2024 Topps Baseball Forum

Collation has been HORRIBLE for Series 1. Not that it's ever great, but this is brutal.

Three times this month I've opened two hangers, bought together (2 each at three different stores). Two of the three "sets" of hangers had essentially the exact same base cards, and almost all the same inserts.

I also forgot to mention. 2 Retail Packs, 5 Fat Packs, 4 Hangers, And 2 Blasters Total That Me And My Buddy Opened And No Base Ellys. I got 2 stars of MLB but no base.

Bought 3 more blasters and 2 fat packs.  Now I only need 3 more for the set.  Back to the store.....

I did get a watering can out of 5 though. :)

My process has been not to duplicate the same purchase (2 blasters at once or two hangers at once) I've been buying one hanger and one blaster at a time. And because my Walmart keeps selling out, every time I buy I believe it to be from a different shipment. This so far has netted me a 75% completion of the set. But I will admit I do feel there have been several players that I have gotten significantly more duplicates than others. I was happy today when my blaster yielded the De La Cruz RC.

I can't remember unfortunately which product from the past, it was deliberately set up that if you wanted a chance at completing your set certain numbers were only obtainable in the other packaging format, so at a quick glance they may have re-introduced this tactic.

For example to get a complete set together you may need to buy hangers and either Jumbo or Hobby because only the hangers have certain cards towards the base set . 

Which we may end up bemoaning it all soon enough when what we should have all done and just waited for those factory sets (but its just so darn fun YAY to open packs but costly BOO)