Thank you very much UBERBOB.I wish you the same luck.

Here's my one box breakdown.
3 box toppers!?! (one is mutilated)
1 autograph (richard edlund)
3 blue foils
8 puzzle
3 cards short of a base set
39 extra base cards

Case Breakdown:

I think I did quite well - 5 sketches & 3 Autos.

Autos - 2 different greedos & Tonnika sister (not that exciting)

Sketches - Gould, Fabbri, Duuserma, Wilkinson & Pence

Box Toppers - 186 (Yellow) - 211 (Greeen) - 128, 117, 71 (Red) - 41, 66, 61 (Blue)

Red parallel - 1 per box > blue parallel - 2 per box (NO duplicates!)

I like the Vader sketch!

Nice sketch cards!

Nice sketches, I wouldn't be unhappy with them.

The Sean Pence and Wilkinson are little beauts, the Tonnika Sister is a rare sketch, plus it goes with your auto card.

So who holds the record for most sketch cards in a case.
Mine was 7 sketches & 2 autographs.

Let me know what everyone else got

I was really pleased with the Sean Pence sketch - I think it's one of the sketches that I saw online before the release of the set.

After seeing it as a preview, I decided that I would buy a case.

How cool is that!

Finally got a box! Here's what I got:

Base Set - missing 7 cards (43 extras)
1 Box topper - #155 (3rd series; yellow)
8 Die-cut tryptic cards
2 Blue parallels - #62 & 101
1 Red parallel - #111
1 Autograph card - Richard LeParmentier (Admiral Motti)

I like to say that this is a great looking set. Say what you will about Topps, but they have done a nice job with this set. Hope to get another box soon.

ferrerstuff

Finally got my case last night but only just finished cracking it now. A decent case, no home runs but I think it was a bit better than average.

Box 1:

Box Topper- 98
Blue Foil- 42, 57
Red Foil- 103
Autograph- Ken Ralston

Box 2:

Box Topper- 65
Blue Foil- 62, 73, 84
Red Foil- 68
Sketch- Leia by Fabbri
Sketch- Han Solo by Fabbri

Box 3:

Box Topper- 168
Blue Foil- 95, 109
Red Foil- 119
Gold Foil- 93 (16/30)
Sketch- Han Solo by Jessica Hickman

Box 4:

Box Topper- 117
Blue Foil- 46, 59
Red Foil- 2,58
Gold Foil- 6 (24/30, nice character card of Princess Leia)
Auto- Lorne Peterson

Box 5:

Box Topper- 46
Blue Foil- 45, 101
Red Foil- 71
Sketch- Whatever the sand creature is called by Fabbri

Box 6:

Box Topper- 56
Blue Foil- 94, 105
Red Foil- 109
Sketch- Greedo by Ryan Waterhouse

Box 7:

Box Topper- 106
Blue Foil- 25, 43, 91
Red Foil- 48
Sketch- The Admiral with Death Star in background by Ingrid Hardy
Sketch- C3PO by Dave Dorman

Box 8:

Box Topper- 65
Blue Foil- 49, 102
Red Foil- 79
Auto- Christina Hewett

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Final breakdown:

Box Toppers- 8, 7 unique with 1 duplicate
Blue Foil- 18
Red Foil- 9
Gold Foil- 2, #93 (Home for a holiday 16/30), #6 (Characters '77, Princess Leia 24/30)
Autographs- 3, Ken Rolston, Lorne Peterson, Christina Hewett.
Sketch Cards- 7. 3 Fabbri, 1 Jessica Hickman, 1 Ryan Waterhouse, 1 Ingrid Hardy and 1 Dave Dorman.

Was very pleased to get the 2 golds, especially the Leia.

The 3 autos were pretty much the bottom of the barrel.

7 sketches surprised me quite a bit. Happy with them even though they are all pencil, although the Ingrid Hardy has some light color. Scans coming by the weekend.

quote:

Originally posted by Master:
So who holds the record for most sketch cards in a case.
Mine was 7 sketches & 2 autographs.

Let me know what everyone else got

Looks like you hold the current record Master. Out of the 3 cases I've cracked so far I received the following breakdown - 4S/4A, 4S/4A and 2S/6A. Kudos to you on getting a great case break.

