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2023 Topps Star Wars Super Box Break

This release came as a bit of a surprise, showing up for preorder on the Topps site before any retailers had even been aware of it coming. It’s an unusual release, as Star Wars go. It is being marketed as a “Flagship”, but rather than covering the entire universe, it largely focuses on Disney+ shows. For a 100 card base set, there are many interesting subject choices made. It’s not clear if that means there will be more series this year, or a continuation in future years.

We also see a unique presentation for the so called Super Box. It’s unclear if these were intended to be a retail release, but these also went to hobby stores. It has a familiar configuration with 24 packs containing 7 cards each. Each box also includes one Widevision card. The base set has quite a few parallels, as well as a handful of inserts available. There are also some autographs available, but they are not guaranteed in a box, and have very difficult odds.

This box contained:

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2022 Topps 206 Star Wars Wave 4 Hobby Box Break

Wave 4 brings the conclusion of the 206 Star Wars run for 2022. This wave has a print run of 11097 packs. Once again, we see the same parallels, as well as short prints involving image variations and home worlds. New to this wave is the inclusion of a small insert set featuring Crests.

A box advertises ten cards, which includes two parallels.

This box contained:

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2022 Topps 206 Star Wars Wave 3 Hobby Box Break

Wave 3 arrives for the Topps 206 Star Wars release, but I can’t help feeling like it’s missing a bit of the charm of the baseball release. Rather than having different advertising backs, which would change between waves, these features a fixed set of different border colors, along with one alternative back design. Each wave also features ten alternate image short prints, along with ten variations showing the subject’s home world.

The wave had a print run of 13318 packs, which is down a little bit from wave 2 and just over half as much as wave 1. Each box contains ten cards, which is eight base along with two parallels.

This box contained:

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2022 Topps 206 Star Wars Wave 2 Hobby Box Break

We see the arrival of the second wave for 2022 Topps 206 Star Wars. There doesn’t seem to be as much variation as the baseball releases have. This release has the same border and back variations as wave one, but does add an insert set featuring ten different planets, as well as including the chance at a few autographs this time.


This wave boasts a print run of 14,009 boxes, down more than ten thousand from wave one. There are once again fifty cards in this wave. A box is advertised to contain ten cards, eight of which are base, along with two parallels. It seems that special variation inserts are including as an additional card.

This box contained:

8 Base
1 Base Blue Starfield Parallel
1 Base Star Wars Back Parallel

2022 Topps 206 Star Wars # Bossk
2022 Topps 206 Star Wars # Bossk
2022 Topps 206 Star Wars # General Merrick
2022 Topps 206 Star Wars # Jango Fett
2022 Topps 206 Star Wars # K-2SO
2022 Topps 206 Star Wars # Max Rebo
2022 Topps 206 Star Wars # R2-D2
2022 Topps 206 Star Wars # Royal Guard
2022 Topps 206 Star Wars # The Client
2022 Topps 206 Star Wars Blue Starfield # Captain Tarpals
2022 Topps 206 Star Wars Blue Starfield # Captain Tarpals
2022 Topps 206 Star Wars Star Wars Logo Back # Grummgar
2022 Topps 206 Star Wars Star Wars Logo Back # Grummgar

2022 Topps 206 Star Wars Wave 1 Hobby Box Break

This release sort of came out of nowhere. After a few years of successful 206 Baseball releases, Topps has expanded this branding to include Star Wars. At a time when the enthusiasm for 206 Baseball seems to be dropping, this wave of Star Wars sold 25,102 packs. That notable in part because the first wave of baseball this year saw roughly half that print run, but also contained twice as many cards in the wave (100 Baseball to 50 Star Wars). It will be interesting to see if that enthusiasm continues with a set that doesn’t seem to have a clear public plan, yet.

This release also sees a major departure from what the original T206 set was. In the original, the main parallels for the set are tobacco advertisements on the backs of the cards, with the fronts not changing. Topps replicated these parallels for Baseball, but has avoided them for Star Wars. Instead, we see the familiar “star field” parallels return once again. Perhaps Disney did not want their property associated with tobacco? There is one parallel with the back changed, to a plain Star Wars logo.

A box advertises ten cards, including two parallels. This box contained:

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