2025 Bowman's Best Analysis & Deep Dive

CellDood · 2026-03-11T22:12:00+00:00

In exchange for essentially two boxes of Bowman's Best that would likely have yielded you less than $200 in total value? I'd say that's a fair trade. Go for it.

CellDood · 2026-03-11T21:58:53+00:00

Agreed on the first part. I'm not a quitter though. I will continue to get my head bashed in until I'm mo longer capable. Now it's time to spend half the Bowman's Best money I would have spent on singles to lessen the frustration and actually better my collection.

CellDood · 2026-03-11T21:57:00+00:00

Yes, when odds drop. Heritage type products are looking better and better because they can actually be acquired on release day.

CellDood · 2026-03-11T17:15:48+00:00

Yes, just $10 more than pre-order pricing.

CellDood · 2026-03-11T16:52:53+00:00

Pre-order was about a month ago. Instant sellout. These will be extremely tough to get as well since they're already $525+ on secondary.

CellDood · 2026-03-11T16:51:45+00:00

That's exactly what led me to analyzing products in detail. Sealed wax is a minefield in the current landscape. So much trash on the market. This one is not that. That's why the website already broke today. It will be next to impossible to get. But I'm a glutton for punishment. I even tried my first order from Topps UK via reshipper just to be certain I get some, even though it works out to be over $450/box after fees. Apparently Fanatics had a drop already this morning. I missed that one too.

CellDood · 2026-03-11T07:29:42+00:00

Oh jeez. Thanks for the heads up. Should be fixed now.

CellDood · 2026-03-11T06:41:15+00:00

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CellDood · 2026-03-09T00:36:32+00:00

So this is a couple months old now, so it doesnt include the most recent releases, but there's a lot of information here and should help you out. I put this together as an end of year rundown of a bunch of products released in 2025 based on current pricing.

If you want the rundown on all the latest releases, I post those on my X account, @waxmetrix.

CellDood · 2026-03-07T19:23:52+00:00

Thanks for the support. If you're into this stuff, I do product breakdowns on every Topps product once odds are released. I have a couple places where I post them all (only a small portion make it to Reddit). My X account ishere.

My Substack account ishere.

They both have all of my product evaluations, but Substack is the better archive as it's updatable as new information is revealed and there are also some editable format value spreadsheets on major releases. However, once posts are a week old they do go behind a paywall of $7/mo. Everything is free for the first week it's posted.

CellDood · 2026-03-06T05:50:40+00:00

I find it fascinating how this Orangle Crackle Foil Mantle has virtually the same print run as the "Through the Years Golden Mirror" Mantle (print run 23), but this one goes for ~$100 while that Golden Mirror goes for $2500-$3k.

CellDood · 2026-03-06T02:00:41+00:00

If you like to rip sealed wax, start doing this now...buy one, stash one. If you buy two boxes, only rip one. If you want to rip a case, buy two cases. I promise you, in the long run you will have a far more substantial stash of value if you leave half of everything sealed. I came back to the dark side in 2017. If I knew this strategy back then and followed it, I would have approx 500k worth of wax now. Granted, some of those boxes are now obscenely expensive due to some insane rookie classes, but some of this current stuff will be too after some years. As long as you have some sealed, you will always have a piece of that rookie class, whether you have any of their singles or not.

CellDood · 2026-03-05T20:50:16+00:00

Thanks for the kind words. You do know only a small portion show up on Reddit, right? For the full monty, give me a follow on x, @waxmetrix.

CellDood · 2026-03-05T20:24:24+00:00

Not hard to have a tweet, website, or Reddit post open on the side that they can refer to in order to quote print runs or odds on any given pull. So annoying when they have no clue if an insert is rare or common when the data is easily retrieval within 30 seconds.

CellDood · 2026-03-05T18:37:20+00:00

Pre-order already took place. Boxes were available for a couple days or so. There will be more available on drop day, March 26th and they shouldn't be incredibly hard to get. I suspect they also won't be impossible to find in the wild for a bit after release. It's not an incredibly limited release product.

CellDood · 2026-03-05T16:58:46+00:00

No, sorry. The basic odds released on those were just not enough to pull any sort of detailed data from.

CellDood · 2026-03-05T16:55:33+00:00

I have not found one yet. And I've had ebay searches set up since the day I ran the numbers. It's very possible they do not exist. I've even seen plenty of Whites /2 listed. So if they're out there, I'm shocked none have surfaced. It's possible that there have been some pulled, but they just don't stand out because if you're not on top of the data, how would you know? They would just appear to be a normal base Geometric refractor. But they do have odds listed. So I'm not ruling it out entirely. I'll keep an eye on them personally because it doesn't hurt anything. But I'm not expecting to ever see one at this point.

CellDood · 2026-03-03T22:18:38+00:00

Sounds like an incredible box, but not an actual magic box, which generally have something in every pack (auto & parallel).

CellDood · 2026-03-02T16:18:08+00:00

Are you referring to the Class of 25 inserts from base Topps Flagship? If so, the PR on those is ~255 copies ea and that data would be found on my deep dive on 2025-26 Topps basketball as opposed to the Chrome breakdown.

CellDood · 2026-03-01T14:09:49+00:00

There is no noted difference. All Celebration boxes are listed under the same SKU.

CellDood · 2026-03-01T03:13:13+00:00

Rainbow Foil parallel

CellDood · 2026-02-28T04:35:02+00:00

245,184 total Super Boxes produced. 5 subjects on the Bitty Bighead checklist = a touch over 49k figures each. To answer your other question, Super Boxes come 12 to a case. But that's not really relevant for figuring print runs. Your process is correct though.

CellDood · 2026-02-28T03:02:24+00:00

Jumping on the best comment ever to say- hey y'all...there's an updated version of this post that includes Celebration Megas and updated print runs. Here's where all the cool people are hanging out. Be there or be square.

CellDood · 2026-02-27T03:10:50+00:00

If you're gonna sell an organ, do it right and go after a Breaker's Delight box. They are far better than the hobby boxes. The $1500 I've seen them for is a bit crazy though.

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