The Force Awakens has awakened a new possibility for Star Wars cardboard.

Topps recently revealed that it will create factory sets for its three series of releases for the movie, which will be an online-only offering coming in September.

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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: Vintage price surges, big pulls, The National, Kevin Durant to Golden State and ... Dwyane Wade to Cleveland?

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