My First Packs of '09 Heritage Baseball

So after reading this and this I giddily stopped by Target today and surely enough found two shiny new untouched still shrink wrapped retail boxes sitting innocently enough on the bottom shelf of the card aisle, not even priced. Sorta like they just came in and they just squeezed 'em in somewhere. So after pondering whether I should just grab some Topps or be daring and be the first to bust the box, temptation won out and I knelt down and ripped the box open as unsuspicously as I possibly could. Not trying to attract too much attention by digging around I resisted scooping all the way down to the bottom of the box (where the Mayo inserts no doubt were) and I simply grabbed the first three packs on the top left and proceeded to the checkstand with my rare prize, unsearched retail packs of Heritage. To my utter astonishment not only did packs scan correctly (2.99 each) but the cashier didn't even give me that "what the hell are these look" I usually get when I buy baseball cards at Tar-jay. By the time you read this I will be ripping into these suckers with glee, the video of which should appear here within the hour. Stay tuned...

Review: Topps 3D Live

So after hearing about this I gave it a try this morning and it was actually really cool. Basically what you do is go to ToppsTown.com, download D'Fusion, click on a player's name, hold his ToppsTown card up in front of your webcam and bam! Instant interactive 3D avatar of the player standing on the card. It really works! They have some games you can play. I used Ichiro and had him run back and forth catching little baseballs dropping from the top of screen (wasn't very good at it) and then I tried my luck at hitting with Miguel Cabrera. Once I got the timing down I was crushing homers but there wasn't much to it. I got bored after a few minutes. There is only a small list of players so far but I'm sure at some point they will have all the ToppsTown cards available for play and perhaps some more interesting games. Sadly, I couldn't record any of this on my webcam because apparently you can't run D'Fusion and record on your webcam at the same time. Anyways, I could see this being a HUGE hit with the kids. Topps may be onto something really big here. I give Topps big ups for trying something different.

2009 Topps Baseball

Picked up another retail jumbo of Topps.

Mail Day: 3/3/09

Got some '09 Topps I needed from Ben @ the 1988 Score blog.

2009 Topps Attax Baseball Is Live

Here's an educational video of the new Topps Attax baseball product brought to you by, your boy, Tom the Ripper.

Mail Day: 3/1/09

Here are some maildays I received a couple days ago from Marie @ A Cardboard Problem and Greg @ Night Owl Cards.

First '09 Heritage Baseball Video Break (Not Me)

Not sure how relevant and/or useful this vid actually is but this is the internet's first video break of '09 Heritage baseball. A few words of caution before you waste the next nine minutes of your life by clicking below. One, he has no idea how to talk about new cards or show them off on a webcam i.e. if you want watch a kid thumb through cards you can't see quickly while mumbling about one or two cards a pack THEN THIS IS THE VIDEO FOR YOU, CLICK NOW! Two, as an added bonus you get to hear his stage dad (sitting off camera and apparently making himself at least somewhat useful by gathering wrappers during the box break) correcting the pronunciation of deceased presidents that junior didn't learn about in school. Three, like most spoiled young Joe Collectors this kid only cares about the hits or "hit" as the case may be, so like, don't expect to see or learn about much else. I feel a bit rude saying these things about a father and son dynamic duo whom I don't even know sharing in the "joy" of collecting baseball cards but I'm giving this kid a plug for a guaranteed, I dunno, 80 plus views so consider my snarky remarks my fee. Let me know if I'm being to hard on the lad. I'm probably just jealous I don't have Heritage yet. Lastly, I know somebody whom may be a tad interested in said "hit" *cough* Mario @ Wax Heaven *cough* I will just say this. Uggla jersey w/pinstripe. Ok, you were warned. Now enjoy. That is, if you want to.

Now that the pesky first scan posts and videos are out of the way I have lost all lust to scoop Heritage. I will now wait casually by until a blaster appears at my local big box retailer. And then I shall grace ye olde intrawebs with a proper video review. Meanwhile I have splendid maildays from Night Owl Cards and A Cardboard Problem which, time willing, I will have vids of by later this evening. Until then.