The Second Post In A Row

 I know...I know...

This will be the second post in a row where I am talking about 2026 Disney Chrome and I am sure some of you will be rolling your eyes.

So, to make it worth coming here for those of you who don't care about my Disney Chrome chasing, I will post my kitten Chanel who just turned 2. She will make you smile.

 

She's beautiful and she knows it!

Now for the rest of you who want to see my Disney Chrome pickups, here they are,

This is the almost full set of Darkwing Duck Anniversary cards. I am still missing two, Gizmoduck and Crackerjack. Hopefully I will get this set finished up soon!!

Now onto some Disney Channel Stars adds,

Hannah Montana was something my wife and I used to watch when we first got together. We were in our early twenties and thought we still had some youth in us. The show had its funny parts. Not sure if this is a Miley Cyrus rookie.

Same went for Lizzie McGuire. Well, we really only ever watched the movie. That gave us a few chuckles as well.

Never really watched Jessie, but we remember watching Debbie Ryan star in The Suite Life On Deck.

 

Never really watched Wizards Of Waverly Place, but I thought having a Selena Gomez rookie wouldn't be the worst thing.

I did start to watch Girl Meets World, but it didn't have the same effect as the OG Boy Meets World. The story didn't quite hit and it felt cheesy and childish compared to the original show.

But, if nothing else came out of that show...here is a rookie card of Sabrina Carpenter. Yup, she starred on the show.

Now let's move onto my Darkwing Duck "never going to get the rainbow but let's chase what we can" chase. I don't have the base card yet, but that's coming soon thanks to Twitter.

 

 

Pretty cool huh? Even if you are a non-Darkwing, non-Disney fan, you have to appreciate the shiny that these bring. They are mostly also different kind of refractor parallels compared to sport products.

Well, this is my updates so far when it comes to Topps Chrome Disney. I am not sure how much more I will try to acquire since I am pretty happy where I am at. I added most of the cards I was hoping to other than some more Darkwing parallels and finishing up my anniversary set.

To my readers today, did you enjoy Chanel or the cards more? Also, who is you favorite Disney character (you can only choose one) and your thoughts on the cards overall.

Hope everyone makes the most of their Monday and shines a light on someone who may need it today.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Don't forget you can start to nominate cards for the 2026 Coffee Card Hall Of Fame!! Cards don't have to be autographs, patch cards, super star cards. It can be whatever you think is Hall Worthy! Find details and current nominations HERE.

Do Damaged Boxes Actually Bring "The Heat"?

*sits down, cup of coffee in hand, box of cards nearby*

*takes a sip, hopes you do the same, sets down mug and gets to blogging*

Is it true?

Rumor has it that boxes that are damaged are the ones holding the best pulls. I guess I can finally put that theory to a test as I got a box in the mail from a trade with Twitter friend Jake (@jake1725).

I gave up some Mike Trout and Ohtani cards to land this blaster. A blaster I had been wanting to rip as the checklist contained a ton of Darkwing Duck cards and some other Disney related nostalgia I wanted.

Before I continue on, I must point out that Jake wasn't the one who crushed the box, you can thank FedEx for that. You got to love the cost of shipping stuff now-a-days and how we receive it. The card box itself and the box it came in looked like the driver was practicing his field goal kicks in my big field before he delivered it.

But at least it arrived and wasn't stolen like some people deal with.

Let's just hope the cards are all good.

So, I have my coffee and cards. It's time to....

*takes a sip, begins the rip*

Each blaster, or what they call now value box comes with 8 packs of 4 cards. So, you get 32 cards for $40. There are no guarantees, but it seems to be one numbered card per box. Each box also offers Ray Wave Parallels, Refractors and one High School Musical 20th-Anniversary card.

 

The base set is 200-cards deep. Here is what I would call an Ashley Tisdale Rookie?

Here is what I found for base refractors,

 

(how I feel about the new wave of hobby somedays)

RayWave Refractors

(my favorite!)

  

(how I also feel about the new wave of hobby some days)

Then my nice hit of the box,

Donald Duck mini diamonds aqua /199

.

Now onto the inserts,

Anyone who watched Disney Channel for what it once was would find these cool. Okay, I find these cool.

My one and only High School Musical Card.

Cars 20th Anniversary insert. Have seen and can probably quote this movie by now. If you haven't, watch Cars and Cars 3. We can pretend the second one didn't exist together.

23-19!!! 23-19!! Monsters Inc 25th anniversary.

Iconic Moments

Alice and Wonderland 75th Anniversary

Disney Ink and Paint

And an insert line we all know and love, Future Stars.

Well, this shows that not all damaged boxes come with "the heat", but I still had a blast opening this up. For me, the designs, refractors were all fun and there is so much nostalgia built in to top it off. Now I want to rip another!

Thanks Jake for the trade, glad both of us are happy with the outcome of our trade.

*takes another sip before finishing up today's post*

Let me know in comments if you have any luck with damaged boxes and your best hit? Also, what are your thoughts on this Disney product and have you opened any?

Hope everyone has a superb Sunday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

When The Wrong Choice Goes Right

 Remember when I said I bought a box of cards on my way back from my vacation? 

Well, my choice was the wrong one.

Sitting on the shelf among other boxes of 2025 football cards, I saw a box of Phoenix and without even looking at it, assumed it was 2025 and walked out a happy guy.

