2025 Topps Chrome Football Hanger Box

2024 Chrome:  Steve Young had an amazing career considering, sans a 2-12 campaign with the Buccaneers, wasn't a full-time starter until he was 30 years old.

I'm not sure how popular these are but I bit on a hanger box that I think was almost $20.  With a lack of logos and at that price point I won't be picking up more at retail.  I'll stick to singles.  That said I do like the overall design.

We have the RC cards we're used to. Bucky Irving is the standout here rushing for over 1100 yards in his rookie season.

I like the Future Stars inserts.  Colorful nice-looking cards.  I'm not sure the Finesse cards scream finesse but they are okay.

The backs are fine.  The base set is 300 cards strong with the first 200 being retired greats and the last 100 being rookies.  Even without a team logo, a Jayden Daniels would have been a fun pull.  I love seeing the retired greats and hope they still have a big presence when the license moves.  Tom Brady is among that group as well now with his retirement.

I like this All-Etch card and really happy about a Terry Bradshaw pull.  Not sure what the "etch" is supposed to be referencing though.  I like Sunday Swag.

My parallels.  I think these are a Negative Refractor Parallel and Pink Prizm Refractor #/399.  I have zero confidence on what the pink parallel actually is.  I couldn't find specifics on parallels, but I am assuming I got the pink part correct.

This was fun box even without the team logos.

BREAKDOWN:
20 – Total Cards
12 – Retired Greats
7 – RC
1 – Finesse
1 – All-Etch
1 – Future Stars
1 – Sunday Swag
1 – Negative Refractor
1 – Pink Prizm Refractor #/399

2025 Topps Chrome WWE Blaster

2025 Chrome:  Rhea Ripley is one of the big names in the WWE Women's Division.  She won the Women's World Championship at Raw last month.

It's been a while since I did a wrestling card post, and I was excited to see these on the shelves.  That Wes Lee is what I think is a Prizm Refractor.  All these cards sans the last one I'll share have chrome borders.  I know some scan as dark but they are not.

Here we have a base Izzi Dame and the Prizm Refractor.  You don't get all that color on either card.  Just the way they scanned.

The only vertical base card I pulled.  Wish we'd see more.

These are a 1985 Topps Current inserts.  I like these.  It feels 80s.

My Sepia Refractors.  They are fine but don't move the needle for me.

My pull overall felt a little light but the base set is 200 cards.  You aren't going to get the big names every time but they do have all the big names in this set.

I like these Tag Teams inserts.  More color and more going on on the fronts. 

Allen & Ginter inserts.  Solid look and I like them.  That Jaida Parker card is a Refractor Parallel.  This set is Topps' return to WWE cards.  Last time they had the WWE license was 2021.

We'll end it with a Neon Green and Black Refractor.  I love the look.  The green and the cracks combined with the photo itself look so cool.  I may not buy another blaster, but I'll pick off some singles from the set.  This was a fun return to WWE cards.

BREAKDOWN:

28 – Total Cards

8 - NXT

4 – Allen & Ginter

3 – Sepia Refractors

2 – Raw

2 – Prizm Refractor

2 - 1985 Topps Current

1 – Tag Teams

1 – A&G Refractor

1 - Neon Green and Black Refractor

  

2023-2024 Topps Chrome Basketball Hanger Box

23-24 Topps Chrome:  Topps jumps back into the basketball card game with Topps Chrome.  We'll kick it off with Paul George who's taken his game to Philly.  Health, including George's, will be key to any success that team has.

The design isn't bad.  Simple but I like the basketball and the player position.  Obviously not having the team logos is big and very distracting.

My parallels came in the form of this Green Topps Refractor (Strawther) and Orange Basketball Refractor (Robbins).  I prefer the Orange Basketball but I like seeing "Topps" highlighted in the background of the Green Topps Refractor.

Very simplistic but affective.  It is missing blocks per game but I'll take seeing career stats any day.

Both of these are fine with me.   The Grant Williams inclusion is unexpected.  The top left and bottom right of Film Study has a weird space that looks like scotch tape.  Maybe that's what it is supposed to be.

Photos like Gordon's make it look like they are wearing practice jerseys.

