2024 GPK Battle of the Bands - Green Day

[Shinypsptitans]

What's 6004-SE and 6005-EA mean on odds?

[eastbayak]

Originally Posted by Shinypsptitans

What's 6004-SE and 6005-EA mean on odds?

I was curious myself and here's what I found via Google AI:

The main difference between Topps EA and SE products is the retail channel they are sold through. This difference can result in slightly varying pack odds or exclusive inserts, but the base cards are generally the same.

Distributor channel

EA (Electronic Arts): Despite the "EA" acronym, this designation refers to products sold at Target stores, not the video game company. In some cases, it also covers products sold through Meijer.

SE (Sports Entertainment): This designation is for products sold at Walmart stores.

As someone mentioned earlier, these "mega boxes" were probably supposed to be distributed via retail chains (in addition to the usual Topps.com/Fanatics.com drops), but eventually such plans were scrapped.

[Bruin7]

I do feel like these were initially a retail release. I noticed the magnetic sticker underneath the top lid. Those are for retail store sensors no?

[Shinypsptitans]

Looking at the odds it seems my suspicions are correct:

It appears that there are only 32 triple autos in the entire run.

GPK Character Photo Triple Auto /25
Band Member Actual Face Triple Auto /5

^^and a 1/1 of each variant.

6 total triples of actual photos of the band members is nutty.

[yoyosh]

My one box was pretty lame but I still have this triple auto, not even stickers!

[eastbayak]

Originally Posted by yoyosh

My one box was pretty lame but I still have this triple auto, not even stickers!

That's a beauty!!!

[armyml]

Originally Posted by anusinha

Sold for 6002.55

This was my buddies card. He bought 2 boxes from us and some from Topps. That 1/1 came from the Topps boxes. I feel like he definitely undersold it but sometimes you gotta cash out.

[tevans333]

Looks like the total amount of individual (non triple or relic) autos is 118. Not sure how that is split between the 3 members, but that is the total for all three of them. That is a bit less than I would have thought.

When you look at the odds of any variation of auto, it makes it about 1 auto per 8 cases.

[cardtrader22]

Need these to finish up my base set, if anyone has any available. Have inserts/booger greens to trade in return:

a's: 36, 39, 46, 47
b's: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 33, 45

[LondonGames]

Originally Posted by tevans333

Looks like the total amount of individual (non triple or relic) autos is 118. Not sure how that is split between the 3 members, but that is the total for all three of them. That is a bit less than I would have thought.

When you look at the odds of any variation of auto, it makes it about 1 auto per 8 cases.

Thanks for the numbers. That is absolutely absurd. But IMO it's a very good thing that they are that short printed. It'll certainly help them retain strong values going forward.

Single Autos (non relic) are 1:2668 packs, so to get a Single is roughly 1 in 13.34 cases.

Just some very simple rough math to add also. There are no odds for the 1/1s because in theory it should be based on the overall print run, and I guess they don't want to give exact #s since some product is held back for replacements and such... Could be one of the 1/1s didn't actually pack out.

But there are #s for the American Idiot #'d out of 5 which is 1:63,345. Times 5 you get 316,725. Divided by 200 for the amount of packs in a case, 1583.625. That's effectively how many cases were packed out.

All in all it definitely wasn't printed to the moon to say the least. Top hits are hard to hit, but also very rare... and a limited enough supply of product. Topps did well.

[LondonGames]

Also using those same #s, if the 6 different signed tour relics are evenly distributed there would only be roughly 7 of each made.

[Fenian95]

Neat looking cards! Too expensive to get in Canada now but here is my triple, paid $20 CDN shipped for it. Thanks Rough Trade!

[Rictor]

I couldn't imagine paying thousands for a triple sticker auto GPK card (What's the connection even to the band? Are they known for being big GPK fans?) instead of $150 for a triple signed PSA encapsulated CD.

A signed vinyl would display better than a CD, but a signed CD of a band seems cooler than a signed trading card.

[LondonGames]

Imagine selling modern junk 9.8 comic books for markup, which are no better than ungraded on average, and not understanding that people collect cards... You could literally say this about any signed memorabilia item compared to any rare or expensive card on the market. There are much better examples. The gap on these would be on the smaller scale.

