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2022 Topps Heritage Hobby Box Break

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Once again, Topps Heritage heralds in the pending baseball season, even if this year is different from normal. This release pays tribute to 1973 Topps with cards in that style, as well as buybacks and other homages to that year. The base set contains 400 cards, with an additional 100 SPs running 401-500, as well as various variant SPs within that base run.

While the prices on many releases have been skyrocketing, and Heritage is up, it still comes in at a mostly reasonable range. Part of the reason for this is likely that Heritage isn’t really a hit driven release, so it’s not as popular for group breakers. Each box does guarantee one relic or autograph, but the autographs are much rarer to receive. A box contains 24 packs, with 9 cards per pack.

This box contained:

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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 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.

This box contained:

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2022 Topps Series 1 Jumbo Hobby Box Break

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The Topps Flagship release for 2022 series 1 comes at an interesting time in the hobby. A lot of uncertainty is circling around the recent announcement that Fanatics will be purchasing Topps. They seem to have big plans, but exactly what those are remain to be seen at this point. Either way, this release was planned well before the announcement, so we haven’t started to see the effects just yet.

Along with the Fanatics purchase, Major League Baseball is also faced with a labor lockout, postponing spring training, and possibly the start of the regular season. So, while series 1 normally ushers in the beginning of a new baseball season, it comes under a dark cloud this year.

The release itself is a standard format. The base set contains 330 cards, and provides a normal assortment of parallels. By looking at the odds to receive some of the numbered parallels, it becomes clear that the print run is way up from previous years. Demand seems to be through the roof, but is it from collectors? Or speculators? Only time will really tell.

A jumbo box contains ten packs with 46 cards per pack, including one autograph and two relic cards. Also included in each box are two silver packs containing 1987 Topps Chrome mojo refractors, as well as one oversided 1987 Future Stars card.

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2021 Topps 206 Wave 10 Hobby Pack Break

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The Topps 206 set comes to an end with Wave 10, finally arriving in the first week of 2022. With a print run of 10374 packs, it comes in a little bit lower than Wave 9. This time, Uzit backs replace Cycle for this wave. There are also ten short prints of superstars not otherwise featured in this wave.

A box features one pack, containing ten cards. Those ten cards include eight base, and two parallels.

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