We get retired greats and career stats for each!  Including my favorite all-time player in Nique.

Drexler is another fun pickup.  Two for two in pulling retired greats from my teams.  Jason Williams seems to be a fan favorite, but I have to admit, while I knew he was good, I was never thought he was as good as he probably was.  I know I didn't get to see him play much back in the day which probably helped shape my thoughts then.  Fun box.  I won't pick up more.  I think.  Wemby rookies are the big draw to 23-24 basketball, so I'll never say never. 

BREAKDOWN:

20 – Total Cards

6 – RC

4 – Retired Greats

1 – Film Study

1 – Sudden Impact

1 – Green Topps Refractor

1 – Orange Basketball Refractor

Random Wax: 2020 Topps WWE Chrome

 2020 Chrome WWE:  I'm not a shiny card guy but this is a design I like.  The backgrounds are a big part of that.  They aren't just a big silver background but have depth and color.  There's a look there.  We'll kick off this pack with my favorite wrestler, Alexa Bliss.  She's fun, kicks @ss, and has some great cards.

Pretty cool Brock Lesnar card.  Pretty sure he was about to kick someone's butt.

Wrestling cards lend themselves to good photography and there are plenty in this set.

I think this is a great photo of Asuka.

Love that disgusted look on Shayna's face.

This photo almost doesn't look like it is from an actual match but of course it is.

Fun pack of cards.  Good design and photos.  Kane!  Kane was a part of one WWE's Most Wanted Treasures episodes which was really fun to watch.  Well worth it as are the other episodes as well.

BREAKDOWN:
12 – Total Cards
1 – Shocking Wins

2021 Topps Chrome Baseball (2 Packs)

 2021 Chrome Baseball: I'm not a huge fan of Chrome so I've held off on these but they've been on the shelves for quite a while and I gave in.  I did pull this refractor of Dansby Swanson of the Braves.  Maybe it'll give Atlanta some much needed juice after the Astros stole momentum in game five.  Not sure what kind of parallel this is for sure though.  

You get what you get with these.  Many folks really like these cards and I'm good with that.  Just not my thing.  Especially at the price point.

It wasn't until I started writing this post that I saw this photo an noticed the card is different from all the others.  It isn't numbered and I have no idea what it is.  My options amongst non-numbered cards are: Refractor (1:3), Sepia (2 per Blaster), Pink (2 per Blaster), Prism (1:6), and Negative.  No clue which one it is.  Didn't come from a blaster.  Always frustrating when you can't figure out parallels.

Not bad packs overall but no cards that make you go wow.  Well maybe the parallels would if I knew what they were.  A Pache rookies is always a good find especially as a Braves' fan.

I did my good deed for the day by sharing these.  Go Braves!

BREAKDOWN:
8 - Total Cards (2 Packs)
2 - Parallels

2020 Topps WWE Chrome

2020 Topps WWE Chrome: Snagged a couple of packs of these with this being the first.  I'm not a Chrome or shiny card guy in general but I do like the look and design of these cards.  It's really very simple and they look sharp in hand.  This WWE great starts us off.  Not a guy I've followed per se but he's been a big part of the wrestling world with his success.

You'll get wrestlers from across the WWE platforms.  I'm familiar with Sasha Banks but Roderick is not someone I know yet.  Again a nice look and I like the Banks photo.

We get to go vertical with this card.  Really cool photo and you get to see the background a little better in this picture.  Hard to tell but that honeycomb background doesn't dominate the background but augments it.  You still get to see the rest of background when looking at the cards in hand.

The Fantasy Matches cards showcase matches we want to see.  These two actually wrestled while coming up through the low tiers of wrestling but never in the WWE.  The backs are fine but nothing spectacular.  

A nice action photo here.  The two packs I purchased equaled the price of a blaster so I'd probably go that route.  A blaster also has more cards than the two packs I purchased and they have three X-Fractor parallels.

I'm pretty happy with these cards.  My favorite from the pack has to be the Kerry Von Erich WWE Legend insert below.  The price point will probably keep me from buying more but I'm glad I grabbed these when I had the chance.  

BREAKDOWN: 

12 – Total Cards

1 - Duplicate

1 – Big Legends

1 – Fantasy Matches