2025-2026 Topps Basketball Holiday Mega Box

25-26 Topps Holiday:  Merry Christmas!  Jaylen Brown is having a career year.  With all the roster turnover and injuries, he's shown he can carry a team.  Surprisingly, to me anyway, the Celtics are top 4 in the Eastern Conference and Brown is the reason why.  He's averaging 29/6/4 while shooting 36% from three.

Reminiscent of 1982 Topps the Holiday flair brings some pizzaz to the 2025 Topps Basketball design.  Great pull in this box.  Nikola Jokic is leading the league in assists and rebounds and I believe he is having another MVP season.  At age 37 Steph and KD are having historic seasons for their age.

All three of these rookies are having good years with VJ Edgecombe and Derik Queen standing out.

Topps gives us horizontal shots, and this one is tons of fun.

My parallels include Blue Metallic Glitter Parallel, Light Blue and White Glitter Parallel and Glitter Parallel.  You can feel the "glitter" as it feels sprinkled on the card.

My Holiday Relic.  Khaman Maluach is seeing minimal time on the court with the Suns.

Another great photo on that Dalton Knecht card.  Deni Avdija is having a career year in Portland averaging 25 PPG, 7 RPG, and 6 APG while shooting 36% from deep.

That Cedric Coward is my SP Image Variation that comes 1:23 packs (there are 10 packs in a Mega Box).  You get one SP per Mega Box.  An easy way to determine if you have a variation is the code on the back.  Below are the codes.

Base Set — 997
Image Variations — 039
Back Variations — 040
Hidden Elf — 042

My Oversized Diecut Ornament.  I like it.  Nice holiday design.

Some big man love.

Another nice horizontal card.

I really like that Trae Young photo and card.  And I did get a Cooper Flagg.  He's having a good first year in Dallas.  I'm glad I picked this box up.  It was fun.  I hope Santa was good to you all this Christmas.

BREAKDOWN:
100 – Total Cards
20 – RC
7 – Glitter Parallels
1 – Holiday Relic
1 – SP Image Variation (1:23)
1 – Oversized Diecut Ornament
1 - Blue Metallic Glitter Holiday 
1- Light Blue and White Glitter Holiday 

2024 Topps Holiday Mega Box

 2024 Topps Holiday: Who's pumped for Christmas?  This guy...and Pete Alonso.

Topps goes all in for the holidays with this design.  I like it.  Panini skimps on the holiday trimmings and their designs normally fall flat.  Here we're all in on the Christmas cheer.

Plenty of rookies in this box with 38 of the 100 cards dedicated to youngsters.  We have our first SP here with Shota Imanaga rocking the Christmas Lights Necklace variation.  Speaking of, a guide to the variations can be found here.  Gunnar Henderson is a Blue Metallic Glitter Parallel that come 1:10 mega boxes.

There are 200 base cards in this set.  The card numbers on the backs are prefaced with an "H".

Some alternate uni love.  The team names are all done in holiday green to help mark the occasion.

We love passion in our players and wearing Santa Hats which is another SP variation.  Well done Byron Buxton.

How do these not get you into the Christmas spirit?

That Trea Turner is a Silver Glitter Parallel.

My Ornament card and Relic.  They are okay.

I look forward to the holiday set each year and these didn't disappoint. 

Another Christmas Lights Necklace variation.  Variations can be tough to spot sometimes but the proof is on the back.  Check the code at the very bottom of the card if you're unsure.  Specifically, the last three digits.

Base Card – 141

Variations – 155

These are all about fun including the SPs.  We'll end it with some more World Champions in World Series MVP, Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts.  And I always like a good Cutch card.  Merry Christmas!

BREAKDOWN:

100 – Total Cards

33 – RC

5 – All-Star Rookie Cup

5 – Silver Glitter Parallel

2 – Christmas Lights Necklace Variation SP

1 – Relic

1 – Ornament Card

1 – Santa Hat Variation SP

1 – Blue Metallic Glitter parallel

2023-2024 Donruss Basketball Mega Box

23-24 Donruss:  The NBA All-Star game is tonight and Donruss hit the shelves locally within the last few days.  We get to see players in their new uniforms in Donruss like seeing Dame as a Buck.  Milwaukee has "struggled" this year leading to Doc Rivers taking over as coach.

Wow, what a pull.  I think it was one of my last three packs where I pulled a Nokic, LeBron and either Kawhi or Giannis.  There are 150 cards in these boxes so in theory you should do well.  Approximately 250 base cards including rookies based on last year's set (no checklist for this set yet).

Keyonte George is having a solid rookie season for Utah averaging 11 PPG and 4 APG.  Nice draft pick at #16 in the first round.

