Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Jan. 19)

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

What’s Buzzing Today: Box-topper storage issues, big retro pulls, graded card debates and a Bill Murray autograph for $50?

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Buzz Break: Busting a 1989 Topps ‘Ghostbusters II’ wax pack

Here’s a Buzz 12 in 12 style retro pack break that didn’t make the cut for our next marathon of a dozen breaks of past wax boxes/ packs in a dozen hours that’s coming next week. 

12in12-logo-smallerThe pack: 1989 Topps Ghostbusters II
The cost now: 
$1
The cost then: Pocket change

What’s inside this pack? Keep reading …

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‘Trading Cards’ return on Friday with new wave of cardboard icons

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The Trading Cards are back — and this time they are in packs.

Long-time readers of The Buzz probably remember California-based illustrator Cuyler Smith whose Trading Cards bring the stars of the reel world (memorable sports movies) to real life using nods to memorable sports card designs from the past.

He’s back with a new show — and a new wave of cardboard — arriving on Friday.

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Preview gallery: 2016 Cryptozoic Ghostbusters trading cards

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A new Ghostbusters movie is on the way in July, but before the 1980s franchise arrives with a new generation the previous movies get revisited with a new card set from Cryptozoic.

Scheduled to arrive on May 112016 Cryptozoic Ghostbusters will include autographs, sketch cards, slime cards, manufactured patches and plenty more as the company revisits the tale of Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddmore and others.
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