What: 2015 Panini National Treasures baseball cards
Arrives: January 2016
Hobby box basics: Eight autograph or memorabilia cards with one being a booklet.

What's buzz-worthy: National Treasures' third edition for baseball will up the ante on game-used memorabilia cards with oversized jumbo swatches for pieces not normally found in cards. Among them? Stirrup socks. Sock cards will be limited to five copies or less and showcase players such as Lou Gehrig, Bob Feller, Elson Howard, Gabby Hartnett, Herb Pennock, Mike Schmidt and Pete Rose. Also to be found? Fielding gloves, batting gloves and sweatband cards. This will include current and past stars such as Kris Bryant, Byron Buxton, Kyle Schwarber, Ken Griffey Jr., Barry Bonds, Tony Gwynn, Mike Schmidt and Willie Stargell, according to the company.

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Update: Topps canceled this set following the Royals' victory.

The 2015 World Series lineup isn't set yet, but the details of the world champions' commemorative baseball card set from Topps are here.

Whether it's the New York Mets against the Kansas City Royals or the Toronto Blue Jays, the champs set will include 40 World Series-branded baseball cards with 15 highlights from the team's postseason run. Atop that, there will be cards for 25 key players on the team as well as cards for the Championship Series and World Series MVPs from the team.

Each case of these will include 16 sets.

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What: 2016 Topps Gypsy Queen baseball cards
Arrives: April 6
Hobby box basics: 24 packs, 10 cards -- two autographs, two Relics and one 10-card mini box box-topper

What's buzz-worthy: The sixth edition of Gypsy Queen follows much of the same formula from the past releases with the same number of hits and the same mini box box-topper we have seen from past years. What's new here this time are a few insert sets (MVP Minis, Power Alley), some parallels (MVP Minis autos, Mini Black autos) and a few other fun inclusions. Those will be Laces Around the League Relics -- cards with baseball stitch swatches limited to five copies -- as well as jumbo patch Relic and Ancient Era Remnants -- aka buybacks from the 1920s to 1950s.

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There are seven new products on tap for this week with a new addition to the Topps Heritage baseball line and the debut of Panini Contenders Draft on the hardcourt notables along with the latest football releases for Panini Playbook and Topps Finest.

Topps celebrates the 65th anniversary of its first baseball card set with 2015 Topps Heritage '51 Collection, which is a boxed set of 104 cards created in the style of the company's simple 1951 release with every set including 21 parallel cards and a certified autograph.

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Among next week's football card arrivals is 2015 Topps Finest, which is the latest edition of a brand known for its Chrome look and feel but with a hit in every mini box along with a different volume of color and intensity in design.

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Collectors aiming to collect a master set of 2015 Topps Heritage WWE will get a head start on the release with the arrival of the newest WWE video game on Tuesday.

Every copy of WWE 2K16 for the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One will include a Heritage card of WWE Hall of Famer "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, according to the @WWEGames Twitter account. There will be two versions of the card -- one with a white border and one with a blue border for the set that uses the memorable 1985 Topps baseball design.

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After a recent interactive vote from collectors that helped decide its image, Upper Deck revealed the Young Guns Rookie Card for No. 1 draft pick Connor McDavid on Thursday.

Here's how the card will look when it arrives in packs of 2015-16 Upper Deck Series 1 when it arrives in stores on Nov. 5.

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Quick, can you name the baseball card sets that New York Mets slugger and NLCS MVP Daniel Murphy first appears in?

If you can't, you're not alone, but that number is dwindling as it seems more and more collectors are picking off cards featuring the latest player to have The Big Apple buzzing.

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Among next week's arrivals is the newest edition of Panini America's Playbook, which is a product loaded, as the name suggests, with booklet cards that have pushed the envelope pretty well in the last couple of years.

This year will be no different with a new assortment of Armory and logo-centric patch books that one could easily argue are helping change the game when it comes to memorabilia cards.

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If you're in Canada, you know all about Tim Hortons' coffee and donuts, but there's one bit of information these days that might make a visit to the shop even more appealing.

There are packs of Upper Deck hockey cards that include redemptions for Sidney Crosby autographs and one of the earliest cards of No. 1 draft pick Connor McDavid -- and they can only be bought at the chain's stores. Because of that, demand for these rarer redemptions has been high.

