The weekly trading card release calendar is dominated by Panini and Topps this week, with both brands dropping two sets each. Panini releases a pair of Select sets, the always popular Panini Select Basketball and 2021 Panini Select UFC, which is making its debut after Panini took over the UFC license earlier this year. Topps responds by releasing their 2021 Topps Baseball Complete Set as well as two Soccer sets featuring some of the top talents in Europe. Get all of the details below in the latest edition of The Rip.
2020-21 Panini Select Basketball
2020-21 Panini Select Basketball marks the ninth consecutive year for the Panini Basketball line since it was rebooted during the 2012-13 season. During that time Panini Select Basketball has always been a hobby box only set, there have never been lower-priced retail boxes like Blasters, or Mega Boxes. However, 2020 Panini Select Football offered retail products for the first time ever, so there is a chance that we might get Select Basketball retail products this year as well.
The 2020-21 Panini Select Basketball base set is again going to be broken up into three tiers: Concourse, Premier Level, and Courtside. The 2020-21 NBA Rookies will be the most sought-after cards in the set including this year’s Rookie of the Year, LaMelo Ball, and fellow first-year standout Anthony Edwards. The set includes several Prizm parallels, including the ultra-rare Zebra, and Tiger parallels, as well as autographs, and memorabilia cards.
The 2020-21 Panini Select Basketball Hobby Box is set to come with five cards per pack, and 12 packs per box. Each box should contain a combination of three autographs or memorabilia cards, 12 Prizm parallels, 10 Premier Level base cards, and two Courtside base cards.
2020-21 Panini Select Basketball Hobby Boxes release on July 28th at local and online trading card hobby shops.
2021 Topps Complete Baseball Factory Sets
2021 Topps Baseball Complete Factory Baseball packages the full base set from 2021 Topps Baseball Series 1 and 2 into a single box. The cards will feature the same design used in Series 1 and Series 2 and even include the same commemorative Topps 70th anniversary stamp as Series 1 and Series 2 cards. Each box guarantees that you will receive every rookie card from the two Topps flagship sets including Jo Adell, Alec Bohm, Casey Mize, Cristian Pache, Ke’Bryan Hayes, Alex Kiriloff, and more.
The hobby version of the 2021 Topps Baseball Complete Factory Set comes with all 660 base cards plus five bonus Foilboard parallels. There is also an exclusive members-only 582 Montgomery Club version of the complete set. Becoming a member of the 582 Montgomery Club gives you access to purchase exclusive products like the 2021 Topps Baseball Complete Set 582 Montgomery Club Box, and also allows you to purchase some other Topps products via limited pre-sales. The 582 Montgomery Club edition of the 2021 Topps Baseball Complete Set comes with all 660 cards featuring a 582 Montgomery Club stamp. Exclusive retail versions are also expected to come with different parallel options as well. In the past, Target, Walmart, and Rally Rd. have offered different versions of the complete set that were exclusive to their stores.
The 2021 Topps Baseball Complete Factory Set is scheduled to release on July 28th at local and online trading card hobby shops with the Hobby edition selling for a retail price of $60.
2020-2021 Topps Finest Bundesliga Soccer
2020-21 Topps Finest Bundesliga Soccer is a debut set for the top soccer league in Germany. Previously, the Bundesliga has seen sets released under the Topps Chrome, Topps Chrome Sapphire Edition, Match Attax, Tier One, and Museum Collection product lines. The base set is made up of 100 of the top players in the Bundesliga including young talents such as Jude Bellingham, and Youssoufa Moukoko, and more established stars such as Alphonso Davies. The base set features eleven limited print run color variation Refractor parallels, with ten of the parallel options being limited to 250 cards or less for each player. Sticker autographs can also be found in the set.
Each 2020-2021 Topps Finest Bundesliga Soccer Hobby Box holds five cards per pack, 12 packs per box. Each box is said to guarantee two autograph cards. The 2020-21 Topps Finest Bundesliga Hobby Box releases on July 28th at local and online trading card hobby shops.
2021 Panini Select UFC
2021 Panini Select UFC is the second UFC set released by Panini since they acquired the license earlier this year. Very similar to the Select Basketball set dropping this week, the UFC edition features a three-tier base set made up of Concourse, Premier Level, and Octagonside subsets. The base set will feature a wide variety of lower print run color variation parallels for all of the fighters, and there will also be autograph and memorabilia subsets. Top UFC fighters making an appearance in the set include Nate Diaz, Amanda Nunes, Conor McGregor, Dustin Porier, Israel Adesanya, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Kumaru Usman, and many more.
The 2021 Panini Select UFC Hobby Box comes with five cards per pack and 12 packs per box. You will typically hit two autographs, one relic, and twelve limited print-run Prizm parallels per box.
2021 Panini Select UFC Hobby Boxes will release on July 30th at local and online trading card hobby shops.
