The Zombie Apocalypse

When The Walking Dead started in 2010 I watched the first couple of episodes and then I kind of forgot about it. By the time the second season came around I wasn’t in a zombie mood and wrote the show off.

Earlier this year I pulled it up on Netflix and decided to binge watch and I have since been hooked. I am starting Season 4 and one night I began looking at the cards for the show and came across some very cool ones. I am a big fan of the shadowbox cards so I went for the one with the walker eating a deer leg. With the relic card I wanted one that showed some sort of staining and I wanted it to be from a specific walker, not one of the generic “Walker Horde” cards.

Upper Deck's Shadowbox Frame Wall Art

Upper Deck will occasionally post “Brag” photos on their blog when they have something new or unique. Yesterday they posted up something pretty cool, an evolution of the Shadow Box card. The piece, which is 16x20, is made to be mounted on the wall or displayed like a picture. Essentially it is a large Shadow Box card but significantly more expensive. They have 2 different pieces available, a Gretzky Oilers piece and a Tiger Wood piece, and they both run $1600 (Yikes!)

 

What is cool is that, like the Shadowbox card, there are layers that make it appear 3 dimensional. With the autograph on the middle acrylic piece it looks like it is floating. Not that I could afford one but a Ken Griffey Jr. piece would be so cool. Even an unsigned (seriously cheaper) version would be neat to have.

Sometimes You Just Have To Say "F%&k Yeah!"

I would not consider myself a lucky collector, my wife has the lucky hand when it comes to opening packs. In the past couple of months I have won a couple of contests including the box of Panini Beach Boys a few weeks ago, but my big time luck seems to have changed last week when I received an email from Beckett’s Chris Olds telling me I had won a Beckett contest. An email that actually left me speechless, something that is quite rare.

 

Here is a link to the Box Buster video where the prize was pulled.

 

A one of a kind (Beckett exclusive), 24k gold Kogei shadowbox Koji Uehara autograph card. This card is freaking amazing and even cooler looking in hand.

 

The card is a standard shadowbox card with three levels, the bottom level is the gold card and there are two layers of acetate above that. Uehara’s face is on the gold card, the full-body shot is on the lower acetate level and the autograph is on the top layer and is hard signed. The card is in a magnetic holder with a “VOID” sticker over the end, so it will be staying in the holder.

 

The back is generic the info “2013 World Stars Toreka…” is actually a sticker across the back. The sticker also includes the word “BECKETT” marking it as an exclusive made for Beckett to do the Box Buster video. The serial number in the bottom right corner is marked as “A* Products”, when I pulled up the web site it is an art work studio so I am not sure what the serial number references, maybe the studio was involved with the gold work.

 

Brothers Inc., the company that produces the World Stars set, makes some very nice cards. The 2013 set is made up of Kogei shadowbox cards, Autorait cards (autograph portraits), Autographed sketch cards, jumbo relics and re-packed buyback mystery cards. Each box contains 2 or 3 cards and runs around $175-200 per box. The product is supposed to be released right after Christmas.

 

This is one card that will never leave my collection. It truly is a thing of beauty.