Saturday, October 12, 2024
2019 Wizards of the Coast Transformers - War for Cybertron: Siege II TCG Booster Pack
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
1993 Topps Football Series 2
Hope everyone is doing well. Today is my eldest son's 17th birthday. Nothing big planned for today since school's in session. The Wifey talked about taking him out to breakfast when I get home from work, assuming he gets up in time. He's a good kid; a little too messy for my tastes. but he's a teenager, so that makes it OK, I guess?
NFL season is upon us again, and with Week 2 in the books, it's time for a football pack. The local-ish LCS recently switched from the big green tub of loose packs to monster boxes full of them; I picked up this one on a trip there to pick up some card auction winnings.
Professional...as opposed to Amateur Football cards |
Friday, August 16, 2024
2021-22 Wild Card Alumination Basketball
My wife was at a store and the had boxes of 4 packs 8 cards per pack for $8.50 so she picked up 2 for me. These are all college guys Rookies in my opinion not a great checklist. But lets see a pack. First is the unopened pack, then the 6 base cards and then the back of the base. Each 8 card pack is to include 2 inserts which there are a lot of, here is a link to the TCDB.com page for the set if interested in all that is possible https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/310348 . The 2 insert I received were a Light Show & a Starbright. The biggest name in the packs I opened was Josh Giddey and this pack had 2 different cards of him a Base and the Starbright.
Pack |
Base Card Design |
Base Back Design |
Starbright Insert Back design |
Light Show Insert Front design |
Light Show Insert Back design |
Friday, August 09, 2024
2024 ABD Yuto Horigome Quickstrike
Monday, August 05, 2024
2024 Topps National Trading Card Day Baseball
You are looking at a pack of 2024 Topps Trading Card Day baseball cards. The cards come in a cello wrapper, revealing one of the included cards. These were released on August 3, 2024, as part of National Trading Card Day and available through select hobby shops for free to anyone who asked. As of the writing of the post, a final checklist had not been published by Topps (that I could find anyway). The showing card is Dansby Swanson:
The front of each card features the team insignia in the upper left corner. There is a thin gradient border along the top of the card. The player is shown, taking up much of the front of the card and has a diagonal white stripe pattern to the left side of the card. The second card is Javier Baez:
Along the lower right side, a diagonal set of lines in white and the team’s primary colors is displayed along with a team color and white border near the bottom. The player’s name sits on the left bottom and the “Topps Trading Card Day” appears in the lower right. Up next, Carlos Correa:
The back of the cards repeat the insignia in the upper left. The team and player name are at the top. Card numbers are shown in the upper right and are labeled as “NTCD-B##.” As there are various sport and non-sport versions, I presume the “B” is for baseball.
Below the player name is biographical information, and on some cards, a paragraph detailing fun facts about the player, and then statistical information. The bottom has the Topps logo and various copyright information.
I haven’t been able to visit a hobby shop in years, and didn’t even realize there was one in Little Rock until I searched the NTCD list for participating shops. My wife and I were in LR to help my daughter move apartments, so I grabbed the chance to drop in for a free pack! Now that I know central Arkansas has a shop, I’ll be visiting the place as I am able when we make trips in that direction. As I was going in, a couple presumably in their 30s was walking out with their free packs as was a guy about my age. The shop had a large stack of cards and I picked the top one. Not sure what they do with leftover packs. Do they just keep giving them away? Do they sell them? Rip them? No idea.