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Breakin' Wax: 2021 Donruss Football Mega Box (decent break)

It's so hard finding good cards in retail still. Yes, I have found cards on the shelf, but Topps Update, Topps Heritage, WWE stuff, WNBA, Wild Card, are not products of interest.

But, never find good football or basketball cards on the shelf. They sell out and I just simply don't time it right.

However, I did time this one right. I showed up to Walgreens and BOOM, there sat four boxes of 2021 Donruss football Megas. I wanted all four, but not at $50 a pop. First of all, it was close to Christmas when I found this and I had already drained a lot of funds and I never would spend that much to begin with.

So, I grabbed one and called it good. (after some pleading with the Mrs to do so too)

Every Mega Box comes with an autograph. I was hoping for a top veteran auto or something for my Giants PC.

Slayton Bronze for my PC.

Retro Series

Throwback design

My Rated Rookies that consisted of about nobody (well the Patriots running back wasn't too bad but wasn't also the Patriots QB)

Some shiny!!

And then, some Pink Optic. The outside of the box said that they were rare, but I got one in every pack. I also couldn't find out info on these to see if they were actually rare or if they are one per pack.

But either way, I landed the top pick and a Toney for the PC!

And now the autograph unveil....

 

Shawne Merriman Signature Marks autograph.

Overall I am not going to complain about this box break. It may have been my best retail break of 2021 other than the Allen Ginter Judge auto I landed.

Your thoughts on my break are welcomed below!

Breakin' Wax:2021 Prizm Draft Football Hanger Box

2021 was much better for me when it came to opening up wax. I was able to find some, trade for some, etc when I had that itch. It may not have always something I was dying to open, but it was something and I will take that over the nothing that was 2020.

I don't have the picture of the box I opened today, but I do have the most important parts, the contents.

 

Some of the rookies I found.

And two surprise rookies as well. I must have opened up a few of these hangers/blaster/packs and never once pulled either of these guys. Then I find both right in this break. I won't complain.

I think these are called Green Waves. Pretty cool looking regardless of name.

 

And my break ends with some green parallels.

Nothing overly exciting to brag about. I do like the Fields and Lawrence adds to the rookie PC, but other than that, not much here for me.

Hope everyone has a great Thursday and I welcome your thoughts on this break below!!

PACK WARS:EPISODE ONE

Welcome to the very first pack wars! This is a retail battle that can be between two of the same products or two different products. It will involve hanger packs, hanger boxes, blaster boxes and maybe even a mega box.

I will do my best to matchup the products evenly so it can make it a more fair battle. This will also involve battles between sports as well. Sports featured will be baseball, basketball and football.

Today is a battle of two products that usually come out early in the football card season.

So let's see what happens when we have them battle it out.

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In the battle today is a 2021 Chronicles Hanger Pack vs a 2020 Score Football Hanger Pack.

First up, let's bust open that Score.

 

Score comes with a lot of cards and splits up into four sections with base, parallels, inserts and rookies.

Base cards, I won't show them off unless there was a key player to be seen, but I did want to point out that Boyd photo.

For inserts, we have a Mahomes, Lamar Jackson and Josh Jacobs.

Then we top it off with a Waller and Barrett.

And finish it up with some 3D defenses.

The red parallels brought out a solid hit with a Burrow rookie red.

And finally the rookies bring us another Burrow but not much else.

Now onto the Chronicles pack,

Chronicles is literally just a stack of cards that had no parallels or inserts so it will be judged more by the players.

Parsons, Chase and Hubbard.

The next Tom Brady in Mac Jones?

Another Chubba

Devonta Smith leading this charge

And a nice way to end the pack in #1 pick Trevor Lawrence

There you have it.

Is the Red Burrow and Burrow variation rookie along with the big names in the inserts strong enough to take down Mac Jones and Trevor Lawrence?

Who wins this pack battle? Let me know in comments!

Breakin' Wax:2021 Chronicles Draft Picks Football Blaster Box

Wait...two boxes of football found in one week.

And this one being amazing and possibly my break of the year? Yup, that happened.

2021 Chronicles Draft Picks football comes with 4 packs of 5 cards which I didn't realize when I paid the $20 for it. So it was a gamble for me with no guarantees other than 3 blaster exclusive pink parallels.

Let's see how I did including kicking it off with this Select Silver of Trevor Lawrence which was a huge hit for retail!

The Lawrence in my first pack alone was worth the break. A second Lawrence was a bonus and the last pack with a Kadarius Toney was just the break sealer for my best break so far this year. That includes hobby.

Let me know your thoughts on Chronicles and this break below in comments.

CARDBOARD REVIEW:2021 Chronicles Draft Picks Football x2

It's football season folks! That time of year where every teams hopes and dreams are high, yes even you Lions fans. Everyone is 0-0 and it's anyone's game until they start.

It's also time for those rookies cards you have been hoarding out of 2021 products to arise. Wait, you don't have any yet? Well, do I have a product suggestion for you. Dive on into a box of Chronicles football and I promise you will find the names you need.

Let's check out my break, breaks, of this product.

In every hobby box of 2021 Chronicles football there are 6 packs of 8 cards. Each hobby box comes 4 hits, autographs and memorabilia cards, and each box roughly goes for $250.

BASE:

Chronicles has it's own base set, but it also has other products in it which build up into one big 400 card set.

Here are the other product options you will find in 2021 Chronicles,

• Donruss
• Donruss Optic Rated Rookie
• Flux
• Legacy
• Playbook
• Playoff
• Prestige
• Rookies & Stars
• Score
• Select
• Spectra
• Status

Each of these individual sets has 25 cards to collect in them.

Flux

Chronicles

Score Retro

Donruss Retro

Select

Illusions

Recon

Spectra

XR

Status

Prestige

PARALLELS:

Most PARALLEL CARDS: Bronze, Green, Orange, Pink, Red /149, Blue /99, Purple /49, Cracked Ice /11, Gold /10, Platinum 1/1.
Optic PARALLEL CARDS: Holo, Bronze, Green, Orange, Pink, Red /149, Blue /99, Purple /49, Cracked Ice /11, Gold /10, Gold Vinyl 1/1.
Flux/Select PARALLEL CARDS: Silver, Bronze, Green, Orange, Pink, Red /149, Blue /99, Purple /49, Cracked Ice /11, Gold /10, Gold Vinyl 1/1.

Select silver of Trey Lance (NIIIIICE!!)

Purple /49

HITS:

There are a lots of great pulls to be found, I just didn't find them.

Davis Mills could be the future of the Texans if Watson is traded.

6th round WR Dazz Newsome plays for the Bears

And final hit, Kadarius Toney. You guessed it, I was mostly excited about this one...GMEN BABY!

I figured there was no point in doing a double review of the same product, so here is how the second box went,

Patterson plays for the Washington Football Team

Ehlinger (nice looking card) plays for the Colts and Newman signed with the Eagles as a rookie free agent. That card is /10

Tamorrion Terry Full Coverage

 

Ja'Marr Chase (niiiiiice pull-Bengals top pick)

And two more wows to end out the second box, Trevor Lawrence silver Select and a Trey Lance Red from Illusions

OVERALL THOUGHTS:

First box was a little meh, but what wasn't in the first box was in the second box. So that makes me wonder if some boxes are better than others or maybe that's just the way it appeared this time around.

I really like the mix of cardboard and chromed cards in this break. Made for a fun chase in trying to find the top rookies in each part.

I think price point and value, well, I think this is the closest it can get in today's hobby.

Let me know your thoughts on these breaks and the product overall in comments.