@Rictor , Sounds like a broke hater to me. Just sayin. **Correction, after reading your posts, you might be the biggest hater I've seen on any forum ever. Just negative comment after negative comment. This card sucks, this product needs sketches, these are stickers, waiting for ePack blah blah blah. Easiest ignore button ever.

[justin80]

At least three Dirnt GPK autos in the wild (2 on eBay; one sitting on my desk). I haven't seen any of the other characters.

Perhaps they will be in the next round of cases sold? As LondonGames knows, these cards were printed to the moon -- possibly one of jupiter's.

[Grid]

Originally Posted by Rictor

I couldn't imagine paying thousands for a triple sticker auto GPK card (What's the connection even to the band? Are they known for being big GPK fans?) instead of $150 for a triple signed PSA encapsulated CD.

A signed vinyl would display better than a CD, but a signed CD of a band seems cooler than a signed trading card.

A search on ebay for "green day signed CD PSA" shows 121 listings. You cant compare that to a card from a brand new releases that they only made one of.

Just like comparing trading card collectors to signed CD collectors. The Card side out numbers them thousands to one.

[89Giants]

Originally Posted by justin80

At least three Dirnt GPK autos in the wild (2 on eBay; one sitting on my desk). I haven't seen any of the other characters.

Perhaps they will be in the next round of cases sold? As LondonGames knows, these cards were printed to the moon -- possibly one of jupiter's.

Someone pulled a tre cool solo auto in a break on youtube

[eldavojohn]

Originally Posted by eldavojohn

For those who missed out, blowout has boxes and cases.

Good news, these are back to MSRP. BUY BUY BUY BUY

[TimBuckTwo]

We were all duped, agreed ?!?

[bub838]

Originally Posted by TimBuckTwo

We were all duped, agreed ?!?

No more to the moon?

[jdandns]

My two boxes have been sitting at the post office since Saturday and I was finally able to pick them up today. I planned to open one and leave the other sealed, and I apparently picked the right one for that. I took the 10 packs out of the box and noticed one pack was rigid. I opened just that one and then stopped because it had a Billie Joe Armstrong autograph/relic (guitar pick) in it. I'd have been happy with just a Tre Cool drum relic which seems to be the most common of those, so obviously, I'm thrilled with this pull.

[eldavojohn]

Originally Posted by jdandns

My two boxes have been sitting at the post office since Saturday and I was finally able to pick them up today. I planned to open one and leave the other sealed, and I apparently picked the right one for that. I took the 10 packs out of the box and noticed one pack was rigid. I opened just that one and then stopped because it had a Billie Joe Armstrong autograph/relic (guitar pick) in it. I'd have been happy with just a Tre Cool drum relic which seems to be the most common of those, so obviously, I'm thrilled with this pull.

That's unreal. Stop now, pick up a base set and mark a big fat ole' W in the win column! Congratulations!

[LondonGames]

Originally Posted by jdandns

My two boxes have been sitting at the post office since Saturday and I was finally able to pick them up today. I planned to open one and leave the other sealed, and I apparently picked the right one for that. I took the 10 packs out of the box and noticed one pack was rigid. I opened just that one and then stopped because it had a Billie Joe Armstrong autograph/relic (guitar pick) in it. I'd have been happy with just a Tre Cool drum relic which seems to be the most common of those, so obviously, I'm thrilled with this pull.

holy cow. congrats! I wonder if the other 1/1 (your version) will have the pick or it'll have the strings.

I'm thinking this one is rarer than the guitar strings variant anyhow.

that's prob a $5k card imo.

[eastbayak]

Originally Posted by jdandns

My two boxes have been sitting at the post office since Saturday and I was finally able to pick them up today. I planned to open one and leave the other sealed, and I apparently picked the right one for that. I took the 10 packs out of the box and noticed one pack was rigid. I opened just that one and then stopped because it had a Billie Joe Armstrong autograph/relic (guitar pick) in it. I'd have been happy with just a Tre Cool drum relic which seems to be the most common of those, so obviously, I'm thrilled with this pull.

Congrats on the monster!! Planning to keep in the PC or sell?

[eastbayak]

Originally Posted by jdandns

Here's a Facebook Reel with a look at the Billy Joe auto relic featuring his guitar strings.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1135445115147794

Haha, what are the odds that you posted a video of BJA's auto relic and then actually went on to hit one?!

Congrats again!!