One of my favorite products each and every year has been Topps Allen & Ginter. As much popular culture as it is baseball, this is a fun outside the box, no pun intended, rip.Known for its quirkiness, you can expect a lot of eyebrows raised, smiles (hopefully) and cards to be found within a Pandora's box of A&G.I dug into the 24 packs that each held eight wide ranging … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2023 Allen & Ginter Baseball Hobby
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Brief Box Break: 2023 Panini Plates & Patches Football
The brand new 2023 Panini Plates & Patches Football hobby boxes have made their way to the shop. This product is as advertised, as you will find printing plates in metallic form coupled with eye catching patch inserts. Boxes consist of five cards, including two autographs and one memorabilia card and a few base or parallels, making it a perfect fit for the Brief Box … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2023 Panini Plates & Patches Football
Brief Box Break: 2023 Immaculate Baseball
Higher end product releases always get our juices flowing, so when we got the new 2023 Panini Immaculate Collection Baseball cases in store, we were excited to open a box. There's just something special about opening a box of higher end cards. The look, the feel, the excitement and the anticipation is on another level. Immaculate definitely fits that bill. Immaculate … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2023 Immaculate Baseball
Brief Box Break: 2023 Topps Archives Signature Series Retired Player Edition
We received two full cases of the new 2023 Topps Archives Signature Series Retired Player Edition this past week. Archives Signature is a pretty simple concept, offering generally lower end Topps cards from the past that have now been autographed, stamped and encased. Each box holds only one card. Many, if not all of these singles have a relatively low serial number. … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2023 Topps Archives Signature Series Retired Player Edition
Brief Box Break: 2022-23 Select Basketball Mega
With the Summer League in Las Vegas and the never ending world of trade talks and free agency, the NBA stays in the daily sports conversation even during the hot summer months. This week, we grabbed a few of the newly released versions of the always popular Select Basketball line. The 2022-23 product dribbled into the store in Mega box and blaster box form.The … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2022-23 Select Basketball Mega
Brief Box Break: 2023 Chronicles Draft Picks Football Hobby
On the heels of the recent 2023 NFL Draft, we are excited to see some early, albeit draft related, products trickle into the shop. The latest is Panini's Chronicles Draft Picks, which features Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson and new Seahawk Jackson Smith-Njigba on the front of the box.As usual, you'll find a double digit number of different Panini brand designs showing up … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2023 Chronicles Draft Picks Football Hobby
Brief Box Break: 2022-23 Obsidian Basketball Hobby
The NBA Summer League and the destination of Dame Lillard are about the only things cooking on the NBA radar, but 2022-23 Panini Obsidian Basketball hobby boxes are making their way through the market. After latching onto a case and some extra boxes, we grabbed one from the shelf and decided to see if the dark, glossy, thick cardboard inside was a winner.The hobby boxes … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2022-23 Obsidian Basketball Hobby
Brief Box Break: 2022 Select Football Blaster
2023 training camp talk is on the horizon but 2022 football products continue to trickle out. The latest to arrive is Panini Select Football. The shop recently brought in some blaster boxes for our customers to test the waters. The blasters offer six, four card packs, so I guess 24 cards constitutes a blaster box these days. Does anyone else remember the 88 (or more) … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2022 Select Football Blaster
Brief Box Break(s): 2022-23 Donruss Optic Basketball Mega, Retail
In the past few weeks we have received various versions of the new and (generally) very popular Donruss Optic Basketball product in its 2022-23 iteration. We scored on everything from Fast Breaks to Megas to blasters and everything else in the lineup. Each box has its own content exclusives and various configurations, of course. In this edition of Brief Box Break, … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break(s): 2022-23 Donruss Optic Basketball Mega, Retail
Brief Box Break: 2004 Upper Deck Football Hobby
We hopped in our football card time machine for this edition of Brief Box Break as we purchased a box of 2004 Upper Deck Football and chose to crack it for your amusement (and ours, of course). Luckily, our box arrived safe and sound with the added layer of security of a Lean Cuisine box, so that was an interesting start to this box opening. Boxes contain 24 packs … [Read more...] about Brief Box Break: 2004 Upper Deck Football Hobby