2025: The Official What Are You Opening for Christmas Thread

[daviswr7]

Chaotic year to say the least. I’m sure everyone can relate. Hoping to have a really fun Christmas with my son breaking open these 80 Hobby boxes spanning 21 different releases of non-Sports Cards. Follow along in the box break section for a full breakdown starting Christmas Day! I hope everybody has an amazing holiday and is able to pull something they want to keep for their personal collection. As usual, we have opted to go a bit old school, to try and pull some cool sketches or older autographs. Everything about this break is exciting for me as these are all products that I broke in larger quantities at least a decade or more ago. Have a great holiday everyone and we will get ripping sometime Christmas Day. -Michael







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[Sickleclaw]

Originally Posted by daviswr7

Chaotic year to say the least. I’m sure everyone can relate. Hoping to have a really fun Christmas with my son breaking open these 80 Hobby boxes spanning 21 different releases of non-Sports Cards. Follow along in the box break section for a full breakdown starting Christmas Day! I hope everybody has an amazing holiday and is able to pull something they want to keep for their personal collection. As usual, we have opted to go a bit old school, to try and pull some cool sketches or older autographs. Everything about this break is exciting for me as these are all products that I broke in larger quantities at least a decade or more ago. Have a great holiday everyone and we will get ripping sometime Christmas Day. -Michael







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Good luck! Really curious what you hit in the Indy boxes.

[gerry609]

The one time a year I look forward to are your annual Christmas breaks.

[daviswr7]

Originally Posted by gerry609

The one time a year I look forward to are your annual Christmas breaks.

Thanks Gerry! I’ll do my best🤞🤞🤞🤞

[aggie4ever]

Good luck, I always love seeing your Christmas breaks! It looks like you have a great selection of boxes to break.

[daviswr7]

Originally Posted by aggie4ever

Good luck, I always love seeing your Christmas breaks! It looks like you have a great selection of boxes to break.

Thanks Aggie! Appreciate it

[dd316]

Good luck! That's an amazing mountain of wax!!!!


I'll be opening a Peanuts Playpaks box.

*crickets*

[daviswr7]

Originally Posted by dd316

Good luck! That's an amazing mountain of wax!!!!


I'll be opening a Peanuts Playpaks box.

*crickets*

Thanks Ted, I know you have sketches randomly, and some of the stuff. I’ll be looking out for your work.

[nabzy28]

Rick and Morty S1... basically peak Cryptozoic. So much greatness in their releases. Good luck on the breaks!

[dd316]

Originally Posted by daviswr7

Thanks Ted, I know you have sketches randomly, and some of the stuff. I’ll be looking out for your work.

I've got sketches in 8 of those sets. Hopefully you don't get Waterhoused too much in Indy and LOTR!

[daviswr7]

Originally Posted by nabzy28

Rick and Morty S1... basically peak Cryptozoic. So much greatness in their releases. Good luck on the breaks!

Thank you! I am missing Justin Roiland as Rick Sanchez and that’s the last autograph card I need for that set. Some of the sketches in that are phenomenal. I’m really looking forward to that break.

[daviswr7]

Originally Posted by dd316

I've got sketches in 8 of those sets. Hopefully you don't get Waterhoused too much in Indy and LOTR!

Dang! I’m hoping for one of your Mars attacks ones. Love those sketches.

[Portlaw]

This thread is one of my favourites to read every year. Looks like an amazing haul to open.
Wishing you all the luck.

I've 3 cases of Loki Season 1 to open. Chasing a nice Tom Hiddleston, will post hits in here on Christmas day

[daviswr7]

Originally Posted by Portlaw

This thread is one of my favourites to read every year. Looks like an amazing haul to open.
Wishing you all the luck.

I've 3 cases of Loki Season 1 to open. Chasing a nice Tom Hiddleston, will post hits in here on Christmas day

Very nice, you’ll have busy fingers too, my dream card from that set is an Owen Wilson/Tom Hiddleston dual autograph.

[dd316]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Attack From Space boxes don't have any hits? The only difference is the box itself, which you might want to leave sealed in that case.

[daviswr7]

Originally Posted by dd316

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Attack From Space boxes don't have any hits? The only difference is the box itself, which you might want to leave sealed in that case.

