We have brought back the 2008 Upper Deck Icons FB pack giveaway. Every order on the website (excluding pre-sells) will qualify for free packs of Icons FB. For every dollar you spend, you’ll receive that amount in SRP of these packs. So, for $100 you’ll get $100 worth of packs.
2010 Benchwarmer Ultimate is in house. This is a very limited product and has great re-sale value on eBay. This product is not for everyone, but it’s definitely a fun product to bust and gets you most of your money back.
In hobby news, Upper Deck has settled with MLB. They will be allowed to continue selling the products that have already released. However, they won’t be able to put any logos on going forward. Not sure how this is going to alter UD’s future plans. However, it’s nice to have the issue behind us and to not have to worry about it.
This week has been fairly slow for releases, but it should pick up later in the month for sure. Hopefully Exquisite FB will release before the end of the month. There looks to be some very cool stuff in there.
And, in case you missed it, Topps has signed a deal with Team USA to put them into 2010 products. They will appear in 2010 Bowman making it an even better product. I wouldn’t wait to pre-order this one as I have a feeling it’s going to shoot up. Have a great Thursday.
Thanks,
Josh
Here is the breakdown on the Team USA in 2010 Bowman:
The insert set, which will be branded Bowman Chrome, will be seeded 1:4 packs and will also include the following parallels:
Refractor Parallel Sequentially numbered to 750.
Blue Refractor Parallel Sequentially numbered to 250.
Gold Refractor Parallel Sequentially numbered to 50.
Orange Refractor Parallel Sequentially numbered to 25.
Red Refractor Parallel Sequentially numbered to 5. Hobby Only
Super-Fractor Parallel Sequentially numbered 1/1. Hobby Only
Printing Plates Sequentially numbered 1/1. Jumbo Box Only
This will be the first and last time collectors will have a shot at the 2009 teams in Topps products.
The subjects are as follows:
| 2009 National Team | ||
| USA-BC1 | Trevor Bauer | P |
| USA-BC2 | Chad Bettis | P |
| USA-BC3 | Bryce Brentz | P/OF |
| USA-BC4 | Michael Choice | OF |
| USA-BC5 | Gerrit Cole | P |
| USA-BC6 | Christian Colon | IF |
| USA-BC7 | Blake Forsythe | C |
| USA-BC8 | Yasmani Grandal | C |
| USA-BC9 | Sonny Gray | P |
| USA-BC10 | Rick Hague | IF |
| USA-BC11 | Tyler Holt | OF |
| USA-BC12 | Casey McGrew | P |
| USA-BC13 | Brad Miller | IF |
| USA-BC14 | Matt Newman | OF/P |
| USA-BC15 | Nick Pepitone | P |
| USA-BC16 | Drew Pomeranz | P |
| USA-BC17 | T.J. Walz | P |
| USA-BC18 | Cody Wheeler | P |
| USA-BC19 | Andy Wilkins | IF |
| USA-BC20 | Asher Wojciechowski | P |
| USA-BC21 | Kolten Wong | OF/C |
| USA-BC22 | Tony Zych | P |
| 2009 U18 Team | ||
| USA18-BC1 | Cody Buckel | RHP |
| USA18-BC2 | Nick Castellanos | IF |
| USA18-BC3 | Garin Cecchini | IF |
| USA18-BC4 | Sean Coyle | IF/OF |
| USA18-BC5 | Nicholas Delmonico | IF |
| USA18-BC6 | Kevin Gausman | RHP |
| USA18-BC7 | Cory Hahn | OF/LHP |
| USA18-BC8 | Bryce Harper | C/OF |
| USA18-BC9 | Kavin Keyes | IF |
| USA18-BC10 | Manny Machado | IF |
| USA18-BC11 | Connor Mason | RHP |
| USA18-BC12 | Ladson Montgomery | C/IF |
| USA18-BC13 | Phillip Pfeifer | LHP |
| USA18-BC14 | Brian Ragira | OF |
| USA18-BC15 | Robbie Ray | LHP |
| USA18-BC16 | Kyle Ryan | LHP |
| USA18-BC17 | Jameson Taillon | RHP |
| USA18-BC18 | AJ Vanegas | RHP |
| USA18-BC19 | Karsten Whitson | RHP |
| USA18-BC20 | Tony Wolters | IF |