First Buzz: 2025-26 Topps Holiday basketball cards

[weatherwarrior]

Originally Posted by glassofwater

anyone open advent calendar? do they have buybacks like in baseball?

They do not. They are just 24 packs. The evergreen are in the packs.

Hope this helps.

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[glassofwater]

Originally Posted by weatherwarrior

They do not. They are just 24 packs. The evergreen are in the packs.

Hope this helps.

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thanks i will open megas.

[oldgoldy97]

Originally Posted by glassofwater

thanks i will open megas.

Better choice, by far.

[weatherwarrior]

Originally Posted by glassofwater

thanks i will open megas.

Yeah i opened one calendar and you can get 3 megas for the price of 2 calendars. Much better to open to tye megas in my opinion.

I didnt particularly care for the advent calendars. However, they would be fun for kids to do on a daily basis leading uo to Christmas.

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[bd3d86]

Originally Posted by oldgoldy97

The printer stacked the glitter sheets before they cured or they didn’t use the correct coating. The light blue didn’t have the glitter on the back like the grey ones.

Half of my light blue had glitter all over the back of them.

[phil]

Funny Target had NBA Advents $44.99 cheaper than Topps, out at the moment but will likely reload. Excell must have realized how junky they are.

[Anarchy99]

People selling short prints for next to nothing.

make it make sense

i get it, there arent THAT SP, but still unlike MLB holiday SP's are only 1 per box, and the ones that arent the Cookie Back are basically 1 per 2.3 boxes

yet people are putting up star SP's for $3-5 on ebay.


Steph Curry case hits like Hidden Elfs and the Frostbite, selling for basically price of ONE box, they are 1 per 20 boxes

[BackToWax]

Originally Posted by Anarchy99

People selling short prints for next to nothing.

make it make sense

i get it, there arent THAT SP, but still unlike MLB holiday SP's are only 1 per box, and the ones that arent the Cookie Back are basically 1 per 2.3 boxes

yet people are putting up star SP's for $3-5 on ebay.


Steph Curry case hits like Hidden Elfs and the Frostbite, selling for basically price of ONE box, they are 1 per 20 boxes

Frostbite is an ugly card. Why would anyone over pay for it?

SPs aren't really interesting. Why would anyone over pay for them?

[BabaORiley]

Ripped a case of Megas...

Nolan Traore RC Green Holly Stocking Stuffer
Vanic Konan-Niederhauser RC Auto
Edgecombe Variation Backs
LBJ Blue Glitter
Wemby Light Blue/Silver Glitters
Cam Thomas Hidden Elf
Zero Frostbite
Zero #'d
Numbered Relic wasn't a good name (maybe Myles Turner, I forgot) and was numbered to /199 or /299

As others have said, the silver glitters are almost all messed up with glitter on the backs, glitter on whatever card they were touching, dinged corners... Just, man, in a product without many actual "hits", having your pack hits be that mangled is rough.

It wouldn't have killed Topps to make the SPs more interesting with Christmas elements or something. Cookie Backs are the most meh possible variation and green/red design elements on fronts are right behind. If they didn't reliably fall 3rd card from the bottom, they'd get glossed over frequently. Nothing about them jumps out. Not sure Cam Thomas warranted a Hidden Elf card.

You don't rip Topps Holiday for anything other than the fun of the rip but there were some decisions that made it objectively less fun than the baseball iteration.

Oh, and the collation... I have 2 Derik Queen base cards and 13 Cooper Flagg. 5 each of Dylan Harper and Edgecombe.

[green4407]

Originally Posted by BabaORiley

It wouldn't have killed Topps to make the SPs more interesting with Christmas elements or something. Cookie Backs are the most meh possible variation and green/red design elements on fronts are right behind.

Yeah no lights, presents instead of the ball, candy canes, etc. and those holiday backs (for both baseball and basketball) are just lame.

They're selling for peanuts because although supply is less than baseball, demand is even less because there's nothing interesting about them.

Also advent calendars suck and are selling at cost. I guess some lucky friends/family will be getting the 4 extra I have as gifts.

[BabaORiley]

Originally Posted by green4407

Yeah no lights, presents instead of the ball, candy canes, etc. and those holiday backs (for both baseball and basketball) are just lame.

They're selling for peanuts because although supply is less than baseball, demand is even less because there's nothing interesting about them.

Also advent calendars suck and are selling at cost. I guess some lucky friends/family will be getting the 4 extra I have as gifts.

I got two advent calendars and hit green plaids of Flagg, Edgecombe, LBJ & Wemby. That would be great if the green plaid weren't also unremarkable looking!

[TLev10]

Opened two Megas last night. Pulled my first ever retail 1/1, Quickley Golden Glitter Holiday auto.

[weatherwarrior]

Originally Posted by BabaORiley

Ripped a case of Megas...

Nolan Traore RC Green Holly Stocking Stuffer
Vanic Konan-Niederhauser RC Auto
Edgecombe Variation Backs
LBJ Blue Glitter
Wemby Light Blue/Silver Glitters
Cam Thomas Hidden Elf
Zero Frostbite
Zero #'d
Numbered Relic wasn't a good name (maybe Myles Turner, I forgot) and was numbered to /199 or /299

As others have said, the silver glitters are almost all messed up with glitter on the backs, glitter on whatever card they were touching, dinged corners... Just, man, in a product without many actual "hits", having your pack hits be that mangled is rough.

It wouldn't have killed Topps to make the SPs more interesting with Christmas elements or something. Cookie Backs are the most meh possible variation and green/red design elements on fronts are right behind. If they didn't reliably fall 3rd card from the bottom, they'd get glossed over frequently. Nothing about them jumps out. Not sure Cam Thomas warranted a Hidden Elf card.

You don't rip Topps Holiday for anything other than the fun of the rip but there were some decisions that made it objectively less fun than the baseball iteration.

Oh, and the collation... I have 2 Derik Queen base cards and 13 Cooper Flagg. 5 each of Dylan Harper and Edgecombe.

That green holly card is a great pull. Those are very low print run.

The condition is the biggest concern for me.

But for 700 dollars a case or 1 and half jumbos its not a terrible rip.

My thing is if topps has better qa/qc these would be really enjoyable. Those metallic foils are great chases. Sorry the rest of the case wasn't that great.

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[22emmittfan]

Be careful opening megas these are loose cards in box. Just don’t rip open


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[ThatGuyPal]

Are Beckett’s odds wrong for this? Haven’t been reading thread but Beckett checklist has -1 SP variation per mega listed but then under the variations checklist (always check these for baseball/basketball so I don’t miss anything) it says the image and back are both 1:23 and the elf is 1:200. That would mean you don’t get a variation per based on odds, is it a SP per box?

Either way I got a Jokic image variation SP and a Flagg base, seems you get a ton of rookies so not sure how impressive that is but I had fun ripping. Glitters def stick to the card above it and I agree it’s less fun without the goofy variations in baseball. The only thing it’s an ok concept for rookies (which I didn’t pull so not pumping), if rarity was the exact same many would prob prefer just a piece of snow in the corner of a Flagg card than Flagg wearing a Christmas scarf, shooting a large ornament instead of a ball and rocking a Santa suit lol

[smanzari]

Originally Posted by bd3d86

Half of my light blue had glitter all over the back of them.

I had TONS of cards with Glitter issues - sending a package with literally 80-ish from 3 Boxes to Topps for Replacement. Not only was it bad on the actual parallels, but impacted Base (including like 3 Flaggs) and a Relic