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What’s Buzzing Today: Big pulls and big waits for the next high-end releases to arrive.
Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today’s your day then as we launch 12 in 12 — a series of a dozen breaks of past wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. We’ll post one every hour on the hour all day long today … this is Hour 8.
The box: 2015-16 Upper Deck NHL Series 1 tin
The cost: Click here
What’s inside this one? Keep reading …
If you want to try a little something from everywhere in the sports world with serious high-end potential but not break the bank, then a new product line from Blowout Cards might be for you.
It’s 2017 Blowout Cards Fire & Ice — and it’s delivered very well for some collectors digging in on Thursday via BlowoutTV. The four cards above? They were all found in the first eight boxes of his high-end buyback box.
What: 2016-17 O-Pee-Chee Platinum hockey cards
Arrives: March 15
Box basics: One autograph per 20-pack box (16 boxes per case via two inners)
What’s buzz-worthy: The rainbow of parallels returns once again with a modern-retro feel and some new touches that add to the overall legacy of the brand.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
The Cup is here and the biggest rookie of them all is here, too, with big asking prices on eBay.
The rookie is, of course, Edmonton’s Connor McDavid and his rookie patch autos from Upper Deck’s 2015-16 The Cup are something in high demand. We all knew that would be the case months ago.
But, now that they are here, the asking prices on early finds are jaw-droppers.
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What’s Buzzing Today: Another day of nothing but the breaks … with some variety.
Upper Deck is encouraging collectors to hit their hobby shops on Small Business Saturday and as part of that it has created a bonus card set available to those who make a visit.
It’s the 2016 Upper Deck Winter promotion and it includes 10 top names in the game.
If you want an autographed Connor McDavid puck, jersey or photo in the future, there’s only one place to get it.
Upper Deck Authenticated.
This adds onto the overall deal for autographed trading cards that Upper Deck has had since McDavid was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers.
Funko is ready for the next NHL season with a new wave of Pop! figures for hockey’s notables.
The company unleashed the details on a line of 15 figures heading collectors’ ways in November, which includes some Canada-only variants.
We’re less than two weeks away from the arrival of 2015-16 Ultimate Collection from Upper Deck and all of its high-end inclusions that include highly sought-after NHL Shields like the Connor McDavid seen above.
It’s not alone in the product.
This year’s NHL Draft is set to start on June 24 and Upper Deck will be ready for the event with a set of trading cards available to collectors.
Cards of past draft picks since, you know, those strict rules about Rookie Cards are still in play.
What: 2015-16 Metal Hockey Pre-Production cards
Arrives: May
Box basics: Three 1/1 encapsulated cards per box (20 boxes per case)
What’s buzz-worthy: Leaf releases its proof cards from a popular brand in a traditional way with each card found in a BGS slab as part of a very limited-production release.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
What: 2016-17 Upper Deck Artifacts hockey cards
Arrives: Sept. 28
Box basics: Three autograph, memorabilia or Aurum cards per eight-pack box (20 boxes per case via two inners)
What’s buzz-worthy: Artifacts returns for another season with new Aurum gold cards alongside the memorabilia cards and other inclusions collectors have come to expect. Also in the mix? Lord Stanley’s Legacy Relic and autographs of players who have reached the pinnacle of the game.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
It’s retro, but it’s not — and it’s arriving in hobby shops tomorrow.
It’s 2015-16 O-Pee-Chee Platinum and the hockey cards will have several colors and textures in a rainbow of autographs found one per hobby as well as a checklist that includes some of the biggest names in the game today.
What: 2015-16 Upper Deck Portfolio hockey cards
Arrives: Aug. 10
Box basics: Two autographs or memorabilia cards per 20-pack box (eight boxes per case)
What’s buzz-worthy: The short-printed subsets are a star here, which build upon a 200-card base set with a variety of looks and approaches while presenting the stars you’d expect and plenty of Rookie Cards from this year’s talented class to build a 364-card collection.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
The recent arrival of 2015-16 Fleer Showcase hockey cards from Upper Deck included a mix of styles from the rich history of 1990s Fleer cards applied to the ice.
Like past years and other sports, the Precious Metal Gems cards have captured the attention of buyers on eBay with the card of Connor McDavid above fetching a pretty penny, despite not having one dollop of autograph ink or a jersey swatch anywhere on the card.
How much did it sell for?
What: 2015-16 Upper Deck Premier hockey cards
Arrives: July 27
Box basics: Five hits guaranteed per seven-card box (five boxes per case)
What’s buzz-worthy: The biggest young names on some of the biggest Rookie Cards with some of the biggest swatches sums up what Premier delivers most — but that’s not all.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
The newest Upper Deck hockey product arrived last week with plenty of hits and plenty of Rookie Cards that will command attention.
And a few bucks, too.
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What’s Buzzing Today: Michael Jordan Star basketball cards, collecting Finn Balor before WWE, Connor McDavid, 2016 Topps Heritage and plenty of Select gold.
What: 2016-17 Upper Deck MVP hockey cards
Arrives: Aug. 3 (and Aug. 17 or later for e-Pack)
Box basics: No hits guaranteed per 20-pack box but two autos and three memorabilia cards per case (20 boxes per case)
Final Checklist: Click here to view.
What’s buzz-worthy: A 360-card base set opens the new season with plenty of inserts and parallels along with a mix of new rookies and stars.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
What: 2015-16 Upper Deck Champ’s hockey cards
Arrives: June 29
Box basics: One autograph or and two memorabilia cards per box (10 boxes per case)
What’s buzz-worthy: After a few years off, Upper Deck revives its retro brand that brings big names and big surprises from the world of hockey and beyond and an overall package that, of course, includes the latest Connor McDavid Rookie Cards and autographs.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
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: Retro breaks, NFL Mock Draft, Upper Deck Series 2, a BGS Mailday & more …
When 2016 In The Game The Final Vault hockey boxes arrive in late March, there will be quite a bit of history found inside — some big hits from the history of In The Game as well as big hits from the history of the NHL.
