First Buzz: 2024 Topps Chrome Dune trading cards

[Sickleclaw]

I ripped a blaster after I saw my Gamestop got a case of blasters in. I pulled a /225 numbered as my highest card from the blaster. What are numbered odds for Blasters?

[gorillaz]

Originally Posted by Sickleclaw

I ripped a blaster after I saw my Gamestop got a case of blasters in. I pulled a /225 numbered as my highest card from the blaster. What are numbered odds for Blasters?

One per blaster

[finfangfan]

They had a bunch of these at a GameStop I went to yesterday. I ended up buying the MtG Amazing Spider-man gift box instead though. Probably should have bought Dune instead.

[orion9578]

Originally Posted by peterose4hof

I think the #d parallels of Paul & Chani will be very expensive.
Especially since they don't have autos to chase.

Originally Posted by notoriousrmb

Agreed, just look at the prices on the previous Dune release.

And update to an early post by me, asking about prices...

They are "cheap". IMO, great buys currently, but only time will tell. I ended up nabbing this one:



For not much more than the price of a box. I'm thinking if Topps doesn't do much more with the property, things could go way up as we get closer to the last movie and/or after it releases, assuming it does well.

Anyone else grabbing singles?

[peterose4hof]

Great pick-up!

[PumpnDumpling]

Putting together the beige pulsar ref 1-90 to go along with the base and silver ref sets

Seems like a great time to buy as many are dumping to recoup (nothing earth shattering there)

Seeing tons of this was opened overseas, more so than i would have expected

[shu4040]

I’ve been buying one subset. I might be the only one but I like them!


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[crdbored]

$129 pre-sale -> $149 release -> $99 on BO

Been a minute since I seen prices go down this fast from release.
Fanatics must've dumped the stock they held back.

[shu4040]

It’s really not a bad release. They just made a boat load and didn’t land the two biggest auto needs.


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[thewesdub]

A buddy of mine pulled a non-numbered Christopher Walken auto out of a blaster. The corners are smoked but it's still really cool.

[kyle1707]

Originally Posted by crdbored

$129 pre-sale -> $149 release -> $99 on BO

Been a minute since I seen prices go down this fast from release.
Fanatics must've dumped the stock they held back.

Um let’s not forget blowout had it for sale for 190.00

It’s why I buy 1/10 of what I used to

[Sickleclaw]

Originally Posted by crdbored

$129 pre-sale -> $149 release -> $99 on BO

Been a minute since I seen prices go down this fast from release.
Fanatics must've dumped the stock they held back.

Wow, thats pretty low...I think for that price given it's 1:3 chance at auto, easier to get that price than buy blasters.

[VinnyH]

Just bought 3 boxes more at the $99 price. I've had success selling the base set at $80 on eBay. I'm hoping to make the 2 unnumbered refractor sets of the base eventually.
Vinny

[Jaysabz]

Gosh I haven't ripped wax in forever. The Dune hobby box prices have me tempted but I just have to remind myself - a few hundred saved is a few hundred earned and to snag singles on the cheap.

Used to be me selling the singles to recoup all the money I spent chasing the big wax hits.

The group breaks on here were tons of fun, especially for higher end products like Stellar. Those breaks were usually worth the risk / reward.

[VinnyH]

Nothing big in my 3 boxes today. Got a Jamis auto, a Gurney Medallion, and the usual array of numbered cards with none lower than 99. Still happy to have more to make the various versions of the base set.
Vinny

[Jaysabz]

Boxes are down to $92 here on Blowout.

So tempting, but I'm going to try and hold firm!

[VinnyH]

Originally Posted by Jaysabz

Boxes are down to $92 here on Blowout.

So tempting, but I'm going to try and hold firm!

Bought 6 boxes at 99 and did okay but nothing close to a big hit. Got a Gurney auto, a common auto, a Chalamat Medallion to 50, a common to 5 and not much more. I am working on all the parallel unnumbered base sets so that helps.
Vinny

[orion9578]

Originally Posted by Jaysabz

Boxes are down to $92 here on Blowout.

