First Buzz: 2025 Topps Triumphant tennis cards

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by hocasio2

Eva Lys will be a popular chase.

As she should be.

[Jagsfansunshine]

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

As she should be.

Hahahaha. She's nice to look at, which sells better, but collectors can't be simping for every good looking wta player. They will wind up with a broke a** Kournikova-ish collection one day.

[Bob Ross]

Got shipping

[Onepocketj]

Doesn't seem to be too much demand for these so far. Box prices are coming down quite a bit the last few days as well.

I'll stick to a few singles of the players I collect.

[jjo1776]

No public release?

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by jjo1776

No public release?

Here's exactly what happened as I've followed this product closely:

Nope. It was all backdoored to breakers after the presale.

The "presale" was on Aug 21. It specifically stated presale with a Sept 25 release date. Then the real release got pushed to Oct 1. The Triumphant website page was still up this entire time since the presale.

Then Oct 1 comes around, breakers started breaking cases by the dozens, and it never had the "main" release on Topps. Then the Triumphant page was quietly pulled the evening of Oct 1.

The presale had exactly 1747 boxes and 40 cases available, and was near impossible to buy. Thats a total 2147 boxes. The entire print run is 9000 boxes, or 900 cases. So 6853 boxes went directly to breakers, BO, DA, etc., competely skipping the real release on Topps' website. And I'm talking some breakers had dozens of cases available on Oct 1.

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

I'm sure there will be no Fanatics shenanigans with this.

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

Over/under 99.1% backdoored to breakers?

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

Now a preorder and not the real release. Another free loan for Fanatics until whenever they decide to actually ship them.

These preorder free loans are getting old.

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

My math says 6750 boxes, assuming these are the base parallels (which they have shown): /99, /50, /15, /10, /5, /1

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

September 25th release date. Nice little month+ free loan for Fanatics. And possibly longer if they push it out further (see 2023 Basketball Royalty, now 5 months past the preorder and nowhere to be seen, still holding funds). Not to mention these today were practically impossible to buy. FWIW: 1747 boxes and 40 cases loaded.

Good times!

Nailed everything except the # of boxes made (9000 and not 6750) and the under of 99.1%.

[Jagsfansunshine]

I think most of us can agree this one was a bit of a flop - correct?

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by Jagsfansunshine

I think most of us can agree this one was a bit of a flop - correct?

Great looking product but Fanatics purposely killed it making the top autos either /1 or /5 max. Clearly a sticker dump product. In theory it should have been great, but you know... Fanatics.

[kyle1707]

Sounds like Star Wars

[Onepocketj]

I see Blowout has lowered these boxes from $399 to $179.
Demand must be even lower than I thought...

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by Onepocketj

I see Blowout has lowered these boxes from $399 to $179.
Demand must be even lower than I thought...

Quite honestly, one of the most embarrassing Tennis products ever released. Fanatics marketed this with photos of all of the big name autos. Couldn't have been a bigger fantasy projected.

In reality, after seeing countless cases broken, ebay listings, etc, all of the big name autos are at max /5, and maybe even just the /1 produced. There are unlimited autos available of every one of the garbage names, yet not a single example of a solo Nadal, Alcaraz or Novak auto have shown except for the Nadal 1/1 which was simply a miracle pull.

A complete sticker dump product from Fanatics and nothing else.

[YayNJ]

Show some love for the 5,000 Clervie Ngounoue sticker autos!

[Onepocketj]

Down to $159 on here. Still too much

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by Onepocketj

Down to $159 on here. Still too much

Dead serious, I'd pay no more than $25.

[greatgradegrate]

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

Dead serious, I'd pay no more than $25.

So this or Graphite def not worth a $125ish rip?

[ricebellypanda]

I bought 3 for $120 each... Didn't hit anything AMAZING but surprised to see some auto comps super low.

[Onepocketj]

Yeah, I bought Graphite at $120. I definitely wouldn't buy Triumphant at that price

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by greatgradegrate

So this or Graphite def not worth a $125ish rip?

Graphite over Triumphant all day.