Graded Greats Wax Museum Breaks:1980 Topps Baseball

Last week I participated in my very first and the inaugural, Graded Greats Wax Museum TV break. What is that you may ask, well, I will break it down for you in simple terms.

It's a unique break that invites you to go back in time and bust some older packs. For $35, you get randomed a pack from the following list of baseball packs:

• 1977 Topps pack
• 1978 Topps pack
• 1979 Topps pack
• 1980 Topps pack
• 1981, 82, 83 Tripack (1 of each year)

On top each pack spot you get in for, you also get a CHASER BOX with a Vintage HOF Card or Cards.

And as another extra bonus, Graded Greats will create a checklist before each night of breaks with replacement cards for random commons that you may pull out of your pack. For an example, as taken from their site, in 1980 Topps they may replace the Expos team card with a HOF relic. That's a pretty cool bonus and something you will see happened to me as you continue reading..

Now onto a real example of what their breaks are about. For my random pack, I was randomed 1980 Topps baseball.

My pack break was extremely weak. This Gossage was pretty much the highlight of the pack as I found no Rickey Henderson (I am pretty sure someone else had pulled one in the break) or other stars. I do like the base card design however.

For my Vintage HOF raw card I got this 1970 Topps Brooks Robinson.

And for my common card replacement, I ended up with this shiny new item...

Absolutely love this card and the player.

Overall it was a fun experience, I just wished I had been a bit more lucky with the pack.

If you are a fan of vintage breaks/cards and don't mind taking a little risk for what could be a huge payoff, I recommend you give this a try. The bonuses are nice as well and one of them is even a Stan the man Musial auto!

Find out more information and to get a spot right HERE..

Review: Graded Greats Baseball Series 1

Intrigue. It's the first word that comes to mind when a NEW hobby idea or product is released. You want to be one of the first to give it a try and let others know whether to or not to give it a try. Pop in a interesting new concept called Graded Greats and call me intrigued.

My box of Graded Greats arrived yesterday and was packaged extremely nice. This was the box it arrived in.

On top of the box was the limited amount of boxes that were made. There were only a total of 100 boxes of Series 1 made. I believe Series 2 will have 200.

In each box of Graded Greats, you get 3 graded cards and 1 subset. Subsets can range from a few options from older packs to special cards. Each box will cost you $59.00.

After carefully taking off the top of the box, this is what you find inside. Each item in the box comes carefully packed in a velvet bag. I really like this as it protects the cases from being scratched during shipping. We all know how rough USPS can be with packages.

Now that I have broken down the product and packaging, now onto the goods!

All cards in Graded Greats are in their words, " true vintage items, none of the overrun products of the late 80s." This stood true for my box.

Card number one takes us back to 1972 and to Twins great Harmon Killibrew graded by Beckett. Classic card and design.

Up next, we move up a few years to a 1975 Topps Mini Willie Stargell graded by PSA. This is one of my favorite classic Topps designs.

And finally, we have settled down in 1976 with a Topps George Brett graded by PSA. I liked adding this card as I don't have many cards of Brett.

In the 4th velvet bag, I found two top notch packs. These were not only packed in the velvet bag, but were protected by a team bag each. I haven't decided whether I will open them yet or not. The aspect of actually owning these unopened is awesome, but, curiosity of what could be hidden within could get the best of me. Time can only tell. I will share on here if I decide to open.

Overall, if you truly appreciate cardboard like I do, you will really like this product as I did. I know this won't be for everyone as a lot of collectors are all about the hits, but if you really like vintage and owning a piece of cardboard history, this is something you will enjoy. Also, I must throw in that their customer service is second to none!

Just to let you also know just because my box contained three graded cards from the 70's, the years of the graded cards vary. I saw another break yesterday with a guy pulled a card from 1954 of Bobby Thompson. So you just never know what will be hidden within.

Series 1 of this product is sadly sold out, however, they are currently taking orders HERE for Series 2 and that sounds like it is coming even more packed with one HOF graded rookie per box along with everything else it offers. Hopefully I can get my hands onto one of those as well to share with you guys so you can see what it offers.