Star Wars 30th Anniversary Topps Set

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[ztaylork]

Here are the numbers I come up with for signers and sketch artists (estimates of course)

Signer                   Number
Harrison Ford   10
Carrie Fisher   75
Peter Mayhew   100
Anthony Daniels   75
Kenny Baker   1000
David Prowse   100
Colin Higgins   300
Rusty Goffe   769
George Roubicheck   300
Paul Blake                   1000
Garrick Hagon   1000
Maria deAragon   1000
Richard LeParmentier   1000
Christine Hewett   1000
Joe Viskocil   400
John Mollo                   400
Ken Ralston   400
Lorne Peterson   400
Richard Edlund   400
Phil tippet                   400
Jon Berg                   400
Norman Reynolds   400
John Dykstra   400
Gary Kurtz                   400
John Williams   624
Total signed               12353
   
Artist            Number
Cat Staggs       300
Rafael Kayanan   50
Adam Hughes   50
Amy Pronovost   150
Phil Noto                   50
David Rabbitte   120
Matt Busch                   100
Grant Gould   500
Allison Sohn   400
Katie Cook                   500
Dave Dorman   200
Justin Chung   125
Russ Walks   23
Juan Carlo Ramos   150
David Fabbri   1000
Jessica Hickman   550
Sarah Wilkinson   400
Len Bellinger   150
Mark Brooks   50
Otis Frampton   200
Joe Corroney   100
Robert Teranishi   600
Sean Pence   300
Ingrid Hardy   150
Cynthia Cummens   125
Brandon McKinney   200
Kevin Graham   250
Paul Gutierrez   201
Tom Hodges   200
Jeff Chandler   100
Leah Mangue   64
Joseph Booth   100
Dough Cowan   100
Chritian Dala Vecchia   500
Brian Rood                   50
Stephane Roux   29
Brian Denham   50
Chris Eliopoulous   100
Jan Duursema   100
Alexander Buechel   200
Josh Fargher   50
Josh Howard   200
Craig Rousseau   100
Brian Ashmore   100
Gabe Hernandez   50
John Watkins Chow   175
Ryan Waterhouse   500

Total sketches   9762

Which gives us an estimated total sketches and signed cards of 22,115.  Also an estimated 492,040 packs, 20,502 boxes, and 2,563 cases.  At the 20,502 boxes and 22,115 total premium inserts it leaves 1,613 premium inserts to either be held back for damages or to allow for an extra premium insert every 3 cases as indicated in the above odds.  Some will be held back for damaged cards, but I doubt that 1,613 cards will be held back, so I think you can look forward to getting 1 sketch or autograph in every box.  And if you don't get one or the other, I would still send the empty box to topps, and I would hope they would take care of the problem, as they always have for the products I have bought from them.

[The Razzer]

so no chance of a Harrison auto then??

but what do you think a gold parallel 120 card set would fetch.  that's gonna be a challenge to assemble!!

or even the blue and red sets.  someone has them up on  .  red set for a couple of thousand $$$ and a blue set for couple of hundred $$$ - which might not be a bad investment.

but a master set on this is not going to happen.  unless the lottery numbers come in

[The Razzer]

i know its not 30th anniversary set, but.......

does anyone know if someone somewhere has pulled one of the cut signature cards from the evolution update set??

[The Razzer]

some of the cards are out on ebay already.
skecthes and red, blue parallels.

[beckham1]

Does anyone know when their boxes are arriving of SW?  I had to pay for my preorder and was told they would probably ship to me on Friday.  I don't know who the distributor is that is shipping so I am hoping to get them in the next couple days.  I can't wait to see what sketches I pull.  Oh and the Ford auto that will be in there too

[HPfamily]

I'm getting from two different places. One case will be delivered to me on Thursday and was told yesterday from the other supplier that it was being shipped to me yesterday or today. So I should have all of mine by the end of the week!! 

[beckham1]

Just opened my first of two cases.  I pulled 3 sketches and 5 autos.  I must say I am a little disappointed only 1 character auto (Biggs) and 4 scrub autos (bantha poop scooper # 1, Jawa translater #6, key grip # 2, Lightsaber technician #5).

