2009 UD Spectrum Box Break Pt. 2

Hey guys, Drew back here. So, after a long night of partying, I'm back to discuss and review my box of 2009 UD Spectrum. If you saw my break yesterday you know that I hit a hot box, and a great one at that! Here's what I had to say about it...

Design: Well, for starters, the base cards are very ugly looking. Whoever had the genius idea to make a mostly male hobby set purple is crazy! I mean, some cards look decent but most of them look too feminine to me (no offense to any of the women bloggers around). But.... the colored parallels look GREAT! The reds and greens and everything adds some much needed pizazz to this set! Grade: C+

Price: Originally, not good. Way too high for a box that normally contains three decent hits. Now, if you get a hot box, which is kinda often compared to other product's chances of hitting one. And, with my box, I would have probably made the money back at the original price. It's not often that you make your money back on low end products so that's cool! Grade: C

Hits: This is a most definite hit or miss product. It also is based on your opinion on the cards you pull. The Celebrity autograph is certainly hit or miss, you could pull some High School Musical nobody or you could pull Kim Kardashian! Most of the relics are pretty good, but you could get a bad one, as shown with Alex Gordon. At least the color was blue and it was low numbered. Lastly, the rookie autos are hit or miss too. There are some decent names but most of them are pretty bad. Grade: B

Overall: I judged this box by the product, not by my box as you can tell, because if it was my box then the grades would have been much better. This is without a doubt a hit or miss kind of product, and we certainly got lucky. The pulls were fantastic in this break, pulling hits of Derek Jeter and Albert Pujols, a good rookie auto, and a great celebrity auto! Unless you're feeling lucky or have a pretty hot hand, I wouldn't probably try this. There are many other products around a similar price range that produce more, but you never really know what you're gonna get. Overall Grade: C

Back to regular schedule tomorrow, and be ready to see the next polls for the Worst Autograph Competition!!! See Ya!

2009 UD Spectrum Box Break Pt. 1

Hey guys, Drew back here. Again, it's been a while, I'm struggling to get on track here, so many projects and finals it's just driving me crazy. I have multiple Grandpa Roy questions, I need to continue the Worst Autograph Bracket, I have some mail to post, and this, so I better get started. This is indeed Part 10 of the White Plains recap, a box that my awesome dad gave me for us to open. 2009 Spectrum was never a big favorite of mine but there is some good potential Ok, so another talking, and more breakin! But, first, the very valuable Product layout!

PRODUCT CONTENT
14 Packs Per Box
5 Cards Per Pack
70 Cards Per Box
Randomly Inserted 20th Anniversary Cards
Randomly Inserted Base Parallels
1 Celebrity Autograph Per Box
1 Rookie Autograph Per Box
1 Game Used Per Box (on average)

The base cards have a purple background, kinda feminine, I'm not a big fan of them, but the parallels are very nice looking. Let's see what I pulled!

MY BOX BREAK REVIEW:

Base Set: 60/100

As I previously mentioned, the base set is purple with silver on the sides. It's very similar to Upper Deck X, but more purpler, if that's a word.

20th Anniversary Cards (5):
- #260 Operation Desert Storm
- #17 Carl Yastrzemski 3,000 Hits
- #226 Nolan Ryan Win 300
- #37 Michael Jordan "A Star is Born"
- #494 Rollie Fingers 7 All Star Selections

These cards are kinda pointless, but I did get a laugh to see that they still screw up Rollie Fingers cards. Click on the picture and check out the bottom of the card. Hahaha.

Base Red Parallel /250 (2):
- #17 Alfonso Soriano 179/250
- #76 Andy LaRoche 198/250

What some people buy this product for, the great looking parallels. Maybe Upper Deck should've considered this color as the main base color. I'd gladly make purple an insert color!

Base Green Parallel /99:
- #19 Kosuke Fukudome 81/99

Sorry, this is already going to someone, but yeah, it's a nice low numbered card!

Spectrum Relics Gold /99:
- #30 Grady Sizemore 22/99
- #45 Alex Gordon 99/99

As you already can see, there are only supposed to be 2 relics in a box, well, we got lucky and hit a hot box! Nothing special with these, both for trade if anybody's interested.

Spectrum Rookie Autographs:
- #102 Conor Gillaspie

Spectrum of Stars Di-Cut Celebrity Auto /50:
- #TC Tommy Chong

First off, the rookie auto actually sells for decent money which kinda surprised me, but what really surprised me is the second one! Tommy Chong, a comedian that was before my time that I didn't really know, well, the regular auto sells for $20-45 dollars, so, how about the di-cut version? Pretty good!

Spectrum Swatches /99:
#SS-PU Albert Pujols 85/99
#SS-JE Derek Jeter 15/99

Who are these guys that came as hits 5 and 6? Probably some minor leaguers, so, if you want them, I'll send them to you free! :)

All jokes aside, these are two great cards of arguably the two best hitters of the 2000's, and one is my favorite player, obviously Jete.

What a great box we got, and we had a very lucky day at the show! The full review will come next and then we'll be back on schedule! See Ya!