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I purchased one box this week. Here is what I pulled out of that box: 1 base set 24 base set Rust parallels 8 Character cards 6 Locations cards 4 Chop cards 6 Walkers cards 1 Card Trader free pack card 1 autograph card: Josh McDermitt as Eugene Porter number 31/99 1 Amazing sketch card   The name on the back of the sketch card is Graham. The artist outdid himself on that one. I love that card!This message has been edited. Last edited by: Curler, | ||
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Nice Curler! You always pull great stuff! ____________________ "The problem, I'm told, is more than medical." | |||
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Excellent! | |||
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Great pull | |||
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Superb pull. Great art  | |||
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Actually saw retail blasters in Wal-Mart. Supposed to have a guaranteed relic card.  ____________________ | |||
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I found blasters at Target today yes one costume in each box. Found Spider-Man and Guardians at Walmart. ____________________ "The problem, I'm told, is more than medical." | |||
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NICE SKETCH, all my hits were related to the Anderson family. | |||
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These Walmart + Target exclusives suck when you live in UK. | |||
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I have bought a Blaster box of these from Target with a nice costume from Carol. I also bought a hobby box at my local shop - although I hadn't planned to get a full box. My last Walking Dead box, Season 5 was bad, no autographs, got 2 costumes cards, no complete base set, and duplicates of chase cards. So this time I was cautious, and bought 12 packs, half the box. Surely one of the hits would be in there and I was hoping most for an auto. No hits in the 12 packs. So later yesterday I went back to the shop, bought 5 more packs. Opened them in the car. No hits. Now I'm getting mad, I'm not greedy, but I just wanted one hit. So I go back in the shop. Buy 4 more packs. I open them in the store. No hits. 3 packs left, so I buy them, first pack has a nice Bill Pulovski sketch of Abraham. Second pack has nothing. So now I have one pack left, autograph? No another sketch, not as nice as the first one. So, I figure I at least have a base set. Nope, missing 3 cards altogether, and 2 more I only have the rust versions. So 2 boxes of Walking Dead, no autographs, no complete set. I did get lots of duplicates, even dupes of the rust cards. I wonder how many cards I would be missing if I hadn't bought the blaster box. The cards themselves are nice, like the portrait subset, the Chop set is silly, a pic of main cast members reflected on the face of a meat cleaver, and on the back it says "Chop". I think the nicest subsets are the ones in Target and Walmart packs.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Don Norton, | |||
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The problem with buying packs that way is you aren't 100% sure they came from the same box. I opened a case of season 5 and it was a mess. No autographs in the entire case. Topps admitted something was wrong in the pack out process. Season 6 the collation was perfect in regards to base. Made a set from each box and almost made a set from the extra cards. Had my one autograph in each box and either a sketch or costume card in each box. My only concern with the product is the parallels. Besides the rust which are one per pack I only pulled one mold and one sepia out of the entire case. Either they loaded the blasters with these parallels or Topps printed a LOT of season 6. The odds printed on the packs suggest they printed a lot. | |||
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ifish, these were definitely from the same box, the dealer only had 2 boxes, and one was still unopened. I did get one numbered parallel, 10 of 10. The base thing really bothers me, A base set of regular cards should be simple enough to make out of each box from America's oldest and largest card company. Glad you did better than I did with your case of Season 6. | |||
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So that's not supposed to be. One autograph is guaranteed and the second hit could be an auto, relic, plate or sketch. By getting two sketches you have beaten the odds on a rarer hit, but of course it's only good if you wanted sketches in the first place.  This is why I stay away from boxes that are using a random system for seeding different types of hits. I think its the same for many collectors. You know what you like. Getting a printing plate as an extra hit is wonderful, but getting it in place of the autograph card you want is another matter. There should be a guarantee of the one type or two types of hits in every box and anything more should be added as extra value, but not as a blind rotation of 3 or 4 types of hits that all count as your guaranteed number of hits. | |||
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The saga continues. My dealer sold the second box he had, and then picked up a third box. Okay, I think - I'll try for an auto, fill in my chase sets and finish the first base set. So I start buying packs. 3 one day, 4 a few days later, etc. It turns out, nobody else is buying these. I have been working this box for 2 weeks, and still no hit! So today I go in there and there's 7 packs left. I buy 4. I open them in the store, get another sketch, a pen and ink of Eugene. So the auto is in one of the 3 packs left. I buy them. Pull a Michael Cudlitz Abraham auto, 7/99. Okay, Im happy. I put the other 2 packs in my pocket, go home. I'm sorting out my cards when I remember the 2 unopened packs. One has Benedict Samuel as Wolf auto, 17/99. The box had 2 autos and a sketch in it! I just had to buy every pack to get them. | |||
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Nice one Don. Sometimes odds really are just that and there is always a chance to get something better. I am pleased someone has a good story to tell from Topps. ____________________ Looking for Non Sport Autographed cards and Memorabilia cards from TV/Movie shows. | |||
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Well done Don, perseverance does pay off  | |||
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Thanks guys. I have had luck with Topps boxes in the past Samauto. With 2 different Mars Attacks boxes I got 2 metal printing plates | |||
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Hi Don, I know it doesn't apply to all Topps products, but recently two Star Wars boxes I sold to two different customers, with a guaranteed autograph among two hits, were not in the boxes. Just 1 hit were in each box (and not an autograph in sight). I guess the odds even out in the end though... Cheers ____________________ Looking for Non Sport Autographed cards and Memorabilia cards from TV/Movie shows. | |||
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