My LRCards case is sitting at home right now. Mine must've shipped yesterday as well - I am in central ny.
I still believe in SVU18. I haven't spoken with him yet but I am remaining positive that he will make good - either by delivery or refund.
Chrome v2. ughhh. Then again, my kids love the chrome cards so I guess I might get sucked into a case of topps chrome.
Looking over at that other board, looks like the johan w/Mets is a tough pull - 2 pulls in a 5 case break.
I think some of the ideas were misses (buybacks, auto checklist), and the photo quality is suspect at best, but I still applaud topps for mixing things up a bit - trying to breath new excitement into Heritage. With the unannounced rare variations (perez, johann, etc), advertising panels, black backs, great chrome checklist, authentic '59 set mirroring, they had enough positives. After cracking A&G, the 2006 and 2007 heritage pale in value. They didn't even have hobby box toppers in 2005 or 2006. The best box topper idea yet was the 2004 double headers. We need more of those - truly collectible box toppers that mirror the topps experimental issues from back in the day.
Let me also add that even though I'm not a relic collector, I think both the flashback and the CC relics are the best design yet on a heritage relic (except maybe the seminal 2001 relics).
One thing they were missing is they needed to have produced some "hot" cases - maybe they have, its too early to know for sure.
<< <i> just called LRCards and got my tracking number. It shipped yesterday, and my location is a one day ship, so my case is on the UPS truck as we speak. The only downside to that is that I am the last house on the UPS route and I get my deliveries around 6PM, but I aint complaining. >>
Dayum, my order still says "processing". I ordered last Thursday & paid immediately. Best of luck Nick !
Edited to say: Just talked to LR and mine shipped yesterday as well, will get a tracking # within the hour. Probably a 2 day ship to here.
Buy Back = Very OC Bob Skinner Ad Panel = Street, Grudzielanek, Thome Ink=0 Relics= Jorge Posada Bat, Ryan Howard Bat Chrome= Jeff Kent, Jacoby Ellsbury, Manny Ramirez Refractor= Carlos Delgado T&N= 2 FB = 4 NAP = 1 Potential SPs = 10
Box 2 Ad Panel = Halladay, Wilkerson, Pierre Ink=0 Relics= JErnie Banks Seat Chrome= Ichiro, Barry Zito, Hanley Ramirez Refractor= Trevor Hoffman Black Refractor= Brandon Webb T&N= 1 FB = 4 NAP = 2 Potential SPs = 11
Box 3 Buy Back = OC Milt Graff Ad Panel = Young, Haren, Loney Ink=0 Relics= Johnny Damon Bat Chrome= Jose Reyes, Kelvim Escobar, Alex Rodriguez Refractor= Homer Bailey T&N= 1 FB = 4 NAP = 2 Potential SPs = 12
No big name buybacks have appeared yet on ebay that I've seen. I may keep mine unopened when/if I recieve product! Hopefully they will be sent out tomorrow.
Trying to complete: 2000 Bowman Chrome 2002 Topps Heritage NAP 2003 Topps Heritage chrome and seat relics 2006 Topps Heritage refractors and relics 2007 Topps Heritage refractors and relics 2008 Topps Heritage refractors and relics 2006 Topps Heritage and Topps Chrome football
Spoke with LR today. My cases went out today on a two day ship. Its likely I'll get them Monday. Torture. So I picked up two boxes locally for 70 each. No great pulls. Hope the cases are better.
