Pack of the Day 187: Two Boxes of 2017 Topps Legends of WWE

Topps had a sale on their website over the Memorial Day weekend, and one of the items on sale was Hobby boxes of 2017 Topps Legends of WWE. These things sell for $95-100 each on most card sites, and I got two boxes with shipping for about $73.50 apiece. Each box promises four hits, with three of those being guaranteed autographs. I opened a box of this stuff a few months ago that had four autographs in it.

Between the two boxes, I pulled a total of 74 base cards, with 51 singles and 23 doubles. That means two boxes got me about half of a base set. As shown in this scan, I tend to favor the wrestling legends from my youth, but the set features a lot of older names that I'm not that familiar with. I do kind of wish that Hulk Hogan would get invited back to the WWE and some of these sets. It is kind of distracting to see cards of all his contemporaries, but to never pull a card of one of the most famous wrestlers ever.

There were 19 Bronze parallels between the two boxes. This is the base-level parallel, which basically shows up in any pack that doesn't have a serially-numbered parallel inside. I thought I got some decent cards among my Bronze pulls.

These were my Silver parallel pulls. The Silver cards are # / 99, and fall 1:8 packs. So in two boxes (12 packs each), you'd expect to pull three of them. The Rock is probably the best card in this group, but I like all three of these.

I also got two Blue parallels, which are # / 50. I wasn't that familiar with Dory Funk Jr., but he is actually a pretty influential wrestler, with a long career and his own wrestling school that has trained plenty of big names.

Legendary Bouts is one of two inserts in the product, and these cards feature famous matches from wrestling history. There are some pretty big names here, like Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Randy Savage, and Cactus Jack.

The other insert in the product is called Retired Championships, which shows some retired belts and some of the wrestlers who held them. Who knew there were so many belts out there?

I pulled one basic relic card from each box. They are # / 299. That Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat relic card is pretty amazing for a basic relic card.

I pulled base autographs of two female wrestlers and Bronze autographs of two male wrestlers. The base autographs of Alundra Blayze and Wendi Richter are # / 199, while the Bronze cards of Diamond Dallas Page and Ken Shamrock are # / 99. All except the Diamond Dallas Page card carry on-card signatures.

The first big hit of the break is this autographed manu-relic Commemorative Championship Plate Card bearing the autograph of Big Show. I was pretty happy with this card, although it's probably not a huge money card. I like Big Show, and I was glad to get his signature. The card is # 68 / 99. 

The hit of the break has to be this Black parallel of "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase's autographed relic card. The card features a sweet relic swatch and a nice signature with a '$' inscription. It's also # 4 / 5.

While this break wasn't quite as amazing as my previous box was, this product is a lot of fun. I like pulling cards of all the old-school wrestlers, and each box usually produces at least a handful of really neat things. I'd like to pick up more of this product at some point. The price point is a little high, but there is some good stuff that can come out of it. It also feels a little less risky than a true high-end product like Undisputed.

Pack of the Day 183: A Box of 2017 Topps WWE Legends

I made it back home from Utah yesterday, completing the course I went down for. I finished class early in the morning, but I stayed until late afternoon, visiting with an old friend at his family's car dealership and purchasing a new (to us) minivan from the lot. After that I drove back home, and my wife caught a ride down to Utah this morning to drive the van back. I hope she likes it, as it will be her vehicle for the next few years.

I stayed home with the kids so that they could attend a birthday party for a friend at the police station. It was pretty fun to get the tour and mess around with all of the police gear. One benefit of having kids is tagging along when they do tours of places like police and fire stations. It's exciting to go and see all that stuff, but it would be weird for a grown man like me to just walk up and ask for a tour. When it's the Cub Scouts or a birthday party or something, no one bats an eye. The birthday boy's dad is a police officer, and he was in the Marines as a tanker, so we had stuff to talk about. We were actually both in Iraq at about the same time. His dad was there, too, and he spent ten years in the Idaho Army National Guard, which is who I work for, so we talked about that as well. I wore my Macho Man Randy Savage t-shirt to the party, and they commented that they'd gone to see a WWF show many years ago with all of the big names.

Speaking of wrestling legends, while I was gone I ordered a box of 2017 Topps WWE Legends from a guy who I did a couple of group breaks with. This product looks awesome, but at the price point it's a little hard to justify buying because there are only 4 hits per box. Three of the four are promised to be autographs, but still, it feels like a lot to me.

One of the first things I did once I got home was bust the box open. It is packaged as two mini-boxes, with two hits in each mini-box. You get six packs per mini-box, with five cards per pack.

Here are the odds from the side of one of the mini-boxes. There are a couple of insert sets as well as plenty of parallels, autographs, and relics.

The packs look like the rest of the packaging. I don't have much else to say about them.

I got 37 base cards in the box. Here are 8 of them. There's some pretty good stuff here. I was happy to pull the Iron Sheik and the Ultimate Warrior. It was also good to see Randy Savage among my pulls.

Bronze parallels are not numbered, and I got almost one per pack, with nine in the box. Some of my favorites here include Big Boss Man, Mick Foley, and Rowdy Roddy Piper.

Retired Championships is one of the insert sets in the product. I pulled four of them in the box. Trish Stratus was a pretty good pull. She appeared in the Women's Royal Rumble, one of several legendary wrestlers from WWF/WWE to make an appearance in the event.

The other non-hit insert is Legendary Bouts, which features some big matches from the promotion's history.

I got three numbered parallels in the box. The Michael "P.S." Hayes card is a Silver parallel. These are seeded 1:8 packs, and this one is numbered # 46 / 99. The X-Pac and Rocky Johnson cards are Blue parallels, seeded 1:15 packs. The X-Pac is numbered # 21 / 50 and the Rocky Johnson is # 22 / 50. Now, on to the hits!

The first one is a base autograph of Sergeant Slaughter. I was pretty happy to get his signature in the box, as I always liked him. This one is # 061 / 199.

The next hit is a Commemorative Championship Plate Autograph Card of Wendi Richter. It's got a sticker autograph and a manufactured relic of the WWE Women's Championship belt. I believe this is the basic version of the card, numbered # 81 / 99 and seeded 1:30 packs.

Next up is a nice Autograph Relic card of The Iron Sheik. This is the Blue parallel, numbered # 16 / 25 and seeded 1:172 packs. It's got a nice multi-colored swatch of fabric and a full signature. He can be a little inconsistent about autographs, sometimes signing as 'Iron Sheik' and other times just as 'Sheik.'

Only three autographed cards are promised per box, but all four of my hit cards were signed. This one is the hit of the box, and it's a pretty big one. This is a Triple Autograph featuring the signatures of Kevin Nash, Sting, and Lex Luger. It's numbered # 10 / 10 and these are a 1:1,723 pack pull. I don't think I'll sell it, but if I did this card alone could probably replace the cost of the box twice over.

This was a pretty good box. Even without the big hit, it was on track to be fairly nice, but obviously the triple-autographed card is huge.