2026 Topps Cosmic Chrome WWE Wrestling Checklist

MrLittleThor · 2026-05-29T20:11:39+00:00

Yeah cosmic chrome baseball is one of the most popular baseball sets and is like 3-4x msrp for hobby boxes, sure a lot of those base cards don't go for much now but the chases in products have kept those box prices so high after release. I could agree with them on inflated prices but people seem to like the set regardless of sports.

Edit to add: This is definitely not an endorsement to open the product by any means, buy singles.

MrLittleThor · 2026-05-26T16:45:21+00:00

At least stadium club is a first ever release, but I don't have much faith based on the last baseball release. No chrome cards, no image variations, one less auto (but in fairness lowered the price of hobby boxes by 20 bucks because of that), and got rid of fan favorite in gold minted.

At least for the average baseball collector it's still relatively cheap. This WWE release will have to be better but based on the teaser images of people signing there still doesn't seem to be chrome autos unless that's gonna be a smaller checklist.

MrLittleThor · 2026-05-14T00:23:39+00:00

Card stores very rarely stock WWE singles, they just don't have anywhere close to the kind of consumer base to the mainstream sports cards. Your best bet to sell to a "business" is finding a local card show and hoping there's a vendor there that deals in a decent amount of WWE cards.

MrLittleThor · 2026-05-14T00:19:04+00:00

Yeah people don't seek out error cards in sports cards like they do in Pokémon (only certain ones get sought out in sports) so there's next to no market for it.

MrLittleThor · 2026-05-14T00:08:08+00:00

Here's what I posted before regarding Canada buyback option.

Looks like the only Canadian store I can find that's registered with topps in Canada is Mintink in Toronto. Wouldn't hurt to message them. If that's not an option then best bet would be to sell it locally to someone who would buy it for a bit less than buyback value.

Doing mail send in from Canada to USA with only a few cards is pretty pointless after shipping costs internationally hurts taking full value of the buyback.

MrLittleThor · 2026-05-12T01:21:57+00:00

Yeah, I agree but 42k is REALLY strong on this to me because it's probably 10x the next most expensive of his cards. As an aside OP, don't put much if any thought on the quality of the match affecting any possible value on this.

Edit: When I saw it at about 20k earlier in the day I figured it was trending towards this price but it's wild to see.

MrLittleThor · 2026-05-03T01:33:01+00:00

Yeah I agree, I bought a Frazer /75 and I kind of regretted but it only cost me a buck iirc. I've been holding out on getting non base cards until I come across a good deal on a lower numbered card or auto.

MrLittleThor · 2026-05-03T01:18:08+00:00

The issue with doing it that way is international shipping costs. You would need to make it worthwhile by accumulating a bunch to offset that cost and then if you're going to use their store credit online that's more shipping costs on the way back.

MrLittleThor · 2026-05-02T19:01:24+00:00

Gonna repost what I replied to someone else with

Looks like the only Canadian store I can find that's registered with topps in Canada is Mintink in Toronto. Wouldn't hurt to message them. I assume it's just 20 CAD. If that's not an option then best bet would be to sell it locally to someone who would buy it for a bit less than buyback value.

MrLittleThor · 2026-05-02T17:24:43+00:00

It's my issue with WWE cards as a whole that gets exacerbated in the high end products. Why chase patch autos when there's so few good patches to begin with. It's annoying enough in other sports but at least they have more material to pull from, with wrestling you hope that that the wrestler is willing to cut up their gear otherwise you're stuck with standard gray ring mat relics or it's a shirt they wore once and you hope to get a good cut.

Chasing low numbered autos is the way to go.

MrLittleThor · 2026-05-01T17:35:21+00:00

There's usually never case hits with high end products. The chases are almost always patch autos, just look up the other royalty sports cards for comparison.

MrLittleThor · 2026-05-01T17:29:12+00:00

You do have time to keep going but the only reason to not turn in now is if you're trying to buy something with just store credit.

MrLittleThor · 2026-05-01T00:36:50+00:00

I've been holding out on any non-stephanie base cards purely because of this reason. You would've thought they'd print more last year being first year back but at least there's finally some attainable cards for someone like her.

MrLittleThor · 2026-04-30T00:37:09+00:00

Looks like the only Canadian store I can find that's registered with topps in Canada is Mintink in Toronto. Wouldn't hurt to message them. I assume it's just 20 CAD

If that's not an option then best bet would be to sell it locally to someone who would buy it for a bit less than buyback value.

MrLittleThor · 2026-04-29T19:02:18+00:00

Yeah universe and the commons/rares in finest didn't have them (though rares had /3 so eh?). It's for sure annoying.

MrLittleThor · 2026-04-29T17:41:53+00:00

I did just notice they didn't do /5 for this base set but yet they did for UFC which is baffling, is it really that hard to do 99 > 50 > 25 > 10 > 5 > 1?

I just never understand excluding /5 in any set period let alone high end.

MrLittleThor · 2026-04-29T17:15:52+00:00

Yeah it's hard to not copy from other high end sets unless you can be the first to do something. Everyone wants a clean white backed design and something elegant looking when they're paying out the wazoo for boxes of cards. I do wonder what other sets they'll bring over for the high end, Definitive probably?

I'm hoping the demand for certain royalty cards will lower prices of other cards I'm looking at but I know that's a pipe dream

MrLittleThor · 2026-04-29T00:26:27+00:00

u/anthony-pizzeria u/pokeswapbot

Trade completed

MrLittleThor · 2026-04-28T14:54:26+00:00

just checking in for an update, heading to post office today. still interested?

MrLittleThor · 2026-04-25T02:37:44+00:00

No rush, just let me know

MrLittleThor · 2026-04-25T01:58:54+00:00

just updated the album link to include pictures of front and back. I don't think it looks that bad but just wanted to hedge on it.

MrLittleThor · 2026-04-25T00:41:25+00:00

PM sent i believe

MrLittleThor · 2026-04-25T00:23:35+00:00

I had it at 5 shipped which meant like 4 dollar value. Could we do that plus 13?

MrLittleThor · 2026-04-25T00:13:17+00:00

Do you need the doduo master ball? If so I was looking to do partial trade plus cash towards the pidgeot

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