The Topps Booth was relatively small, and was manned on two sides: one side was
selling special All Star Game editions of the 2012 Factory Set (only 600 made
is what I’ve heard), and the other side was where you could redeem wrappers for
special All Star Game cards. Forgive me for the lack of and poor quality of pictures of the booth:
2012 Products
Man, those are terrible pictures. I don't know what happened here.
The Factory
sets were only $50, which is what you'd pay at retail anyway, so I went ahead and got one. They come with a special pack of cards in each box, and I'm tempted to break the seal and see what is in the pack. I haven't broken the seal yet, but I probably will soon.
Each set also came with a special All Star Patch card, numbered to 150. Bryce Harper patch cards were already gone, but I gladly settled for a Yu Darvish:
Each set also came with a special All Star Patch card, numbered to 150. Bryce Harper patch cards were already gone, but I gladly settled for a Yu Darvish:
Not that I would sell this, but I have seen that these
Darvish cards are going for around $40-50 on eBay.
After this, I caught a mild case of card fever and decided to get a
redemption card too (different than the packs in the sets and the patch cards). Redemption cards were available for 3 wrappers per card. I bought 3 packs of
2012 Pro Debut at a nearby dealer and redeemed those wrappers for a Bryce Harper
that was still available:
The Pro Debut packs were only 3 for $10, which I didn’t
think was too bad. I got the cool Harper
card, plus a few good minor league prospects in my Pro Debut packs:
Happy to get a card of personal favorite, John Lamb...
I wish I would have had the presence of mind to see if these
Harpers were already selling on eBay and for how much. Had I taken 30 seconds to look this up on my phone, I would have seen that they were going for
$30-40 a pop. I would have gladly bought a lot
more packs to get a lot more Harpers. Oh
well, I’m happy with the one I got.
Topps was also handing out little 4 packs of 2012 cards and
a free kids book:
I’m anxious to read this to my boy, and I’ll give a full
review later. Just kidding. I won’t unless it is just super awesome.
Although we didn’t get anything to speak of in our packs of
cards, it was a nice gesture from Topps, and my kids enjoyed opening them.
Other than kicking myself for not getting more redemption cards,
the Topps booth provided some nice adds to my collection.
3 comments:
Nice Darvish. Sounds like you had a good time.
That's a cool Darvish. Glad you were able to pick up some cards there.
That patch card is great!
moe.
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