During the fall and winter, Topps has released boxes of retail packs, aimed at getting people who frequent the card aisle at Target to buy a gift or take a shot on a few packs. Inside are some Topps Update baseball packs, and two packs of the coveted Update Chrome. In any other year, Update Chrome might not be worth buying one of these boxes for, but this year, it has Bryant, Correa, and other rookies inside.
Here are the top hits from the special chrome packs:
2015 Topps Update Chrome Mike Trout All Star Auto Relic /25
2015 Topps Update Chrome Carlos Correa Gold Pulsar /250
2015 Topps Update Chrome Kris Bryant Gold Pulsar /250
2015 Topps Update Chrome Ichiro Black Bubble Refractor /99
These special chrome versions of Update Baseball have parallels as well, and with Correa’s original chrome card being an SSP, these could end up being quite valuable on their own. Bryant’s chrome RC on the other hand wasnt part of the high number cards in Chrome this year, so they are a bit more common, but the update Chrome versions might be more rare.
Inside the packs, there are also All Star Game relics and relic autos, which are chromed out versions of the ones from Udpate. With the auto relics /25, even some of the lesser names have started to sell very well.
I was tooling around Target today and saw the guy put out a few, and decided to pay the 15 bucks to get one. I was lucky and pulled the Correa RC in one of my packs, but if you can get one of the Parallels, it could end up being a windfall of cash.
Overall, its a pretty fun break for less than the price of a blaster, so why not take a chance?