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@ValorAIO Hey how do we communicate with you guys in discord?

This jester could have just ran some Valor tasks... 😭

@233Phoenix_SC @aaroncgarrett Dm

@aaroncgarrett Shohei Ohtani 2018 Topps Fire Magenta Rookie RC Auto 10/25 $2k OBO

It’s #ShoTimeSaturday! Your OFFICIAL Shohei Ohtani B/S/T thread! Post good pics of awesome cards at great prices, and have fun! Also feel free to flex any cool Shohei Ohtani cards you own!! Please RT if you post or scroll!

@card_plaza Thanks finally got an order in!

Raging roar restock we managed to get more: cardxplaza.com/product-page/d… -This is MSRP Price.

@Andrewdeeeeee I have some HF ETBs

I have a few extra Prismatic Evolutions PC ETB's. If anyone needs one for there collection and want to trade DM me. Looking for ETBs I am missing as well, might have accidently dipped into the sealed ETB vault, don't tell Rosie!! ETBs ISO: SW&SH Rebel Clash SW&SH Champions Path S&M Burning Shadows S&M Hidden Fates S&M Guardians Rising S&M Crimson Invasion

@PhanGu_ABS @CardsMax Holy shit You sold all these?

@CardsMax same Max. biggest fumble🙃

I wonder how much this photo is currently worth

@JuanReyes0621 $200 shipped on the trainer box?

🚨 Sealed Pokemon stuff 🚨 Everything in these pictures are clean, no damage or tears Ascended Heroes ETB $100 each Pokemon go premium collection $90 Trainers legendary Box $200 Add $10 for shipping, price will remain the same if purchased more items

@nspcards See what I can do If you’re looking for sealed maybe we can trade as well

$650 OBO Hards Hats /5000 - POP 1 💥💥💥 RTs appreciated!

@LosDoyersBurner @CardPurchaser @Topps What were the other cards?

