2011 Topps Chrome Value Pack

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Greetings!Hope everyone enjoyed the Super Bowl, whether it’s the game itself, the commercials, or Madonna’s Halftime Show (hey, there could be a reader).Found this pack at the LCS a while back for a buck.  Looks like the pack has “increased” in va…

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Another pack from the re-pack box I picked up at Target. These cards of course try to emulate the classics of the 30s but with new players. 8 cards per pack. One nice bit about these and others like the Allen & Ginter is that the non-glossy stock a…

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Greetings!I did not want to interrupt the flurry of posts these last couple of weeks, so I have been laying low.  And after my run of non-sports packs, it’s about time to get back to the old Target discount bin.  Here’s a pack of 2006 Upper D…

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Ah the multi-pack box; I’ve actually pulled one or two good ones from these and they make an affordable mix to pick from.2009 Allen & GinterGeovany Soto – National Pride subsetVictor Lustig – World’s Biggest Hoaxes and Hoodwinks mini. According to …

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I actually thought I had posted a pack of these before, but can’t seem to find the post. Welp, that’s a good sign to post this pack of movie tie-ins.  The difference here: ACTIVITIES!In this first group, there are two cards on which kiddos can col…

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I remember Fleer.  Do you?  The good ol’ days, eh…How about a couple of Jim Carrey shots, showing a varied range of emotions:He went to the Danger Zone….

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Upper Deck did a series of baseball cards with Looney Tunes characters, so why not parallel that with football?  Here, I busted open a couple packs of the ComicBowl IV packs:

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For as big of a computer nerd as I am, I never got into the whole Star Trek thing. So, other than seeing some actors I recognize, I don’t know anything about anything going on here.  Oh, and the Sela card  (er, the 2nd Sela card) is embossed….

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Another pack of these was posted previously, but since I decided to bust all my non-sport wax on MLK Day, here is another look at cards from this set:The cards below feature some cool diversions: a set os 3d glasses and a 3d card to go with them and a …

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I don’t know anything about motorcycles, but looking through a pack of vintage bikes brought on a nostalgia I didn’t even know I had.  Very cool stuff!

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Because one series of TMNT movie cards wasn’t enough…

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You remember these guys, right?  Yeah, the “old” TMNT movie that your parents probably saw.  Wait. No, no they would have been around to SEE it, but no one saw it.  Well, a bunch of kids, maybe.  Where was I? Well, this movie came o…

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I forgot to scan the wrapper.  And, I forgot to scan the rapper.  (rimshot!) I’ll be here all week. No, really. That’s my schedule.  (One of the best Progressive Insurance spots ever.)  What does any of this have to do with NTKOB? N…

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Yeap, that gum is from 1979. Want some?  My wife walked in as I was about to open this, and I showed her the raised area of the pack where the gum was.  She said, “You better not open that. It could be worth a lot of money,” in her patronizin…

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What’s this?  New Thundercats trading cards based off the new Thundercats animated series?  Yes please!  I had no idea these even existed until I stopped in at Target to get my daughter a few packs of Panini Hello Kitty stickers.  $…

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Recent WWE cards release with CM Punk on the cover and shiny stuff printed on it. The set is very well designed. The names are big and easily read and “spotlight” shine making the wrestler on the card very important.67 – Trent Barreta – regulated as jo…

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The never ending searching for the Frank Zappa card from 2011 Topps American Pie.

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Greetings!Hope everyone’s New Year celebrations were great, whether you partied till dawn, or turned in before the ball dropped.  May 2012 be just a good as 2011, or for the pessimists out there, may 2012 suck less than 2011.Here’s the last of the…

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This could be the first post of the year, why not? After spending a night out on New Year’s Eve and (for this year anyway) the night after New Year’s Eve, what comes to mind first? It’s not overwhelming exhaustion because you’re usually too tired to …

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Greetings!Well, I wasn’t able to do a double post, but that does not matter as it’s enough to get us past 200 posts for 2011, which is good enough for me!  Hopefully we can get to 200 posts for 2012 as well, as I’m sure there are still m…

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NHL Winter Classic coming up signaling spending Sunday afternoons on NBC watching hockey. Panini unleashes another year of Pinnacle with 8 cards in a pack. When it comes to Pinnacle the designs are usually hit or miss with good photography.100 – Ville …

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Greetings!I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to New Year’s festivities.  For me, Christmas seems to come and go very quickly, but that’s probably what happens when you have two little boys running around.  Here’…

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With the NBA finally kicking off this week, I thought I’d show off a random basketball pack that I got from my girlfriend as stocking stuffer material. The 1952 Topps baseball design has been rehashed and reused many, many times over the years, but I h…

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Topps puts out another nostalgic set featuring actors, actresses, movies, cars, and other various stuff throughout the decades. Price tag of $2.99 sounds a risk on these cards.14 – First Instant Camera. Remember Polaroid instant film cameras? Who once …

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Greetings!Here’s another crawlspace pack…just what you all wanted for Christmas!  I believe this was a $.99 pack in the Target bin, and you all know my love for all things Transformers…here’s some 2003 Fleer Transformers Armada!Five cards per …

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Greetings!A long time ago, in the same galaxy, the Toys R Us in town used to have large repack theme boxes.  There were Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh boxes, but what caught my attention were the Star Wars boxes.  It was something like ten bucks for 20…

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Greetings!Here’s another pack from the crawlspace.   I remember being curious enough about it to pick a pack up from the Target $0.99 bin.  I am long past my card game phase, but never outgrew my Transformers phase.  We’ve seen…

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Greetings!A couple of weeks ago, I was in the crawlspace getting the Christmas decorations out when I came across several boxes of my non-sports cards.  Looks like I’ll have something to add to the site after I’m done with the sport…

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Wasn’t 2008 the last year that Donruss/Playoff were in existence?  It’s a shame we lost another card manufacturer.  Oh well let’s take a look at another cheap-o football card pack.#131 Julius JonesI don’t mind the top half of the card’s desig…

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