wwe week-day 5 (final)

The final post in my WWE themed week, celebrating 900 episodes of Monday Night Raw (the longest running weekly episodic show ever...or whatever Michael Cole reminds us of every damn week). Today I've saved the best for last, with the first two cards being not that exciting, but still interesting. They are these:

I could really care less about the two ladies depicted on these cards. The neat part is being part of the canvas from the Elimination Chamber Pay-Per-View. Its not like its Layla's canvas, so it doesn't matter who is on the front of the card, but they had to put someone. These come out of the blasters found at retail. Usually one per, but sometimes you can get a regular relic too (as was the case with the John Morrison unnumbered relic I posted on Wednesday).

Here is the single best card I pulled out of all that I've bought. Its not too fancy, but it was just right:

Just right in the fact that Edge is the wife's absolute favorite wrestler ever. I opened the pack, but she got the smile. Its a superstar super swatch, numbered to 30, and are at a ratio of 1:276 hobby. A very cool pull indeed, as the shop I usually buy boxes from had not seen one of these yet, and they busted many boxes, and even got signed printing plates (yes, those are way harder to pull, obviously).

Well there you have it, WWE week is finished. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I had opening it all up. Baseball will resume tomorrow, thanks for reading!

wwe week-day 4

These are the two dual autographs I pulled in my boxes. They run about 1:162 hobby. They come in a gold (#'d to 25) and red parallel (1/1). I believe all dual autos are XX/99. Both are pretty good match ups too, that make sense, as they are both tag teams (well...one former). Some of the dual pairings are a little odd, but these work. Tomorrow's post will be the "big" finale, and then we go back to baseball for those who don't care much for wrestling. Normal programming will resume on Saturday...maybe. I'll be in New York City for the Yankees/Jays game and we're leaving super early so we can hit a few places before the game. I'll probably do a post for Sat. on Friday night. Until then...

wwe week-day 3

Welcome back to day three of WWE! Today I've shown some of the 'event worn' cards. The silver John Morrison is the basic relic, and the other three are numbered to 99 parallels. Morrison is one of our favorites, and we definitely don't mind the Randy or Rey. We're halfway there, don't miss tomorrows post for more signed goodness!

wwe week-day 2

Welcome to day two of WWE week! Today I'll start showing the inserts (the good ones, not the regular ones) from the 2010 Topps set. Above we have two autographed cards from Gail Kim and Ted DiBiase (Jr.). Autos are 1:37 packs from a hobby box, but hobby boxes always come with at least one auto and one relic. They are sticker autos, which kind of makes sense, as many wrestlers do 'meet and greets' and sign things all day. These autos actually have parallels as well, being gold (numbered to 25) and red (1/1). I'm kinda glad I got these two. I'm kind of a fan of Ted and Gail is one of the few "Divas" that can actually wrestle (must have been all that time in TNA, where the women are way better wrestlers). Oh well. Come back tomorrow for some more WWE and some event worn stuff!

wwe week-day 1

In celebration of WWE Raw's 900th episode set to air tonight, I thought it would be appropriate to display the new 2010 Topps WWE set this week. I know this is a baseball themed blog, but as I stated a few days ago, the WWE set is something the wife and I can bust and collect together.

The set is 110 cards total, with four parallel sets; blue (numbered to 2010), black-ish (numbered to 999), gold (numbered to 50) and red (1/1, not pictured). There are many insert sets, after all this IS a Topps product. There are also autographed cards and relic cards, then there are autographed relics and printing plates (and even auto'd plates too). Just like all their products, Topps overdoes it just a l'il bit ;). Blue parallels can be found in any packs (hobby its one per), golds and reds are hobby only. The black bordered is retail only I believe, but its not listed on the back of the packs oddly enough. Overall Topps did an awesome job with this set. Maybe we bought too much of it (four hobby boxes and two blasters and some misc. packs), but again, its fun and something we can collect together. Plus one of my local shops does a HUGE amount of wrestling stuff, so I can trade him stuff for presumably whatever I like in equal value. Stay tuned for tomorrow's part two to see what else we pulled!

the "other" 2010 topps cards

I haven't collected football cards in an even longer time than I did baseball. I was curious to see what they did with the 2010 design so I bought a few packs. I'm not sure who's who anymore, although I did recognize Donovan McNabb, Eli Manning and Ray Lewis out of what I got. I do have to applaud Topps on the Peak Performance cards in the football set, as they are superb looking and far superior to the baseball brethren. I think the white font looks pretty good too. As for the WWE, it was something the wife and I could bust together. We watch both WWE and TNA weekly and are fans of many superstars (and not so fond of others), so its cool that we could go through these boxes together and compare what we got and so forth. We got four boxes so far, its a lot but the boxes are relatively cheap at my local shop. It also looks great in the 2010 format. Its a great set with some great hits (dual autos, jumbo relics, etc.), with a blue parallel set like they used for Opening Day. If anyone is interested in the WWE set, I have many duplicates for trade if desired. I even completed a few sets. I'll post up some of the hits I got in the coming days or so (some real cool ones).