The most expensive @Topps product I’ve bought up to date😬@CardPurchaser

@WaxMetrix Great write up Got my follow

2025 Bowman's Best Analysis & Deep Dive If you enjoy content like this, please consider following me on Substack, where I keep my entire archive of 100+ product breakdowns in one, easier to navigate catalog. Your support is greatly appreciated. @WaxMetrix" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@WaxMetrix Year after year, Bowman's Best is one of Topps' strongest baseball releases. With a tight checklist of Rookies, Vets, and Prospects, it is usually loaded with substance, not filler. 2025 Bowman's Best will be no different. The 2024 version, though initially pre-ordering at $300/box, now sells for ~$685/box on secondary sites, powered by a monumental rookie class and solid chase elements. Pre-orders for 2025 Bowman's Best popped on Feb 9th at $340, a tidy little $40 bump from last year. Tomorrow's release day pricing is set at $350/box. I don't think it's any secret that this product will also spike in price. But could prices spike as much as 2024? Short answer: yes. Did Topps go full Topps and continue the "print more, charge more, give less goodies" trend we've seen so much of lately? They're certainly printing more, definitely charging more, and they also removed a fan favorite. The answer may appear to be a resounding yes. However, not so fast. There may be a bit of redemption in store as well. My audience is savvy. Many of you already know Bowman’s Best is a no-brainer buy at MSRP, regardless of what my analysis says. And you'd be right. But I'm going to dig into the numbers nobody else bothers to, your AI is unable to, and show you why you Watch the Squatch. I'm excited to unwrap this one. Without further ado, let's get it on, Big John McCarthy style. Total cards in product: 2025- 3,825,000 2024- 3,327,850 YOY +14.9% As expected, they printed more. Honestly, with the additional host of parallels and auto subjects which I'll get into shortly, I was braced for a 25%-40% increase. So I think the increase is very reasonable. I'll take it. For what it’s worth, I sincerely hope Topps keeps Bowman’s Best and its cousin Finest hobby-only. Adding a Retail component would be the fastest way to ruin them. Need proof? Just look at Panini Select, whose downfall began the moment 8500 parallels showed up in retail SKUs in 2020. They just couldn't tell at the time because that rookie class was dynamic. Total production by format: 2025 Hobby- 63,750 boxes (7,969 cases) 2024 Hobby- 55,464 boxes (6,933 cases) Base card production: 2025- 19,673 copies ea 2024- 19,121 copies ea THIS deserves some attention. Of the ~497k additional cards printed this year, only 55,206 (11.1%) are base cards. The overwhelming majority went toward autos, parallels, and inserts. That’s exactly how you scale a product while making it better, not worse. You might ask- if only 55k of nearly 500k additional cards are base, where did the rest of the growth come from? Here's the breakdown: Total Parallels (not including Inserts or Autos): 2025- 1,100,423 2024- 882,924 +217,499 (+24.6%) Total Inserts (Includes parallels, but not autos): 2025- 484,968 2024- 324,181 +160,787 (+49.6%) Total Autos: 2025- 272,283 2024- 208,627 +63,656 (+30.5%) Hit Frequencies per box: Hobby: Autos- sell sheet says 4. Math says 4.27 autos/box (1.2 autos/box should be numbered, 3 base). Throughout the product, 28.3% of all autos are numbered. That should translate to an extra auto showing up in roughly 1 out of every 4 boxes. I'll need to see some real-world rips to confirm, but this could potentially be another small win for the consumer. The downside? The main auto checklist bumped up from 104 subjects to 131 (+26%). So yes, a few more questionable names will be sneaking in. But let's give them some credit. At least Topps didn't pull their signature move of watering down the checklist AND cutting the auto count. More names, slightly more autos...sounds like a wash to me. I'll take it. Parallels- 17.3 (including 12 Base Refractors and 1 Wave Refractor) *Up from 16 in 2024* Inserts- 7.6 (Including 2 Pixel Portraits, 1 Circuitry, & 1 Best Performance) *Up from 5.8 in 2024* Numbered Cards- 4.5 *Up from 3 in 2024* What's missing? Now let’s get to the change that will disappoint fans the most: Topps axed the wildly popular Anime SPs from Best. It was a little weird they showed up here in the first place, but collectors clearly loved them. For whatever reason, the hobby goes nuts for cartoony inserts and big head cards. But... That said, Topps didn’t just take a cool chase away and call it a day. In its place we’re getting Prospect Patch Autos with giant swatches and a “1st Patch” connotation for players who qualify. If these look anything like the mockups, they could end up being a pretty nasty chase. What else has changed? Additional parallels introduced: Lazer /350, Purple Lazer /250, Aqua /199, Blue Lazer /150, Yellow /75 Best-Tek is a new acetate /99 insert that only comes in parallels of Blue /75, Gold /50, Orange /25, Red /5, and Black /1. The base is 1 per ~3 cases and they get rarer from there, so they're actually a tougher pull than last year's Anime. Strokes of Gold hasn't gone anywhere and are still found one per 3 cases. Print run on these is only very slightly up from last year. These are a fantastic looking card which I believe are under-appreciated. Prices on 2024 Strokes of Gold remain similar to Animes even though they are 10× more rare. Value landscape (based on $350 MSRP that we're all praying we secure): $/card- $5.83 $/parallel- $20.28 $/auto- $81.97 $/# card- $77.78 Conclusions: $82 per auto is legit. At MSRP, that’s a better $/auto than recent releases like Pristine ($147.69) and Bowman Draft Hobby ($216.67). Wildly, it’s even cheaper than Stadium Club ($101.69) and Series 1 Jumbo ($210), both of which carry massive auto checklists. The checklist is also legit. Very little fluff. The 2025 rookie class may not have the depth of 2024, but the stars are still the stars, and the prospect crop is loaded. It would not surprise me at all if, three or four months from now, 2025 Best is getting close to or even surpassing 2024 in box price. It's a better crafted product. However you hobby, whether you're a degenerate ripper like me or a sealed wax connoisseur, you really can't go wrong with 2025 Bowman’s Best. I should probably keep this to myself because I’m REALLY trying to stack a pile of this on release. But let’s be honest, that’s probably not happening… and I’m certainly not helping my chances here. Every time I go to battle with the Topps bots, I seem to come out in rough shape. But this is the lane I chose. I do it for the people, even if it means broadcasting my own playbook before kickoff. If anyone in my audience somehow lands way too much of this product for their own good, I’ll take 12 boxes at MSRP (or whatever you can spare). Thanks in advance. Print runs: Unnumbered Parallels: Base Refractor- ~7,650 ea Wave- ~640 ea Inserts: 2025 All-Star Futures Game (20 card CL)- ~6,375 ea All-Star Futures Game Mini Diamond- ~400 ea Best Performance (30 card CL)- ~2,125 ea Best Performance Mini Diamond- ~265 ea Circuitry (25 card CL)- ~2,550 ea Circuitry Mini Diamond- ~640 ea Pixel Portraits (25 card CL)- ~5,100 ea Pixel Portraits Mini Diamond- ~320 ea Bowman Showpieces (15 card CL)- ~2,835 ea Bowman Showpieces Mini Diamond- ~265 ea Strokes of Gold (25 card CL)- ~105 ea Autos: Best of 2025 Autos (131 card CL)- ~835 ea Best of 2025 Autos Refractors- ~365 ea Best Performance Autos (20 card CL)- ~1,820 ea Best-Tek Autos (20 card CL)- ~85 ea Some Print Run anomalies to note: •Bowman Showpiece Autos should be numbered /99, but based on odds, only 50 copies of each are showing as inserted into the product. •Base Dual Autos (not Family Tree Dual Autos) should be numbered /75, but odds state they are much tougher to pull than Dual Autos Gold /50. Only 30 ea of the 75 look to be inserted into the product. •Base Quad Autos are also /75, but are only showing 41 ea inserted & Quad Autos Gold are /50, while only 35 of each inserted into product •Base Triple Autos are /75 but only showing 31 ea inserted into product & Triple Autos Gold are /50 but only showing 36 ea inserted into product #thehobby #SlabSquatchAnalytics #2025BowmansBest