Box 1 buyback: bill henry ink: 0 what's new relic : Irod bat chrome: rios, v. guerrero, kinsler refractor: 0
11 Luke Scott 231 Kevin Gregg 315 Jacque Jones 381 Casey Blake 409 Jon Lester 426 Kyle Lohse 427 Doug Davis 428 Ian Snell/Matt Capps/Tom Gorzelanny/Paul Maholm 429 Miguel Batista 430 Chien-Ming Wang 431 Jeff Salazar 432 Yadier Molina 433 Adam Wainwright 434 Scott Kazmir 435 Adam Dunn 436 Ryan Freel 437 Jhonny Peralta 438 Kazuo Matsui 441 Emil Brown 442 Gary Sheffield 443 Jake Peavy 444 Scott Rolen 445 Kason Gabbard 446 Aaron Hill 447 Felipe Lopez 448 Dan Uggla 449 Willy Taveras 450 Chipper Jones 451 Josh Anderson 452 Chris Young/Justin Upton/Eric Byrnes 453 Braden Looper 454 Brandon Inge 455 Brian Giles 456 Corey Patterson 457 Los Angeles Dodgers 458 Sean Casey 459 Pedro Feliz 461 Chone Figgins 462 Kyle Kendrick 463 Tony Pena 464 Marcus Giles 465 Augie Ojeda 466 Micah Owings 467 Ryan Theriot 468 Shawn Green 469 Frank Thomas 470 Lenny DiNardo 471 Jose Bautista 472 Manny Corpas 473 Kevin Millwood 474 Kevin Youkilis 475 Jose Contreras 477 Julio Lugo 479 Tony LaRussa All Star 480 Jim Leyland All Star 481 Derrek Lee All Star 482 Justin Morneau All Star 483 Orlando Hudson All Star 484 Brian Roberts All Star 485 Miguel Cabrera All Star 486 Mike Lowell All Star 487 J.J. Hardy All Star 488 Carlos Guillen All Star 489 Ken Griffey Jr. All Star 490 Vladimir Guerrero All Star 491 Alfonso Soriano All Star 492 Ichiro All Star 493 Matt Holliday All Star 494 Magglio Ordonez All Star 495 Brian McCann All Star 496 Victor Martinez All Star 497 Brad Penny All Star 498 Josh Beckett All Star 499 Cole Hamels All Star 500 Justin Verlander All Star
I ran to my local HS and grabbed 2 boxes. I've not finished opening them, but I've got a 1959 original (#414 Dale Long), a Mantle and a Frank Robinson stadium seat, and quite a few chromes (Ichiro, Tim Hudson, and Ellsbury among others) That's not too bad for only opening about 25 packs or so.
Okay so my self control isn't very good, the wife went and picked up the last box for me on her lunch. F1 Nice pulls Can whoever has the excel checklist pm me?
ALL the All-Stars are SPs? That freaking sucks. I really wanted to collect just the All-Star and Baseball Thrills sets, but I don't want to pay $50-$100 for the All-Stars.
Had to do another lunchtime run. Picked up one box. Is everybody getting an advertising panel as well as a buyback in the same box? I've open 3 boxes so far and 2 of them have had both.
I got CubsFan's card
A nice Refractor
And I don't mean to be an a-hole, but this is the 2nd in 3 boxes. Good to see the American Idol judge used to play ball in addition to being a former member of Journey
2001: 97 sp's, 220 base, 80 lo# red or black 2002: 100 sp's 350 base 2003: 100 sp's 350 base 2004: 100 sp's 375 base 2005: 110 sp's 385 base 2006: 110 sp's 384 base (alex gordon cutout would have been base) 2007: 110 sp's 385 base 2008: 75 sp's 425 base
see the spreadsheet on my website in the sig below for details.
Anyone heard or seen a confirmation on how many different advertising panels there are?
says collect all 500 on the back of them. not sure if that means 500 though. i got 2 with manny ramirez thrills. but they were in different spots. 1 to the far left and one in the middle.
im having zero luck this year 5 boxes so far 5 regular relic cards. no black refractors seats or ink!
<< <i>Here are six of mine (the other six are at work where I was busting on Tuesday)
Note, in the spirit of '59 Topps, I will no longer capitalize any player name in this thread. I'll probably forget that I typed that.
jason dendall/cubs team/tadahito iguchi mariano rivera/brandon webb/matt cain carlos guillen/david weathers/eric chavez craig monroe,aramis ramirez/lastings milledge dmitri young&ryan zimmeran/barry zito/dmitri young brett myers/lofton baseball thrills/jack cust >>
so it looks like there is an order, but not on the panels themselves. If we had enough info we could determine how many possible panels there would be...anyone get a star on one?
and that ugly POC is already up to $207. I really think Topps should hire Garret to do their 1/1 cuts. I think it would add even more appeal to collectors. For several years their 1/1 cuts have been a complete joke. Garret could really spruce those up.
brian bannister/manny ramirez/randy johnson akinori iwamura/yuniesky betancourt/tim lincecum ross ohlendorf/matt capps/chris young dustin pedroia/lance berkman/jeff francoeur zack greinke/josh willingham/armando gallarraga dan haren/jamey loney/rafael furcal (may need to burn this one!)
