Retro Box Break - 2006 Benchwarmer World Cup Soccer

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.