Ordered some monsters the other day but couldn't wait and ended up buying two blasters at local retailer. Pulled Corbin Carroll UV out of one and pink Holliday, Judge sepia, and green Ronald acuna jr UV to 99 all in one blaster!
Absolutely love retail format. Guaranteed sepia, pink or x refractors (dart throw for MVP buyback) plus a chance to get some good rookies and maybe an auto…
Bought a box from a local card shop. Pulled a base chrome Ohtani and Judge as well as a alternate printout Soto Two RC variations of Heston Kjerstad and a Blue Refractor to 150 Xander Bogaerts print 53/150 definitely a good box with the ability to do the mvp buyback and having a base of both going to get the Xander graded the Soto one is just cool in my opinion
Best format hands down. Especially for those of us not quite as invested in the hobby as our dear friend Stryker. Thanks dude! 2 boxes -20 xfractors -6 refractors (Elly) -1 green auto /99 -1 purple sonar /275 -4 raywaves -2 prizms
I’ve open about 10 blasters of Topps chrome . My best card out of all of that was a Jasson Dominguez ray wave refractor . Not one single judge elly or Ohtani base . Just absolutely brutal
I just legit ripped 8 frickin boxes of these monsters and the best card I got was an Elly x fractor. Out of 8!!!! Boxes. Not one auto. 4 numbered cards of bums. I’ve also ripped 17 blasters and didn’t hit one numbered card or auto as well. I swear it’s the breakers who always hit
I wasn’t going to invest in Chrome this year because of the price jumps ( and lack of funds) but I grabbed 2 Monster Boxes just to say I ripped some and they were a blast. Langford X-fractor and Holiday SITP were the highlights. Definitely not making my money back but I don’t care, I really like the Monster boxes.
Nice rip ! I opened five monsters yesterday two of them were a rookie, heavy variety. Got a lot of nice rookie xfractors and a judge xfractor, light board logo for pirates and Pete Crowe Armstrong auto to 499 another no-name auto to 99 and two numbered cards. Three more monsters will be here tomorrow. can’t wait
You pretty much talked those x-fractors into existence. Nicely done. Can't wait to see you open more of these monsters. My fave release so far this year
I’ve opened 10 monsters boxes, and I’ve yet to get any good rookie xfractors. They’re hot garbage for the common man. We don’t get the hot boxes like the influencers
Your vids never disappoint! I got 5 boxes and was getting upset after the first 3 but the last two were loaded with rookies. Also had 3 autographs (all numbered)! Not the greatest names but like you said, I wasn't expecting autos so they were a great bonus.
The monster boxes are one of the worst rips I've done. Most were off center and the numbered cards were nobody's. The boxes should be priced at 39. I don't understand why Topps numbers commons. Personally, I would avoid the Monster.
I ripped 12 last night and 7 of them had all vets Xfractors and 3 only had only 1 RC each. Got 17 out of the other 2 for a total of 20 RCs xfractors out of the 120. The coalition is an unforced error on topps. Boxes should have 4ish RC Xfractors per box. BUT, I still think these boxes are great compared to blasters.
I think for the price point, availability and the parallels these are the boxes to get. Hobby and Jumbo are up there but you get what 15-17 parallels per box.
I think Topps/Fanatics is about to be having a Great Reset. Pricing the majority of people that buy product out of the market. They'll definitely see a big slow down on sales with the economy and the prices they want for a box of cards. Then you either get a fire box or you totally bust. Those total bust boxes are also driving people away. No one needs or expects to make profit on a box but a total loss hits different. . love watching the rips though. I opened two monster boxes one had no rookie xfractors the other was all rookie xfractors. I really lost respect for your ways when you said 3 or 4 boxes isn't necessarily enough. Open 8. Really man 500$ to get a sample size. You've changed so much since you're early days. Someone is definitely taking care of your funds. We all don't have your abilities to be where you are. Don't forget where you came from. Have a lovely day.
I agree. Youve sold your soul to the pirates at Fanatics. Price fixing and eliminating their competition by having Ebay deny everyone the right to post their breaks on the Ebay site is not good for the hobby. They are catering to the gambling world, which I can understand due to the profitability. Just does not work for me any longer.
I opened 2 monsters the other day and both boxes had the exact same x-fractors in the same layout. Luckily for me it was Chourio, dominguez, and Colt keith. Take that!
Im new to pack opening and need some guidance. How can you tell the difference between all these cards and what makes a Judge card like that special? Looked like the most basic card
Hey man I’m looking to pull any Elly de la Cruz cards whether it’s base or not. What pack would be the best bang for my buck to do that. I don’t want to buy singles as I enjoy opening packs. I got a ctc one from a fat pack and a summertime at the park out of a chrome blaster
Anyone know if the numbered SMLB cards have value? I know theyre less desireable because they're in all the retail packs, but I pulled a Black SMLB Mookie numbered to 25. Wondering if its worth grading
I found 2 blasters of topps chrome at 2 different Walmarts so i bought them 1st box gor some amazing refractors, raywave, and prisms, plus and ohtani. The 2nd box amazing refractors a varsho green ray wave and a light board logo of butler. I glanced right past it i only noticed because i got a refractor of butler the pack before and a base rookie while i was sleeving rookies took me a while to figure out what it was. Prices on these cards are weird sold 160 to 40$s lmfao. Been reading up on him im intrigued no I'll try his rainbow lmfao 🤣😅
Hey man, I have an odds/checklist question I'm hoping you can answer. In this year's Chrome Baseball, they have 20 players in the 1989 design, which means 20 Superfractors, right? There is also a line item for 1989 AUTO Superfractors. Is this another 20 Supers? (Are all line items mutually exclusive?) Second question - if there are 20 Auto supers, here are the odds for the 5 formats: Hobby (1:1387764), Jumbo (1:242224), Delight (1:30010), Value Box (1:3,451,371), Monster Box (1: 1,442,217) . Just adding, that's (5:6,553,5860). Is that how to look at it? And because there are 20 super autos, does that mean that the real ratio is (20:26,214,344)? Finally, does this mean that we can surmise there were 26.2 million packs created for Chrome?
The sample size is a huge impact. I opened one and didn't hit a rookie box. But that was the risk. If you can afford it and are hunting parallels specifically: go at it! (All up to y'alls preferences). Thanks for the video and the info in the other one, too!
Opened one box direct from Topps and got absolutely nothing. These may not be worth buying guys, I know you can get great hits, but most of the time you will not. So be smart!
Lmfao. You sound dumb as hell. What did you expect to get from just opening one box. My 2 boxes was awesome. I have 3 more coming in today. If you can't afford the hobby. Get out of it. Because lot's of other people can afford these boxes.
saying people need to just buy 8 boxes instead of 1-2 is extremely out of touch. Topps botched the correlation on these and most people don't have the money to spend 600 on retail like you do. Fanatics price gouged this year and didnt have the decency to make a quality product for every level of collectors.
They killed us on a terrible product with that hobby box.. how do you get more out of a monster than a hobby box? You have to rip a ton of hobby boxes to get something decent and on top of that way more variety here. I felt i was just getting the same cards over and over again in hobby boxes.. with their stupid pitcher autographs