Here is one of my buybacks. At first, I thought the pack was empty. In case you're wondering it's Gene Baker. I wonder what the protocol is for replacing these.
Here is the Gibson Flashback Relic. Absolutely love this card. It looks like a later picture of him. I agree with whoever said earlier that the FB-Relic Set might the best so far.
<< <i>and that ugly POC is already up to $207. I really think Topps should hire Garret to do their 1/1 cuts. I think it would add even more appeal to collectors. For several years their 1/1 cuts have been a complete joke. Garret could really spruce those up. >>
I think the dog in your icon could spruce those up...
And here's the 3 Refractors I pulled from my first 4 boxes. I think Beckett posed in front of the wall boring wall that Jacoby did. How bout stoic Brian McCann ? Can hear him now, "Bring it on, Mets."
Comments
I still believe in SVU18. I haven't spoken with him yet but I am remaining positive that he will make good - either by delivery or refund.
Chrome v2. ughhh. Then again, my kids love the chrome cards so I guess I might get sucked into a case of topps chrome.
Looking over at that other board, looks like the johan w/Mets is a tough pull - 2 pulls in a 5 case break.
I think some of the ideas were misses (buybacks, auto checklist), and the photo quality is suspect at best, but I still applaud topps for mixing things up a bit - trying to breath new excitement into Heritage. With the unannounced rare variations (perez, johann, etc), advertising panels, black backs, great chrome checklist, authentic '59 set mirroring, they had enough positives. After cracking A&G, the 2006 and 2007 heritage pale in value. They didn't even have hobby box toppers in 2005 or 2006. The best box topper idea yet was the 2004 double headers. We need more of those - truly collectible box toppers that mirror the topps experimental issues from back in the day.
Let me also add that even though I'm not a relic collector, I think both the flashback and the CC relics are the best design yet on a heritage relic (except maybe the seminal 2001 relics).
One thing they were missing is they needed to have produced some "hot" cases - maybe they have, its too early to know for sure.
Its a good time to be a heritage collector!
Topps Heritage - Trade Page
<< <i> just called LRCards and got my tracking number. It shipped yesterday, and my location is a one day ship, so my case is on the UPS truck as we speak. The only downside to that is that I am the last house on the UPS route and I get my deliveries around 6PM, but I aint complaining. >>
Dayum, my order still says "processing". I ordered last Thursday & paid immediately. Best of luck Nick !
Edited to say: Just talked to LR and mine shipped yesterday as well, will get a tracking # within the hour.
Probably a 2 day ship to here.
Now collecting:
Topps Heritage
1957 Topps BB Ex+-NM
All Yaz Items 7+
Various Red Sox
Did I leave anything out?
Buy Back = Very OC Bob Skinner
Ad Panel = Street, Grudzielanek, Thome
Ink=0
Relics= Jorge Posada Bat, Ryan Howard Bat
Chrome= Jeff Kent, Jacoby Ellsbury, Manny Ramirez
Refractor= Carlos Delgado
T&N= 2
FB = 4
NAP = 1
Potential SPs = 10
Box 2
Ad Panel = Halladay, Wilkerson, Pierre
Ink=0
Relics= JErnie Banks Seat
Chrome= Ichiro, Barry Zito, Hanley Ramirez
Refractor= Trevor Hoffman
Black Refractor= Brandon Webb
T&N= 1
FB = 4
NAP = 2
Potential SPs = 11
Box 3
Buy Back = OC Milt Graff
Ad Panel = Young, Haren, Loney
Ink=0
Relics= Johnny Damon Bat
Chrome= Jose Reyes, Kelvim Escobar, Alex Rodriguez
Refractor= Homer Bailey
T&N= 1
FB = 4
NAP = 2
Potential SPs = 12
My Registry Sets
<< <i>4 hours and counting till I pick up my first 2 boxes from the case I have set aside for me
From Tom?!?!?!
