REVIEW:2018-2019 Topps Chrome Bundesliga Soccer

Another chrome release??? Um yes please!

This time we take a look at the greats from German football league. This is the first time a Bundesliga product gets its first traditional release to get full distribution in the United States. So should be interesting how that goes.

The format in chrome sticks to the same format as other sport releases. So let's check it out.

In every box of 2018-2019 Topps Chrome Bundesliga soccer has 18 packs of 4 cards per pack. There is one autograph per box and each box costs $55 roughly.

There are 90 cards in the base set with all of the stars. The base card design is riding the wave of the baseball one.

There are lots of parallels to chase as well as you would expect with a chrome product. My box didn't come with any base refractors and was full of color ones instead. There are supposed to be roughly 6 base ones per box but I am not complaining with all this color.

Blue are /150 that fall 1:8 packs

Blue Wave /75 falls 1:15 packs

Green /99 and falls 1:15 packs

Gold /50 that falls 1:29 packs

Orange /25 that falls 1:58 odds.

Other parallels to find are
Red /10, Red Wave /10, and SuperFractor 1/1.

Now time for the inserts. All inserts have the following parallels, Gold /50, Orange /25, Red /10, and SuperFractor 1/1.

Top 11 falls 1:108 and has 11 cards

Superstar Sensations falls 1:5 and has 18 cards to collect

Future Stars falls 1:6 packs and has 18 cards to chase.

And a slight boom of a red parallel that falls 1:717 packs. These are /10 as I stated above and this was a pretty solid player to find by my research.

And my autograph pull. A gold /50.

Other hits to find not in my box include,

• Future Stars Autograph
• Superstar Sensations Autograph
• Top XI Autograph

OVERALL THOUGHTS: It's chrome people!!! Those of us in the hobby will eat this right up and if we are die hard soccer fans and watch this league that's even better. Will be interesting to see how this product does in the U.S. but even though I don't know a lot of the names I still enjoyed breaking this box and finding the ones I do know.

Another way to possibly break this product to try it out without having to pay full box price was to talk a breaker into breaking some.Which I suggest Midwest Box Breaks when you do so.

Please make sure to take a minute out to thank Topps for providing this box for me to review and to be able to add cards to the giveaway on Twitter I am hosting. Please follow me there to enter @SportCardCollec. Also follow Topps on all social media sites and visit their SITE, as well.

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.

Please make sure to take a minute out to thank Topps for providing this box for me to review and to be able to add cards to Giveaways!!!  Follow Topps on all social media sites and visit their SITE, as well.

2018 August Fantasy Baseball Prize

For those of you that joined the Sport Card Collectors Fantasy Baseball league, I finally got confirmation for the prizes in August.

Since there are two leagues, there will be two prizes. One prize for each league. The players with the highest winning percentage for each league will win a prize and the one with the biggest lead will get to choose their prize first.

Here are the Topps and BCW prize offerings for the month,

TOPPS MYSTERY UFC OR SOCCER AUTOGRAPH! (winner chooses which sport)

And a few bonus inserts as well. I know it's not a baseball autograph, but, it will be like that for some months and some non baseball prizes will be in the main prize.

Here is where you can find this months prizes if you don't win,
Shoe Box House

Monster Pads
 

2 packs of Tall Card Dividers

Believe me, you will want to! Especially a Shoe Box house which I have three of for storage. Those bad boys rock!

 

Good luck to all of those in the league and keep in mind that the prizes for the year end winner are stacking up!

2018 June Fantasy Baseball Prize

For those of you that joined the Sport Card Collectors Fantasy Baseball league, I finally got confirmation for the prizes in June.

Since there are two leagues, there will be two prizes. One prize for each league. The players with the highest winning percentage for each league will win a prize and the one with the biggest lead will get to choose their prize first.

Here are the Topps and BCW prize offering for the month,

And a few bonus inserts as well. I know it's not a baseball autograph, but, it will be like that for some months and some non baseball prizes will be in the main prize.

