Showing posts with label Cereal box. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cereal box. Show all posts
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Cy for a Cy
This morning, I got this:
While Cy is very nice, I'd prefer the Warren Spahn. So if anyone out there finds the Spahnie, I'll trade ya this one and add a little somethin somethin to make it worth your while.
Where the heck did I get this, you ask?
See for yourself...
Saturday, February 21, 2009
2009 Topps Cereal box part 2
Here's the rest of that box with the Jackie Robinson refractor in it. Totals: 52 base cards, 1 ToppsTown, 1 Turkey Red, 1 Legend. There was also a big chunk of styrofoam in there to make the pack thicker than it needed to be. I know, I know, it's for my protection. The refractor card was packaged in its own little one card red wrapper. The wrapper had the box odds for parallels and variations on it oddly enough. Here's a few highlights from the base cards in lieu of typing out 52 cards:
195 Tim Lincecum
This is easily the best looking card that I've pulled from any set this year. Topps nailed this card of Mr. Cy.35 David Price RC
Early favorite for the Rookie of the Year. At least if that zombie in the background doesn't eat his brains.201 Classic Combos Brothers in Arms
I don't care what Topps calls it, this card shall only be known to me as Salty Ham.125 Roy Oswalt
The Astros better not suck this year, Roy deserves better. I'm thinking 19 wins, 20 if Tejada doesn't end up in PMITA prison.189 Jay Payton
This card disturbs me. I know we've had Interleague play for over a decade now, but my brain still refuses to process an American League player standing in front ot the Ivy at Wrigley. Orioles at the Cubs? That would mean a World Series game! DOES NOT COMPUTE. Because obviously there will never be a World Series game at Wrigley.Ever.
Forever ever.
For all eternity.
Not a chance.
Shoulda let the goat in boys...
Or just not let Tribune mismanage the team for decades....
Ok Inserts! Yay Inserts! We all love Inserts! Let's check out these Inserts. By the way there appears to be no chance at a relic or auto in any of these boxes so if you're after the hits, you best be buying HTA boxes.
TTT3 Grady Sizemore ToppsTown gold
No gold parallel in this box, but I got a goldish looking ToppsTown card of Grady. I guess it's gold, it looks kinda bronzy to me. I'm finally going to check out this ToppsTown contraption this year, if I get a chance (as in, if I'm up at 3:30am with insomnia) I might test drive it this weekend. At any rate I will give a full report.LG19 Bob Gibson
I think Topps hasn't gotten the American Heritage history bug out of their system, the back of the card talks about the Vietnam War as much as Gibby's 1968 season.TR10 Jackie Robinson Turkey Red
And we come full circle with another Jackie. This was a fun rip, and a neat way to sell $10 worth of cards. If you are strange and don't like Babe Ruth for some reason, you can also get a Mantle or Ted Williams box. Collect all three! Woooooo... I'd still rather have a HTA Jumbo pack though. Why won't shops sell those things individually?!?
Friday, February 20, 2009
2009 Topps Cereal box
Card Junkie showed off one of these things so I took the plunge. I'm a little frazzled after this week and I'm not in the mood to list out 55 other cards right now, so I'll just cut to the chase:
Not bad, eh?
If I regain consciousness before Sunday, I'll show off the rest of the box.
Not bad, eh?If I regain consciousness before Sunday, I'll show off the rest of the box.
2009 Topps Card Packaging
There's lots of different ways to buy Topps this year. Here's a run down of all the ways I've come across so far.
Packs:
Hobby pack - 10 cards $1.75-$2.00
Retail pack - 12 cards $1.99
Retail Jumbo pack - 36 cards $4.99
Hobby Jumbo pack - 50 cards $10 if you can find anyone selling them by the pack
Basic difference between a Hobby and retail pack is that Hobby packs have a slightly better chance at pulling the autogamer cards and there are several hobby exclusive inserts such as Ring of Honor, Silk parallels and printing plates. Retail packs get you a few more base cards for your buck as well. The basic inserts are found at the same ratio in both the hobby and retail packs: 1:1 ToppsTown, 1:4 Turkey Red and Legends and 1:7 gold parallel. Retail jumbo packs seem to either have a Legends or a Turkey red card, plus a 1:2 shot at a gold parallel and a ToppsTown card in each pack. Hobby jumbo packs give the best bang for the buck, including a Legends, Turkey Red, Ring of Honor, Gold border and a ToppsTown in every pack. Also, there is a 1:2 shot at pulling either a relic, auto, Legends manufactured letter patch or WBC redemption card. These are rarely sold by the pack though, and will cost at least $10 a pop.
