What's Buzzing: Talking NFL and MLB, Logofractors, eTopps, ripping Green Day GPK and more.

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1 -- An eTopps reaction ... and another thread

2 -- Still talking Logofractors

3 -- Living Set discussions

4 -- Opening some Green Day GPK

5 -- NFL Week 1 is almost here

6 -- More MLB chatter

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What's Buzzing: Green Day's Garbage Pail Kids, Big Dumper, non-sports grails, grading chatter and more.

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1 -- Still talking Big Dumper

2 -- All your MLB chatter is here

3 -- Talking Green Day's GPK debut

4 -- Non-sports grail cards?

5 -- Reactions to an ugly wrestling incident this past weekend

6 -- All your grading talk resides here

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading and knows that there are many reasons that collectors choose to slab cards. Sometimes it's to enhance the appeal and protect them when selling. Other times it's to protect an investment for the long-term or to protect for sentimental reasons. Or, it might be just for fun or curiosity about a potential grade.

Here's this month's grading diary here on The Buzz ...

A MONSTER YEAR ...
The Card: Shohei Ohtani 2018 Topps Heritage High Number -- Rookie Card
The Reason Graded: Ohtani had a monster season without even pitching -- first 50-50 Club member for starters and just short of the National League Triple Crown -- and his big-time potential had me submitting some of my RCs for him earlier this year. Did people expect this kind of showing, though? Probably not -- I know I didn't -- but I know Heritage RCs are my preference, so this one made the cut. The bottom corners seem to be the most-common issue with these cards, but this one was clean and so it made my sub -- and I will have two more on the way to grading, too, so you'll see more of this card during the off-season or by next spring.
The Grade: CGC 10

Reality Check: The graded volume is high here but perhaps still modest vs. PSA volumes -- I'm good with that -- and this one has only been topped three times. I dig that. This mark isn't that rare but it is one that would be in demand with the two slots below also where many will look.

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What: 2023 Topps Garbage Pail Kids x View Askew stickers
Arrives: Now via Topps.com
Box basics: 24 cards per six-pack box
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: The stars of Kevin Smith's multi-film empire -- the View Askewniverse -- gets taken on by the Garbage Pail Kids with a small set packed with nods to the comedies' profane pasts.

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What: 2021 Topps GPK Goes on Vacation
Arrives: March TBD, 2022
Box basics: One hit per 24-pack hobby collector tin (eight per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: The Kids are going on vacation and that means you're getting locations, outcomes and more oddities and parodies all in one spot ... and luggage tags, too.

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

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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: 2019 Topps Garbage Pail Kids We Hate the '90s (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (when available)

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 192
Base set completion: 
153 of 220 (70 percent)
Duplicates: 0

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To collect 'em all, you'll need some cereal.

Topps' Garbage Pail Kids are coming to FYE stores with a little more than just stickers involved. In fact, it's the stickers that are the insert in new Garbage Pail Kids Cereal revealed on Monday.

A mix of "crazy crisps and marshmallow barf bits" make up this one with two of four stickers included in every box. And cereal isn't the only option as an energy drink and chocolate bars are also on the way with GPK branding.

“As long-time Garbage Pail Kids fans, we are excited to be bringing this pop-culture classic to our customers in new and innovative ways,” says Jodie Evans, FYE’s SVP of Entertainment Merchandising and Marketing. “To further the interactive experience, we’ll be hosting [GPK artist Joe Simko] at a variety of live events to autograph cereal boxes, provide GPK sketches and engage with fans.”

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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: 2019 Topps Garbage Pail Kids We Hate the '90s (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 192
Base set completion: 
153 of 220 (70 percent)
Duplicates: 0

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What: 2018 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Oh, The Horror-ible!
Arrives: Sept. 19
Box basics: One hit per Hobby Collector box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: The Garbage Pail Kids take on the horror movie genre with "all-­new art, parodying monsters and horror and sci-­fi films and TV shows, broken down into era-­specific subsets."

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

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What: 2018 Topps Garbage Pail Kids We Hate the 1980s trading cards
Arrives: Jan. 17
Box basics: One hit per Hobby Collector box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: The Garbage Pail Kids take on the 1980s with their satirical sights set on cartoons/toys such as MASK, presidents such as Ronald Reagan, video games, fashion, TV, films and plenty more from the decade where the GPKs were born.

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

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What: 2016 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Prime Slime Trashy TV trading cards
Arrives: Oct. 5
Box basics: One hit per Hobby Collector box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The Garbage Pail Kids return with a second helping of Americana this year, but this time it's all about what's found on TV.

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

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Five presidential candidates will take a few more jabs on Wednesday when Topps' newest group of Garbage Pail Kids officially arrives with a 10-card subset specifically focusing on those seeking the highest office in the land.

The 2016 Topps Garbage Kids: American As Apple Pie In Your Face set includes spoofs of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Jeb Bush and Ben Carson. Each of them has a pair of names adorning artwork meant to evoke a laugh or two at their expense as part of an overall product that parodies American pastimes, icons and moments as only the Garbage Pail Kids can.

Its artwork on the wrappers? You can see it at right -- it's all keeping with an All-American theme. (You can click here to view a PDF of the checklist.)

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