Even if you don't win, I will still have plenty of other contests in-between and you can still pick yourself up a box of BCW 35pt Magnetics here,
https://www.bcwsupplies.com/magnetic-card-holder-35-pt

Good luck to all of those in the league and keep in mind that the prizes for the year end winner are stacking up!

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.

Thanks goes out to Topps for providing this box for me to break, show the hits to you and to review. Some of the hits in today's break will be used for a variety of contests so you can reap the benefits of Topps providing me this box to break. Please give them a thank you for doing this so we can continue to do this. Also, check them out on all social media sites and on their website which you can find HERE for all of your MLB, MLS, Walking Dead, and more needs. 

SORTING:The Rest

Last year I tweeted out this photo on Twitter of my desk,

Immediately I had a comment of "wow that's such a disaster someone please help this guy sort things out." 

I responded with, "that's not a mess, that's how I sort. It's a bit complex."

I made a promise to that individual that I would do a segment to explain my sorting and here I am.

It really isn't as complex as it looks, at least to me. But, it is a bit in-depth with as much as I collect and as many sports as I collect.

So I thought I would make this series breaking down everything I collect and how I sort it. I hope this will explain the picture I tweeted and maybe give you some ideas for your own collection on how to sort.

Today I am showing off how I sort the rest of the sports and non sports I collect. Yes, I collect way too much. But, is there really such a thing??

When it comes to non sport, soccer, UFC, NASCAR or any hit I get from the rest of the sports I collect, they get loaded into penny sleeves, toploaders or 10ct boxes depending on how thick of a hit I get.

These hits then get placed into shoe box houses by what they are to make it easier to find something when I need to.

Up next, the base I sort by number. This is a very long process sometimes. Unlike the key four sports, I don't usually pull out an specific players or people so the stacks are bigger.

 and place into boxes marked oddball or non sport depending on what they are.

Finally, the inserts from all and 2015 Americana only get placed into binders by what they are. Every part has a small binder for it.

  

 

Once I get everything bindered, they get stacked on shelves. Not standing up of course as that damages cards in the long run as the pages start to fold overtime. They are stacked alternating so one side doesn't get squished and so I can fit many on one shelf. You may notice numbers on the outside of the binders. At one point I used to number them and keep what's in them in a notebook but that got too complicated with the alternating as I can't see all of the numbers now.

 

Another part I failed to mention above, is my giveaway/trade pile. I pull that stuff out and set it aside as I go along for people I normally trade with and which giveaways I run.

Well, that's it for how I sort everything and marks the end of this popular series.

Thanks for reading and your thoughts on my sorting are welcomed in comments. Even toss in how you sort as well.

Breakin Wax:2014 Topps Chrome Soccer Blaster (1 Auto Per)

Soccer, the other white football meat.

It's not something I usually buy or something on the top of my list, but when needing to hit a certain dollar amount on my dacardworld order, something that said Chrome and one autograph per box for $9.99 caught my attention. So I gave it a go.

In each blaster of 2014 Topps Chrome Soccer blaster, 8 packs of cards with 4 cards in each pack. Blasters will run you a little under $10.

The base cards look really good. I was quite impressed.

I pulled lots of color in the box. I found...

Purple Refractor 1:2
Refractor 1:3
X-Fractor 1:6
*Orange Refractor 1:12 (this is numbered to 75)

I must also apologize for the sideways photo as well.

Purples are very sharp!

Some of the inserts I pulled. A couple are refractor parallels
In Form 1:8
1976-77 Topps Footballers Mini 1:8
One-Two 1:16

And my autograph. Not a big star but cool anyways. Especially for the price.

I found this to be $10 well spent. Nice looking base cards, fun searching for the colors and the autograph is well done with a nice signature. These are something I would go back and buy again and might soon.

What are your thoughts on the product? Soccer cards? Let's hear them below!