Can I watch you break them?!?!
I need a fix badly!
2000 Bowman Chrome
2002 Topps Heritage NAP
2003 Topps Heritage chrome and seat relics
2006 Topps Heritage refractors and relics
2007 Topps Heritage refractors and relics
2008 Topps Heritage refractors and relics
2006 Topps Heritage and Topps Chrome football
My Sandberg topps basic set
My Sandberg Topps Master set
Will have some serious ripping this evening!
<< <i>Will have some serious ripping this evening! >>
This evening? That's grounds for a 1/2 day of work right there.
<< <i>
<< <i>Will have some serious ripping this evening! >>
This evening? That's grounds for a 1/2 day of work right there. >>
Box 1
buyback: bill henry
ink: 0 what's new
relic : Irod bat
chrome: rios, v. guerrero, kinsler
refractor: 0
Box 2
buyback: 0
ink: 0
chrome: jeter, beckett, jimenez
refractor: hudson
<< <i>My case is coming UPS tommorow. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >>
Mine too
Now collecting:
Topps Heritage
1957 Topps BB Ex+-NM
All Yaz Items 7+
Various Red Sox
Did I leave anything out?
11 Luke Scott
231 Kevin Gregg
315 Jacque Jones
381 Casey Blake
409 Jon Lester
426 Kyle Lohse
427 Doug Davis
428 Ian Snell/Matt Capps/Tom Gorzelanny/Paul Maholm
429 Miguel Batista
430 Chien-Ming Wang
431 Jeff Salazar
432 Yadier Molina
433 Adam Wainwright
434 Scott Kazmir
435 Adam Dunn
436 Ryan Freel
437 Jhonny Peralta
438 Kazuo Matsui
441 Emil Brown
442 Gary Sheffield
443 Jake Peavy
444 Scott Rolen
445 Kason Gabbard
446 Aaron Hill
447 Felipe Lopez
448 Dan Uggla
449 Willy Taveras
450 Chipper Jones
451 Josh Anderson
452 Chris Young/Justin Upton/Eric Byrnes
453 Braden Looper
454 Brandon Inge
455 Brian Giles
456 Corey Patterson
457 Los Angeles Dodgers
458 Sean Casey
459 Pedro Feliz
461 Chone Figgins
462 Kyle Kendrick
463 Tony Pena
464 Marcus Giles
465 Augie Ojeda
466 Micah Owings
467 Ryan Theriot
468 Shawn Green
469 Frank Thomas
470 Lenny DiNardo
471 Jose Bautista
472 Manny Corpas
473 Kevin Millwood
474 Kevin Youkilis
475 Jose Contreras
477 Julio Lugo
479 Tony LaRussa All Star
480 Jim Leyland All Star
481 Derrek Lee All Star
482 Justin Morneau All Star
483 Orlando Hudson All Star
484 Brian Roberts All Star
485 Miguel Cabrera All Star
486 Mike Lowell All Star
487 J.J. Hardy All Star
488 Carlos Guillen All Star
489 Ken Griffey Jr. All Star
490 Vladimir Guerrero All Star
491 Alfonso Soriano All Star
492 Ichiro All Star
493 Matt Holliday All Star
494 Magglio Ordonez All Star
495 Brian McCann All Star
496 Victor Martinez All Star
497 Brad Penny All Star
498 Josh Beckett All Star
499 Cole Hamels All Star
500 Justin Verlander All Star
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
<< <i>I ran to my local HS and grabbed 2 boxes >>
Wow!!!
Your high school gives out boxes?
F1 Nice pulls
Can whoever has the excel checklist pm me?
My Registry Sets
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
<< <i>OK guys, here's the official SP list.
479 Tony LaRussa All Star
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500 Justin Verlander All Star >>
ALL the All-Stars are SPs? That freaking sucks. I really wanted to collect just the All-Star and Baseball Thrills sets, but I don't want to pay $50-$100 for the All-Stars.
