New Buzz: Products arriving this week (Dec. 13-19) include two Star Wars sets, Eminence & even more

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If you haven’t felt the awakening yet, you will by Friday.

That’s the day that Star Wars: The Force Awakens arrives and that’s also the day that the galaxy right here right now gets a new set of Star Wars cards — one that includes full scenes from the film and the most-important thing of them all.

Autographs from the new faces of the franchise. (If you thought Star Wars was a force on cardboard before, you haven’t seen anything yet. Guaranteed.)

In fact, Friday’s release of 2015 Topps Star Wars: The Force Awakens is merely a first series of cards. In fact, it won’t even be the only Star Wars set of the week …

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New Buzz: Products arriving this week (Dec. 6-12)

SwansonAfter a lull in new arrivals around Black Friday, there are a whopping 13 new products set to arrive this coming week with some heavy hitters in baseball, the college ranks and even non-sports territory on the calendar.

The biggest just might be 2015 Bowman Draft, which will arrive redemption-free on Wednesday with a selection of the newest MLB draft picks in their official MLB uniforms. Autographs for 31 of the 35 first-round picks will be found in this one. For prospectors, this is perhaps the biggest day of the year … every year.

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First Buzz: 2015 BenchWarmer Holiday Past & Presents

CiaraPriceWhat: 2015 BenchWarmer Holiday Past & Presents
Arrives: Dec. 11
Hobby box basics: Box breakdown is TBD (16 boxes per case)

What’s buzz-worthy: This upcoming product is a combination of new cards and “ultra-low numbered archive cards” and, according to the company, there will be only 65 cases produced.

See a gallery and more … below.

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