2013 Impact Wrestling Live Box Break

Cards Per Pack: 6
Packs Per Box: 20
Total Cards Expected: 120
Total Cards Received: 120

Total Base Set (W/O SP Cards): 100
Total Base Set Completion (W/O SP Cards): 100%
Total Base Set (W/ SP Cards): 110
Total Base Set Completion (W/ SP Cards): 91%

Base Set Parallels: 2 Gold(Devon, Gail Kim) #/50
Duplicates: 13 cards

Inserts: 4

Gold Autograph: Garrett Bischoff #/99
Green Autograph: Hernandez #/50
Blue 6 Person Autograph: Gail Kim, Tara, Mickie James, Velvet Sky, Miss Tessmacher, and Madison  Rayne. #/25
Gold Single Memorabilia Card: Chavo Guerrero Jr. #/50

Our Thoughts:

Design: Simplistic and effective for the Base Set. The name is written over fire at the bottom of the card. Right above is the card set name. In the upper corners of the card are the TNA and Tri-Star logos. The rest of the card is for the person or moment being talked about. Even the subsets of the Base set like Live Events which talk about a certain match that the person had or reality TV which talks about what TV shows the performers like just have a graphic near the bottom of the card and do not take away much of the good design.

The autographs are all stickered. It would have been nice to have them on-card. I don't understand how difficult it would be for Tri-Star to go to a TV taping or two and have the performers do autographs on the cards themselves. I do like the fact that all autographs are numbered 99 or less. I also like the fact that Tri-Star went big with the autographs for this set. There are 2 different sets of cards that have 12 autographs on them. 3 sets of cards that have 10 autographs on them.

A couple of days ago, I reviewed the Best of 2013 WWE Cards. This is what they need to aspire to. Because right now, TNA and Tri-Star are kicking some serious ass in the card world in comparison to the stuff that WWE and Topps are putting out there for collectors.

Final Say:

This product is one of those that you should not be disappointed with if you do decide to purchase a box. I bought a second box just to make sure that the first wasn't a fluke. In the second box, I got the complete set without SPs again. 2 Base Set Gold Parallel Cards #/50, a SP Base set card of Bully Ray, a Silver Shirt Piece of Sting #/199. 2 Blue Autographs #/25 of Hernandez and Velvet Sky. And a Rainbow Dual Autograph #1/1 of Gail Kim and Mickie James. Right now these boxes are running between $60 and $70. If you like value for your money, these boxes are up your alley.

Box Value: 4.5 out of 5

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 Dual Autograph Gold - Bobby Roode/James Storm #/50

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

Our Thoughts:

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.