Mixed Feelings... | 2022 TOPPS STAR WARS CHROME GALAXY HOBBY BOX CASE OPENING

[@SouthsideCardsBr]

It's crazy how Star Wars Chrome jumps in price every year. A lot of collector's are getting priced out of the card collecting hobby. ☹️

[@Mrsaltypickle]

I remember buying up 2021 galaxy chrome for $100 until the pump and dumps occurred

[@JechtAruon]

When I went on topps site and saw they wanted 300 a box. I was like for chrome? I remember when topps chrome was cheap and always loved chrome for football. Now like with everything I see now it’s overpriced and you are far from making your money back. It would be cheaper to buy the cards you want.

[@tremoo5987]

Don't feel bad, these cards don't have the artist's names.

[@allnovieveryday]

Card companies just steal the video game lootbox business model. They would rather sell to the fewer obsessive people with bigger budgets than to a larger customer base that will exercise caution with spending habits.

[@lv13david]

I discovered 2021 Galaxy after it had already exploded in price, but watching videos of it was what ignited my interest in Star Wars cards. Since then I'd been eagerly waiting for the next Galaxy set so I could buy it at an affordable price. I'm still thinking about buying one box but I don't want to reward greedy business practices. I expected $150-$200, but $300+ is a very hard pill to swallow. At any rate, the cards are gorgeous and I can still enjoy watching you open them.

[@shannonhoon74]

I think your title says it all! Very nice looking product with unfortunate price-tag & some QC issues! Still always fun watching Ally open Star Wars!

[@cesarlopezph.d.7462]

I love and hated it. I caught you do the ones last year and your criticism were right on as far as the cost (!), the lack of artist noted, the missing parts, and the missing community needed. I think your thoughts make it unavailable to collect and makes me wanted more of last year. I have seen card shops closing recently. But come on, $120 to $350-$400 per is crazy!!! Thank you.

[@Dilemma009]

probably one of my favorite products right now.

[@KevinGrahamArt]

Ya it sucks they didnt use our names this year. It’s great to see my art on a shinny card stock, refractor etc. to bad I can’t afford to buy my own cards lol

[@Nick99W]

The price increase from last years set is disgusting

[@twostop6895]

I have not bought Star Wars but I've opened 2022 Baseball and Garbage Pail Kids Chrome and the quality control is the worst I've seen in years, none of my pulled parallels were grade worthy, talk about wasting money

[@TrailBlazer5280]

These are actually really cool. I love the different art styles and types of cards

[@fogeywan]

Wish I would have seen some of this Vader Art before starting my sleeve

[@akagalar1]

Tripling the cost obviously did not mean Topps tripled the quality of this year's Galaxy.

[@castortroy22]

Love the art on Star Wars galaxy, more last year but I was able to snag a box this year hoping for the best!

[@tremoo5987]

The atomic box art card looks awesome!

[@ArmyBabs2]

As much as I enjoy opening up Star Wars, I just can't justify the cost. It's gotten crazy. 😥

[@ncexnyc4466]

I'd rather buy an older box of Masterworks than this.

[@xanmansports7817]

I’m a kid and I’ve been doing work and saving up for a box of this. They are not cheap😅

[@justinvickclt]

Look great. Probably buy a bunch when they hit the secondary market.

[@allnovieveryday]

1:12:44 I was curious about your point will these singles hold up in value so I looked up this Vader and the alpha 1/99 sold for $100 in the past few weeks and several others sold around $80-$100.. so I guess they are holding up prices ok for now... my bigger concern would be what happens if Topps puts this set out every single year and people just lose interest in chasing colors/parallels. Happened to me already. Autographs are the only thing keeping me interested but even those fall victim to overproduction especially when they put the same actors in every single Topps set.

[@jerryanthony8886]

Centering looks rough on a lot of cards. Artist info would be great too.