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Jameis Winston's stats through six weeks of the NFL season might not overwhelm you -- 1,174 yards passing seven touchdowns and a 77.6 rating -- but one statistic might surprise you.

He's the only rookie (so far) to win the NFL Rookie of the Week award more than once.

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Pete Gray is one of Major League Baseball's more unusual finds in the record books and now he can be found in packs of 2015 Topps Update as a player in its Pride & Perseverance insert set.

It's a 12-card set showcasing past and present players who have had obstacles in life that didn't stop them from appearing in a big-league game.

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When Topps' First Pitch insert cards arrived in 2015 Topps Series 1 earlier this year, they got collectors buzzing with the first MLB-approved cardboard of a few big-name celebrities.

The same happened for Series 2, but when the company released it's 5x7 version of the entire set late this summer -- a set only initially sold on Topps.com -- it snuck in five more celebs, making the total jumbo release 30 cards.

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With the Chicago Cubs trying to make a World Series run, the memorable scene from Back to the Future Part II where the team wins the World Series has been on some sports fans' minds.

Naturally, with today -- Oct. 21, 2015 -- being the day that Marty McFly arrives in the future there's even more mainstream media attention with segments and clips about then and now and, of course, the Cubs.

But, if you're a collector of the stars of the film and want autographs of the film's top names? You'll need a DeLorean with a Flux Capacitor.

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Rewind to a year ago and New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom was one of the hottest autographs in the hobby simply because of one thing.

He didn't have that much cardboard -- signed or not.

This year, the big-haired right-hander in The Big Apple is working his way toward a potential World Series appearance with his Mets, building upon his 14-8 campaign as the reigning NL Rookie of the Year. And, just like last year, he's got some pretty warm cardboard as he's on the mound in Wrigley Field taking on the Chicago Cubs in the National League Championship Series tonight.

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Bobby Orr is one of hockey's all-time greats and he's got a pair of championships to prove it along with countless other pieces of NHL hardware.

However, this perfect BVG 10 copy of Orr's 1966-67 Topps Rookie Card shows yet another way that he remains one of the greatest. How? It's got more than 400 people watching on eBay to see whether it sells -- and its asking price is not to be believed.

How much? Well, let's just say it puts most of his playing-days paydays to shame. 

Autographed chin strap cards -- they've never been done before, but they're coming in 2015 Immaculate Collection College, which was revealed this week and is coming in December from Panini America.

Packing just seven cards per box -- five of those being autographs or memorabilia -- this brand will include stars from several sports on cards that might not have been seen before and all are done using NCAA team logos and colors. One cool example? A memorabilia card of Tony Gwynn the basketball star at San Diego State.

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The trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens arrived during Monday Night Football and has been viewed more than 10.1 million times in its first 13 hours online via the official Star Wars account on YouTube (above).

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Updated with an international trailer ... which is even better.

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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.

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New this week are seven products for three of the four major sports along with the latest MMA release and one non-sport set.

Leading the way is Topps' third and final installment of its flagship baseball card set as 2015 Topps Update arrives on Wednesday. This 400-card release includes all of the parallels and inserts collectors have come to expect from the first two releases as well as a few surprises. Standard hobby boxes will include one autograph or Relic, while HTA Jumbo boxes will include an auto and two Relics.

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What: 2016 Bowman baseball cards
Arrives: April 27
Hobby box basics: 24 packs, 10 cards -- one autograph

What's buzz-worthy: It it ain't broke, don't fix it -- just add to it. And that's exactly what Topps has done for 2016 taking the familiar lineup and adding Shimmer variation Refractors, a set of International Ink autos for July signees and a set of Sophomore Standout autos to capitalize on the successful arrivals of players such as Kris Bryant, Byron Buxton and Carlos Correa. Also new will be Turn Two autos where cards will be two-sided and showcase top prospects.

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The Chicago Cubs are the one to watch on cardboard so far this postseason as their powerful pack of rookies helped knock off the NL Central champion St. Louis Cardinals. They had four newcomers on the field in their NLDS clincher but aren’t the only team bolstered by youth. Here are 11 key rookies from postseason squads who you can find in wax boxes or sets on BlowoutCards.com.

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Welcome to Blowout Buzz — the blog of BlowoutCards.com. Here is where we’ll showcase the stuff that has collectors buzzing, whether it be a look at the newest releases, the newest product announcements or the newest cool things out there beyond just cardboard.

Why? We want you to find and collect what you like.