2006 Benchwarmer World Cup Soccer
24 Packs Per Box
5 Cards Per Pack
120 Cards Per Box
What We Pulled:
Base Set (72 Cards) - 72 100% Set Completion
Duplicates: 37 Cards
18 Rare Hi-Number Cards (Odds 1:3 Packs): (8) Shay Lyn, Carrie Stroup, Katie Lohmann, Costello Twins, Katarina Van Derham, Jaime Bergman, Brande Roderick, Cindy Margolis
30 Autograph Cards (Odds 1:24 Packs): (1) Tiffany Kyees
12 KISS Cards (Odds 1:288 Packs): (0)
12 F/X Foil Racer Cards (Odds 1:12 Packs): (2) Kerri Kasem, Annamarie Lytle
12 Soccer Jersey Swatch Cards (Odds 1:288 Packs): (0)
6 Soccer Ball Piece Cards (Odds 1:2400 Packs): (0)
Our Thoughts:
This was a typical Benchwarmer Product. You get women dressed in bikinis and short shirts stirking suggestive poses. Most of the pictures have the women posing with a soccer ball in this release. There are no stats or anything about the women besides their names on the card. On each card you get a frontal shot and a shot from behind of the model.
When released this box cost between $50 and $80. I thought it was high then and I would really think that it is high now. After a while looking at the bleached blonde models with plastic surgery gets old and that is what I thought after opening half of the box. Benchwarmers needs to spice up their releases and I do have a few suggestions if they are looking at a 2104 World Cup release. It might not spice up looking at the peroxide blondes, but it might give you something else to look forward to. First, get ladies from 8 different countries (5 each) and have them wear the soccer jersey of their nation in the photo shoot. It might bring out a different element in trying to find different cards. Next, I would have full body shots of the models. Enough of cutting the picture at mid thigh. For the background, I would put the flag of their nationality. If you are going to do a World Cup Edition again, it might behoove Benchwarmer to include women from different countries, not the same models that are used year after year from California. Like I said, it might not really change what the cards are, but those ideas might cause the set to appear different to people. if you can find the box for between $10-$20, you might want to pick it up.
Box Value: 2 out of 5.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
2012 TNA Impact Wrestling Reflexxions Box Break
2012 TNA Impact Wrestling Reflexxions Box Break (Box #2366/2400)
Box Contents:
20 Packs Per Box
6 Cards Per Pack
What We Pulled:
99 out of the 99 card set - 100% Complete
13 Duplicates
1 Checklist Card
2 Parallels - Jeff Jarrett #/40, Magnus #/40
Inserts:
1 Event-Used Ring Mat Autographed Card Blue - Velvet Sky #/25
1 TNA Reflexxions Silver Autograph - Anarquia #/99
1 TNA Reflexxions Gold Autograph - Christy Hemme #/50
1 Premium Reflexxions Foil Card - The Immortal Battles The Icon #/10
This is different than what we usually purchase. We thought outside the box and were pleasantly surprised. The second pack brought us the Autographed Event-Used Ring Mat of Velvet Sky numbered out of 25. We liked the style of the cards which you can see by the single autographed cards. The reverse mirror picture along side the regular picture does the Reflexxions name proud.
If I were designing the set, I would have made the Autographs in their own subset instead of being a parallel of the base set. I did like the fact that there are hardly any inserts in the set. You have the Premium Reflexxions Foil Set, and the Jeff Hardy Art Cards. It would be nice if the autographs were on card. There is no reason that you cannot have these autographs on card. Almost every Thursday, these wrestlers are located in Orlando, Florida putting on a wrestling show on Spike TV. How difficult would it be for Tristar to coordinate with TNA to get these wrestlers to sign cards on a Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday on a week that they are in Florida? Or take a weekend of a PPV that TNA has and have them sign for an hour or two around their schedules for TNA. Float them an extra $100 for the privledge to have them sign on card and make your product just that much better. TNA also included pieces in this release. There are singles, doubles, triples, and Quads if I read right. There are no stated odds in receiving a card with pieces.
The parallel sets are too big for this set. There are parallel foil cards for the base set and the foil cards numbered to 1, 10 and 40. The Autograph Sets are numbered to 1, 5, 25, 50, and 99. The Event-Worn Memorabilia Cards are numbered to 1, 5, 25, 50, and 199. The Event-Used Mat Autograph Cards are numbered 1, 5, 25, and 50. The colors associated with these parallels are purple, red, blue, gold, and silver. If there is anything that we here at KBee Cards dislike the most about card is the large amount of parallels that are out there and this product has way too many.
Overall, we liked the design and the layout of the cards. And even though we didn't pull the most popular stars like Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Sting, Kurt Angle, and Jeff Jarrett to name a few, we feel like we did receive autographs that would make us want to try again on a box of these cards. The fact that you can get a complete set and have a few left over for the base set doesn't hurt either. Hopefully Tristar does decide to include a few insert sets that are strictly Autographs instead of parallels that have signatures and to eliminate the large number of parallels that are in their products. However, I won't hold my breath for that one.
Box Value: 3.5 out of 5 Stars.
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