First Buzz: 2026 Topps Chrome U.S. Winter Olympics & Paralympic Team

[mnvikingstwins]

Warping is terrible on the cards already, shades of like 2011 chrome baseball

[DaBaddestHic]

How are odds still not out for this product? Wasn't a fan of them removing odds from wrappers to begin with, but now they can't even release them online after a product has been out for weeks.

Originally Posted by mnvikingstwins

Warping is terrible on the cards already, shades of like 2011 chrome baseball

As long as it's not 2010 Topps Chrome bad!

I've taken to setting heavy objects on my card piles that sit on my card table to keep cards from warping...

[exospheer]

Originally Posted by mnvikingstwins

Warping is terrible on the cards already, shades of like 2011 chrome baseball

Which on card autos? Think dynasty might be the only on cards

[ThatGuyPal]

Originally Posted by exospheer

Which on card autos? Think dynasty might be the only on cards

The cards in general not autos

[DaBaddestHic]

I've opened 2 of the 4 boxes I ordered. Done pretty well I think. I honestly don't know much of anything about many of these athletes, so been doing a lot of reading on the backs to see what medals they've gotten.

Color:
Magenta /250: Rose Brennan, Seth Wescott, Lauren Macuga
Aqua /199: Breezy Johnson, Jake Canter, Kristi Yamaguchi
Blue /150: Judd Henkes, Alex Carpenter
Green /99: Nick Goepper, Jaelin Kauf

First box had 3 autos, the 2nd had 2.

Base autos: Ross Powers, Julia Marino, Hailey Langland

And then the big ones:

Red Auto /5: Nick Goepper
Green Auto /99: Mikaela Shiffrin

Nick seems like an interesting one to watch this year. Obviously the Mikaela is a great hit. I don't know if I should stop while I'm ahead (or at least breaking even) or keep going haha. Certainly the best autos I've gotten from anything baseball in a long time!

[smanzari]

Opened another box - both have been pretty great; I think I'm the only one casually buying these from the shop and I REALLY want to go get the rest, but I'm thinking somehow I just "luckily" got the two great boxes from the case.

[DaBaddestHic]

Originally Posted by smanzari

Opened another box - both have been pretty great; I think I'm the only one casually buying these from the shop and I REALLY want to go get the rest, but I'm thinking somehow I just "luckily" got the two great boxes from the case.

Wow you've killed it with those two boxes. You're underselling it haha.

[smanzari]

Originally Posted by DaBaddestHic

Wow you've killed it with those two boxes. You're underselling it haha.

I did; was very excited! (Still am TBH, one of the better supers I've pulled in a while)

Ended up going back to the LCS to show off the Super and Grab some supplies; grabbed a handful of more boxes - they were not nearly as good as the initial ones, definitely not a loaded case as suspected and not really worth sharing outside of an Alyssa Liu Flag Parallel Auto Redemption (I feel like I HAD to try after those 2 random boxes though! haha)

[eastbayak]

Originally Posted by smanzari

Opened another box - both have been pretty great; I think I'm the only one casually buying these from the shop and I REALLY want to go get the rest, but I'm thinking somehow I just "luckily" got the two great boxes from the case.

What a box! Congrats!

[hotcalsun]

Originally Posted by smanzari

I did; was very excited! (Still am TBH, one of the better supers I've pulled in a while)

Ended up going back to the LCS to show off the Super and Grab some supplies; grabbed a handful of more boxes - they were not nearly as good as the initial ones, definitely not a loaded case as suspected and not really worth sharing outside of an Alyssa Liu Flag Parallel Auto Redemption (I feel like I HAD to try after those 2 random boxes though! haha)

There does seem to be at least "a" box in a case that is pretty unbelievable.

These three came from the same box in my case:



I would order another case if I had time before I leave for Milan on the 4th. But, as much as I like them, I know what the value curve looks like after the Winter Games are over.

[dk988]

does price and demand usually hit a cliff after the game?

Originally Posted by hotcalsun

There does seem to be at least "a" box in a case that is pretty unbelievable.

These three came from the same box in my case:



I would order another case if I had time before I leave for Milan on the 4th. But, as much as I like them, I know what the value curve looks like after the Winter Games are over.

[Sickleclaw]

I do wonder if they will sell out on the website during the games.

[hotcalsun]

Originally Posted by dk988

does price and demand usually hit a cliff after the game?

As someone who has attended every Olympics since 2012 where fans were allowed, I can tell you that very few people care 2+ weeks after the games. Goes for all kinds of memorabilia - pins, cards, etc.

Sports fans will be on to March Madness and pre-season baseball.

I'll stlll be counting down the minutes until LA28, but I am one of the few.

[smanzari]

Originally Posted by hotcalsun

There does seem to be at least "a" box in a case that is pretty unbelievable.