Kevin
I got CubsFan's card
A nice Refractor
And I don't mean to be an a-hole, but this is the 2nd in 3 boxes. Good to see the American Idol judge used to play ball in addition to being a former member of Journey
2001: 97 sp's, 220 base, 80 lo# red or black
2002: 100 sp's 350 base
2003: 100 sp's 350 base
2004: 100 sp's 375 base
2005: 110 sp's 385 base
2006: 110 sp's 384 base (alex gordon cutout would have been base)
2007: 110 sp's 385 base
2008: 75 sp's 425 base
see the spreadsheet on my website in the sig below for details.
Topps Heritage - Trade Page
My Registry Sets
Jim..thanks for the SP list, but does that include the red/black SP's in 2001 and the light back variations in 05?
I can't wait for more box breaks. I think Stone is going to hit a big one!
Kevin
edit: BTW, Kurt - nice pull!
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
6 minutes until Miller time then up to the card shop for 2 boxes. Drool. Will post if I get anything cool.
My Sandberg topps basic set
My Sandberg Topps Master set
<< <i>sp breakdown:
2006: 110 sp's 384 base (alex gordon cutout would have been base)
see the spreadsheet on my website in the sig below for details. >>
Wasn't the Gordan in regular issue topps?
says collect all 500 on the back of them. not sure if that means 500 though. i got 2 with manny ramirez thrills. but they were in different spots. 1 to the far left and one in the middle.
im having zero luck this year 5 boxes so far 5 regular relic cards. no black refractors seats or ink!
<< <i>
<< <i>sp breakdown:
2006: 110 sp's 384 base (alex gordon cutout would have been base)
see the spreadsheet on my website in the sig below for details. >>
Wasn't the Gordan in regular issue topps? >>
yes, and also a cutout.
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
Milledge-Young/Zimm-Zito
TowlesRC-BJ Ryan-Oswalt
W Rodriguez-Wily Mo- Brandon JonesRC
Dm Young-Gallardo-C Duncan
Cordero-Johjima-Soriano
S Drew-Nathan-Arroyo
Maybe we could compare notes on these. My buy back boxes also had panels to them, I thought it was one or the other...cool
with me.
Note, in the spirit of '59 Topps, I will no longer capitalize any player name in this thread. I'll probably forget that I typed that.
jason dendall/cubs team/tadahito iguchi
mariano rivera/brandon webb/matt cain
carlos guillen/david weathers/eric chavez
craig monroe,aramis ramirez/lastings milledge
dmitri young&ryan zimmeran/barry zito/dmitri young
brett myers/lofton baseball thrills/jack cust
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
huston street/mark grudzielanek/jim thome
roy halladay/brad wilkerson/juan pierre
chris young/dan haren/james loney
My Registry Sets
<< <i>Here are six of mine (the other six are at work where I was busting on Tuesday)
Note, in the spirit of '59 Topps, I will no longer capitalize any player name in this thread. I'll probably forget that I typed that.
jason dendall/cubs team/tadahito iguchi
mariano rivera/brandon webb/matt cain
carlos guillen/david weathers/eric chavez
craig monroe,aramis ramirez/lastings milledge
dmitri young&ryan zimmeran/barry zito/dmitri young
brett myers/lofton baseball thrills/jack cust >>
so it looks like there is an order, but not on the panels themselves. If we had enough info we could determine how many possible
panels there would be...anyone get a star on one?
Kevin
think they could of put a little more into the card?
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
brian bannister/manny ramirez/randy johnson
akinori iwamura/yuniesky betancourt/tim lincecum
ross ohlendorf/matt capps/chris young
dustin pedroia/lance berkman/jeff francoeur
zack greinke/josh willingham/armando gallarraga
dan haren/jamey loney/rafael furcal (may need to burn this one!)
<< <i>I grabbed some off the net and they are:
dan haren/jamey loney/rafael furcal (may need to burn this one!) >>
Dirty pool, Giants fan. Completely unprovoked.
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
one of mine:
chris young/dan haren/james loney
one of Kurts:
dan haren/jamey loney/rafael furcal
My Registry Sets
<< <i>and that ugly POC is already up to $207. I really think Topps should hire Garret to do their 1/1 cuts. I think it would add even more appeal to collectors. For several years their 1/1 cuts have been a complete joke. Garret could really spruce those up. >>
I think the dog in your icon could spruce those up...