[@bountyhunterbreaks898]

I'm disappointed that Topps would omit the artist information on the cards. The first 10 cards are from the original Star Wars Galaxy set. Since the artist signed his work on the images, Topps actually airbrushed it out of most of the cards but there are a couple that you can still partially read. The lack of sketch cards for the second consecutive release leads me to believe that Topps is no longer going to have them in sets. The sketch variations are most likely just a Photoshop de-coloring of the cards. Glad you didn't pull any of those base card variation redemption's in this case. The centering on the majority of the cards are terrible and I just have the feeling that similar to Chrome Update baseball this product was rushed out the door to clean the slate of 2022 products. The artist who did the first 10 sketches was Joe Smith who I believe passed away many years ago,

[@stephenoliveau]

Artist? What's that? -Topps

[@noogie1]

🤣

[@Ryguy534]

Got 3 numbered cards in my box but missing an autograph 😅

[@chaseanderson5436]

How does one even go about preordering a case? Do you have to own a card shop or something?

[@skulletorable]

Where the hell can you even buy these :( I don’t think they are even available in australia

[@Dapeiz96]

where can we buy Star Wars boxes?

[@Ryguy534]

This is my first Star Wars topps set I’ve opened and yeah the price seems crazy. But, I enjoy the heck out of these cards so far. I’m hoping to get lucky for tomorrows livestream!

[@stefanmager1811]

the artist from the Han Solo Card should be Joe Smith

[@benjamingarcia3668]

The centering on all those cards are all over the place

[@chupacabra8479]

I think Topps should do a sketch card where they give the artist a blank silver chrome and a paint pen.

[@isaacsullivan7047]

Love your videos

[@MrMcSnuffyFluffy]

Every single base refractor, in three boxes had centering worse than 80/20. Seriously insane, why would they ship stuff like this?

[@DrahcirsComicsandThings]

Mixed feeling on this one. I absolutely loved the 2021 set, but no artist names, an inferior looking design (imo), and a insane price point. Kind of a let down from Topps for me. Still a great opening Ally, always enjoy it.

[@gillesjacques1022]

Oddest cards, the Leia card that looks more like Jen Erso, or the Yoda with the Mahatma Gandhi look with the same round glasses.

[@miikwise2124]

Very beautiful

[@frannkie1000]

I bought 2 single packs from whatnot and hit the auto ! Spent 25 each plus tax and shipping but still way better than the whole box it was a Cham syndulla auto to 5 ! I want a box for the pc cus I always get starwars if I like the art but yeah I saw one box go for 450! Way too much smh

[@evandavis6464]

Reminds me of old marvel cards

[@miketower3272]

If you can't get the artist name from contacting Topps, It might work to photograph or scan the image and do a reverse image look-up on the internet from Google, Tineye, or Yandex.

[@KevinGrahamArt]

Good idea. I do my best to make my name legible on the sketch cards I do.

[@chrisclements7507]

Artist is Derek Laufmann for the cool art you like

[@GirlsandBoysToys]

I paid $88 last year for a box of these. Unfortunately, I cannot afford these.

[@readysetsleep]

These signatures are for extras 😄

[@fliplife67]

Theses prices should drop since theses noithing different from last year ones.

[@achorn316]

i like the black borders.. but leaving off the artist sucks.. and the price hike is ridiculous

[@TheBarnettCollection]

My box was riddled with bad centering and edge Chipping. Super disappointing.

[@SouthsideCardsBr]

Hoping Ally pulls a Daisy Ridley (Rey) auto 😊😊

[@havethehighground4087]

For a set that celebrates Star Wars Art to not include the artist name anywhere and have 1 sketch in the case is frankly ridiculous

[@NoahMcleany]

Removing artists names and a triple price increase is straight bullshit. I’m an artist and will never work for Topps with these type of practices.

[@gaddywalls378]

Please show more fftcg

[@Balois01]

The qaqc has been so bad. Off center issues. Cut issues. Double autos. 1 numbered in a box. Triple price for garbo

[@daskuhnen5530]

Topps is just sloppy this year. No clue if it's the Fanatics purchase or the baseball stoppage threw them off, but it's sloppy.

[@mattmoret2069]

Ya Topps chrome is brutal this year.

