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2022, Blaster Box, Panini Prizm WWE, Wrestling

2022 Panini Prizm WWE Blaster Box Break

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This is the premier release with Panini taking over the WWE property. The hobby release prices were much higher than similar Topps WWE products from recent months, sometimes even ten times as much. Is the product really worth it? Even this retail product was found at a much higher price than normal retail products.

It will be interesting to see how this product does over the long term. It seems pretty unlikely that collectors are building sets from $1k hobby boxes, but I guess anything is possible. This release features a 200 card base set, along with many parallels and inserts. This blaster box features six packs with four cards per pack, and no guaranteed hits.

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2021, Master Hobby Box, Topps Finest WWE, Wrestling

2021 Topps Finest WWE Master Hobby Box Break

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The end is here. After many years of being the producer of trading cards for WWE, the license is changing over to Panini. There isn’t really a clear picture of the future, yet, but I doubt WWE is going to have a smaller footprint than it did with Topps.

Through the pandemic, many releases ended up delayed, and this one is no different. This was originally due out in late 2021, but ended up pushed into March 2022. Aside from having last year’s date, with the roster turmoil with WWE over the past two years, many wrestlers featured in the release are no longer with the company. All these end up giving the release an odd feel.

The release has a familiar format, with a 100 base card set, with an extended 22 card short print set after the initial 100. There are many parallel versions of these cards, as well. You can also find an assortment of insert sets, including sets highlighting the Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, and Undertaker’s career. The cards come packed in a format where a master box contains two mini-boxes. Each of these mini-boxes contains six packs, with five cards per pack. There is one autograph per mini-box.

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2021, Box Break, Hobby Box, Topps WWE Women's Division, Wrestling

2021 Topps WWE Women’s Division Hobby Box Break

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There’s a rush to get the last few Topps WWE releases out before Panini WWE hits the streets. It still seems weird to have a 2021 release come out well in to March of 2022. The awkwardness of knowing this is one of Topps’s final WWE releases is compounded by the fact that many of the talents featured have already left the company anyway.

The base set features 100 cards showing events that occurred within the Women’s division. Along with these matches and moments, comes an insert set featuring 55 members of the roster. There are a few other insert sets, along with the normal autographs and mat relics cards. In addition to the mat relics, others hits include superstar logo patch cards.

A box contains 24 packs with 7 cards per pack, including two hits per box, one of which is guaranteed to be an autograph.

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2021, Box Break, Hobby Box, Topps WWE, Wrestling

2021 Topps WWE Hobby Box Break

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Another long delayed release finally finds its way to store shelves. With the end of the year approaching, and Topps losing the WWE license, we’ll see a final push to get out the remaining releases. This set combines matches and moments with roster cards, for a total of 200 base cards. There are also an assortment of insert sets available.

A box is advertised as 24 packs of 7 cards, with two hits, one of which is guaranteed to be an autograph. A new type of hit is possible in this set. It is a film strip included in the card, allowing you to see the image showing through. It’s a departure from the standard piece of mat relic from previous releases.

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2021, Box Break, Hobby Box, Topps Heritage WWE, Wrestling

2021 Topps Heritage WWE Hobby Box Break

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This release had been pushed back a little bit during the year and now comes out after it is announced the WWE trading card license will be moving to Panini in 2022. Couple that, with many recently released talents being featured in this release, and the set has a weird feel to it. It’s been a few years Topps released a Heritage set for wrestling, so this one moves forward to the 1990 baseball design. It also mixes in a few other releases, such as Allen & Ginter, as insert sets.

The base set features 100 cards, across SmackDown, Raw, NXT, and WWE “teams”, with a different color combination for each, as well as a number of limited parallels. There are a handful of insert sets, including Allen & Ginter, stickers, Superstars Speak, and more. A hobby box comes with 24 packs of 7 cards per pack, and advertises 2 autograph cards.

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