What: 2017 Leaf Draft football cards
Arrives: March
Box basics: Two autographs per 20-pack box (20 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy & The Basics: These boxes will continue to include two autographs atop cards of top potential NFL Draft selections. There will also be a small number of the boxes available through hobby channels. Packs will include five cards. No other details were released but the boxes carry a suggested retail price of $19.99. 

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The green-tongued turnbuckle eater is gone.

George "The Animal" Steele, a veteran professional wrestler whose career ended during the 1980s peak of the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) and was known for his appetite for mayhem has died. He was 79.

Born Jim Myers, he was a multi-sport star in high school and a football player for (and graduate of) Michigan State. He also earned a master's degree before he turned to professional wrestling in the 1960s -- all this while also working as a high school teacher and coach the entire time. (He's also a member of the state's football coaches hall of Fame.)

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What: 2016-17 Leaf Metal Draft hockey cards
Arrives: April
Box basics: Seven autographs or vintage memorabilia cards per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Metal Draft returns with more autographs per box, a smaller case size and a lower print run than last time around while also including notable players from the past and the present.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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What: 2017 Leaf Ultimate Draft football cards
Arrives: April
Box basics: Five autographs per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf's latest reveal will be full of nothing but on-card autographs on memorable past designs with the newest NFL hopefuls in what will be a very limited release.

Keep reading for more info and a gallery of images.

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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: Impressive breaks from around the collecting world.

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What: 2016 Leaf All-American Football Vault football cards
Arrives: March 24
Box basics: One past box and one 2016 Leaf Metal All-American Bonus Box per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf revisits the U.S. Army All-American Bowl with a limited-edition release that revisits six past years of the prep all-star event via full boxes of those past products combined with newer bonus cards from last year.

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What: 2017 Leaf Memorabilia Treasury
Arrives: April 2017
Box basics: Five memorabilia pieces per box.

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Trading Cards follows up its Treasury release of last year with the same type of surprises inside -- autographed and notable items from the sports world and beyond.

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What: 2017 Leaf Metal Draft football cards
Arrives: March
Box basics: Five autographs per box (15 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Metal Draft returns "with a vengeance" according to the company with a "very strong draft class and top-notch production quality."

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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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 pulls from the past and present take center stage on this Friday.

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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: Transcendent hauls, Star Wars, NFL breaks, 2016 Bowman Draft and plenty more.

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What: 2017 Leaf Originals wrestling cards
Arrives: April/May
Box basics: Five autographs in every box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf turns to its Originals brand for the third time with nothing but autographs in the mix from stars of several wrestling promotions.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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What: 2017 Leaf Pop Century Signed Photograph Edition
Arrives: Late March
Box basics: One autographed 8-by-10 photo per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf's latest autograph product for pop culture arrives with certified autographed photos from the biggest names in Hollywood as well as big names from elsewhere.

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A new year is almost here and Buzz has a few questions for you about your collecting habits.

Simply put, we want to know more about what you collect and here are 10 questions we hope you'll take a few minutes to answer.

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As the calendar change to 2017 comes closer and closer, there's only one season on cardboard that's basically over -- though there are still two brands to come (*noted below) -- and that's the baseball card season.

The NBA, NFL and NHL will still carry over their cardboard seasons into the next calendar year, making a Best of the Year vote here more complicated. But it's in MLB where we can do that here a bit easier.

There were plenty of interesting developments among new baseball card products in the last year for collectors -- notably the unconventional arrival of Topps Now and the priciest box ever, Topps Transcendent Collection. While those are very different highlight-worthy card experiences that helped define 2016's baseball landscape, perhaps there's another set that defined the year for you.

And that's why we want your vote ... check out your options below and pick one. Feel free to add a comment or tell Buzz what you think on Twitter as to why you chose the product that you did.

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One of the biggest stars in the Star Wars universe has died.

Carrie Fisher, who was born to Hollywood stars before the fame of playing the iconic Princess Leia, died on Tuesday after suffering a heart attack last week. She was 60.

The news was announced by a spokesman on behalf of her daughter.

“It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother, Carrie Fisher, passed away at 8:55 this morning,” the statement said. “She was loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly. Our entire family thanks you for your thoughts and prayers.”

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What: 2017 Leaf Best of Baseball cards
Arrives: Feb. 24
Box basics: One buyback card and one 1991 Leaf Throwback acetate card per box (five boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf's buyback brand returns with some of the biggest and most-iconic cards in the history of baseball cards (from all companies) along with a new companion set from Leaf.

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Leaf Trading Cards' next high-end hockey brand arrives later this month and it includes memorabilia from some of the biggest names in the history of the game.

It's 2016 Leaf Lumber Kings and it is set to arrive on Dec. 23 and to hold hockey fans over the company teased a number of its high-end inclusions online on Thursday.

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What: 2016 Leaf Trinity baseball cards
Arrives: February
Box basics: Six autographed cards per box (10 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Although other companies have them planned, Leaf is the first to visually debut baseball cards of former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow with this release, which will be packed with nothing but on-card autographs.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery.

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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 pulls, big questions, a Pele case and The Greatest, too.

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It's that time of year and there's one recent release that you won't find anywhere else in wax form that's got a bit of everything from Leaf Trading Cards potentially inside.

It's the 2016 Leaf Holiday Bonus Box and it might make for a stocking stuffer that packs some oomph.

What's inside these boxes?

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What: 2017 Leaf Masked Men hockey cards
Arrives: January/February
Box basics: Three autographs or memorabilia cards per six-card box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf celebrates goaltenders with a mix of hits and Metal cards as part of a print-to-order release.

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

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A previous card company owner is getting back in the trading card business.

Brian Price, the former owner of In The Game who sold the company to Leaf Trading Cards nearly three years ago announced on his blog Tuesday that he's back in the game with the launch of a new venture called President's Choice Trading Cards.

And they'll potentially be arriving very soon.

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What: 2017 Leaf Cut Signature Edition History of Baseball
Arrives: January
Box basics: One cut signature card per box (20 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf's newest cut autograph product will be all Hall of Famers as part of a made-to-order product with all serial-numbered cards encapsulated and printed on Metal Prismatic stock.

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What: 2016 Leaf Cut Signature Edition
Arrives: November
Box basics: One cut signature card per box (10 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf's newest cut autograph product will be one of its rarest with just 100 cases produced with a mix of big names from the sports, political and entertainment worlds ... and more.

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What: 2016 Leaf Jack Eichel Collection hockey cards
Arrives: November
Box basics: One bonus autograph with each 30-card boxed set (20 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf commemorates the rookie season of its exclusive hockey star with a boxed set that will deliver an autograph every time -- and sometimes they will be parallels.

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