Who doesn't hope for a Wembanyama?  He's doing great averaging 20/10/3 this year and you have to assume he'll get better.  Portland still isn't seeing the franchise part of Scoot Henderson yet but hopefully that'll happen sometime soon.  Thompson is averaging 8 PPG and 6 RPG for Detroit.

LeBron hot pack.  No complaints from me.  I like the Magicians and Franchise Features inserts.  Bomb Squad is okay.

Holo Green and Red Laser parallels are exclusive to Mega Boxes.  No red for me which was a disappointment.  The green is a great match on this Jaylen Brown card though.  The front design isn't great to me.  I first saw it with 2023 Donruss Football and didn't like the design there either.  The backs are blah but par for the course.

Donovan Mitchell is having another great season while Paulo Banchero is even better in year two being named Rookie of the Year in his first season.  I'm not a Kyrie guy but he can fill up the stat sheet.  Dallas has figured something out of late winning 7 of 9 including 6 straight.

More greats in the league.  Tons of base cards.  It feels like some more inserts would be appropriate in the packs and boxes.

Clippers showing out.  Los Angeles is another team that has figured it out.  I think they are as dangerous as any in the Western Conference.  Definitely a fun box and we'll end it with another Milwaukee Buck.

BREAKDOWN:

 150 – Total Cards

21 – Rated Rookie

10 – Holo Green Laser Parallel

3 – Franchise Features

2 – Bomb Squad

2 – Great X-Pectations

1 – The Rookies

1 – Complete Players

Random Wax: 2023 Topps Holiday Mega Box

2023 Holiday Mega:  Merry Christmas!  I hope Santa was good to you today.  This is my second holiday mega box.  These are fun and this one paid for itself with this 1999 The Santa Archives insert.  The odds for these are 1:161 mega boxes.  Can't beat that and it's perfect for today.

I'm a fan of the 2023 Topps design and they did well not holding back with the holiday version.  That snow sticks out and that's what you want.  No doubt these are Topps' holiday cards.  Look at how excited Shohei is about the snow...and his gazillion dollard contract he signed with the Dodgers.

Youngsters including NL Rookie of the Year Corbin Carroll who helped the D-Backs make an improbable run to the World Series.

These are my two SP inserts from my box.  I enjoy the addition of holiday "apparel" to the photos.

My game-used relic.

No complaints with my pull.  Plenty of great players.

Ozzie and the Braves ended on a sour note after a season where they put up historic offensive numbers.  As long as their pitching staff can stay healthy there's hope they can again be a top contender in the NL.

Speaking of the Braves.  Acuna Jr. took home the season MVP but Corey Seager, more importantly, took home the World Series MVP and helped Texas win a championship.  I was happy to see them take home their first.

Hall of Fame career right there.

Die Cut Ornament insert.

Fun box of cards.  My pull was great and I enjoy the design and the holiday season.  I hope you have a fun day.

BREAKDOWN:
100 – Total Cards
30 – RC
5 – Metallic Parallel
2 – SP
1 - Relic
1 – Topps Rookie Cup
1 – Die Cut Ornament
1 – RC/Topps Rookie Cup
1 - The Santa Archives (Odds: 1:161 Mega)

2023 Topps Baseball Holiday Mega Box

2023 Holiday:  Happy Thanksgiving!  This guy has much to be thankful for.  He'll get a ton of money this offseason.  And he deserves it.  Guys like this don't exist.  You see the Santa hat which means this is one of the two SP cards I pulled.

These hit the shelves this month and are always fun.  This year's Topps design is already a good one.  Add a holiday take with snow and it's a win.  I do like it.  Topps doesn't shy away from this being a holiday set.  I want to see the snow and we definitely do on these.

Nice Julio and Volpe pulls.  That Meneses is Metallic Parallel.  Youngsters made up 45 of the 100 cards in this box.

Excited to pull this Acuna relic.

Only 200 cards in this set so your pull should usually be a pretty good one.

No word yet on whether or not Zack Greinke will retire but that doesn't have to keep us from enjoying a look at some of the great stats he's put up over his career.

Another SP with that Joey Votto (candy cane bat) who is also at a turning point in his career after being released by Cincy.  A guide to the variations can be found here.

Gotta have ornaments for those folks putting up their Christmas tree this weekend.

Votto had a stellar career with the Reds.

These are fun and I look forward to them.  Pretty good box I think.  And Cutch is excited for some turkey.  Let's do it!

BREAKDOWN:

100 – Total Cards

37 – RC

5 – Metallic Parallel

4 – Topps All-Star Rookie

4 – Topps All-Star Rookie/RC

2 – SP

1 - Relic

1 – Die Cut Ornament