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McFarlane Announces Giants Championship Team Set
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 10:44 am | Filed Under McFarlane, NFL
To commemorate the Giants historical Super Bowl victory McFarlane is producing an ultimate team set of the New York Giants team. Featured in their white Super Bowl jerseys, this set also differs from the original Giants set by replacing Shockey with Boss and Finn with Hedgecock. Like the other team sets, I […]
Does Upper Deck Fix Beckett Box Breaks?
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 12:04 pm | Filed Under NFL, Cards, Beckett, Upper Deck, Business, Box Breaks, Videos
After their recent Box Buster Video of the new 2007 Upper Deck Exquisite Football, many collectors think that the answer to that question is a resounding YES.
In the video you’ll see that Beckett’s staff has an extraordinary pull that makes you wonder about the box that they’re opening. Out of 12 cards, they pulled:
An […]
Random Thoughts on a Slow Week
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 8:13 pm | Filed Under MLB, NFL, Beckett, Tuff Stuff, Price Guide, NHL, Donruss
Don’t worry, I haven’t been neglecting this blog lately. There just hasn’t been ANY interesting collectibles news lately worth commenting on. Usually a few times a week I see something and say “I need to write an article about that”. Not so much lately. In the interest of not leaving this blog untouched for too […]
Vick Cards Magically Slipping Through
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 7:49 pm | Filed Under NFL, Topps, Tuff Stuff
From Scott Kelnhofer on the Tuff Stuff Blog:
Five separate Michael Vick cards from the recently released Topps Chrome Football set have sold on eBay in the past week. That’s noteworthy because Topps had announced in early August that it was removing all of Vick’s cards from the remainder of its 2007 product line, and Topps […]
McFarlane Launches NFL Legends 3 Online Feature
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 3:35 pm | Filed Under McFarlane, NFL
McFarlane just launched a very creative online feature to promote the upcoming release of the NFL Legends 3 series. The site includes: complete figure photography, wallpapers, backdrops, packaging photos, interactive QTVRs that let you rotate the figure 360 degrees, player information, and of course information on where to buy.
The Bo Jackson player page:
The QTVR that […]
Scam Artist Busted on Beckett Forum
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 10:40 am | Filed Under NFL, Beckett, Authentication
This thread on Beckett from last week is probably my favorite of all-time. Here’s how it went:
Guy posts fake Ciatrick Fason logo patch card on eBay numbered 322/699
Card gets pulled off eBay because Upper Deck says it’s a fake
Guy complains on Beckett forum, hoping to sell it there.
Hard core collector who has a photo […]
Michael Vick Dropped by Donruss and Upper Deck
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 2:04 pm | Filed Under NFL, Upper Deck, Donruss
With the recent Michael Vick indictment, Upper Deck and Donruss became the latest to pull Vick from their product lines. Here’s the reaction from Donruss:
“If anybody who knows about the current Vick situation knows Donruss, they know that this is a decision we had to make because of Ann [Powell] and her love of […]
Brady Quinn McFarlane is a Reach
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 12:54 pm | Filed Under McFarlane, NFL
McFarlane unveiled NFL Series 16 the other day. Overall, it looks like a great series with much needed first figures for Champ Bailey and Frank Gore, combined with a new LT figure, and repaints of Steve McNair and Terrell Owens in new uni’s. It’s a formula that’s worked well for McFarlane. […]
2007 McFarlane NFL 3-Packs Intriguing
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 12:44 pm | Filed Under McFarlane, NFL
Last year McFarlane debuted the unique idea of Toys ‘R’ Us exclusive 3-packs that were a mix of existing figures, variant figures, and brand new figures. This year they mixed it up a bit and are giving us three different types of 3 packs.
Donovan McNabb, Brian Westbrook and Brian Dawkins:
LaDainian Tomlinson, Larry Johnson […]
Our Pricing: McFarlane NFL 14
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 1:40 pm | Filed Under McFarlane, NFL, Price Guide
To give everyone a flavor for how our Price Guide compares to the more traditional print price guides, we’ve decided to start an “our pricing” series where from time to time we’ll show you how the prices from the SportsLizard Price Guide compare to prices from Beckett or Tuff Stuff for a particular series or […]