Retail Rundown: 2011-12 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey
By Andrew Tolentino | Hockey Editor
With the 2010-11 NHL season now behind us and the final high-end hockey releases afoot, card companies are looking forward with forward-looking lines.
Upper Deck unveiled today a detailed report on what’s to come for retailers stocking its 2011-12 Series One Hockey line. Come November, collectors out running errands (or those doing so as an excuse to buy cards) can look find the manufacturer’s basic brand in 32-card fat packs, 8-card foil packs and 10 (plus two bonus)-pack blasters on retail shelves.
Beyond the 200-card base set, Upper Deck’s signature retail release has a few formulas worth studying this summer.
First, the fat packs:
- Young Guns Rookie Cards (1:4)
- UD Canvas (Regular cards – 1:2.5, Young Guns – 1:24, combined for 1:2 odds)
- All-World Team (1:5)
- All-World Team SP (1:40)
- 1950s Hockey Heroes (1:7)
- 1950s Hockey Heroes Header cards (1:300)
- 1950s Hockey Heroes Art cards (1:300)
- EA’s Ultimate Team (1:8)
Then, the foil:
- 24 packs per box
- Young Guns Rookie Cards (1:4)
- UD Canvas (Regular cards – 1:7, Young Guns – 1:48, combined for 1:6 odds)
- UD Game Jerseys (1:24)
- All-World Team (1:13)
- All-World Team SP (1:120)
- 1950s Hockey Heroes (1:13)
- 1950s Hockey Heroes Header cards (1:600)
- 1950s Hockey Heroes Art cards (1:600)
- EA’s Ultimate Team (1:8)
Last, the blast(er):
- 5 cards per pack
- 10 packs, plus 2 bonus packs
- Young Guns Rookie Cards (1:6)
- UD Canvas (Regular cards – 1:14, Young Guns – 1:96, combined for 1:12 odds)
- UD Game Jerseys (1:240)
- All-World Team (1:27)
- All-World Team SP (1:240)
- 1950s Hockey Heroes (1:25)
- 1950s Hockey Heroes Header cards (1: 1,200)
- 1950s Hockey Heroes Art cards (1:1,200)
- EA’s Ultimate Team (1:8)
“8-card foil packs and 10 (plus two bonus)-pack blasters on retail shelves.”
Why do blaster boxes continue to say “plus ___ bonus pack(s)”? Why can’t it just be 12 packs?
I agree with Todd. It’s pretty comical. Still, I always look forward to the UD series 1 cards. Do we have a date and/or checklist yet?
Nice update Andrew, have enjoyed your past articles and box breaks. Do you know if this is the official design for this years UD Series 1 Young Guns? I’m not really feeling it. Last years design was kind of ****** too, imo.
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Hard to beat last years retro set. The regular set stunk as has the past few years of UD but the retro was a great full featured action photo set. I was hoping they would do another retro year like 1991-94.