Hobby Quick Hits Ep.141 Upper Deck Reviews

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All right, welcome to another edition of hobby quick hits. Today Show is a little different. I'm going to actually do an audio review of two Upper Deck products that they graciously sent me for review. I did do a video review so you can see me opening the package that's on our YouTube channel sports, coordination podcaster, a little longer in length. If so if you don't mind a little bit lengthen, the opening that I don't rush through that, I just go through each pack so you can see the video version of what I'm going to talk about in this podcast, which is audio version. So, and here on the audio version, I'm going to give more details than the video version. The video version was just me talking about what cards came out. I'm going to talk about, you know, kind of what the cards look like. The insert sets the The odds, the collation, how much of a set did I get stuff like, you know you can't relay. I'm just an audio podcast and so I'm probably going to do this going forward. Do some audio reviews. I know Mike summer does that on his podcast and I just thought it was a good opportunity to give more details about the product, then you can in video form. 

Let's check out this way to be wax releases. Take it away, Max. 

Hey guys, it's Max here from sports card shopping for phone machine and today I bring you guys a weekly releases for this week on the 7th year. 2022, but when Jeff baseball, first edition 2022, bringing Darkness optic, baseball 2022, top series, hide, no more baseball, and on the night, we have 2022, Leaf, decadence, multi-sport 2022, Onyx vintage, extended Series baseball. And on the 14th, we have 20 20 21, 22 p'nay contenders optic, fastball, it should be a good product. 20 21, 22 Upper Deck ultimate collection hockey. And on the 16th we had 20, 20 21, 22 Penny Mosaic basketball fast-break 2022, tops Chrome, black baseball, and twenty twenty two, twenty three tops NHL's Sticker Collection hockey box and album. And guys for tuning in Angela, The rest of the podcast. Let's go round bar hobby verse and catch up on this week's hobby news, the collaborations continue, PSA, and what not have announced a partnership. You can purchase something and whatnot and it's the same time of purchasing If it's a rock art, have it sub with them through PSA and then shipped to you all in one Fell Swoop. So PSA aligning itself with what not by, listen what not right now. Like them or don't like them is killing it. So probably smart on their behalf of PWC C&S DC announced a similar thing where if you MIT car. Stu PWC. See you can get them graded by the SGC for $20. If you agree to list them on PWC. See auctions or keep them in the PWC. See Vault. All right meant Collective number two is on the docket and schedule in Las Vegas again, at the MGM Grand, March 30th to April 2nd. If you're good with your counter, you notice that's four days was three days last year. They are adding a day this year, more than roof sponsors Fanatics, involves some others that are being added on from last year supposed to be bigger and better definitely bigger, get the extra day. Now, 24 days from three. You know, tickets are on sale. Now, for day all-access pass. Passes are $499 going to be like March Madness party to all sorts of events, panels seminars card, show the the whole work. So you can get out there that will be in March 30th to April 2nd. All right. Something kind of new. We're going to do a audio review of two products sent to me by Upper Deck. Thank you up or down. First and foremost, the products are 21 and 22 artifacts hockey and 2223 Upper Deck series 1. The Young Guns brand, as I like to say. So I'm going to start out with the artifacts box that I opened up. It had four cars per pack sort of, I'll get into that in a minute eight packs per box. So you should have 32 Two cards, three hits boxes retail between 120 and 160. I will full disclosure tell you you're about to find out, but I will tell you value-wise, I did not get that. Every box is different and just wasn't my box. I don't, you can't judge that on up whole product on one box. My box fell short. I didn't get any autographs. Let's talk about too many inserts to Ali talk about we could do probably 40 minutes, just talk about what inserts are in here. They're numbered cards, the base card is, you know, a thicker card stock, it's nice. It's got sort of like a beige background and sort of a silver embossing below with the player's name and team and sort of like a vine line effect on the bottom obviously Crips. Chris photos. On the back, on the top half of the card is another photo, looks to be the same. Just a head shot from the photo, on the front side, got your name plate teams, you got your stats are real right up and your hologram in the bottom right corner, very clean cards. Very nice thicker stock, as is with all artifacts releases. Let me tell you, You about the hits. I'll go through these just as quick as I can. I got one, two, three, four, four numbered