@vinceayg_ Need this

LOOK OUT FOR TRACKING. CHECK EMAILS! PINS AND MAGNETIC CLIPS ARE GOING OUT📬🔥⛳️🏌️

Shohei Ohtani put on a show in Japan for fans and fellow players

@Sneaky_Steals Bro $480 off with regards Wow

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@iamTREPP @Sneaky_Steals Should be limit 2 orders of 2

@Sneaky_Steals Any idea on quantity limit?

⚡ Pokémon Ascended Heroes ETB high chance of dropping tonight at 1AM ET @ Target! buff.ly/dNu9917 #ad

@sbskins @EzMainini @PokemonRestocks If you wouldn’t mind DMing the info to purchase I’d appreciate it

@bdub7778 @EzMainini @PokemonRestocks I got the LE!

Official Reveal of Pokémon Stern Pinball Machine Coming Soon! ✨ #Pokemon

@sbskins @EzMainini @PokemonRestocks Amazing

@848ty @Topps This set was also not very expensive either

@Topps Produce a cheap Disney product with NO HITS so the kids can have some. You greedy fucks

FIRST LOOK: Tomorrowland Cosmic Chrome 🚀 Look for them in 2025 Disneyland 70th Anniversary coming soon ✨

@sbskins @EzMainini @PokemonRestocks Which one did you buy?

@EzMainini @PokemonRestocks Pro $7,000 Premium $9,500 LE: sold out

@Sneaky_Steals Is there supposed to be 3 different listings?

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@POKESTREETZ All a bunch of clowns

🚨 Ascended Heroes release chaos 🪑👀 man shows up & calls the front of the Best Buy line “ghost chairs,” “why people should wait if seats look empty?” But context matters: – People were present – Communication was clear – Order was respected Ghost chairs ≠ community holding