Join Beckett Hockey‘s Dan Hitt and Chris Olds as they rip into a box of 2012-13 Fleer Retro in this latest edition of Box Busters.

What will they find inside? Watch and find out …

By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Hockey Editor

The latest Fleer Retro product is out.

Upper Deck gave the treatment to basketball and football. Now, it’s hockey’s turn.

Fleer Retro brings back 1990s inserts. Hockey players get a new look, but on old designs such as Noyz Boyz and Jambalaya inserts. Previous Metal Gem parallels are also included.

Here’s a look at some of the hot cards on eBay right now. Hit the comments to tell us what you think.

Precious Metal Gems
- Precious Metal Gems Ruby Mark Messier
- Precious Metal Gems Blue P.K. Subban
- Precious Metal Gems Blue Chris Kreider

Autographs
-1993-94 Ultra Taylor Hall autograph
- 1996-97 SkyBox Autographics Dany Heatley
- Precious Metal Gems Blue Ryan Nugent Hopkins

Inserts
- Noyz Boyz Ryan Nugent Hopkins
- Electrifying Mario Lemieux insert
- Jambalaya Teemu Selanne
- Noyz Boyz John Tavares
- Golden Touch Teemu Selanne
- E-X 2001 Sidney Crosby
- Ultra Stars Bobby Orr
- Flair Showcase Hot Shots Dion Phaneuf
- Metal Championships Hardware Ondrej Pavelec

Susan Lulgjuraj is an editor of Beckett Hockey. You can email her here with questions, comments or ideas. Follow her on Twitter here. Follow Beckett Media on Facebook and Twitter.

By Chris Olds | Beckett Basketball Editor

The auctions have ended, the numbers have been crunched. The ranges have been tabulated and the OPG has been posted.

The 2011-12 Fleer Retro basketball card set from Upper Deck has arrived on Beckett.com with the favorites, autographs and memories in tow. Let’s take a look inside the numbers crunched by Beckett Basketball Senior Market Analyst Rob Springs – and see even more — after the jump.

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Total value: $55,158

Average price: $73.54

Highest card: Precious Metal Gems Blue #1 Michael Jordan $6,000-$10,000 … even higher for a uniform-number match.

Other notable cards:
– Precious Metal Gems Red #1 Michael Jordan $1,800-$3,000
– Precious Metal Gems Blue #4 LeBron James $2,000-$3,000
– Jambalaya #1 Michael Jordan $1,000-$1,600

Springs Says: Fleer Retro was one of the most anticipated releases in basketball in a while and it doesn’t disappoint.  Yes, the box and pack prices are high — but so are the reported sales and book values on the product.  It’s funny, I can’t remember the last product where the autographs were just the “additional hits” while the insert package stole the show across the board.  Some other notable twists – Upper Deck did five background variations for each player in the 1961-62 insert set and it looks like there are some silver and gold autograph variants in the base autograph set.  We are still working on getting information from Upper Deck on that one and will add it to the database as soon as possible.

Olds’ Opinion: We all knew that the Precious Metal Gems would generate plenty of attention … but this? It’s a bit crazy. The prices being paid for relatively attainable inserts — non-auto/mem — are crazy but because it’s a product with a high-end price tag, that will help bolster those numbers. The nostalgia from the recent past — the 1980s and the 1990s — has been slowly tapped into by the major card companies of late but a product like this just might open the floodgates for more like it to come. How many other slam dunks can there be? We’ll only know when they try …

Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Basketball magazine. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.