While I still don’t understand this Panini America set, I couldn’t help myself when I saw someone selling 42 card Blaster Boxes for only $30, while the 48 card Hobby box is $180. Turns out there’s a reason they are so much more expensive.

How is it that across three boxes, almost 50% of them were duplicates? That doesn’t seem possible, but yet here it is. Especially with the crazy 4500+ combinations of cards in this set.

I’m revisiting one of my very first unboxings, before I knew about the different box sizes, this time as a full Hobby Box. I strike out on the relic, but the Autograph came back around after 11 years. What am I supposed to do with not just one, but two whole mat relics of Bobby Lashley from Payback 2020?

After countless Blaster and Hanger packs, I finally broke down and got a whole ass Hobby Box of these Panini America WWE Prizm cards, and it’s well worth it. Ok, maybe not personally, as I got a signature for a third time, but he’s been champ for over 1000 days, he gets a pass. Maybe it’s just me, but when the main draw of these is to get autographs, can we please make sure the Superstar’s autographs look at least somewhat like their name, not a bunch of random scribbles. I’m looking at you Swiss Superman!

Some eBay store’s fuckup is my gain, as I got this Hobby Box for far under market value, so I’m not gonna complain. Still haven’t finished the set though, so that’s a bummer. Ok, so maybe I’ll complain a little bit. Because somehow a full Hobby Box and 2 Blaster Boxes is only enough for about 80% of a full set. But I did get a Monster of a parallel autograph, for what that’s worth, which is about three fiddy.

Being a nerd of a certain age, from the general Philadelphia region, I of course love The Goldbergs. Since I barely have cable, I watch it twice a day in over the air syndication. But watching it so often really highlights its fall from grace. While Adam F. was still involved, everything was based on his real life. But after he left after the sixth season, the Flanderization of everyone started in kind. Barry is a bully and treats the entire JTP like utter garbage and thinks entirely of himself and no one else while also dating Geoff’s sister for some reason. Erica mainly exists to treat Geoff like shit while he follows her around like a puppy doing everything she says and her only character growth is that she has bangs now for some reason. Adam is there for The Big Bang Theory style nerd references of “look at this old toy/movie!”. Beverly can’t stop herself from being a monster. Murray eventually becomes an actual monster. It’s a mess. Thankfully, the show has finally limped its way to an underwhelming finish line in one of the most lackluster finale episodes ever. But over the course of the show, there are a bunch of more major character changes than just a haircut they expected us all to just glance over: that several people got replaced with different actors, just like Darren in Bewitched.

Is this a good rip or not? I honestly have no god damn idea since there are so many variables in this set it’s mind boggling. It’s like one big bucket that contains 35 (or 217 with all the parallels) different subsets worth of cards. Just release each set seperately. There are literally 4678 different cards in this set. Ain’t nobody got time for that, especially at this price point.

Sometimes it’s the small boxes that are the most fun. This is short and sweet since it’s just a hanger box of WWE Raw cards, but for some reason it has no action shots. It’s almost exclusively people’s profile renders. No relics here, but the makeup of the set itself is just baffling and bizarre.

I keep opening boxes of WWE Road to WrestleMania, because I can’t stop until I catch them all. Wait, no, that doesn’t seem right. . .

This is just a hanger box, so not alot to talk about here. But it does check the box for this particular year since it’s all I can find.