2011 Topps Series 2 Baseball Target Throwback Blaster Pack

Greetings!Hope everyone’s doing well.  Well, the Wax Pack Geek’s time as the site’s Rookie was short-lived, as Fuji quickly took on that role.  Welcome aboard Fuji; hope to see many an interesting pack from you.Interleague is once again upon …

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Picture yourself at an Eagles concert.You just heard Hotel California. They rocked it and it ended with an awesome guitar duel from Joe Walsh and Don Felder.Then…uh oh. Don Henley’s coming out from behind the drums. The other band members are changin…

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Currently, Bowman Baseball’s annual first release is considered the most important set for prospects and rookies. This years set will again revolve around Bryce Harper, as well as #1 Draft Pick Gerrit Cole. Key rookies will include Jesus Montero, Brett…

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Continuing the trend of shiny fancy cards started by the previous 1996 Pacific Pack, Here is a pack of 1998 Stadium Club Hobby.Not unlike many Topps products that come in different series throughout the season, 98 Stadium Club came in two series. Unlik…

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I am back and hopefully I will be contributing more regularly.  Ironically, I am featuring a pack that I would never buy.The 1996 Pacific Invincible Football Trading Cards are everything I hate about modern day cards.  They are high gloss car…

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Ahhh… my very first post on this amazing blog. Before I tear into this pack, let me introduce myself. My name is Fuji and I’ve been collecting cards for over three decades. A couple of years ago I started a blog called The Chronicles of Fuji to do…

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Today, I have for you some 2003 Fleer Platinum. I’m not entirely sure what the logic is in calling this product “Platinum”… its nothing like Bowman Platinum… it looks pretty much like Fleer’s version of Topps Heritage.Here are the first two base ca…

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Greetings!Hope everyone’s doing well.  I am loving the increased posts on the site.  Keep it up, everybody!Real quick, a shout out to Wax Pack Geek…welcome aboard!  Looking forward to your continued contributions to the site.  Bet…

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To say I was anticipating the arrival of my pack of 1994 Bon Air Fire Engines would be an understatement. I mean who wouldn’t want to spend a Monday afternoon breaking a sealed pack of Fire Trucks… especially with the chance to pull a Fireographic …

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I was in a local retail shop looking for some current repack baseball packs to go along with my 182 Days of Baseball gig.  While there, I spotted this little gem of a pack: 2012 Platinum League Self Made.  There are six cards in each pack and…

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I didn’t read up on Gypsy Queen too much before diving in and so I didn’t realize that the base cards were actually going to be purple.  Now, I’ve got nothing against purple, per se, but the longer I look at them the move the purple isn’t really p…

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“X” marks the spot of another 2012 Topps Gypsy Queen bordered parallel pack that are found in the GQ value packs.  These mini packs have three cards and I haven’t been disappointed by a card yet:  #226 Johnny BenchOh, Prince…why couldn’t yo…

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 And so our next pack for review is…well, let me clean things up a bit and see exactly what it is. The pack is 1994 Upper Deck Collector’s Choice Series 1. This was just after I stopped collecting cards when I was 15.  I soon found cars, co…

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Today’s pack is a pack of 2005 Fleer Tradition (Hobby).At some point, as you can tell by the label, this pack was sold at an Osco drug store for $1.69. I wish my local drug store had cheap hobby packs. The chase cards in this set are memorabilia cards,…

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Well, I don’t think I can follow the A-Team Pack with any dignity, but nevertheless I have a pack of 06 Bazooka Baseball today. I feel like the Bazooka sets are what Topps Opening Day SHOULD be. Fun sets aimed at a slightly younger audience. I wouldn…

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Picked up three packs of these at an antique/collectibles shop near where my parents live.On with the show …In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit.These men promptly escaped from a maximum…

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Today we have a pack of 2001 Upper Deck Minor League Centennial!This is an interesting set… seems similar to Tristar’s current offerings, a mix of MILB players and MILB “legends” (usually big league legends in their minor league uniforms).This pack a…