cards. They are brought by two boys, Ur 2599 Tuukka, Rask 2499. They are now nurse to 199 and 275. Logan Couture of the shark. So those were my number cards my inserts which you're Opposed or my head's which you're supposed to get 3? I guess I didn't get any autograph cards but I got four hits if you would. So the to do Jersey cards, were marked Yordano to 249 and 149 Max Pacioretty of Las Vegas. My other hit was an acetate cards and if you know me, I love as to take carve, this was a Key artifacts like I It acetate, really well-done, not numbered, but it's Neal Neal's. Now's hog Lander of the Canucks and my extra head if you will die. Don't know much about them. I got to look into them is a Tyler toffoli of the Canadians artifacts or mm. And this is part of the bounty thing that upper decks doing. So it has a heaven, scratch it off yet, I may just give this away as a prize and most of this stuff. Cough, most of my review products are given away as prize packs but the Orem has a thing that you can scratch off on the back. So those were my hits if you will for those. So numbered cards in addition, again, nothing nothing crazy. I know they are M cards are pretty good. That's probably the best card was the Foley orm, so as far as recommending the product, it's not a cheap. Product. But for hockey fan it's definitely sort of that mid-tier low high-end product. There obviously are better hits than I pulled. Just wasn't my day, went with that box. You can again, please don't judge your box or product line on one box that was maybe not up to Snuff if you will. So that's the artifacts. Let's go into what I believe is one of the first new hockey products Of the year that's 20, 22 23, Upper Deck, 8 cards per pack, 24 packs per box. There's basically an insert few, like insert cards and hits. This product is nice, retails for 120. You're going to get a retail or insert hit or I should say a hit or an insert in pretty much every pack. Let me go over some of those inserts. I will tell you this, I did not get any numbered cards. There are four canvas cards per box. There are six Young Guns per box you got clear-cut. Parallels, French, parallels sub 1 and 24. I did not see My French guard. I'm going to have to look again but I think I got a little skunk there. You got a few dates defense mechanism rookie retrospective center of attention Tube You dates dazzlers are one per box. I did get one of those which I'll talk about here shortly. Then you have some some really Lower Print, runs hard to pull, you know inserts and some of those inserts also have numbered. Asians as well. So a lot suppose I tell you I was fun. Rip your $420 a box nowadays. That's not very expensive. I know the some might cringe but that's kind of where we at wax why specially on the hobby level. So definitely a fun. Rip it was, you know, again, I was giving these the review but I think it's a very good value at $120. Let's go over what came out of the box and And design. Let's start with design first. Huge picture on the front of the car. The nameplate is very small on the bottom. So great big picture on the front of the player depicted as kind of a dual level nametag, very small on the bottom but readable. So you see the name and the team, you got your upper deck logo in can be in the upper left or right depending on the picture on the The card. And then we got the backs, have the basically the headshot of the player on the front, on the top with the team logo to the right side number in the top left corner of the card. Kind of has like a nice gray type of background, where then you have your obviously stats, a little write-up and all your licensing logos on the bottom and your upper deck. Hologram in the bottom-right card, real clean car, a lot of people giving the design rave reviews, it's definitely more picture intensive than previous, Renditions of the flagship upper deck, and a lot of people like that. I like it's nice and clean, to be honest with you. So, you know, two thumbs up on design. Let's talk about what I actually got. Got out of the box. Let's With the Young Guns I got six as advertised. My best one was Owen power, who was the number one pick overall in 2021 defenseman from Buffalo other Young Guns were Jacob God west from the Blackhawks Linus sand in from the fire. Jonathan covid. Civic from the Winnipeg Jets and Thomas mortal 0 from this. San Jose Sharks. And my last Young Guns was Chase Pearson from the Detroit, Red Wings. So got six Young Guns as advertised. Let's go into the canvas inserts that were pulled out of this box. I believe you're supposed to get for and I got five and we'll talk about that fifth one. So he's supposed to get for, I did get five. So, So my canvas is where Adam Fox and my Rangers William nylander, Martin necklace and Tanner jeannot and then might with the fifth one which is a double variation, it was a Seth Jarvis Upper Deck canvas but it's the black and white canvas. So there's a different variation, the black and white. So I got four, regular canvases, and they Seth Jarvis black and white canvas. 

