Terrific 2020 Topps Chrome retail break - 40 blasters, 5 hangers

[isaacsquared]

Got lucky and wandered into a target looking for bubble mailers just as the Excell rep was finishing his business. There was one other guy waiting already, so I went to grab my bubble mailers while the rep was doing his thing (risky move in hindsight, I guess). The guy in front of me grabbed most of the Fire and some Chrome hanger boxes, but left behind 40 blasters and 5 hanger boxes of chrome, which I grabbed all of.

I'll be honest - I bought these thinking I'd just flip them. I figured I'd still come out ahead if I cracked a few, which is a dangerous line of thought but worked out pretty well this time. Very first blaster held this:



After that, I figured there was no possible way I could end up in bad shape if I opened up the rest. I did, and I don't regret it.

After the first box Robert Gold, the second blaster had a Robert refractor




Summary of the break:

Robert: Gold ref, refractor, 2 sepia, 1 base

Bichette: Auto redemption, image variation, 2 sepia, 4 base

Lewis: refractor, 2 sepia, 4 base

Lux: Refractor, sepia, 5 base

Alvarez: Auto refractor, 3 sepia, 5 base

Also got the following autos: purple Zac Gallen, green Robert Dugger, Andres Munoz, Justin Dunn, and Danny Mendick.

Already pulled a bunch of stuff to get graded and two base sets (which I have to buy Roberts for since I only got one base, which is in the grading pile. I guess I shouldn't complain TOO much about how many of what Robert cards I got in these). I've pulled out what I wanted to grade, rest will be headed on eBay at some point.

The Sepia collation was dynamite. With getting 160 sepias and having 200 in the set (assuming they paralleled the whole base set), I was hoping I'd get one each of Robert, Lux, Bichette, Alvarez, and Lewis - and I somehow got dupes of all except Lux. I would have been happy if I didn't miss any of them, but dupes of almost all of them is awesome.

[Cazmanaz]

Well done!

[slugger82685]

Good grief what a haul! Congrats!

[azsportsfan]

Awesome! Purple Gallen FS/FT?


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[Sheld505]

Nice!!! Gotta be fun!!!