2012 Topps Heritage

[jalex]

Red, White and Blue? That was definitely a gamble when i was in college at Indiana. You might wake up in an unfamiliar place... Do they still make that? Way off topic, but I was joking around with friends at work the other day about getting a case of red, white and blue in Bloomigton for about $6. We had to sneak it onto campus.

Blasters, racks... I remember rack packs at Toys R Us, you could see the fronts and backs, so you might get lucky and find a Mike Greenwell rookie on the back and buy it for $.99. I have glanced at the ball cards at the store now and again, but the price and the gambling factor is a turn-off. The whole baseball card thing went out the window in the late 80's. Can't imagine buying the new stuff...

What the heck is a blaster...?

Cheers,

Jim

Originally Posted by steve B

? A pack is $2-3, racks 5-6 and the "blaster box $20

Where are you getting a case for under twenty bucks? Maybe generic beer, or something like red,white and blue. But Those barely count as beer.

A decent meal can be had for under twenty for sure.

This year they stopped putting the "better" inserts in the blaster boxes, at least for the regular Topps set.

Steve B

[zljones]

[QUOTE=jalex;977886]Red, White and Blue? That was definitely a gamble when i was in college at Indiana. You might wake up in an unfamiliar place... Do they still make that? Way off topic, but I was joking around with friends at work the other day about getting a case of red, white and blue in Bloomigton for about $6. We had to sneak it onto campus.

Our beer at Illinois State University was Keystone Light, stuff went down like water back then, now if I take a sip I wanna hurl.

[Rich Klein]

Heritage is the *ONE* product I buy each year no matter what. Having collected the originals back in the day it is great to get the feel for the old designs with the modern cards.

This year though there were WAY WAY too many SP's issued. Topps is overdoing a good thing and needs to tamp down the SP's and SSP's to go back to basic levels.

At this point, the base set should be 600 cards with the final 100 cards being SP's instead of the 500 cards/last 75 pattern being used currently.

I have other comments which I may make later

Rich

[Sixtofan]

I always buy a few packs each year. It's only gambling if you are trying for a big score and chasing whatever manufactured "error card" Topps cooks up. I just like to open the packs and see the designs and players. Trying to relive childhood I guess

[Bilko G]

Originally Posted by jalex

What the heck is a blaster...?

Cheers,

Jim

a small box wrapped in cellophane with typically 5-12 packs inside. Lots of people like buying blasters at retail locations because they then know the packs weren't "searched".


Edit- heres a pic...

[Cooper1927]

I used to go for the Heritage products (Bowman mostly), Topps T206, etc. I somewhat liked the homage to vintage, but it was not the same as the real thing. I finally quit buying modern stuff and have concentrated on the real thing. While I miss the excitement of ripping packs, getting mail and ripping that is almost the same! Plus, I love the cards I get every time.

[Rich Klein]

1) If you are going to purchase cards at the Wally Worlds and Targets of the world you should ONLY buy the unopened blaster boxes or the value boxes. Anything more will probably have been searched by the time you got there.

2) This year's Heritage had special cards for Target and WalMart similar to what Topps does in their basic product for those two chains.

3) With the 2 Sp's that should be in every blaster box, Heritage is one of the few products that BV is just about a guarantee to at least break even from in retail. With the chance of other decent hits, (I pulled 2 autographs last year), that is why I purchase Heritage at retail as well as Hobby.

regards
Rich

[Jantz]

Be careful when buying blaster boxes. People have been known to buy them at Walmart & Target and when they get home and open them up, they find that the packs have been restuff with crap cards from past years. The crooks even go to the trouble of reshrink wrapping the box before they return it. This has never happen to me, but I've read about it on other message boards.


Jantz

[Rich Klein]

There is usually a note on the box that it was returned. Funny story, I missed that on a value box I bought in 2010 so I missed the good card being taken out -- BUT the contest cards were left in.

One of the contest cards became the 2010 Strasburg which was not only booking for over $100 at the time but was also the key to free shipping.

Rich

[betafolio2]

Originally Posted by Jantz

Be careful when buying blaster boxes. People have been known to buy them at Walmart & Target and when they get home and open them up, they find that the packs have been restuff with crap cards from past years. The crooks even go to the trouble of reshrink wrapping the box before they return it. This has never happen to me, but I've read about it on other message boards.

Jantz

People are easily fooled into thinking that a product is NEW, UNOPENED -- and all it takes is shrink-wrap! There's a movie that came out a couple years ago, "Hotel For Dogs," and it shows these two down-on-their-luck kids who would buy an iWhatever, take it home, open it up, put a brick or other weighty object inside the box, shrink-wrap it, and return it to the store for a full cash refund. Sure, it's a fictional film, but as they say, art imitates life!

What surprises me even more is the comment further up on this thread about some guy weighing unopened packs in Target. It makes sense, as the different insert cards, with varying thicknesses, would weigh different amounts. You'd think store security would step in and say something, but if the store cops can't even stop most shoplifters, I'm sure they'd ignore a guy who's actually paying for something.

[HOF Auto Rookies]

Well now they have "filler cards" in packs now to avoid this, have been doing it for a couple of years. They are super thick cards, that weigh the same as an insert card to help throw the people weighing cards off. They're usually like a "topps.com" advertisement, or just a white blank thick card, which is actually pretty nice to get player's autographs on lol.

[Bilko G]

Originally Posted by betafolio2

People are easily fooled into thinking that a product is NEW, UNOPENED -- and all it takes is shrink-wrap! There's a movie that came out a couple years ago, "Hotel For Dogs," and it shows these two down-on-their-luck kids who would buy an iWhatever, take it home, open it up, put a brick or other weighty object inside the box, shrink-wrap it, and return it to the store for a full cash refund. Sure, it's a fictional film, but as they say, art imitates life!

What surprises me even more is the comment further up on this thread about some guy weighing unopened packs in Target. It makes sense, as the different insert cards, with varying thicknesses, would weigh different amounts. You'd think store security would step in and say something, but if the store cops can't even stop most shoplifters, I'm sure they'd ignore a guy who's actually paying for something.

With that in mind, the card companies do put "Decoy cards" in some packs. Decoy cards are thick blank (or advertisement) cards to throw off people weighing the packs or feeling them up.

Also with the Shrink wrap, just make sure the company logo is on the shrink wrap and you will be fine.