2023 Topps Baseball Forum

I have yet to find these up by me, I just grabbed the photo from the interwebs, but much like the Series 1 collector's boxes, this one has some exclusives.  It also has all three series in the box.  Although the majority of the packs are update.  I guess I'm curious where the jumbos, jumbo companion and flagship collection exclusives should be put.  No pin in this one thank goodness.  I would think Update, but figure I'd get a consensus or a ruling either way.  Or should the Flagship collection be listed as a separate set?  If you're curious what the cards look like there are a bunch of Youtube videos up already.

I saw these at my local Costco a couple days ago. Thought about grabbing one for $34 + tax, but didn't. 

2 packs 2023 Topps Flagship series 1, and 2 from series 2, and 6 from update.

a Jumbo / top loader card, and 3 silver packs, which have 5 cards each of something called Flagship Collection, which is 100 cards.

Can you imagine what these would have resold for on ebay during the flipper boom during Covid?

No kidding, as it is I think they are reselling about $5-10 over cost right now on ebay.   I could imagine people would have been buying these by the pallet during the pandemic.

Since these contain cards from both sets (S1/S2 and Update), put the oversized S1/S2 cards in with S1/S2. The silver pack cards, I guess it depends on what they actually are, but my initial thought is to list them in S1/S2 with the checklist and create a set for them in Update and cross-link the checklist from S1/S2 (one listing, 2 ways of getting into it).

The silver packs are the The Flagship Collection cards and they have a unique design, it's not a parallel of the 2023 set at all.  I think it's 100 cards.

Then it should be listed as I have suggested.

The 25 oversized cards are numbered OTC-#, the companion cards with them are CTC-#.  There are also image variants for the oversized which are numbered OTCSP-#.

There are 100 new Flagship Collection cards, numbered 1-100.  They also have numbered parallels, I have seen green SN99 and blue SN50 so far.

I can confirm there’s a red /10 parallel also

So I've opened 8 boxes and here's my feedback.

Box states oversized SP cards are 1 in 5 boxes. Of my 8 boxes I lucked out with no Dupes and 3 SPs - Trout, Acuna Jr, Judge. Base Oversized are numbered OTC-XX and SP are numbered OTCSP-XX These are unprotected "mounted" in the blister box so ZERO chance of perfect corners... and it seems SPs were treated a bit rougher when they were mounted. :-(

Just like with Series 1 Monster you get a standard size "Collectors Box" card loose in box in addition to Oversized Card. Loose card is NOT foilboard and is numbered CTC-XX. Like the series 1 MonsterBox standard card the back of the card has "Collector's Box" inside the homeplate near the card number to help you identify. 

Update Packs are standard retail style packs (no orange Halloween themed foils as found in blaster boxes). Insert rates seem more generous than Blaster packs.

Series 1 and 2 packs seem to be STRICTLY filler. I pulled a suspiciously high number of Homerun Challenge cards.... appears they are dumping these here now that season is over. I even pulled a (significantly devalued) "Free ToppsNow" card. The TN redemption expires 12/31 so I bet they were rushing these out while there's some redemption time left.

Flagship packs are fairly neat idea. Of the 24 pack I opened I pulled one (/99 green) parallel (Rizzo). These are nice 50pt (I believe) stock but I've found centering and corner cut crispness a bit lacking.    

Its one of the VERY few "good values" to come from Topps lately. I recommend at MSRP, try to avoid those flippers.

As other mentioned I am finding NOTHING online AFA a checklist.

I am working on the oversize checklist, which 8 did you get?  Also, with 120 of the flagship collection cards you could probably create most of the checklist for that insert set.