Just a few weeks after the release of its first series, 2011 SAGE Hit High Series boxes have hit stores. SAGE offers the first cards of some of the projected top picks in the upcoming NFL Draft. Cards of Cam Newton, A.J. Green, Blaine Gabbert, Ryan Williams, Mikel LeShoure, J.J. Watt and many others can be found inside along with special cards of the top names from the low … [Read more...]
2011 Upper Deck Football Blaster Box Break Video
Don't live near a hobby shop? Looking to see what Upper Deck has done with its new Collegiate Licensing Company platform? Blaster boxes of the 2011 football card product are now on store shelves. With unrestricted access to thousands of college football photos past and present, the set feels more like Saturday than Sunday. While hobby boxes contain more autographs, a … [Read more...]
2011 SAGE Football Blaster Box Break
You know the NFL Draft isn't far behind when the college-oriented football card boxes start arriving on store shelves. Traditionally first out of the gate is SAGE, which tries to earn the dollars of collectors who prefer pigskin and can't wait for the officially licensed products later in the spring. 2011 SAGE football has been out for a few weeks, but boxes haven't always … [Read more...]
2011 Topps Heritage Retail Blaster Box Break
They're here. An annual favorite has returned this week with the arrival of 2011 Topps Heritage Baseball. It's a product that is sandwiched between the first and second series of Topps' base brand. Updated to reflect last year's San Francisco Giants' World Series title and once again, cursed with a big group of short prints, Heritage gets pricey for those who can't live … [Read more...]
2010 Bowman Sterling Baseball Box Break
by Rich Klein Being a modern era card collector means there is no longer a big break between the end of one year's products and the beginning of the next. A side benefit of the changes made after 2005 by Major League Baseball, the MLB Player's Assocation and the card companies was that the current year's products could not be released until it was time for spring … [Read more...]
Topps Supreme Football Box Break
One of the truest tests of seeing how much "nerve" a collector has is to hand them a Topps Supreme football box and watch them open the box. A collector gets four cards out of a box for a pretty steep price. My local store, Triple Cards in Plano reported decent but not overwhelming sales at $100 per box while the major on-line retailers are between $110-120. This is … [Read more...]
2010 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects Baseball Box Break
By Rich Klein For years Topps has proclaimed that their Bowman products are the best place to find rookie cards and leading prospects for baseball. Nowhere is that emphasis more evident than in the 2010 Bowman Draft Pick and Prospects issue. This product only has cards of players who were still officially rookies for the 2010 season and some of the leading … [Read more...]
2010 Topps Magic Football Box Break
One of the great joys of opening new product is to see what card companies do, whether it may be a completely new concept or a way of refining an old concept and adapting that concept to card collecting in 2011. The new Topps Magic football product is a product that harkens back to the original but with with some of what collectors expect in a modern day product. Magic, of … [Read more...]
2010 Topps T206 Box Break
by Rich Klein Resurrecting the famous T206 brand has given Topps another outlet in its ongoing efforts to honor the long history of baseball cards. It's generally been a well-received product. The 2010 Topps T206 boxes hit the streets in late August, offering a mix of respect for the original tobacco cards and some of the bells and whistles that are needed to push … [Read more...]
2010 Tristar TNA Wrestling Icons Box Break
By Rich Klein First, we'd like to thank Mandy Fuerst of Tri-Star for arranging to put us on the Tri-Star media list and we look forward to reviewing all of the company’s forthcoming products. We recently received a review box of the 2010 Tri-Star TNA Wrestling Icons. The TNA Icons product is a nice, simple product and each box is serial numbered on the front. With … [Read more...]