My case finally arrived:

red 20
blue 29 88 119
sketch bar alien (Mark Brooks)
puzzle 8
bt green 220
auto

red 96
blue 22 117
sketch obi wan (Joseph Booth)
puzzle 8
bt green 254
auto

red 113
blue 40
sketch luke (sean pence)
puzzle 7
bt orange 279
auto

red 37
blue 68 79
sketch
puzzle 8
bt red 95
auto ken ralston

red 120
blue
sketch vader (Tom Hodges)
puzzle 8
bt yellow 186
auto greedo

red 91
blue 39
sketch
puzzle 7
bt red 100
auto biggs darklighter

red 84
blue 66 115
sketch luke (craig rousseau)
puzzle 6
bt blue 29
auto

red 64
blue 11 94
sketch
puzzle 9
bt blue 37
auto admiral motti

The sketches are nice.
I hope you like them because that's what counts.

Congrats Incarnadine and DeathStorm on your case break!

Those are great sketches Congrats .

For me, this was the worst product collation i've ever had. I am certainly not buying Heroes from Topps. fyi - 3 cases from 1 dealer, and 1 from another.

case 1:
6 common sets total
box toppers 82 x4, 87 x2, 97, 118
autos - jon berg x2, joe viskocil x2, norman reynolds, paul blake
gold foil #53 (22 of 30)
correct number of red and blue foils
2 Gutierrez pencil sketches - Biggs and unknown male (maybe Han)

case 2
10 common sets total
box toppers - 82, 87 x2, 97x2, 179 x3
correct number of blue and red foils
no gold foil
autos - kenny baker, paul blake, john dykstra, lorne peterson, joe viskocil
1 Gutierrez ink sketch (Sandperson)
1 Gould Sandtrooper (ink w/ gold shoulder pad)
1 Cook Sandperson

case 3
7 common sets total
box toppers 63, 67, 73, 81, 84, 87, 97, 198
correct number of blue and red foils; 9 duplicates of previous blue foils
gold foil 92 (20 of 30)
autos - garrick hagon, christine hewitt, norman reynolds, joe viskocil,
1 Wilkinson Chewbacca sketch (ink)
1 Cummens Death Star (color, firing blast)
1 Hodges Greedo (pencil)
1 Sohn Solo (pencil, beautiful card)

case 4 (different dealer)
7 boxes opened, 1 box saved for later
6 base sets in 7 boxes
box toppers 9, 50, 118, 167, 179, 180, 198
1 box no sketch or auto, and 2 red foils, no blue foils
otherwise, correct number of red and blue foils in 6 other boxes; 3 duplicates of previous blue foils
no gold foils in 7 boxes
autos - garrick hagon, richard leparmentier, ken ralston
1 Hardy Leia sketch (color, in rebel war room)
1 Waterhouse Greedo (ink)
1 Dalla Vecchia garbage monster (pencil)

if anyone knows that complaining to Topps customer service helps, i would

and I wanted to ask if anyone else had problems with the number of cards inserted per pack. In my first case throughout 6 of the 8 boxes, packs had as few as 2 cards and as many as 12 cards. Not what I would call quality control.

quote:

Originally posted by swbill:
and I wanted to ask if anyone else had problems with the number of cards inserted per pack. In my first case throughout 6 of the 8 boxes, packs had as few as 2 cards and as many as 12 cards. Not what I would call quality control.

For the base cards, I didn't notice. But for sketch/auto insertion rates, there should be some sort of quality control. The average case should yield about 3 sketches, but some people have pulled up to 7, and some people (sigh...like me) only got 1. Hit or miss....that's all i can say.

Guess I should feel lucky...
Only pulled two sketches, and five autos with one dupe. Although, I am still trying to figure out what one of the sketches is supposed to be???

Sent my dud box off Monday with a counterpraise letter of endorsement.

Quality control and Topps appear to be world's apart.

quote:

Originally posted by riddickfan:
The sketches are nice.
I hope you like them because that's what counts.

Oh very, I was just relieved to beat the odds by pulling out 4 autos + 5 sketches although I'm not impressed by the Tom Hodges piece the rest more than make up for it.

I actually enjoyed the experience so much I'd like to get my hands on another case but the price now is a bit too rich for me given the odds of getting a miss case.