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: Baseball America's Top 100, NFL chatter and new pulls, NBA opinions, the best Refractors and, of course, 2024 Topps Series 1.

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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: 2023 Topps Heritage baseball cards (hanger)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click 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: NFL reactions, chewing on 2024 Topps, new pulls and more in this Tuesday 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: 2020 Topps Star Wars: The Mandalorian Journey of The Child (aka the Baby Yoda set)
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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: "How 'bout them Cowboys!" and other NFL postseason reactions, 2024 Topps discussions and more as we start a new week of collecting.

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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: Talking football, 2024 Topps chatter, celeb autos and signed books and more 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: Victor Wembanyama's Prizm Rookie Card, 2024 Topps, football chatter as part of a busy week 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: Design for 2024 Topps is revealed, Bill Belichick is out, Nick Saban retires, LeBron James is changing teams and more in today's edition.

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After months of speculation, LeBron James' move to a new team is finally official.

James' career as an exclusive signee with Upper Deck ends with Fanatics now being the home of his autographed memorabilia and for his cards.

His Topps autograph debut will come in boxes of 2023-24 Bowman University Chrome where a dual-autographed card with his oldest son, Bronny James, will be among the potential finds beginning later this month.

"Our goal is to push the envelope of where the hobby can go and are excited about how our collaboration with one of the best athletes in the world will continue to ignite fan and collector passion," Fanatics Collectibles CEO Mike Mahan told CNBC.

As part of the reveal, James recorded a message as part of a video, which you can see below.

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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: 2023 Topps Update baseball cards (retail Super Box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (other formats)
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The prize up for grabs is among the hottest boxes in the world right now and the set of questions are all focused on a single global entity in pop culture, but the game remains the same -- take a minute and make some picks ... and if you're at the top of the results you get free cards.

It's still that simple.

YourDozen.com (>>> CLICK HERE TO ENTER <<< ) returns with nothing but Disney trivia and personal picks -- Majority Rules questions -- this time and there's a $599 hobby box of 2023 Topps Chrome Disney 100 up for grabs for the first person who gets the six questions right and then nails the consensus answers, too.

There have been dozens of cards from this one to sell for more than $1,000 over on eBay and hundreds to command $100 or more since its recent release alone and some of its inclusions could set sales records if the rarities make their ways to auction houses.

Keep reading to see a gallery of Chrome Disney 100 sales and more details on this batch of YourDozen.

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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: LeBron James is changing teams, NFL postseason chatter, new pulls, the college title game and more.

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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: 2023 Bowman University Alabama Football cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (when available)
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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: 2022 Topps Heritage baseball cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click 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: New pulls, NFL chatter, Superfractors, off-season baseball, strong college football breaks 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: NFL chatter, MLB breaks, collectors' thoughts, NBA legends, Chris Sale 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: Prizm NFL pulls, Victor Wembanyama has 'em talking, NFL chatter, Michigan and more.

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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: 2023 Topps Chrome McDonald's All-American Games basketball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby when available)

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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: New pulls, NFL and college football chatter, Superfractors, cheating Michigan and more.

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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: 2021 Topps Update baseball cards (hanger)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby & jumbo)
First Buzz preview: Click 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: NFL and college football chatter, World Baseball Classic cards, Superfractors and more.

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What: 2023 Bowman University Best football cards
Arrives: Jan. 10
Box basics: Four autographs per hobby box (12 boxes per case) or three autographs per one-pack Delight box (10 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps' third release for the NCAA prospect ranks in pack form and with school colors and logos arrives with this one, which offers a new look at NIL players as the college season closes and NFL Draft chatter intensifies.

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What: 2024 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Kids At Play
Arrives: Jan. 24
Box basics: One hit per 24-pack collector box (eight boxes per case); 24 packs per hobby box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: TBD
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What's buzz-worthy: The Kids play with their toys to open a new year -- everything from video games to oldschool gems that we all know (unlike these stickers) should remain in their wrappers -- and the chaos ensues.

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading and knows that there are many reasons that collectors choose to slab cards. Sometimes it's to enhance the appeal and protect them when selling. Other times it's to protect an investment for the long-term or to protect for sentimental reasons. Or, it might be just for fun or curiosity about a potential grade.

Here's this month's grading diary here on The Buzz ...

A FIRST FOR ME ...
The Card: Bo Bichette 2022 Topps Chrome Logofractor Edition Blue Refractor (/150)
The Reason Graded: If you're a regular reader, then you know that Bichette is perhaps my leading active player who I collect (casually ... as he's expensive). That means I dabble merely with what I like, what's a bargain and so on. In some cases, I'll grab a striking color of parallel or an appropriate shade from a certain brand that stands out from the rest and this Blue parallel fits right there along with this being a Logofractor parallel. Why did I grab this and then slab it? Well, the price was right (under $10 during the season) and it was one of few centered copies I saw and it was one that avoided a possible pattern gap in the logos that seemed to land on his cards often. When I grabbed this, it also became my first COMC pick-up to go directly to CGC for grading while all in their hands rather than starting out in mine.
The Grade: CSG 10

Reality Check: It came back with an ideal mark, which is what I had hoped for, though you never know with surfaces of cards ... that's about the only big risk of buying/subbing stuff there at the moment other than corners, which should be a smidge more obvious on screen -- but not always. My total cost for card and grading here? Under $24 and it only took about a month to get it back. That's a move I've actually done a few times late last year as my goal of sending in some new stuff for slabbing didn't happen on the card side of things before 2023 had ended. There will be plenty more in 2024 -- cards, comics, coins magazines ... and more.

Keep reading for more of this month's pick-ups and new slabs for Buzz.

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What: 2023-24 Bowman University Chrome basketball cards
Arrives: Jan. 10, 2024
Box basics: Two autographs per 24-pack box (12 boxes per case) or three autos per 12-card pack Delight box (12 per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps' second round of college basketball cards for active college players once again will showcase college stars from men's and women's basketball all in one spot.

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