(03-07-2012, 05:41 PM)filamuraireborn Wrote: I believe when someone says blasters they mean Topps blasters or Panini blasters. Same with racks. Topps rack packs and Panini rack packs. Excel is not a card manufacturer and their boxes are called by collectors as mixed boxes, random boxes and/or assorted boxes. Value boxes? We have Topps value boxes and may be some Excel value boxes (not sure though).
No, obviously I'm not explaining this very well.
I know the Excel you're talking about, but this doesn't have anything to do with that.
It's just a method of distribution, not an actual card company.
It's just a large brown box (like one you would use when moving), and they put all kinds of different blasters/racks/retail boxes for single packs in there of all the various companies ... Topps, Panini, Upper Deck, etc.
They're just what the cards are delivered in. They come in every couple of weeks and have a long, yellow strip of packing tape that says Excel on it to keep them sealed until the Target employees open them and place the various packs and boxes on the shelves.
Sometimes when I notice the big brown boxes are sitting next to the card section I know that there's new product in there, and as a courtesy they will usually let me grab a couple of blasters, racks, etc. straight out of the brown box.
That's how I got my 2007 Topps Jeter-Mantle-Bush error out of a blaster, because it was one of the first ones on the market before they corrected the error.
Plus, pack searches haven't had a chance to finger and gouge all the rack packs yet looking for hits.
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