REVIEW:2018-2019 Topps Chrome Premier League Soccer

When it comes to Topps Chrome anything, does it truly matter what the sport is? Not to me. I love chrome. I would eat chrome for breakfast served with chrome with chrome to drink on the side with a side of chrome. You could sing the "I'm Blue" song by Eiffel 65 and replace the word blue with chrome for me.

"I have a Chrome house with a Chrome window, Chrome is the color of all that I wear...."

So let's check to see how my recent break of the newly released 2018-2019 Topps Chrome Premier League went.

Every box of 2018-2019 Topps Chrome Premier League Chrome has 18 packs of 4 cards each. You will also find one autograph card with boxes running at $65.

  

The base set is 100 cards and features the wave design used for flagship baseball. Most of the big names can be found. Some shots can be action filled like the one above,

 

while others just focus on the player.

There are also base card varitions fall 1:218 packs. I didn't find one in my box break. There are five to find overall.

 

As far as parallels go, this is what makes Topps Chrome top(p)s! Base refractors fall 1:3 packs

Blue Wave refractors are numbered to 75 and fall 1:44 packs

Blue refractors are numbered to 150 and fall 1:22 packs.

Purple refractors are numbered to 250 and fall 1:14 packs

Green are numbered to 99 and fall 1:33 packs. 

Next up are the inserts. They have the following parallels, Gold /50, Orange /25, Red /10, and SuperFractor 1/1

Inserts look great, I just miss the old days when we had a base version than the refractors ones. All have a refractor look to them. New Signings fall 1;6 packs.

 

SuperStar Sensations falls 1:5 packs.

There is also a Premier League Debuts insert that falls two per case.

Now onto the hit,

Callum Wilson green autograph numbered to 99. These fall 1:129 packs.

Other hits not found in my box include,

• New Signings Autographs
• Premier League Debuts Autographs
• Superstar Sensations Autographs

OVERALL:I love Chrome so for me, I felt value was here to be found. But, money wise when I looked up what I hit, well, maybe not so much. There is still plenty to find in Chrome as there always is. If you like Premier League soccer, this is probably a great product to start out with. It's affordable as well.

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REVIEW:2018 Topps Premier League Platinum

I am not sure if I missed the memo on this product or just didn't pay attention, but I am glad I didn't miss out.

Now introducing the latest product line for the Premier League with Platinum and it's pretty exciting especially if you collect the sport.

Let's see what a box break of it entitles.

In every HOBBY box of 2018 Topps Premier League Platinum has 2 mini boxes. Each mini box has six packs of eight cards. Each mini box has 1 autograph each and one hobby master box overall has 2 autographs and one relic.

The base set features all 20 teams with each team having 5 cards each building up a 100 card base set. The cards are printed on a finest-plastic type card stock that gives them an extra added appeal. Each card also has a rainbow glisten to it.

 

There is also a master set to build as well in the product. The base cards make up the first 100 in the set. Then come the short prints that fall at their own rates.

Global Stars make up card #s 101-140 in the master set and fall 1:4 packs.

New Signings make up cards 141-160 in the master set and fall 1:4 packs.

And finally Icons falls 1:6 packs and makes up cards 160-180 in the set.

 

This wouldn't be a shiny set if it didn't have parallels.  I pulled three purple New Signing ones in my break. These are all numbered to 50

 

Other parallels to find are,

• Green  /99
• Orange /25
• Red  /10
• Holographic Foil 1/1

Before I move onto the hits, I will admit I already fell in love with the product up to this point, but the thing was I also discovered a tad of a problem as well. I am not sure if this will happen to the base or not, but all three of my parallel hits had the coating peeling off from them on the back of the card. I worry about what this may mean using this type of technology on the cards and how storing them will affect them. Hopefully this was just a glitch for these cards and not all will turn out this way.

 

Okay, enough with the bad news, let's move onto the hits! 

My first one was this relic of Harry Kane. Not too shabby of a pull and I like the design.

My first autograph find was Tomer Hemed who plays for the club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Israel national team.

My second autograph find had some boomsauce in it with Aaron Ramsey who plays for Arsenal and the Wales national team. He has also taken home some awards.

  

Both relic and autograph hits have the same parallels which are

• Green – /100
• Orange  /25
• Red /10
• FoilFractor  1/1

And to see the overall checklist for this product, you can find it here:

https://www.topps.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/PL-Platinum-17-18-Checklist1.pdf

OVERALL THOUGHTS.......
I was pretty impressed with the overall look of this product. With only 100 base cards in the base set it wouldn't be too hard to build especially with boxes coming with 96 cards per. Even though you still have to account for the hits and parallels.

The only disappointing part I found in the product was the damaged cards. Just hoping that rest of the base don't "curl" like that.  

The checklist of signers for the product is pretty solid as well. Don't believe me, just check out the checklist I linked above.

I also think the price point is decent for the product and the hits provided.

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