That's until I hit the car and realized I had bought a 2024. Ugh.

Yeah, I could land another Nabers rookie, but it wasn't what I was hoping for. I wanted to pull some Dart or even a Hakeem Nicks to go with my rainbow. Speaking of which, the updates on my chase for 84 will be found on my NY Giants blog, Big Blue Cardboard. Check it out if you haven't yet and go give it a follow!

Now back to the box (one of which I mistakenly deleted the box picture of).

Even though I was disappointed to have grabbed the wrong box, I still was excited just to open something again.

Each blaster box comes with 6 packs of 4 cards each, so 24 cards for $35. No guarantees in the box besides three parallels and a chance at an autograph or case hit.

I kicked it off pulling a new Giants card in the very first pack. I thought maybe that was the kickoff to something good.

DeVonta Smith,first of three parallels. I assume this is a Purple parallel. It's Unnumbered. This should have counted as a Giants card since the Eagles jumped ahead of the Giants in the draft that year to snag him.

 

JJ McCarthy rookie. I think he will be spending more time on the bench with Kyler there now.

My second parallel was of Travis Kelce who recently spent more time in the news about who he married over his sports season.

Here was a nice find. Rookie Rising parallel of Caleb Williams.

Then to top that off, a second dosing of Caleb Williams. This time a base card rookie parallel. Both are heading to my rookie card PC.

New Giants card. Two nice Caleb Williams pulls. I will call this blaster a win. One of the very few times a wrong choice goes right.

Let me know your favorite pull from my box below in comments.

I hope everyone has a coffee-filled Tuesday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Need To Finish A Project

*coffee is ready, cards are by the side and computer is on. time for some cards over coffee*

I am starting to feel like my father-in-law. I start projects and never complete them.

It took him many years and some extra pushing from his wife to finally finish building our house. Which is something he worked on mostly alone for two plus years. But he has also started many projects around his own home which have spent years of sitting there. Things such as window frames in a newly updated bedroom incomplete. His workshop floor that has been needed to be replaced, but only half has. A bench he started to build. Some clearing out of bushes that never got accomplished. His sugarhouse needing upgrades and so on and so forth.

Looking at all of his unfinished projects made me look back on my own hobby ones. I am no handy man, I can't even put a screw in the wall, so the only projects I seem to start and never finish are hobby related.

All of my player collections. All of my rainbows. All of my set chases. So many left undone. All of my sorting and re-sorting that needs to be done. Soooooooooo much.

Which is why I post some of my needs on here just in case anyone out there has the help I need.

Most of the times I strike out as I collect stuff that most bloggers don't. However, sometimes I get lucky and by lucky I mean meeting someone cool like Greg from Plaschke, Thy Sweater Is Argyle who has a lot of similar interests as myself when it comes to collecting non-sport cards.

So much so that he completed a Master Set I could only dream of completing, the 2013 Press Pass Parks and Recreation.

I got deep into Parks and Rec about three years ago when I went binge watching. Such a funny show with humor that hits. Well, except the last season. That to me was a disaster and they should had ended it the prior season.

Anyways, the set for Parks and Rec included a 90-card base set with 90- card silver parallel to the base set as well. There were no inserts but a very solid autograph and relic checklist.

With my chase to accomplish my dream of trying the Master Set, I actually jumped right into the autographs narrowing my search down to four. Then I went and completed the single relic set. Then I went to try and finish up the base and silver parallel set which I traded with a guy on Twitter who almost had a full set of each.

This is where Greg comes in. He had some extra cards kicking around of base and silver parallel and emailed to see which ones I needed. After a few exchanged emails, he generously helped me out and I was able to cross off a few needs to the chase.

Here they are,

Now I am just needing the following to finish up the basic part of the chase,

Base:
6

Foils:
5,10,19,34,51,64,77,79,82,87,89

As for the aforementioned autograph chase, after many trades, I am down to the four impossible ones. I won't ever have funds for them so it will be just a strictly trade kind of thing.

Here is what I have,

Here is the checklist and what I need to finish this,

1. Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope
2. Aubrey Plaza as April Ludgate
3. Aziz Ansari as Tom Haverford
4. Fred Armisen as Raul
5. Jay Jackson as Perd Hapley
6. Jim O’Heir as Jerry Gergich
7. Megan Mullally as Tammy Swanson
8. Mo Collins as Joan Callamezzo
9. Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson
10. Parker Posey as Lindsay Carlisle Shay
11. Paul Rudd as Bobby Newport
12. Retta as Donna Meagle
13. Rob Lowe as Chris Traeger

Now onto the relics. I finished the single relic set, however, there is a 4-card dual relic set, and a 2-card triple relic set if my research is correct. I don't have any of either of those yet. Once again, probably another impossible chase.

If only I was into the show back in 2013 when the product was basically being given away. I heard boxes from hobby shops were literally $35 a box. Wow.

Thanks goes out to Greg for his big help in my chase. Check out his blog for cool cards like these and more. I linked you above. 

Hopefully I can at least finish the base and silver sets now. It would be nice to be able to say I finished a project then maybe brag to my father-in-law though he may not see it the way I do.

But it would be one project more than he has done recently.

Have a Magnificent Monday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*