So tempting, but I'm going to try and hold firm!

$75 is the buy price on wax. They just made way too much product. Parallels include:

/299 Magenta
/275 Purple Speckle
/250 Purple Lava
/225 Blue Sonar
/199 Purple & Blue
/175 Aqua Lava
/175 Aqua
/1 Spice Orange Speckle

All those should have been nixed, IMO. Keepers, again, IMO:

Unnumbered Refractors
Unnumbered Raywave Refractors
Unnumbered Beige Pulsar Refractors
/150 Blue Wave
/99 Green
/75 Blue
/50 Gold
/25 Orange
/10 Wave
/5 Red
/1 Superfractor

It would have been quite a bit more expensive, wax wise and singles wise... But no one is buying those filler cards(at least not for very much money). Personally, I'm doing a framed piece with /150's and /75's and then just picking up singles I like for the PC, both to display.

This is a great set for anyone who loves the movies and collecting cards though...tons of cheap options to actually buy without have to do second mortgage type activity

[evileddie]

I am looking to buy Gold #'d out of 50 Acrylic's, Gold #'d out of 50 Spice inserts, and Dune Walls out of 99.

[YayNJ]

I really like the Acrylics.

Putting together a set of #'25s

[evileddie]

My current want to buy list if anybody has anything to move.

Beige Pulsar:
8 Stilgar
45 Arrival on Arrakis
54 The Carryall Fails

Medallions base:
MCM-DY Dr. Wellington Yueh
MCM-PD Piter De Vries

Acrylics Gold out of 50
DA-1 Paul Atreides
DA-3 Lady Jessica
DA-4 Duke Leto Atreides
DA-8 Stilgar
DA-12 Doctor Wellington Yueh
DA-17 Sardaukar Bashar
DA-18 Princess Irulan
DA-19 Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV
DA-22 Herald of the Change

Dune Walls out of 99
DW-4 Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
DW-8 Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen

Spice Gold out of 50:
S-6 Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
S-8 Stilgar
S-9 Gurney Halleck
S-11 Thufir Hawat
S-16 Reverend Mother Mohiam
S-19 Lady Margot Fenring
S-23 Bene Gesserit Sister

[orion9578]

Stuff still seems cheap..."seems"...



Another one knocked off my want-list

[evileddie]

Super nice addition orion9578!

I need the gold one, only one listed on ebay is $150. I'm waiting it out to find one cheaper. Bad thing is it seems people stopped opening this after the initial release. The frequency of new stuff on ebay is dwindling. It might be a long time before I can complete my sets.

[orion9578]

Originally Posted by evileddie

Super nice addition orion9578!

I need the gold one, only one listed on ebay is $150. I'm waiting it out to find one cheaper. Bad thing is it seems people stopped opening this after the initial release. The frequency of new stuff on ebay is dwindling. It might be a long time before I can complete my sets.

Yup, it has slowed to a crawl. I'm not even seeing any of the /150's and /75's I'm wanting to grab, let alone anymore /5's. Maybe wax will go down even more and then people will open? Singles on BIN/BO are still moving either alright or good in some cases...auctions seem to be mostly cheap. I suspect people are having to sit on most BIN's, which I know people don't like to do. Rip, sell and on to the next thing seems to be the trend(for the last few years or so, haha).

[VinnyH]

I’m still tempted to get more but Dune 3 will be another full year. Lately the time between series and movies kills the market on non-sports as it’s “Out of sight, out of mind”. Strange New Worlds is another example of having it fade from popularity until the next tv series (Season 4) comes out.
Yes, I enjoy breaking, sorting, and flipping a nice set. With top stars and decent autos, the Dune release seems worth it in the long run.
Vinny
Update: I just ordered another case. Analyzed my budget and figured I'd pass on Star Trek in Feb since we are selling our house and will be busy. So, let's see what's in this case.