..not a lot. Neither new product was in stock (wth, Target?) but there was a good variety of intriguing options. Prizm baseball? Unlicensed. Pass. Diamond Kings? Unlicensed..but I could use them for my All-Time Teams. Opening Day? I'd actually prefer flagship since the surplus box I bought on eBay had most of series 1.
As is my habit when shopping, I put together a "maybe" pile, walked around with it, and considered my options. I knew I wanted some Score Football, so I picked out two fat packs.
The Diamond Kings 'fat pack' of 20 cards was priced at $10. Hard pass. I grabbed a basketball repack - which ended up being a wise choice. Still, I was unsatisfied.
I met up with my girls in the toy aisle. Not sure why the Mrs. took them there when we were only supposed to get milk, but it was a good news/bad news situation.
The good news was .. my daughters directed me to the stash of Topps series 2 on the end cap of the toy aisle. The bad news? One of them bought a toy with her own money and the other one was not happy she couldn't get a toy, too. This is why I never get to Target anymore.
Anyway, here are the Score packs. You can't beat the value of 80 cards for $10, especially when they look like this:
The abundance of "tribute to older design because we can't think of a new design" sets has annoyed me for a while now. Not here though. This 1989 Score reboot is fantastic! The AFC cards have a red border and the NFC cards have a blue border. Nice touch.
Each pack yielded 19 base cards, 2 red parallels, 13 inserts, and 6 rookies. That's..a lot of non-base cards! Good thing I'm not building the set (I am tempted to build this set though.)
Pack in my pack! Cobb is a Cowboy now. The one problem with an early release is the rosters aren't updated. Heck, the rookie cards don't even mention which team drafted the player:
Kyler Murray! Score! The Nick Bosa is an insert, I think that's the 1998 Score design IIRC.
Here's the rest of the rookies.
The shiny inserts from pack one, including a Patrick Mahomes parallel. These are so much nicer than the 2017 Score cards. I have way too many of those, thanks to repack boxes.
Pack 2 inserts. Too many to fit in one scan. I had to omit an Antonio Brown Throwbacks and a Drew Brees fantasy stars. i thought Mahomes was a dupe at first.
I'll recap the rest of my Target run in another post. I've also got a Stranger Things break to blog about, and my All-Time Teams celebration starts in September.
In October, Collecting Cutch is bringing back his Save Second Base event. This year has a little more significance to yours truly, as has been mentioned here before. Brian is really grabbing
our attention with contests and giveaways. Visit Collecting Cutch for a chance to win a Troy Tulowitzki Prizm BCA Autograph or a stack of Topps Chrome pink parallels.
Thanks for reading!
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