Official Review: 2008 Topps

[dallascisco]

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
110 ROOKIES!
NEW! TOPPS FOOTBALL MILITARY SALUTE!
NEW! TOPPS NFL DYNASTIES TRIBUTE INSERT, AUTOGRAPH AND RELIC CARDS!
BRETT FAVRE COLLECTION, HONORING HIS RECORD-BREAKING ACHIEVEMENTS!
TOPPS EXCLUSIVE SUPER BOWL AND PRO BOWL RELIC CARDS!
TOPPS PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS AUTOGRAPHS AND RELICS!
HALL OF FAME AUTOGRAPHED CARDS!

Release Date 07/16/2008



What's in the Box?

The Set

-285 veterans
-110 rookies
-10 league Leaders
-20 Pro Bowl
-12 Post Season Highlights
-League MVP Tom Brady
-Rookies of the Year Adrian Peterson and Patrick Willis

Parallels

-Platinum 1/1
-Gold numbered to 2008
-Black numbered to 53 (hobby and hta only)
-Gold Foil (hobby and hta only)
-Printing Plates 1/1 (hobby and hta only)

Inserts

-Ring of Honor featuring Eli Manning
-Hall of Fame commemorative
-Own The Game
-Military Salute
-NFL Honor Roll
-NFL Dynasties Tribute
-Brett Favre Collection starting at card # 201
-ToppsTown

Autographs

-Ring of Honor highlighting Eli Manning’s Super Bowl MVP Award
-Hall of Fame Autographs
-Rookie Premiere Autographs
-Rookie Premiere Dual Autographs
-Rookie Premiere Quad Autographs
-Rookie Premiere Red ink Autographs
-Signature Series Autgraphs
-Performance Highlights Autographs
-NFL Dynasty (including autographed relic cards)
-Brett Favre Collection



Relics

-Super Bowl MVP Game Ball
-Game Breakers highlighting 6 players that scored touchdowns in Super Bowl XLII (game used pylon)
-Stat Breakers highlighting 6 players who lead the super bowl in a particular stat category
-All Pro In The Name patches
-All Pro relics
-All Pro Patches
-League Leaders
-Performance Highlights
-NFL Dynasty


Specialty

-Military Rank Patches
-Military Ribbon Cards
-Division/Brigade Corps Command Patches
-Topps Players Collection Program








What did we get?

base set- 276/440 63 percent)
7 duplicates

Example of Base




Example of Rookies




Favre Flight to 420




Dynasty




Topps Collection








Own the Game




Hall of Fame




Gold Foil




Gold Border








Final Ratings (Out of 5)
Base Set – 4.5/5
Fun - 4.5/5
Overall Design - 4/5
Value - 5/5
Rebuy - 4/5


As with all of our other official reviews, these cards will be made available to SCF members through contests, card cash store, and SASE.



Overall, this break leaves me with a good feeling. The base set design is crisp and unobtrusive and the rookie selection is very good. The base Topps product is one of the better sets to find your player or school of choice and with 110 total rookies there is good representation both at different positions and from different schools.

I found this box extremely fun to break as nearly every pack had something other than base set cards in them. Topps has done a good job in mixing insert sets from years past with fresh new ideas. The military service inserts in particular are refreshing.

I like the clean design but would like to see a little bit more variation from year to year. As always, the photography is excellent. This is an area I have come to expect Topps to shine in with this product.

At 50-60 dollars per hobby box Topps delivers good value. Along with getting a good portion of a base set you will receive a few dozen parallels and inserts. With this amount of non base cards in a box the chances of pulling a nice rookie parallel are good. I also like the fact that Topps is guaranteeing a relic or auto in every hobby box and 2 in HTA boxes. This only adds value to an already strong product.

I didn’t score rebuy quite as high due to the fact that this box contained 3 duplicates of non base cards. There was a duplicate in the military fans of the game insert set and 2 gold foil parallel duplicates. The insert set I’m not to concerned about as the overall set is only 11 cards and 5 others of the same type were pulled from this box. I chalk that up to that particular insert set being seeded higher than the others. On the other hand, the 2 gold foil parallel duplicates are less acceptable since the gold foils are a base set parallel there are 438 other possibilities so this points to a possible collation issue. Overall, if given the choice to buy another box given the results of this one I would buy another box.

Thank you to the fantastic people at Topps for the opportunity to review this product.

[dallascisco]

Ring of Honor




Armed Forces Fans of the Game



Military Service



Game Used

[AFutureLonghorn94]

cool break seems like a good product this year

[sch1tz0fr3nik]

Not a Bad break, that Aikman Jersey was a good pull!
Interesting Idea on the Armed Forces Fans of the Game set...And the Military Service Inserts

[trevorp121]

Wow that aikman is pretty cool

[TheTGB]

Yeah the military theme is pretty interesting, something I haven't seen done before and I'm sure the military folk really like it as well. Nice pull on the Aikman jersey!

[RenegadeLonghorn]

Nice review Dallas.

[etmill01]

great review Dallas..Thanks Ed

[theonedru]

i liked it except for the military/armed forces crap, if i buy football packs i want them to contain cards of football players, im getting sick of all this non sports stuff getting into sports packs

[spuds1961]

nice break and review dallas,just wondering did you pull a limas sweed rookie card #365 with justin forsett stats on back #362.Just trying to find out if it's an error card that i have or whether they are all like that.thanks in advance Steve