05-26-2022, 09:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-26-2022, 09:42 AM by ZSDOne.)
3X Bowman U Blasters
3X Bowman U Blasters
The Good:
Nice to open Topps football products again!
Blasters have a decent amount of default content
Kenny Pickett pink was the best card
The Bad:
The blasters I opened have nothing but the default content - 4 pink parallels (1 in 2 packs), 1 base refractor (1:7), and 1 Golden Boy.
The price point is too high for a product where you are getting nothing but unnumbered (and not particularly rare with most at 1:2 retail packs) parallels and inserts in at least half the blasters - the odds of a numbered card amount to about 1 in 7 blasters and an autograph in about 1 in 9 - those are terrible odds for a product that doesn't have a great checklist or imaginative design - and will have limited long term appeal
I have no idea who any of the other pink refractors or any of the base refractors are - although maybe having to look guys up makes opening boxes more fun
Card design is boring
Lots of repeat cards and parallels and inserts were of the same players
I don't see this having any staying power once the college uniform and NFL draft products come out
Overall Verdict:
I do not recommend buying these - and my impression from the checklist that this will often lead to rough box breaks (and the lack of players that I wanted to get) is definitely true - even more so at retail when you can open multiple boxes without getting a numbered card or an autograph. As happy as I am that Topps is making football cards again, I consider this to be, overall, a weak effort. It's almost as bad as Panini.
Now if Topps Creates Topps U Magic Football, I'd buy it. Topps U Archives Football would also be cool.
Nice to open Topps football products again!
Blasters have a decent amount of default content
Kenny Pickett pink was the best card
The Bad:
The blasters I opened have nothing but the default content - 4 pink parallels (1 in 2 packs), 1 base refractor (1:7), and 1 Golden Boy.
The price point is too high for a product where you are getting nothing but unnumbered (and not particularly rare with most at 1:2 retail packs) parallels and inserts in at least half the blasters - the odds of a numbered card amount to about 1 in 7 blasters and an autograph in about 1 in 9 - those are terrible odds for a product that doesn't have a great checklist or imaginative design - and will have limited long term appeal
I have no idea who any of the other pink refractors or any of the base refractors are - although maybe having to look guys up makes opening boxes more fun
Card design is boring
Lots of repeat cards and parallels and inserts were of the same players
I don't see this having any staying power once the college uniform and NFL draft products come out
Overall Verdict:
I do not recommend buying these - and my impression from the checklist that this will often lead to rough box breaks (and the lack of players that I wanted to get) is definitely true - even more so at retail when you can open multiple boxes without getting a numbered card or an autograph. As happy as I am that Topps is making football cards again, I consider this to be, overall, a weak effort. It's almost as bad as Panini.
Now if Topps Creates Topps U Magic Football, I'd buy it. Topps U Archives Football would also be cool.