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Today I’m breaking a pack of 2005 Topps All-Time Fan Favorites.I’ve always enjoyed this set. It hasn’t been produced in a few years but you can still find hobby boxes and packs of these around. The idea is basically reprints with different photos of cl…

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2002 Topps Gallery is today’s pack. The package advertises “A SETBUILDER’S MASTERPIECE”! Autos and Relics fall at 1:44 packs. Let’s see what we yield. Yay, an advertising insert! This tells you all about how to bid on Topps stuff on eBay. Obviously al…

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I had so much fun with my first post I thought I’d come back for some more!I decided to bust a hobby pack of 2009 Topps Unique Baseball. I don’t honestly know a whole lot about 2009 Topps Unique. In fact, I was rather curious what was so “unique” abo…

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These bland designed mini packs are included in the 2012 Topps Gypsy Queen value packs which have three retail packs included.  These are just called “bordered parallel” cards on the packaging and I’ve added the “bronze” title to them because they…

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After a rough couple of days of being sick and then watching my favorite hockey team, the Boston Bruins, get eliminated in Game 7 of their Eastern Conference Quarter-Final match-up against Washington last night, I’m hoping a pack of hockey cards will h…

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First off, as this is my first post I should introduce myself! I’m Sam and I write the blog Wax Pack Geek. I’m pumped to be posting here on APTBNL.  So if you have been to Target you have probably seen these. They are packaged by the Fairfield Com…

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Two packs of 2005 Topps Wacky Packages Series 2 are ripped: And here is a slide show of the cards I pulled: 

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Greetings!Hope everyone’s doing well.  Not a whole lot of energy this evening, so here’s another quick one.  Here’s the bonus patch card that came with a 2010 Topps Update blaster box I picked up a while back.Here’s the pack:Just like wi…

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Here’s a new video of a pack of 1991 Topps, celebrating Topps 40th anniversary. Here the best card from the pack:1991 Topps #729 Don Zimmer

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Greetings!Hope everyone’s enjoying the start of the baseball season.  Looks like the Cubs will be winning a third of their games this year, putting their best effort out there on the final game of the series when the opponent is resting some of th…

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And it all comes down to this. We’re at the end of the road in my Update update. Time flies, doesn’t it?Well, I don’t know about you, but when I get these blasters, I save the manufactured patch card for last. I think it’s because there’s less chanc…

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Continuing my 2011 Topps Update offerings, we have the retail exclusive packs. Each specially marked blaster (and make sure you find the specially marked ones, because some are not) you’ll find two packs of exclusive parallels.The packs are unassuming…

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Continuing my 2011 Topps Update offerings, we have the retail exclusive packs. Each specially marked blaster (and make sure you find the specially marked ones, because some are not) you’ll find two packs of exclusive parallels.The packs are unassuming…

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Now that 2012 Topps is well established in the marketplace, I think it’s high time I cleaned out my 2011 Update folders. I ran through the various 2011 baseball packs for Series 1 and Series 2. I meant to be more timely with these, but such is life. …

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Greetings!According to the Blogger tool I use to upload my posts, we have recently surpassed 1000 posts.  Congrats to everyone who has ever posted for making this possible.  Here’s to the next 1000!Anyway, to commemorate the occasion, I decid…

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 Here’s a quickie. No skin-tight fighting suits, this time. Sorry about that. 251 – Todd Helton (I’m not sure what qualifies this as an “Official Pinnacle Rookie Card” as opposed to the rookies that don’t have this faux-stamp.) PP122 – J…

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Yeah!71 – Super Heroes (Zoom!)32 – Rescue Time (Ka-pow!)7 – Goldar (Whaaaaa?)20 – Surrounded (Okay, this card is pretty amazing.)49 – The Blue Ranger (Woo!)48 – The Pink Ranger (Chicka!)62 – Outnumbered (Yowza!)40 – Command Center (Dino… zord? This i…

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