I do like the 3 sketches, but would be much happier if I would have had at least had 1 more sketch in my case :'(  Well maybe my other case will make up for it.  Fingers crossed.

[ferdinand_the_yak]

Here be the first one...

Harrison Ford as Han Solo autograph

 

[Trey]

Someone needs to teach ol' harrison some penmanship...you cant even see his name, it just looks like scribble.

Still cool though that he has signed..

[beckham1]

Someone needs to teach ol' harrison some penmanship...you cant even see his name, it just looks like scribble.

Still cool though that he has signed..

Considering he signed all of 10-20 cards I would guess his hand was pretty tired about half way through.  I would have thought he could have signed at least 100 for the fanatics of the movies that made him a star

[Trey]

Considering he signed all of 10-20 cards I would guess his hand was pretty tired about half way through.

  

Ah yes, I did not consider this...the poor love I hope there is no lasting damage to his hand!

[Scifi Cards]

Considering he signed all of 10-20 cards I would guess his hand was pretty tired about half way through.  I would have thought he could have signed at least 100 for the fanatics of the movies that made him a star

Actually, he didn't sign ANY cards.  He signed stickers.  And it's estimated that they used about 10 of them for this release.

But think about it.  Do you really think that Topps just had him sign 10 stickers.  No.  They had him sign enough that they can use them for the upcoming Indiana Jones movie cards, since there's no card image involved with a sticker it's no problem getting that auto a year or two prior.

Next Star Wars set?  Another 10 Fords?  No problem, Topps has some stickers for that.

Baseball set with 'pop culture' subset, no problem.  1 sticker and you have a Harrison Ford 1 of 1.

Oh, did I mention I hate stickers.    They allow the card companies to play way too many games with the autographs.

Should be interesting to watch the first one though, I'm guessing not a lot of these will show up for sale.  Any hard-core Star Wars collector will keep it.

I want to see a Gold Parallel set made too.  With only 30 of each card, they are a $50+ card, making it a $6000 set?

Ed

[sketchqueen]

We too opened a case of this. We kind of beat the odds a little - 6 sketches and 3 autos. I won't disrespect the signers, but one gentleman was a behind-the-scenes guy, and the other two were among the most common signers. Our sketches were all pencil - no colored sketches and were Cat Staggs Luke x 2, Otis Frampton x 2 (different characters), Ryan Waterhouse and Davide Fabbri. I'm satisfied, though not ecstatic - I was really hoping to pull a "new" artist - one I didn't already have tons of from previous sets (and the Fabbri looks exactly like a sketch from a previous set). We also got a Gold Card - which will likely go on the 'bay this weekend.

[HPfamily]

Well, case one arrived on Thursday and this is what was pulled from that.

AUTOS
Garrick Hagon as Biggs (X2) 
Rusty Goffe as Jawa
Joe Viskocil

SKETCHES


Case 2 was amazing!!! Pulled 6 sketches!! YAY!

AUTOS
George Roubichek as Commander Praji
Ken Ralston

SKETCHES


And case #3

AUTOS
Christine Hewett as Brea Tonnika
Paul Blake as Greedo
Richard LeParmentier as Admiral Motti
Kenny Baker as R2

SKETCHES


I also pulled a gold parallel from each case! 

[kbmum]

Wow, you did very well!   I love the Len and Sean sketches.

[HPfamily]

  I am extremely thrilled to pull TWO of Len's and a Pence!
I really love Leah's Myo too!! 

[grecopa]

Great pulls!  very nice that you got 2 of Lens.  He does teriffic work on each and every card. 

[bush360]

My 12 cases arrived today and i have opened 3 cases so far and am having a good break in my opinion. i cant remember when but one box had 2 big cards in it as i have 25 autos and sketches so far. i will post my scans and a full break down once fully opened.

Rich

[HPfamily]

Here be the first one...

Harrison Ford as Han Solo autograph

 

Click the link NOW!!! It sold!!!!! 

[kbmum]

$9350.00!!!!!!  I can't even imagine what it would be like to sell a card for that much money.