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What's Buzzing Today: Star Wars Rogue One and WWE Divas Revolution breaks along with a Super case of 2016 Bowman Draft, an impressive A.I. collection and what about "Ravishing" Rick Rude's best card?

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2016 Topps Star Wars Rogue One Series 1 trading cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 11 (10 standard plus one medallion pack)
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 62
Base set completion: 
40 of 90 (44 percent)
Duplicates: 0

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Star Wars Rogue One, Americana breaks, NFL legends & more.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big questions, big breaks, big pulls & some Star Wars Rogue One.

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The lead in Rogue One is signing for Topps' newest Star Wars set but -- spoiler alert -- she's only available as a redemption.

Oscar nominee Felicity Jones has autographs in 2016 Topps Star Wars Rogue One Series 1, which officially arrives today along with the final checklist that she appears on.

It's a card that's already in demand -- and the asking prices for those already on eBay are out of this galaxy.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2008 Donruss Americana Celebrity Cuts
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 6
Base set completion: 
3 of 100 (3 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards (3) – Ashley Judd, John Wooden, Ron Howard

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: The $25,000 Transcendent Collection boxes keep them talking and some impressive breaks -- 2016 Bowman Draft and more.

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Free Comic Book Day is still a few months away but it's never to soon to see what the SWAG will include.

A dozen free issues made for the hobby-shop holiday were revealed by its organizers on Monday with titles from Marvel and DC a bit more secretive than others, which include books from Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, Archie Comics, Bongo Comics, BOOM! Studios, ONI Press, Titan Comics, Valiant Entertainment and Viz Media.

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It's all your fault, Nintendo.

The hottest (though seemingly non-existent) toy of the holiday season has been without question the NES Classic, a miniature modern-day version of the old Nintendo Entertainment System pre-loaded with 30 different games from the heyday of the 8-bit platform.

Buzz knew this would be big the day it was revealed months ago and I've checked chain stores multiple times a week in the time since its arrival last month seeking that Shangri-La Shelf where the Classic sat at its posted price of $59.99 -- not the massive amounts more allegedly being paid on eBay. (Sure, some of those "sales" aren't legit -- many of them in fact -- but some of the lesser high-priced sales wouldn't shock me since I'm sure the NES Classic has caused angst for other people out there.)

There was a side effect after all this aisle-walking and checking out video games like I hadn't done in years, if ever. It made me do something I never would have predicted months ago.

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Rogue One isn't the only Star Wars arrival next week as Topps has one of its higher-end brands for the sci-fi franchise ready to go on Wednesday.

It's 2016 Topps Star Wars High Tek and the checklist for this one arrived on Thursday.

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The first trailer for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Baywatch reboot has arrived in advance of its arrival on May 19, giving the world a new take -- an R-rated comedy -- at the life-saving crew that included C.J. Parker, Mitch Buchanan and Stephanie Holden.

Oh, and we're sure we'll get another character -- The Hoff -- with a cameo, too.

Check out the trailer and tell us what you think after the jump.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: New Topps Dynasty baseball cards and some bold Black Friday-inspired breaks from around the sports and non-sports world.

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What: 2017 Topps Star Wars 40th Anniversary trading cards
Arrives: April 26
Box basics: Two hits (one autograph or sketch guaranteed) per 24-pack box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: The anniversary of the original Star Wars film gets a cardboard celebration with a look back that includes past posters, autographs of top stars and a push toward today's films, too.

Keep reading for more as well as a gallery of images.

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No, it's not the new baseball cap for the Las Vegas Vaders, it's the newest creation from New Era for an upcoming film that nearly everyone should know about now.

It's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and while we have to wait 14 more days for that film to arrive the company's cap collection for the movie is here.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2011 Panini Americana trading cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: Shop around online.

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 41
Base set completion: 
38 of 100 (38 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – David Carradine, Linda Hamilton, Corey Haim, Ralph Macchio, Ric Flair, Christina Applegate, Jeffrey Tambor, Leslie Nielsen, Burt Reynolds, Michael Madsen, Michelle Beadle, Pamela Anderson, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Selma Blair

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2015 Panini Americana trading cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: Shop around online.

Packs per box: 10
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 53
Base set completion: 
33 of 73 (45 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Al Pacino, Shannon Elizabeth, Molly Ringwald, Sylvester Stallone, Paula Abdul, James Earl Jones, Eliza Dushku, Danica McKellar, Katrina Bowden, John C. McGinley, Vanilla Ice, Kelly Rowland, Nick Cannon

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Sometimes memorable characters inspire new ones -- or new ones arrive that remind us of others but with a twist.

A series of art prints from Wisconsin-based artist Alex Solis gives us a reminder of just that.

They are "Icons Unmasked."

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One of Rogue One's biggest stars is signing for the next Topps Star Wars set.

Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker will have autographs in 2016 Topps Star Wars Rogue One Series 1, which arrives on Dec. 14 in advance of the film two days later.

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Black Friday is almost here but Buzz is kicking off the Blowout contests early right here, right now.

Above is a 1/1 Stormtrooper sketch by artist Carlos Cabaleiro that was pulled from a hobby box of 2016 Topps Star Wars Rogue One: Mission Briefing and we want it to be yours.

How?

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Sometimes you just get sidetracked by an email.

That was the case Friday morning when the latest images from Sideshow Toys spotlighting its newest (and some past) Premium Format figures arrived in Buzz's inbox.

They're premium in size -- in the case of Deadpool here 24 inches tall and 14 pounds -- and premium in price. But, most importantly, they're premium in appeal as they are ridiculously detailed in their varying forms.

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What: 2017 Upper Deck Marvel Annual trading cards
Arrives: February (and also on e-Pack).
Box basics: One patch, sketch, plexi-sketch or premium insert per 20-pack box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The year in Marvel Comics gets a review in Annual the first planned look back at the year in books that Upper Deck has penciled into its comicard lineup.

Keep reading for more as well as a gallery.

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Update: The book above sold for $358,500, which is a new record.

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The newest Heritage Auctions comic book sale going on now includes some downright super books in CGC slabs.

How super? Six-figure super for three books with plenty of time remaining before they close.

The leader so far is one of three CGC 4.5 copies of Superman No. 1 in existence. There are just three copies of the 1939 book that have graded a CGC 6 and only two CGC 8s exist. Earlier this year, a CGC 4.0 sold for $299,000. Those are the kind of numbers that matter for such an iconic issue for an iconic star -- and Heritage hasn't sold a CGC 5 or higher since 2007.

The number that matters most here? You know ... the price?

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but the breaks.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Plenty of breaks -- from Star Wars to MLB to NFL and even The Walking Dead.

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Fans of the upcoming Rogue One film can get their Star Wars fix on cardboard every single week with a new set and online program from Topps that launched on Monday.

It's 2016 Topps Rogue One Mission Briefing Monday and it will be sold via sets each week only initially on Topps.com. This first set includes six cards and they are all images that were previously teased by Entertainment Weekly. They use the memorable 1977 Topps Star Wars design.

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