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2018, Box Break, Hobby Box, Star Wars, Topps

2018 Topps Solo A Star Wars Story Hobby Box Break

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A new Star Wars movie means a new Topps release.  This time, it features Han Solo’s origin story.  It’s a fun movie, but it’s a little bit of a departure from the recent releases.  The card set, however, seems to follow a similar pattern.  The base set contains 100 cards, along with many familiar insert sets including Icons, Silhouettes, Stickers, Patch Cards, Sketch Cards, and Autographs.

The base set is a fun design featuring the Millennium Falcon along the edge, and numerous parallels.  I question the black parallel, however.  It looks much more grey than black.  If you have the black and silver together, it is easy to tell which is which, but apart, it may be more difficult.

Maybe it’s just me, but many of the insert designs seem to blend together, as well.  I guess they’re easy if you know what you’re looking for, but they don’t seem quite so obvious at first glance.  The different insert sets are displayed below, so you can judge for yourself.

This box contained:

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2018, Box Break, Hobby Box, Topps WWE

2018 Topps WWE Hobby Box Break

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The 2018 Topps WWE release once again features superstars of the WWE on the current year’s flagship style release. The 100 card base set makes some interesting checklist choices. It’s clear they’re holding back some of the bigger names for the fall release. At least the superstars featured on the box are represented in the cards available.  You will find superstars from Raw, Smackdown Live, and NXT, as well as announcers and others in this base set.

The release feels pretty light on inserts. There is one main insert set, Evolution, which shows various wrestlers over the years. There are also three tribute sets, exclusive to different types of releases. All the rest of the inserts are variations of hits. You also see a regular assortment of parallels.

This box advertises 24 packs of 7 cards each. Each box contains two hits, including one autograph.

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2018, Baseball, Donruss, Hobby Box

2018 Donruss Hobby Box Break

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Panini Donruss fills an interesting role in the hobby.  Topps has an exclusive contract with Major League Baseball to produce fully licensed trading cards, but that hasn’t stopped Panini from putting out a quality alternative.  There doesn’t seem to be much middle ground as people either really like it or really hate it.  I definitely fall in to the like it category.

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2018, Baseball, Hobby Box, Topps Heritage

2018 Topps Heritage Hobby Box Break

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The 2018 Topps Heritage release pays tribute to the 1969 Topps set.  After a year of Judge cards, I was slightly concerned we would just see everything over produced to meet the increased demand, but we find that Topps allocated this release a little bit.  Couple that with the inclusion of a hot new pre-rookie SP in Ohtani, and you have a pretty hot product.  Will the value hold up?

It’s pretty striking to me the apparent odds of nearly everything this release.  While Heritage autographs are never really the focus,

they’re even rarer this year.  Is that a sign of really increased production?  I guess time will tell.  Are speculators just driving the prices again?   Don’t get me wrong.  It is still a nice release, but the added speculators will end up making an already expensive set to collect that much more costly.  It will definitely make it more difficult to get value out of a box, especially if you miss out on Ohtani.

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