Honestly, this is a fair assessment. I did rip mine (2 hobby and a jumbo) and was lucky enough to get autos in both hobbies and a wood in the jumbo. Probably did better than most since I’m sitting at about a 50% ROI if I were to sell the hits. I was lucky enough to get a complete set of base. What sucks is that it took more than a jumbo an a hobby to do it and it wasn’t the rookie collation issue that slowed me down.
It wasn’t that long ago where buying a jumbo would get you like 90% of the way to a complete set. Recent jumbos feel like there are way more duplicates.
I’ve been waiting for 16 fat packs to get here that I bought for 6.99 each based on the first article. Hobby was already $250 when I was shopping around so I skipped that
It’s kinda crazy hearing your story of hobby boxes and in my 16 fat packs I got 78% set completion, 35 different rookies and the best hit was a Cameron Boozer Rise to the Occasion relic. Only one numbered card a /2026 gold but I’m happy with the purchase for sure
Megas coming in today perhaps they are full of them? I think there are still some costco and sams club boxes as well. Not sure if any other format not release yet?
I just opened 2 hobby boxes with my kid that we ordered from Topps on release day. 1st box had 1 base rookie, 2nd had 2. There's no way base rookies are 1-2 per hobby box. We did the same thing with flagship last year and ended up with 3 or 4 Flaggs and multiple base rookies per pack. Best card we pulled this time was a Boozer insert worth about $10. To spend about $450 US including shipping and taxes on 2 hobby boxes and the best card is a $10 rookie insert is ridiculous! I did submit a defective claim with Topps. Curious what they'll say. Should have read this first before we opened them and we could have corroborated the collation of hits and inserts to compare. No SSP's but, we did get a Level Up rookie sticker auto /50. Only problem outside of being a sticker was it's Felix Okpara. $8? Not the Wizard we wanted to see. Our other box had the unnumbered Klingan relic solid red circle game used swatch (if you want to call it that). Definitely the worst flagship hobby boxes we've opened from Topps ever and maybe our last.
Honestly, this is a fair assessment. I did rip mine (2 hobby and a jumbo) and was lucky enough to get autos in both hobbies and a wood in the jumbo. Probably did better than most since I’m sitting at about a 50% ROI if I were to sell the hits. I was lucky enough to get a complete set of base. What sucks is that it took more than a jumbo an a hobby to do it and it wasn’t the rookie collation issue that slowed me down.
Appreciate ya!
It wasn’t that long ago where buying a jumbo would get you like 90% of the way to a complete set. Recent jumbos feel like there are way more duplicates.
Glad you didn’t get skunked on your boxes!
I’ve been waiting for 16 fat packs to get here that I bought for 6.99 each based on the first article. Hobby was already $250 when I was shopping around so I skipped that
Sounds like you made a smart call.
Can’t imagine the feeling of dropping that kind of dough on a hobby box and having barely any rookie cards to show for it.
It’s kinda crazy hearing your story of hobby boxes and in my 16 fat packs I got 78% set completion, 35 different rookies and the best hit was a Cameron Boozer Rise to the Occasion relic. Only one numbered card a /2026 gold but I’m happy with the purchase for sure
The base rookie thing i have seen in multiple times. It makes no sense. Like what format got all those in the collation
Right? It’s not like we’re seeing one format totally juiced with them right now either.
Megas coming in today perhaps they are full of them? I think there are still some costco and sams club boxes as well. Not sure if any other format not release yet?
We’ll have to keep our eyes peeled.
China has an exclusive format this year as well as the All-Star Mega boxes coming out in February.
Mega Box 1: 29 Base Rookies
Mega Box 2: 27 Base Rookies
Another odd thing to add...the three base rookies we did get were the top card in the pack and there was nothing else outside of base cards.
I just opened 2 hobby boxes with my kid that we ordered from Topps on release day. 1st box had 1 base rookie, 2nd had 2. There's no way base rookies are 1-2 per hobby box. We did the same thing with flagship last year and ended up with 3 or 4 Flaggs and multiple base rookies per pack. Best card we pulled this time was a Boozer insert worth about $10. To spend about $450 US including shipping and taxes on 2 hobby boxes and the best card is a $10 rookie insert is ridiculous! I did submit a defective claim with Topps. Curious what they'll say. Should have read this first before we opened them and we could have corroborated the collation of hits and inserts to compare. No SSP's but, we did get a Level Up rookie sticker auto /50. Only problem outside of being a sticker was it's Felix Okpara. $8? Not the Wizard we wanted to see. Our other box had the unnumbered Klingan relic solid red circle game used swatch (if you want to call it that). Definitely the worst flagship hobby boxes we've opened from Topps ever and maybe our last.