This one is a little different than my usual breaks, since we’ve done a box of these before. This time we do another Blaster box, and a fully on Hobby Box, but focus just on the inserts. Because of this I almost blow past probably the best autograph I’ve gotten so far, besides that 1/1 printing plate.

Here is a very short video of me opening a tiny golden briefcase full of cards. And like all Money In The Bank winners, I promptly damaged the briefcase almost immediately.

Since Topps lost the license to Panini this year, this completes my run of a box from every year they made one. This was another autograph heavy box. Only managed to get one duplicate (though parallel), but did get both members of a tag team, a compliment to that printing plate I got in the 2019 set, and then of course someone who only had 3 televised matches. You can’t win them all. At least no one got cancelled this time. Yet.

I think if you don’t have more than three matches ever with the company, I should be able to trade your insert in for another one. And when these came out this person had only been in one Dusty Classic match and the ARMBAR at Wrestlemania 33, so why they even got a card in the first place is beyond me. . .

Time for more WWE NXT Topps unboxings. Don’t worry, there’s only two left.

This one pretty much encapsulates the highs and lows of NXT. The NXT Champion, and someone who was only sparely used in squash matches and battle royales.

As for inserts, this was one of the better runs, even if one was only in 6 matches that year before injury, but she was great as Daniel Bryan’s therapist that one time.

Last week was stylized as the 1989 Topps baseball card series. For some reason it took three years to move on to a set based on the 1990 series. I’m sure people were clamoring for more baseball card stylized wrestling cards. Somehow I don’t think they had a subset based on 1880 tobacco cards in mind, but here we are.

This is mainly an excuse to go down memory lane and remember just how awesome the graphic design was for the Topps 1989 baseball cards. The cognitive dissonance of seeing current wrestlers in the old school baseball design is just fun.

And in keeping with the old school vibe, the box even came with a slammer in it, even though POGs really didn’t become a thing until 1993.

I managed to find another box of Star Trek CCG cards on eBay that wasn’t a kerbillion dollars (but still way more than it should be, but not so expensive I wouldn’t buy it just to glue it to my wall), so here we are. This was the absolute last official expansion set Decipher put out for Second Edition, and it’s kinda all over the place, pulling from every corner of Star Trek.

Oh, and I finally remembered. It was “Pure Imagination” was the song Chase Masterson always sings at every convention appearance I ever saw her at.

Even though this box is only two years old, neither insert card I got still works there. One of them is more. . . problematic than the other one. He certainly didn’t seem that problematic those three times I saw him and Lio Rush at Dojo Wars or when he was on Tough Enough, but time is a cruel mistress.