Across the Country for the Perfect Blaster of WWE Women's Division

When I was in New Jersey last October, I went to Walmart once to get some food and drinks for my barracks room. Naturally, I had to stop in the card aisle to see what the card selection on the East Coast looked like. I wound up selecting a blaster of 2017 Topps WWE Women's Division cards, and it wound up being a pretty darn good one.

Parallel cards are surprisingly hard to pull out of these boxes. I got a Gold parallel of Asuka from the NXT Matches and Moments subset. This one is numbered # 08 / 10. The Gold parallels fall 1:62 boxes. This box wasn't done giving, though, as each blaster guarantees a hit card.

I got a Blue parallel of Bayley's Mat Relic card. This one is numbered # 08 / 25. These fall 1:25 blasters. The card contains a piece of the mat from the NXT Takeover: London event in December of 2015.

This was a pretty nice box of cards for me, containing rare cards for two wrestlers I collect. The Bayley hit was especially nice, but the Asuka parallel is also quite a pull. Maybe I should buy cards in other states more often!

Contested Shots 29: Charlotte Flair Relic from Sports Card Info

Back in October I won a contest on the Sports Card Info blog. It's taken me a while to get the post up, because I was out of town for a month.

The card I won was this Charlotte Flair mat relic from the 2017 Topps WWE Women's Division set. It contains a bit of the mat from the Survivor Series 2015 event. The timing of this contest was pretty cool for me, as I met Charlotte Flair at a book signing on September 30th.

This year's Survivor Series event was tonight, and Charlotte Flair defeated Alexa Bliss in their match during the evening. I didn't watch the event, although I thought about it. I am having a hard time getting back into the swing of things at home, and I didn't feel like adding more noise into my life. My kids have been on one today, and I have had a month without all of the sound and questions. I'll be a little happy to go to work in the morning and sit in silence for a bit.

Also included in the prize package was a pin with the Sports Card Info logo on it. I think it's pretty neat. The Sports Card Info blog holds a lot of contests and posts plenty of card reviews and box breaks. Go and check it out if you don't already have it on your blog roll. Thanks for the contest!

Pack of the Day 176: A Blaster of 2017 Topps WWE Women's Division

One product I enjoyed last year was the Walmart-exclusive 2016 Topps WWE Divas Revolution, which featured the women of WWE in blasters with a guaranteed hit per box. The product is back this year as 2017 Topps WWE Women's Division. It remains a Walmart-exclusive, but adds a couple of packaging changes that I don't really like. There are still guaranteed-hit blasters, but the only inserts in the set are exclusive to rack packs or hanger boxes, with rack packs guaranteeing 3 cards from the Rivalries insert and hanger boxes guaranteeing 5 cards from the Finishers and Signature Moves insert set. You can basically get a full base set from two blasters of the product (along with two guaranteed hits), so when buying rack packs and hanger boxes you're mostly just going for the inserts. Assuming perfect collation, you'd have to buy at least 5 hanger boxes and 9 rack packs to get both insert sets.

Anyhow, I picked up a couple of blasters, a rack pack, and a hanger box. Today I'm just showing the first blaster I bought, because that's all I have scanned right now. According to the odds, parallels of the base set are hard to find, and I didn't pull any from any of the packs I opened.

The base set is broken into three parts. First up is a Roster section, which is basically what you think of when you think of a base set. It features individual wrestler cards for NXT, RAW, SmackDown, and Legend wrestlers. The design is pretty basic, but I like it. The card backs feature a nice long bio as well as height and hometown.

Here are a few more base cards that I scanned. I tried to include wrestlers from all of the categories in this scan. Charlotte Flair is making an appearance at a local bookstore this weekend before the WWE Live event to sign copies of her book. I am thinking about going, but I'm still not sure. If it were Bayley I would go 100%, but for Charlotte I don't know.

The next part of the checklist is divided into two different Matches and Moments subsets, one for NXT and one for WWE. It is pretty much what it sounds like, a highlight reel from the last year or so of WWE and NXT storylines.

These checklists are dominated by a few big names, so in the NXT checklist you see a lot of Asuka, Bayley, and Nia Jax.

The WWE Matches and Moments set isn't much different from the NXT set. You get a picture on the front and a breakdown of the match or moment on the back.

The checklist is again dominated by a few names, like Bayley, Charlotte, Sasha Banks, Alexa Bliss, and Nikki Bella.

The final card in this post is the hit. I got an autograph from this blaster, a Blue parallel of Maryse. It's numbered # 11 / 25, and the signature is on a sticker. The stickers aren't too obtrusive, though, so that's good. Blue autographs only fall 1:39 blasters, so this was a decent pull.

I'm a fan of this product, but I have a hard time with the rack pack- and hanger box-exclusive inserts. I wish everything was available in the blasters, because I'd buy those all day.