Every box will include 10 cards — five game-used memorabilia cards, four autographs and one mask card — with special Vault stamping noting that it came from this release.
Less than 24 hours after the reveal of Upper Deck’s e-Packs, there are more than 200 Silver Foilboard parallel cards for 2015-16 Upper Deck Series 1 hockey cards on COMC.com, which is the initial home of the cards in their physical form once they are pulled and stacked to be eligible for reality.
One of those cards is card No. 201 of Connor McDavid. This card was made into reality by a collector buying enough e-Packs to land five digital versions of the card and then upgrading to post on the site. There are 50 Young Guns each landing one in every four packs so you can do the math. (Young Guns are eligible to immediately be made physical as regular base cards without stacking just like inserts pulled.)
Now, the real question … how much?
The arrival of 2015-16 SP Game-used hockey cards from Upper Deck will usher in the newest wave of high-end memorabilia cards along with the newest looks at today’s young stars on a more-premium platform.
Each box will contain five autograph or memorabilia cards in a single-pack format just like last season.
Keep reading to check out a gallery of some potential pulls in the brand.
What: 2015-16 SP Authentic hockey cards
Arrives: May 2016
Box basics: Three autographs per 20-pack box (12 boxes per case)
What’s buzz-worthy: One of Upper Deck’s longest-running brands in all sports returns on the ice with not only the newest designs and stars of today, but also a look back into the 1990s with some Retro SP designs as well as Upper Deck Updates and Young Guns cards that keep the here and now up-to-date, too.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
What: 2015-16 Upper Deck Black hockey cards
Arrives: April 2016
Box basics: five autographs or memorabilia cards per six-card box (eight boxes per case with two four-box inner cases)
What’s buzz-worthy: Black is back packing nearly just the hits and the hits include some of the biggest names in today’s game as well as the past. The Wayne Gretzky-Connor McDavid dual autograph above? Well, we all know that one’s big even if we don’t know the NHL.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
We’re about a month away from this year’s version of National Hockey Card Day — an Upper Deck promotion that gets two different sets into collectors’ hands if they visit a card shop during the hobby holiday.
There will be one 16-card set available in the United States and a different 16-card set available in Canada — beginning on Feb. 6. Only one will include NHL newcomer and No. 1 overall draft pick Connor McDavid, though.
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What’s Buzzing Today: 1/1 showcases, unopened wax stashes, Connor McDavid, big-time retro box breaks & Muhammad Ali.
We all knew that Connor McDavid was going to be a big deal and we all knew his Young Guns Rookie Card from 2015-16 Upper Deck would be kind of a big deal, too.
But what about a perfect BGS Black label specimen? Well, one of these sold this week so we know how big it can get.
How much?
It’s a time of change, a time of high-end product exploration and a time of options for many collectors in what we call the sports card industry these days.
Tastes, products and prices continue to evolve as does the business environment that helps bring us our cardboard. For every super-pricey box being made, there are seemingly just as many buyers ready to rip or pick off singles for not-always-so-super prices (but super bargains).
The Buzz has only been around for part of 2015, but Buzz has been here all along as part of the world of collecting. Here are Buzz’s picks for 15 cards that helped define 2015.
2015-16 Upper Deck #201 Connor McDavid RC
The impressive prices being paid for what’s just a simple piece of cardboard with just gloss and some foil stamping shows that fundamentals never go out of style when there’s a big name involved. This time, it’s the No. 1 pick Connor McDavid, a Canadian phenom drafted by the Edmonton Oilers. This photo was selected by collectors and it even has a fun sign of 2015 — the fan showing off a photo on her phone in the background.
Upper Deck revealed its checklist for the 2015-16 MVP rookie redemptions on Tuesday with 35 cards of newcomers headed to the printer and into collectors’ hands soon.
No surprises who’s at No. 1 — Connor McDavid has a standard card, an autograph card and a gold autographed card.
Who’s on the rest of the list? Keep reading.
What: 2015 Leaf SportKings trading cards
Arrives: January 2016
Box basics: One autograph, one memorabilia card, four base cards and one mini per box.
What’s buzz-worthy: SportKings returns with a new mix of cards that includes numbered autographed parallels and buyback autographs for stars throughout the sports world (and even a few from elsewhere) on the famed design from the 1930s.
Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.
With the holiday season here, cardboard is probably on the minds of many Buzz readers as they wonder what might await them soon.
Others, like Buzz, might be thinking of Cardboard of Christmas Past — you know, some of the Santa Claus trading cards we’ve seen throughout the years. Most of it’s trivial and not all that collectable — but they all stand out in a way compared to our traditional sports cards.
1989 Pro Set Promos #1989
When Dallas-based Pro Set created this card during its first season of making football cards in 1989, it sparked a trend that we saw in not just football cards but other areas in the years that followed. (Boy are there some bad Photoshop jobs there in the 1990s.) For all intents and purposes, though, Buzz would call this one a “Rookie Card.” Yes, there were previous non-sports cards — but this was the one that put cards like this on the minds of the sports-collecting masses after it was mailed out to dealers and selected NFL-related people.
Even if he’s not playing, he’s still kind of a big deal.
Edmonton Oilers rookie Connor McDavid is still on the mend, but the arrival of 2015-16 Upper Deck Black Diamond continues the big-time action on hockey cards featuring the No. 1 draft pick.
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