I think the attack from space box is 1:96 packs on sketches. I believe those were the odds I saw on nslists.com

[SteelPen2]

Wow, where did you get all those 2009 Donruss Americana boxes? I never see those pop up for sale.

I am opening:

3 Mega Boxes of 2025 Topps Chrome Disney
1 Blaster Box 2025 Topps Chrome Disney
1 Breygent Season 3/4 Ghost Whisperer Box
1 Hobby Box of Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life
1 UD James Bond Black Diamond
1 2020 Topps Women of Star Wars Hobby box
1 UD James Bond No Time to Die Hobby Box

As for sports I just got a Topps baseball Holiday Advent calendar I've been opening all month long.

[newhobbygeek]

Good luck everyone! Excited to see some LOTR/Hobbit boxes opened up.

Also, those Loki Season 1 cases sound fun!!!

[daviswr7]

Originally Posted by SteelPen2

Wow, where did you get all those 2009 Donruss Americana boxes? I never see those pop up for sale.

I am opening:

3 Mega Boxes of 2025 Topps Chrome Disney
1 Blaster Box 2025 Topps Chrome Disney
1 Breygent Season 3/4 Ghost Whisperer Box
1 Hobby Box of Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life
1 UD James Bond Black Diamond
1 2020 Topps Women of Star Wars Hobby box
1 UD James Bond No Time to Die Hobby Box

As for sports I just got a Topps baseball Holiday Advent calendar I've been opening all month long.

You’re right, those Americana’s don’t come up often. I was able to snag multiples from the same seller on eBay a few times earlier in the year. I love that checklist. Looks like you got some fun stuff you’re breaking too, good luck!

The 2012 Americana has the Grail of all grails with the Dwight Eisenhower autograph relic.

[kyle1707]

Case Christmas story
Case of 007 no time to die
5 Batman metal boxes
Couple stranger things tek boxes

Good luck on your break always fun.

[Davy]

I know my partner has bought me a few singles from my wishlist, looking forward to that. Could be Star Trek autos, Doctor Who sketch cards....lots of possibilities.

[Bruin7]

Wow looks fun. I personally couldn’t do it after having 9 neck/back surgeries lol. My body would fall apart. Rick & Morty S1? I’d sell that before opening. I opened 5 cases upon initial release. Only decent thing to pull are sketch cards as there weren’t numbered parallels. Nowadays the autos aren’t doing well outside of the short printed Roiland. However based on your boxes it seems these were stashed away? The cost of boxes were very different 5+ years ago. Anyhow have a fun rip. I always enjoy reading your annual break.

[crdbored]

Woah, where did you get a case of Mars Attacks? So awesome!

Goodluck!

[Portlaw]

Our plans changed and we're spending Christmas with extended family so went ahead and opened the 3 cases of Loki today and it was a lot of fun.

Below is the detail of what we got in terms of hits:

Loki Variants Holograms (case hit insert) - 3
TVA Holograms (case hit insert) - 3
Printing plates - 1
Autographs - 7 (5 inscriptions)

Case 1:

GPS-MA Jonathan Majors as He Who Remains B Auto
DS-SL Sasha Lane as Hunter C-20 “Hunter C-20” C
ATB-6 Time Variance Authority – Freed - Black Printing Plate 1/1

Case 2:

GPS-HI Tom Hiddleston as Loki “Glorious Purpose” A Auto
FCA-SL Sasha Lane as Hunter C-20 C Auto

Case 3:

HVA-DI Sophia Di Martino as Sylvie “Variant L1190” A Auto
DS-RG Richard E. Grant as Classic Loki “Glorious Purpose” C Auto
HVA-SL Sasha Lane as Hunter C-20 “Hunter C-20” C Auto

Wanted a Hiddleston so to hit an inscription Hiddleston was going to make this a big win for me no matter what else was hit. Huge fan of the Richard E Grant inscription too.

I'll add some pics below. Happy Christmas and good luck to everyone else on their breaks!


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[jdandns]

Originally Posted by daviswr7

You’re right, those Americana’s don’t come up often. I was able to snag multiples from the same seller on eBay a few times earlier in the year. I love that checklist. Looks like you got some fun stuff you’re breaking too, good luck!

The 2012 Americana has the Grail of all grails with the Dwight Eisenhower autograph relic.

At least 2 of the 4 Eisenhowers have been found (one by me) but maybe one of the others is in there. Good luck, Davis!