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Thug about some of the other inserts I did pull two Upper Deck. Portraits a Connor McDavid which is a good one and a Sebastian I hope from the Carolina Hurricanes so not too bad in. That department. My rookie retrospective was Dawson Mercer of the New Jersey Devils. Those are a cool-looking card, it reminds me, but in a better way of The old Denny's hologram cards we have like sort of the regular picture and hologram in the background but this is actually better done. And it's really sharp, looking rookie, retrospective cards. If I was a set guy, there's white be an insert set. I try to put together, just a really sharp looking card there. One dazzler per box. There are colored variations, I did not get a variation. I got the Like blue. But again, these are not, you know, you're just going to get one of these per box. So sort of a short print, I got Ryan Hartman of the Minnesota Wild there to centers of attention inserts. I got Alexander bark off of the Panthers and of the ABS, I've got, there's mm country. So those are my two Center of attentions Superstar on. Rose Sebastian, a hole from the canes and Lucas Reichel of the Chicago Blackhawks debut dates. I got Seth Jarvis of the hurricane or the Phoenix Coyotes. I should say another Superstar honor. Oh sorry missed it was Brock Nelson. And then to defense mechanisms and these are really sharp to they have the picture of the card and it's like multiplied. Six more times. So sort of a prism holographic effect, these are all obviously defensive players. I got Cam Fowler of the Mighty Ducks and Rasmus Anderson of the flame. So those those are our one more insert to to mention population. Count 1000 kind of a cool Foyle etched in Boss car. Really sharp guard only got one of these. He's and I got Kent Johnson and I did a little research on these says population count. 1000, there's only 1000, it's not numbered individually, but there's only 1000 of these cards, Purdue. So those are kind of a sharp-looking card as well. So let me see it. Looking at the back of it, but it really is no number. Oh yeah. PC 17. So population. Count, 70. But not in the village in number just produced only 1000 of each of those inserts. So, you know, overall, you know, you can't really go wrong with Upper Deck Flagship, right, six, Young Guns, 45 canvases, and then they all the other inserts every pack had an insert card in it. So if you like, you know, kind of slow rolling and saving it for last seeing, what you get, it's a great product. You know, a great value product. I know that sounds weird when we talking about three figure box prices, but well three figures at $120 retails, right? And you never know. Right? One of those Young Guns. So turn out to be the next Superstar. It's well worth your value, right? And again, I don't think I hit anything crazy but I think it was worth the 120. If you get some of those loan of my cards were no, we're low were numbered. And so I didn't I didn't hit nothing there. I also you're supposed to get one French parallel per box unless I missed it and I looked a couple times. I did not get one of each parallel. One pack of the upper deck Flagship, it was like the heat shrink it to seal it. 14. The melted and partially Exposed on the back of the cards were fine. That's one thing I want to point out. One thing I notice that I don't know if it's my perception and not reality to stock seems to be a little thicker on this year's Upper Deck. I can be completely wrong, just to me a feels a little bit thicker so I don't know if they're using thicker stock or I'm just Losing my mind as I get older could be could be either or one thing I want to backtrack on the artifacts artifacts product. You know. We're supposed to be four cards per pack, eight packs for box for 32 cards. I got 29 cards even with all the hits. So one of the packs that had a hidden, it only had two cards at a couple of the other packs only at three cards. They might advertise that that, you know, like you see on some Looks like cars with a hidden. It may contain less cards if they did, I miss that, but I got 29 cards rather than 32. So but I also got an extra what I think's not every box and warm card, so maybe that's the difference there. So to solid products. Again I didn't hit any monsters out of it but again you can't judge the product completely out of one box. The fun of rep for Me was probably the flagship just more packs and you know, again, insert or parallel, you know, per pack, you always getting something as always something to look forward to. So again, once again, thank you to Upper Deck for allowing the show to review the product. You can see the video versions of what I just talked about on our YouTube channel at just you know search sports Carnation, podcast on YouTube come up to it. We'll come up, we appreciate you liking and subscribing if you so choose. And and and you'll see the video reviews, most of the hits. If not all of them will be going to prize giveaway. See comments, the base cards will be listed on calm sea and any sales of those 18 cents apiece cards will go to make a wish. You know charity, I do that with all my donated. And review Commons at cell and come see. So I think we'll do this a little bit more in the future when some review product. Maybe not all the time, but we'll review do a review show every now and then. So thanks for listening. We'll see you soon. Take care. All right. Thank you for listening to another episode of hobby quick. It's want to give out our social media, starting with our website, which is www.sfactor.com, our nation, podcast.com Facebook. 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