REVIEW:2018 Bowman Platinum Baseball Collectors Box

Finally! A product exclusive to only Walmart. If we aren't going to find all products in shops or online stores, I prefer a product to Walmart over Target. Why? Well, I have 0 Targets around me. There will be one soon, the first in my state, but it's over two hours away. That's quite the drive for a retail exclusive card product. Especially if I take the drive and they are sold out.

There are three ways to buy Bowman Platinum. Fat Packs, Blasters and Collectors Boxes. Today we take a look at a Collectors Box. Retails hobby box.

This stuff at one point this year was hotter than Jennifer Love Hewitt in the 90's.

Every Collectors Box of 2018 Bowman Platinum baseball comes with 20 packs of 5 cards each. Each box comes with 2 autographs and boxes run roughly $90.

The base set is 100 cards deep. The set includes players of today and tomorrow. The base card design is quite different. A wavy player-getting-squeezed-out-of-a-tube-of-toothpaste design is the best way to describe it. So this could technically be Crest Bryant ;)

 

There are also Bowman Prospects to chase as well. 100 of those to collect in all. The Gleyber Torres is sadly an error card that features Ronald Torreyes by mistake. Sigh.

 

 

There are also Sp base card photo variations. Luckily the code on the back helps with determining those like in flagship. Codes ending in 264 and variations end in 303.

I pulled two parallel cards in my break. Seager is a green /99 while the orange C.J. Chatham is orange /25 and falls 1:191 packs.

 

Inserts in Bowman Platinum have the following parallels of Purple /250, Green /99, Orange /25, FoilFractor 1/1 and include,

Prismatic Prodigies. The Duplantier is a purple /250. These fall 1:5 packs and there are 40 to collect.

 

Platinum Presence. 20 cards fall 1:10 packs.

 

And Rookie Revelations. These look awesome by the way and are the best designed of this years product by a mile. This would have made a great base card design. There are 20 of these to collect and fall 1:5 packs.

 

Now onto my two autographs

 

And a green /99

  

Other hits not found in my box but could be in yours include,

• 80-Grade Prospect Autographs
• Platinum Cut Autographs
• Platinum Rookie Auto Pieces
• Platinum Patches
• Hunter Greene Short Prints
• Hunter Greene Short Prints
• Prismatic Prodigies Autographs
• Rookie Revelations Autographs

OVERALL: Not a bad break. I actually had fun busting the packs and looked forward to every pack after. I have always been a fan of this product whether it was done in football (Topps Platinum) or baseball and the designs have always been eye appealing.

I didn't hit it too big in this box, but I have seen plenty of other noteworthy breaks. I think it's a winner no matter which platform you decide to open of it. I have seen hits out of the blasters and fat packs.

 

Please take a minute out to thank Topps for providing the box to review. Some of the cards you see above will be included in the Fantasy Baseball contest! Follow Topps on all social media sites and check out their website HERE for cards and more!