These three came from the same box in my case:

I would order another case if I had time before I leave for Milan on the 4th. But, as much as I like them, I know what the value curve looks like after the Winter Games are over.

Yea, I ended up going back and grabbing a few more - some nice stuff, but nothing nearly as good as those initial ones.

True; I do think there's a few names that may have a small tail of liquidity and would actually open more of this if it went on sale (they were fun).

[hotcalsun]

Originally Posted by smanzari

Yea, I ended up going back and grabbing a few more - some nice stuff, but nothing nearly as good as those initial ones.

True; I do think there's a few names that may have a small tail of liquidity and would actually open more of this if it went on sale (they were fun).

Agreed on a few names can carry beyond. Hoping for the best for Vonn after her crash and airlift today. Reports are that she was limping, which is not terrible given how significant crashes can be. Really hope it is nothing and she can compete in just little over a week.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/skiing...-week-olympics

[smanzari]

Because I'm obviously an idiot who hates money, went back to the shop and ended up grabbing the rest of the case (TBF, they made me a deal).

2 Boxes in (same case as the other)

Absolutely Wild.



2 More boxes to go (someone did purchase a single so we'll never know whats in that)

Edit: only other Notables were High Serial # Color (non-auto) of Kim, Shiffrin, Vonn; finally hit the Base Chasing the Rings (Gerard); and a missing hit/auto to end things off in the final box.

[eastbayak]

Originally Posted by smanzari

Because I'm obviously an idiot who hates money, went back to the shop and ended up grabbing the rest of the case (TBF, they made me a deal).

2 Boxes in (same case as the other)

Absolutely Wild.



2 More boxes to go (someone did purchase a single so we'll never know whats in that)

Edit: only other Notables were High Serial # Color (non-auto) of Kim, Shiffrin, Vonn; finally hit the Base Chasing the Rings (Gerard); and a missing hit/auto to end things off in the final box.

Hot damn.

At this point, you should ask the owner to track down the buyer of that single loose and ask them what they hit or offer to buy it from them lol.

Congrats man.

[hotcalsun]

Originally Posted by smanzari

Because I'm obviously an idiot who hates money, went back to the shop and ended up grabbing the rest of the case (TBF, they made me a deal).

2 Boxes in (same case as the other)

Absolutely Wild.



2 More boxes to go (someone did purchase a single so we'll never know whats in that)

Edit: only other Notables were High Serial # Color (non-auto) of Kim, Shiffrin, Vonn; finally hit the Base Chasing the Rings (Gerard); and a missing hit/auto to end things off in the final box.

Absolutely incredible -- a Shiffrin and a White super in the same case. Amazing congrats to you!

[smanzari]

Ha, Thanks!

What's odd to me is I only have One complete set (maybe two if I can track down said dude, above) - I did find all the missing Chloe Kim's so that's good - first set of boxes literally only had 1 for said set.

Given the case was loaded and so poorly collated (seems my inserts are bad, mostly duplicates but "names"); I wonder if it wasn't initially intended for a shop (but maybe a breaker?!). Either way definitely got lucky, ha!

[hotcalsun]

Originally Posted by smanzari

Ha, Thanks!

What's odd to me is I only have One complete set (maybe two if I can track down said dude, above) - I did find all the missing Chloe Kim's so that's good - first set of boxes literally only had 1 for said set.

Given the case was loaded and so poorly collated (seems my inserts are bad, mostly duplicates but "names"); I wonder if it wasn't initially intended for a shop (but maybe a breaker?!). Either way definitely got lucky, ha!

It's all cases. From my entire case, I had 1 complete set, a 2nd set was missing 2 cards, and 3 is missing about 20. Some cards I have 10-12 of.

If someone wants to trade some singles to complete theirs...

[CoachB53]

Finally hit a monster! Vonn/Shiffrin Dual Auto! I think I could maybe trade this card for a case, haha!

[obenheimer78]

The cards look nice, but I'm not going to collect this set. Yes, I still am working on the 2024 sets, even though I have slowed down to barely a crawl. I've bought one card I need over the past year. LOL.

[DaBaddestHic]

Finished opening my boxes. Probably should have stopped at 2, but also still pretty happy with my results. Ready for the olympics to start so I can cheer for the people I got autos of!

If anyone's interested in trading to finish off a base set ,here's what I still need:

Base: 200, 194, 188, 186, 183, 177, 165, 163, 153, 151, 135, 126, 117, 110, 103, 96, 84, 82, 79, 76, 64, 62, 52, 50, 17, 10

Here's the autos/relics, and better parallels I pulled. My only real complaint is two of the same relics. Must have gotten boxes from two different cases.

[ThatGuyPal]

Nice Shiffrin!

[ThatGuyPal]

Love how this thread is deader now that the Olympics HAVE started lol