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2015 Topps Star Wars: Journey to The Force Awakens Hobby Box Break

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This is a second break for this product, as the hobby and retail releases look significantly different.  It seems a bit different from a regular release in that the hobby packs seem stacked much more toward set makers than the retail.  The box contains 24 packs of 8 cards, while advertising two of those eight as inserts.  Each box also comes with two hits, which apparently includes the patch cards from the retail blasters.

This box contained:

90 Different Base

24 Base Slime Green Parallel

12 Base Black Parallel

6 Base Silver Parallel

4 Base Pink Parallel

2 Base Purple Parallel

1 Base Rainbow Foil Parallel

1 Base Silver Ice Parallel

6 Behind The Scenes

7 Concept Art

3 Cloth Stickers

9 Character Foil Stickers (6 different)

6 Power of the First Order

6 Heroes of the Resistance

11 Stickers

1 Patch Card BB-8

1 Sketch Card W Silverman

2 Trading Card App Code Cards

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2015 Topps Heritage High Number Hobby Box Break

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After a few years of releasing a limited edition Heritage High Number box set, Topps returns to a pack out version of the release.  Unlike recent years, this set picks up numbering the cards right where the first release stops, with 200 base cards 501-700 and 25 SPs 701-725.  The set is also very heavy in new rookies for players not featured in the early year release.

 

Each box contains 24 packs of 9 cards, while advertising one autograph or relic card per box. You end up just short of the base set out of a single box.

This box contains:

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2015 Bowman Chrome Hobby Box Break

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Topps changed up this release a little bit this year.  In recent year, the hobby boxes have featured a single autograph, but this year, we’re seeing two autographs.  The trade off does seem to be a bit at the expense of various parallels, though.  It’s a nice release if you follow prospects, but it’s not really for you if you’re looking for many current big leaguers.  Yes, the base set does feature regular players, but that is not really the bread and butter of the release.

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2015, Baseball, Box Break, Hobby Box, Topps Allen & GInter

2015 Topps Allen & Ginter Hobby Box Break

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The 2015 release represents the tenth year of Topps’ Allen & Ginter offering, and they plan to celebrate it.  Aside from the normal assortment of baseball players, other sport stars, and pop culture figures, buyback cards from the previous nine years are featured, as well.  It does seem a little bit odd to pull a one year old buyback card, paying tribute to the history of the set, which itself is paying tribute to the history of the vintage set.

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2015 Topps Stadium Club Hobby Box Break

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After last year’s returning Stadium Club release was met less than enthusiastically at the release price, Topps seems to have gone back to the drawing board for this release, and the results do not disappoint.

Last year, the cards were rather flimsy, but the first thing you notice opening a pack this year, is that the cards feel like Stadium Club.  They have the thicker glossy feel of the original Stadium Club releases in the 90s.  It’s still updated to include multiple parallels and insert sets, as well as two autographs per box.  It’s not a perfect release, though.  I don’t care for the black and white parallel of a set already containing some black and white photography, for instance, but the good seems to far outweigh the bad.

This box advertises 16 packs of 8 cards, with each pack containing one insert or parallel.  The box contains two on-card autographs.  This box contained:

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