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Review:
2005-06 Topps Luxury Box Basketball (Review
by Bill Kovacs A.K.A. chiliwilly)
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2005-06 Topps Luxury Box Basketball
Each sealed box contains 8 packs of 5 cards each in a 150 card base set including 45 #`d Rookies and 5 #`d Celebrities. >>> Each box contains FOUR Memorabilia cards (two will be multi-swatch), ONE Autograph card, and ONE Spokesman box loader card. Parallel sets (2:1): Season Ticket, Tier Reserved (#`d to 500), Mezzanine (#`d to 350), Loge Level (#`d to 200), Main Reserved (#`d to 100), Courtside (#`d to 25), and Luxury Box (each is a 1-of-1). Inserts: Spokesman box loader card 1:box (Wade, Iverson, or Jay-Z: Common, Autograph > #`d to 10, and Memorabilia: Single > #`d to to 279, Dual > #`d to 99, Triple > #`d to 25), Memorabilia cards 1:2 (The Machine > #`d to 250, Two`s Company Dual > #`d to 250, One Man Show > #`d to 10, One-on-One > #`d to 5, Trinity 3 swatch > #`d to 3, Box Out 4 swatch > #`d to 250, Triple Double 5 swatch > #`d to 250, Division 6 swatch > #`d to 200; Stat Sheet 7 swatch > #`d to 200, and 4-on-2 Break 8 swatch > #`d to 150. Each memorabilia card has two parallel variations: Courtside > #`d to 25 and Luxury Box > each is a 1-of-1), Autograph cards 1:8 (Box Seat, One Man Show, The Machine, and One-on-One Dual. Each autograph card has two parallel variations: Courtside > #`d to 25 and Luxury Box > each is a 1-of-1), and Autograph Memorabilia cards (One Man Show > #`d to 10, One-on-One Dual > #`d to 5, and Trinity Triple > #`d to 3).
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Base Card Scan |
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A great new design from Topps on this product. Sort of a mixture of a regular card and a refractor card all-in-one. Simple design and color combine to make this an effective new concept. It's hard to see the player decent on the LH side of the card, but that's just the scan (cards are beautiful). The back of the cards has the statistics from the 04-05 season along with a short bio of the player.
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Rookie / First Year Card Scan |
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45 Rookie players and 5 celebrities are included in the 150 card base set. The rookies aren't designated anywhere on the card, except by the numbering on the back. The rookie base cards are #d to /999 and the parallels are numbered from /25 to /500. The back of the cards have the players' short bio from their previous playing year.
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Insert Card Scans |
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Another parallel shown here are the Season Ticket cards. They are most noticeable as they are thicker stock cards and have Season Ticket centered on the back of the cards at the bottom. Another insert was the Industry Anchors box-topper of Allen Iverson numbered to /599. Here are the parallel levels;
- Scarce level parallel. ONE of ONE
- Courtside Rare level parallel. Numbered* to 25
- Main Reserved Uncommon level parallel. Numbered* to 100
- Loge Level Middle level parallel. Numbered* to 200
- Mezzanine Mid-level parallel. Numbered* to 350
- Tier Reserved Numbered* to 500
- Season Ticket
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Game-Used Scan |
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Here's where this product starts to get interesting; we pulled (3) multi-game-used from this box. We pulled an Al Harrington GU numbered to /225, a dual GU of Chris Paul (ROY) and J.R. Smith numbered to /193. We also pulled a Trinity GU of Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh numbered /250. Last but not least we pulled a Divisions GU card of Stephon Marbury, Chauncey Billups, Gilbert Arenas, Sebastian Telfair, Baron Davis and Chris Paul numbered to /192.
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Autograph Scan |
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The (1) autograph we pulled was of Andrew Bogut of the Milwaukee Bucks. The card is the Box Seats version and is numbered to /124. The autograph is very clean and crisp without any smudging or breaks.
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The
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rate this box a 5 of 5 HI Fives. I would not hesitate to purchase this product at all because of the high quality of the pulls received. You can usually find these boxes in the $65 to $87 price range on the web sites I have checked. Good value for the money in my opinion with (4) relic cards and (1) autograph per box. I will get a box of this shortly for sure. |
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