Beckett has the 2025 Topps Heritage checklist up nice and early (yay!), although strangely there are no card images, and the release date is "TBA", although it had previously been announced as April 30th.
https://www.beckett.com/news/2025-to...aseball-cards/
Topps has made some interesting changes to the product, which could be good or bad depending on your perspective.
- the Real One checklist has gotten huge (105 cards), and in line with other products, is now bloated with rookies. There are 28 players who were active in 1976, although interestingly no Yount or Carlton Real One autos despite the fact that they have other autos in the set. And there are no Ohtani autos, period.
- lots of new auto subsets, which makes me think that they are going to stick to the 2024HHN formula of having 7-9 autos per case, rather than the old 2-4.
- the entire set is being Chromed, also in line with 2024HHN. Unfortunately, this is going to devalue Chromes and also make it impossible to build complete chrome sets anymore, which has been a popular activity in the past.
- no mention of minis or throwbacks
- there is a new "1976 Redefined" subset.....could that be horizontal cards?
Anyway....everything points to a higher price point at release, since the product seems to be structured similarly to 24HHN, with more autos per case, and the entire set chromed.