The best value for a box is the HTA jumbo boxes. You'll most likely get the complete set, 10 of each of the low end inserts and 2 relics, an autograph, the patch and the mysterious WBC redemption card. If you don't want to drop $90-$100 on a jumbo box though, there are retail options:
Wal-Mart "Cereal box" 55 cards with 1 Chrome legend card $9.99
I saw some of these at Wal-Mart yesterday, but was so perplexed by them that I didn't get one. Part of the confusion was that I had seen these before packaged with a binder and plastic sheets and didn't know what to make of the small boxes. I was under the impression that they would be in a large box with the binder and pages and cards inside, but it looks like the binder and pages are just add-ons when sold online. The cereal box itself is about the size of one of those collectible card game "deck protector" boxes used for storage and have either Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle or Ted Williams on the box. Cereal box is the actual name for this product, I scanned the barcode to check the price and it is set up with that name in Wal-Mart's inventory.
The other thing that confused me was the insert ratios. The hook for this product is the one-per-box Chrome refractor Legends card. The checklist can be found here at the bottom of the post. It's a decent checklist and has some nice players in there. I would have put in say, Cobb and Clemente over Munson and Sisler but that's just me. My confusion was over the other insert cards. ToppsTown cards were listed at one per box, but no others were guaranteed on the package. The odds on the side showed gold cards at 1:2 boxes and various other parallels and variations at higher odds, but no Turkey Red or Legends. It does look like there is a Turkey Red and Legends card in there though along with the Refractor. That makes the Cereal box (you know, like those little boxes of cereal you'd beg your mom to buy and then only eat the three good cereals in the package and leave the raisin bran to rot in the the pantry) package sort of a low-rent HTA Jumbo pack. I'm intrigued though and I might have to go back and pick up a Ruth for further study.
Target $19.99 Blaster
Here's a blaster sighting with a picture of the package. It's your typical blaster, 10 packs plus a bonus for 20 bucks. The bad news: the packs only have 8 cards each. Since there's a big ad on the side of the box promoting the 10 ToppsTown code cards in the box, that leaves 70 actual cards per box. With inserts. make that about 62-63 base cards in a box. for comparison, 6 packs of retail for $12 will get you 66 cards (minus ToppsTown) and two retail Jumbo packs has the same 70 cards for $10. So Topps definitely went the el cheapo route with the cards in the blasters. HOWEVER... Topps upped the ante on blaster box bonuses with some manufactured patches. These aren't fake letters either, they appear to be official logos from significant events. The checklist is very nice as well, although I'll bet money that if I get a blaster I'll pull Don Larsen. The cards kind of look like the manufactured patches that Upper Deck has been doing throughout the decade, except now they are obtainable by the unwashed masses. I haven't seen any of these in the wild yet, and to be honest, I'm not sure if I'll be buying one or not due to the reduced card count. The problem is I can probably buy the exact card I want outright and still have enough money to buy a couple of Jumbo packs and get the same number of cards. It's a neat idea though, I'll give Topps that.
I'm not sure if there are any other flavors of Topps packs out there, like the 10 dollar 80 card Super Jumbo pack that I found for 2008 Updates & Highlights, but I'll keep on the lookout. I'd give equal time to Upper Deck, but so far all I've seen are $5 hobby packs and $20 blasters. (just between you and me, Hobby packs are the way to go if you can swing it) Once retail packs and Fat Packs start appearing I'll give you the rundown on those too.
