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2022 Panini WWE NXT Hobby Box Break

With the NXT release, we see the first Panini release that didn’t initially sell for a vastly increased price. This one seems much more in line with the previous Topps releases, although it does not include chrome cards, so that may explain part of it. This release features many of the newer NXT talents, including some fairly recent name changes, as well. The base set also contains a subset highlighting Main Roster wrestlers who got their starts in NXT.

Compared to some of the other recent releases, this one contains a fairly modest number. A complete base set is 125 cards, while a box contains 24 packs with 8 cards per pack. There are also a few insert sets, along with an assortment of possible parallels. Each box also advertises one autograph and one memorabilia card.

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2022 Panini Revolution WWE Hobby Box Break

As the second Panini WWE release arrives, we see the market from the first one dropping quite a bit. Even these first appeared for preorder at a greatly inflated price, only to drop very quickly. As the economy worsens, it seems obvious the card market is likely to follow.

On the surface, this seems like a fairly straight forward release. You have a 150 card base set, but this comes along with nine parallels related to the background images. Luckily, the back of the card lists the type of parallel to make it easier to identify each type. There are only a handful of inserts sets possible, but each of those also comes in five different parallel designs. There are possible also possible autographs, but unlike the Topps releases, these hobby boxes do not guarantee any hits.

A box advertises 8 packs, with 5 cards per pack.

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2022 Panini Prizm WWE Blaster Box Break

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 Topps Finest WWE Master Hobby Box Break

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 Topps WWE Women’s Division Hobby Box Break

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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