[@oddcubepunk]

Left a like on the video because Ally opening but wish I could send Topps a dislike for a disappointing showing. They kind of screwed themselves over using the border when they have centering issues. Even if I actively collected and could afford the set I don't know if I could justify the price for low QC, no artist credit, and no cards they claim are promised per box, for me there would be no point in trying to collect a set that would be difficult to find undamaged cards. That said, the art in this set is really awesome and thank you for showing us a glimpse behind the curtain 😂

[@myeviljewels6539]

Ok, the amount of reprints is annoying. The centring of a lot of the cards is diabolical. but the art on offer in my opinion is better than last year. Shame, shame, shame on the price tag, it's stomach churning! Ally, you are the best as per usual.

[@mephisto40]

There is no way the big hits are worth the price of the boxes even if you do manage to pull one

[@AfterHoursCollector]

The cards look dope but omitting the artists names, having very few sketches and less parallels.... boxes needed to be closer to 100 like last year. Even 200 would have been more understandable

[@zandelscomicsandcards7543]

Not worth $300 a box. Not even close.

[@cosmonaught]

Take a drink every time she says she wish she saw the artist's name...be wasted by 8 minutes in...

[@noogie1]

First

[@TitanCards]

Certified first!

[@stephenoliveau]

Spoilers. 🙉

[@modernhockeycards]

4th!

[@mauriciobori]

Hate the borders tbh

[@robintaylor485]

I don’t think these base cards are going to be the kind of cards people just Poopoo on either I’m saying these are not like your average baseball base card or something

[@berkshireboy2766]

Trash Compactor Refractor. lol

[@gillesjacques1022]

Cards are okay, find the shine in the card makes some too dark, not really a fan of cartoon cards. Price wise, not worth it too me.

[@basketball-liebetv3544]

Topps do Topps things💩

[@TheBomas14]

All trash autos for the price

[@jeremysmith4620]

Ally, the art you like of the Leia Boushh is somewhat unfortunate. It was done by an artist formerly featured in Magic the Gathering card art for 2 decades, Terese Nielson. It is honestly a shame Topps still uses her art. I was a massive fan of hers and even bought a signed and numbered print of her new Force of Will art from Eternal Masters, as she did the original art for Force of Will and then got to update the image when it was selected to be reprinted. I don't even display it anymore in my home because I just can't support her any longer. In 2018 she went all the way down the Q-Anon rabbit hole, started liking openly racist and anti-Semitic tweets, and began openly espousing really harmful anti-Trans TERF ideology. I just can't get down with any of that and neither could Wizards of the Coast. I am not trying to be "political," instead I am just bringing it up because you stated that you really liked the card art and I couldn't mention her name without being concerned that it could possibly ever be seen as embracing or promoting her harmful beliefs.

[@KevinGrahamArt]

Ya. I didn’t even know they were using my art this year but glad to have cool versions of my base card.

[@jd1ggs102]

I’m gonna go follow her she sounds like a woman I can get behind. Thanks for the info!

[@jeremysmith4620]

@@jd1ggs102 You're very welcome. Thank you for letting everyone know you are the type of person who would not only jump at the chance to follow someone that spouts racist, transphobic, and conspiratorial theories, but also love to tell other people just how you support those ideals. It's honestly very helpful to let people know what you are all about so no one would waste their time thinking underneath it all you might be a kind or reasonable human being. Good luck with all that in the future, I'm sure it will get you far.

[@jd1ggs102]

@@jeremysmith4620 oh I do I really do. I am the kind of guy that believes that whatever god assigned you at birth is what you are. And to try to defy gods creation and treating it like a mistake as if god can do so is blasphemy. You should take the small hat off your head mr. Shekelstein and play in the realm of reality. You are the reason this world is diving further into idiocracy

[@g1stylempdesign929]

These Star Wars cards look cheesy and poorly designed. Not printing the artist name is garbage

[@danielcuellargomez]

Waaay overpriced.

[@larrydolby497]

This was the first video I had to stop watching. I understand how disappointing it is to not know the artist but to say it 20 times in 5 minutes is hard to listen to.