Packs:
Hobby pack - 10 cards $1.75-$2.00
Retail pack - 12 cards $1.99
Retail Jumbo pack - 36 cards $4.99
Hobby Jumbo pack - 50 cards $10 if you can find anyone selling them by the pack
Basic difference between a Hobby and retail pack is that Hobby packs have a slightly better chance at pulling the autogamer cards and there are several hobby exclusive inserts such as Ring of Honor, Silk parallels and printing plates. Retail packs get you a few more base cards for your buck as well. The basic inserts are found at the same ratio in both the hobby and retail packs: 1:1 ToppsTown, 1:4 Turkey Red and Legends and 1:7 gold parallel. Retail jumbo packs seem to either have a Legends or a Turkey red card, plus a 1:2 shot at a gold parallel and a ToppsTown card in each pack. Hobby jumbo packs give the best bang for the buck, including a Legends, Turkey Red, Ring of Honor, Gold border and a ToppsTown in every pack. Also, there is a 1:2 shot at pulling either a relic, auto, Legends manufactured letter patch or WBC redemption card. These are rarely sold by the pack though, and will cost at least $10 a pop.
The best value for a box is the HTA jumbo boxes. You'll most likely get the complete set, 10 of each of the low end inserts and 2 relics, an autograph, the patch and the mysterious WBC redemption card. If you don't want to drop $90-$100 on a jumbo box though, there are retail options:
Wal-Mart "Cereal box" 55 cards with 1 Chrome legend card $9.99
I saw some of these at Wal-Mart yesterday, but was so perplexed by them that I didn't get one. Part of the confusion was that I had seen these before packaged with a binder and plastic sheets and didn't know what to make of the small boxes. I was under the impression that they would be in a large box with the binder and pages and cards inside, but it looks like the binder and pages are just add-ons when sold online. The cereal box itself is about the size of one of those collectible card game "deck protector" boxes used for storage and have either Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle or Ted Williams on the box. Cereal box is the actual name for this product, I scanned the barcode to check the price and it is set up with that name in Wal-Mart's inventory.
The other thing that confused me was the insert ratios. The hook for this product is the one-per-box Chrome refractor Legends card. The checklist can be found here at the bottom of the post. It's a decent checklist and has some nice players in there. I would have put in say, Cobb and Clemente over Munson and Sisler but that's just me. My confusion was over the other insert cards. ToppsTown cards were listed at one per box, but no others were guaranteed on the package. The odds on the side showed gold cards at 1:2 boxes and various other parallels and variations at higher odds, but no Turkey Red or Legends. It does look like there is a Turkey Red and Legends card in there though along with the Refractor. That makes the Cereal box (you know, like those little boxes of cereal you'd beg your mom to buy and then only eat the three good cereals in the package and leave the raisin bran to rot in the the pantry) package sort of a low-rent HTA Jumbo pack. I'm intrigued though and I might have to go back and pick up a Ruth for further study.
Target $19.99 Blaster
Here's a blaster sighting with a picture of the package. It's your typical blaster, 10 packs plus a bonus for 20 bucks. The bad news: the packs only have 8 cards each. Since there's a big ad on the side of the box promoting the 10 ToppsTown code cards in the box, that leaves 70 actual cards per box. With inserts. make that about 62-63 base cards in a box. for comparison, 6 packs of retail for $12 will get you 66 cards (minus ToppsTown) and two retail Jumbo packs has the same 70 cards for $10. So Topps definitely went the el cheapo route with the cards in the blasters. HOWEVER... Topps upped the ante on blaster box bonuses with some manufactured patches. These aren't fake letters either, they appear to be official logos from significant events. The checklist is very nice as well, although I'll bet money that if I get a blaster I'll pull Don Larsen. The cards kind of look like the manufactured patches that Upper Deck has been doing throughout the decade, except now they are obtainable by the unwashed masses. I haven't seen any of these in the wild yet, and to be honest, I'm not sure if I'll be buying one or not due to the reduced card count. The problem is I can probably buy the exact card I want outright and still have enough money to buy a couple of Jumbo packs and get the same number of cards. It's a neat idea though, I'll give Topps that.
I'm not sure if there are any other flavors of Topps packs out there, like the 10 dollar 80 card Super Jumbo pack that I found for 2008 Updates & Highlights, but I'll keep on the lookout. I'd give equal time to Upper Deck, but so far all I've seen are $5 hobby packs and $20 blasters. (just between you and me, Hobby packs are the way to go if you can swing it) Once retail packs and Fat Packs start appearing I'll give you the rundown on those too.
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