Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Sept. 17)

dljhduphThe Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What’s Buzzing Today: Big breaks, Superfractors and the Ben Simmons question.

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Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Sept. 13)

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What’s Buzzing Today: New-product breaks, old-product breaks and a Super Break.

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Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Aug. 29)

2uek9baThe Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What’s Buzzing Today: Retro rips, too many cards, people “jacking up prices,” looking forward to looking back.

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Buzz Break: 2016 Topps Chrome baseball cards (hobby box)

16ttpchromeBBFrom time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there’s a box you’d want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

s-l1600The box: 2016 Topps Chrome baseball cards (hobby box)
Where to buy:
 BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 96
Base set completion: 
70 of 200 (35 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Francisco Lindor, Jose Fernandez, David Wright, Buster Posey, Jose Altuve, Josh Donaldson, Manny Machado

Rookie Cards (24) – Trevor Story, Tyler White, Blake Snell, Ross Stipling, Aaron Blair, Jose Berrios, Jorge Lopez, Kyle Schwarber, Seung-Hwan Oh, Jeremy Hazelbaker, Brian Johnson, Rob Refsnyder, Gary Sanchez, Zach Lee

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Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Aug. 22)

SuperFractorThe Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What’s Buzzing Today: Superfractors from 2016 Topps Chrome, Immaculate breaks, digging into Leaf Pop Century and more.

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Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Aug. 18)

IMG_20160817_213001The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What’s Buzzing Today: Busting Topps Chrome, Immaculate Collection, The Mint & more.

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Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Aug. 14)

20160812_133242The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What’s Buzzing Today: 2016 Topps Chrome, Panini VIP packs, vintage cards and the NFL is back.

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Buzz Break: 2016 Topps Chrome baseball cards (blaster box)

16ttpchromeBBblasterFrom time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there’s a box you’d want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2016 Topps Chrome baseball cards (blaster box)
2016-topps-chrome-kris-bryantWhere to buy:
 BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 8 (seven standard packs plus one Sepia Refractor pack)
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 32
Base set completion: 
20 of 200 (10 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Kris Bryant, Matt Harvey, Paul Goldschmidt, Prince Fielder

Rookie Cards (3) – Raul Mondesi, Joey Rickard, Frankie Montas

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Gallery: 2016 Topps Chrome baseball cards (updated)

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There are many products making their debut tomorrow and at the National Sports Collectors Convention and one of the more-watched ones might be 2016 Topps Chrome.

It’s got a big rookie autograph checklist with quite a few notable names and a design that seems like it will be primed for a good-looking rainbow.

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Need a 2016 Topps Chrome baseball checklist? Get it here …

2016-Topps-Chrome-SchwarberWe’re less than a week away from the arrival of 2016 Topps Chrome baseball cards — and this year’s rainbow of Refractors could be promising with a design that’s primed for parallels.

And, with the arrival of the checklist, we now know what Topps promises inside its packs.

Click here to view the 2016 Topps Chrome baseball card checklist.

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First Buzz: 2016 Topps Chrome baseball cards

2016-Topps-Chrome-BautistaWhat: 2016 Topps Chrome baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 3
2016-Topps-Chrome-Correa2015SuperBox basics: Two autographs per 24-pack hobby box; five autographs per 12-pack jumbo box

What’s buzz-worthy: This year’s Chrome will have all the rainbow shades collectors expect, some rare veteran autos and two autos in every box, but that all might be trumped by the inclusion of 2015 Topps Chrome Carlos Correa Rookie Card autographs as the ink from the reigning American League Rookie of the Year will also be found here.

Keep reading for more as well as a full gallery of images.

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