The Boys from Upper Deck

January 18, 2025, 03:17 AM

Scifi Cards

Upper Deck is bringing us a set for Season 1 and 2 of the Amazon show The Boys.

I'm sure this will be the PG-13 version but it's a title I have been asked for numerous times.

Here's the info we have now:

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Upper Deck is excited to bring the world of The Boys to entertainment trading cards! This set follows The Boys and The Seven through Seasons 1 & 2 of the Amazon Prime show. Packed into this set are amazing talent autographed cards, Supes Suits memorabilia cards, and The Seven parallel cards – numbered to 7!

Configuration: 12 boxes/15 pack/7 cards

Pack Hits:
(2) Base Set Season 1 Cards
(2) Base Set Season 2 Cards
(1) Base Set Characters Card
(1) Base Set (Season 1, Season 2) or Base Set Character Red Parallel Cards
(1) Additional Insert or Chase Card

Box Hits:
(2) Compound V Parallels (Base Set: Season 1, Season 2, and/or Characters)
(1) SP Insert (A View From Home, A View From Home SP, Team Ups, or Most Wanted)
(1) 3D Lenticular Card – Supers or Supers SPs

Case Hits:
(6) Autographed Cards – (1) in Every Other Box!
Base Set Character – Auto Parallel, Compound V Auto Parallel, Vought Social Media Gold Auto Parallel, Action Figures Auto Parallel, Action Figures Variation Auto Parallel, Autographs – Level 1, Level 2, Autographs – Level 1, Level 2 Inscriptions, Duals, Duals Quotes, Triples, Triples Quotes/Inscriptions , Quads, The Boys Retro Auto Parallel; Autographs Red Parallel – Level 1, Level 2, Duals, Triples, Quads; The Boys Retro Gold Auto Parallel; Autographs Gold Parallel – Level 1, Level 2, Duals, Triples, Quads, or Printing Plates
(2) Memorabilia Cards or Printing Plates
Supes Suits – SPs, Gold, Dual Dupes Suits, Dual Supes Suits Gold, Triple Supes Suits, Triple Supes Suits Gold, Quad Supes Suits, Quad Supes Suits Gold, or Printing Plates
(2) Metal Prints Cards
(6) Retro or #’d Parallel Cards
Base Set (Season 1, Season 2, Characters) – Floor 82, Black, The Seven Parallels; In Memory Of…Gold, Vought Social Media Gold, Quotes Gold, Behind The Boys Gold Parallels; or The Boys Retro

Lots of parallels, like most modern sets. You really have to decide if you can live with not having EVERYTHING. Mini-masters should be doable.

Projected release date is Late April or May, subject to change since UD always seems to run behind.
Orders are due mid February, so maybe we'll see a little more info before decisions have to be made.

Ed

January 18, 2025, 05:41 PM

mykdude

Been wondering if someone would jump on that title.

UD's sparse auto insertion rates have been a real turn off especially with what they charge. Really funny watching them clean out the vaults for MARVEL and now it's two autos per box. They were going to milk that stuff for years if they could.

I am sure I will pick up at least a couple boxes of The Boys.

January 19, 2025, 08:48 AM

Triple-Frog

It would be a no brainer if it was 2 autos per box . Unfortunately it's one auto in every two boxes if I read the original post correctly .

January 20, 2025, 01:01 PM

Ted Dastick Jr.

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Originally posted by Triple-Frog:
It would be a no brainer if it was 2 autos per box.

It would also be $300 per box.

January 20, 2025, 05:28 PM

Hedgehog Witch

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Originally posted by Ted Dastick Jr.:
quote:
Originally posted by Triple-Frog:
It would be a no brainer if it was 2 autos per box.

It would also be $300 per box.

Ouch!

Is that a regular UD box price these days, or just for this set? With an autograph only in every other box, that's too steep a gamble to take.

January 21, 2025, 04:26 AM

Scifi Cards

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Originally posted by Hedgehog Witch:
quote:
Originally posted by Ted Dastick Jr.:
quote:
Originally posted by Triple-Frog:
It would be a no brainer if it was 2 autos per box.

It would also be $300 per box.

Ouch!
Is that a regular UD box price these days, or just for this set? With an autograph only in every other box, that's too steep a gamble to take.

This one is going to be less than $150 a box, but it is an auto every/other box.

UD is at $300-$400 for the 2 marvel boxes that were 2 autos per. It's just the cost of premium talent these days it seems.

Ed

January 21, 2025, 09:40 AM

Tommy C

I remember back in the 1990s when the standard box of cards was $ 40 or $ 50.

When Fleer/SkyBox started doing the Marvel and Disney sets circa 1996 that were $ 80 a box, people couldn't believe it.

January 21, 2025, 02:52 PM

Hedgehog Witch

I remember those days of $50 boxes and pretty cheap shipping from the US to the UK too. I'd get boxes of all kinds of titles. I'd even get the odd case of stuff.

I don't doubt that printing costs have risen and licensing rights, and getting actor contracts for signings etc, but I also suspect that when one company charges a lot more for a box, then the others have just followed suit. RA boxes are pretty steep now... you do tend to get more hits, but they're a lot more expensive than a few years ago. I doubt we'll see prices go down any time soon, if ever.