This box was cuckoo bananas. One box that guaranteed at least 10 autographs. I managed to do “better” than that with 11, including my first autographed apparel card. However I also got two sets of duplicates, the only difference being the background color. Whoever at Topps had the bright idea of these different colored parallels needs to be shot.

If you only watch one of my unboxing videos, I highly recommend it being this one. I finally get a truly rare insert, and I do not handle it well. At all.

Now I don’t know if you follow me over on the Facebook, but a while ago I did a bit of a thing. I made a post about getting some transphobe so upset on a comment in a Star Trek group about Jesse James Kietel that he flew off the handle and deleted his entire post then got banned from the group. Keitel was the guest Trans actress on an episode of Strange New Worlds a few weeks ago, and someone in the group uploaded a photo of her and asked if they should post more content about her, and someone else just responded with “Ummm. . . No thank you”. I responded simply with “This is Star Trek. Do Better.” and he took it as a personal attack. He went all Proud Boys about how I didn’t have all the facts about him or his opinions, and he was allowed to be contrarian because that’s what Star Trek is all about, and everyone is allowed to have whatever opinion they want, and that his daughter’s friend was trans so how can he hate them. You know, standard boomer incel shit and missing the point of my comment, and Star Trek in general, entirely. He didn’t want to hear anything about him being a transphobe, he just kept retorting “I was nothing but polite. I only said four words!” but I was like “Yeah, but the implication behind those four words is ‘Ew, no. Trans people are gross and weird me out’. It’s really the ‘Um’ part that makes it so much worse”.

As we were discussing that, someone mentioned that it’s a shame people still think like that, to which I replied “All the dinosaurs will die out eventually”. That got responded to with the image above, of Littlefoot and his friends from The Land Before Time. It reminded me about how sad and fucked up that scene of his mom just dying and leaving him alone after fighting that T-Rex was, that I couldn’t believe it was targeted at kids. And that’s the very long winded story of how I got to thinking about things that make me cry.

So, we’re gonna revisit this again, as it’s been over nine years since the last time, and I’ve thought of some new ones (enough for two lists even!), and there are some glaring omissions from last time. There’s still the same ground rules of The Iron Giant and “Jurassic Bark” are always assumed unless you are some sort of inhuman robot. As you can see, I still cry like a bitch whenever a soundtrack swells, or pretty much when the protagonist does his thing, whatever, shut up! So here we go, in no particular order.

How is it possible to pull an autograph from a pack of wrestling cards of someone who isn’t event a wrestler? I don’t know, but to quote Michael Scott, “Somehow I Manage.”

I get snubbed again with a not so decent insert card, and the overall base set is just average, but the Best Moments of the Last 25 Years of Monday Night Raw are pretty spot on and fun to relive, so come for those.

This time I get the weirdest insert yet. Most of them have all been used mat relics. This time it’s a trophy that’s as thick as at least like 12 cards stacked on top of each other. Is it as cool as a Alexa Bliss Kiss card? Of course not, but I’ll still chalk it up as a win.

While I’ve had some bad luck with the inserts card before, nothing beats my bad luck here, as I finally got not an insert card, but a redemption card that is impossible to use, as the term expired over two years ago. I did indeed try to redeem it online, and got nothing but errors. But had it been an actual card in hand it would have been pretty sweet. While strict math says this should have given me a full base set, I came up six cards short.

This is a little different than the other WWE boxes I’ve done, as those were mostly Blaster or Hobby boxes that have guaranteed inserts. This was a retail box with more cards per box, but no promised inserts. I still got a pretty decent one that I was not ready for all things considered, and for those who were wondering, indeed this did give me the full 100 card base set.