Yet another huge month in Topps WWE, including not one but two new PPV sets. Here’s the breakdown:

New Sets:

Boom Comics Wave 4

Infinite (2 series)

Hell in a Cell (HIAC) PPV

Off the Panels

Charisma 2017 Series 1

Zombies (2 series)

Heritage 2017

Stadium (2 series)

Supreme Series 2

TLC PPV & Topps Now, Poster

Headlines

Women’s Division Wave 2

2017 Undisputed Signatures Wave 2

WWE Pumpkins

Contagion

Live Signatures:

Stephanie McMahon

Alexa Bliss Reprint (3x)

Braun Strowman Reprint (3x)

Big Cass Reprint (3x)

VIP Signatures:

AJ Styles

Inserts:

Limited – Asuka (523cc)

Base Variants:

Standard base spectrum of Kurt Angle (white, green, teal, orange & black)

Marathons:

WCW #8,9, Award 3 & 4 – Syxx, Vincent, Scott Hall, Ric Flair (set complete)

PPV Logos #10-14 Vengeance, TLC, Over the Limit, Payback, Elimination Chamber

Triptychs #8 & 9, Award 3 – The Miz, Dean Ambrose, Sasha Banks (set complete)

Taglines #2, 3, Award, 4, 5 Braun Strowman, Elias, Macho Man Randy Savage, AJ Styles, Kevin Owens

Headlines #1& 2 – Adam Cole, Paige (new set)

Fuel #1 & 2 – Sting, Aleister Black (new set)

Boom Wave 4 “WWE #10”:

Roman Reigns

Eddie

Mr. Perfect

British Bulldog Action figure

Royal Rumble

New Insert Set – Infinite Series (2 variants):

Ric Flair

Mickie James

Roman Reigns

Aiden English

Nikki Bella

Bo Dallas

Carmella

Fandango

Award – Asuka

Series 2:

Sasha Banks

Corey Graves

Baron Corbin

Drew McIntyre

Chad Gable

Gran Metalik

Matt Hardy

Cedric Alexander

Award – Daniel Bryan

New Insert Set – Off the Panels (2 variants):

Alexa Bliss

Jeff Hardy

Naomi

AJ Styles

Award – Finn Balor

New Insert Set – Charisma 2017 Series 1 (2 variants):

Chris Jericho

Lana

Rich Swann

Nikki Cross

Titus O’Neil

Tye Dillinger

Xavier Woods

Award – Stone Cold Steve Austin

New Insert Set – Zombies (1 variant):

AJ Styles Figure

Seth Rollins Figure

Kevin Owens Figure

Brock Lesnar Figure

Stone Cold Steve Austin Figure

Sasha Banks Figure

Becky Lynch

Dean Ambrose

Enzo Amore

John Cena

Kevin Owens

Maryse

Roman Reigns

Sasha Banks

Tyler Breeze

Undertaker

Xavier Woods

Award – Bray Wyatt

Series 2:

Jinder Mahal

Alexa Bliss

Braun Strowman

The Hardy Boyz

Award – AJ Styles

New Insert Set – Stadium

Wave 1:

#1-3 – Alexa Bliss

#4-6 – Braun Strowman

#7-9 – Big Cass

Award – Braun Strowman

Signatures:

Alexa Bliss

Braun Strowman

Big Cass

Wave 2:

#1, 2 Curt Hawkins

#2, 4 Carmella

#5 Jeff Hardy

#6 Matt Hardy

Award – The Hardy Boyz

Signatures:

Curt Hawkins

Carmella

Jeff Hardy

Matt Hardy

New Insert Set – Supreme Series 2 (2 variants):

Matt Hardy

Mickie James

The Iron Sheik

Asuka

Batista

Enzo Amore

Rowdy Roddy Piper

Kelly Kelly

Carmella

The Miz

Award – Bobby Roode

New Insert Set – Pumpkins:

Raw

Smackdown Live

NXT

Award – Legends

New Insert Set – Contagion:

Undertaker

Shelton Benjamin

Kalisto

Dean Ambrose

Randy Orton

Papa Shango

Jake the Snake roberts

Kurt Angle

Award – all 8 in “clean” versions

Boy when you catalog an entire month’s worth of releases it really shows how much content Topps pumps into the game. This month’s cards, as lackluster as some of them were, really didn’t set the game on fire too much. No, this month Topps made a couple of huge errors that affected a lot of players. That doesn’t take away from the sheer amount of content the game saw being introduced in October.

First and foremost was the snafu with the Green Mickie James Supreme Series 2 card. Normally the two variants of Supreme are available in both coin and diamond packs, however, for Mickie the green variant was only available in diamond packs, and thus free-to-play players didn’t get the card. It sold out at 1394 cc after its initial 24 hours. To compare, the next lowest CC of the green set is The Miz at over 3200. So basically half of the people who tried to collect the green set will go without the award. Interestingly enough, there are still more Green Supreme Awards than Black, by over 100. Just prior to the award being released the Mickie sold for as much as $10, though by that time trading her became problematic if you were holding out for a great trade. There are still two singles listed on ebay at $10, but I doubt they’ll sell for even half of that.

Topps really went whole hog on Halloween sets giving fans two waves of “Zombies”, a 4 card “Halloween” set, an 8 card “Contagion” set and a 4 card “Pumpkin” set. Personally I didn’t care for the Zombies, well part of them anyway. The first wave was made up of 6 “Action Figure” cards which featured portraits of the Mattel WWE Zombie figures, those were available in coin and diamond packs. The remainder of the set were cgi versions of zombified super-stars, 11 in all, and they were only available for diamond purchase. You had to have all 17 to get the award. The action figure cards are all over 10K cc each, which the paywall cgi cards are around 1500cc. Wave two was six more CGI cards and they weren’t 100% behind the paywall.

Speaking of the paywall, it looks like Topps has finally stabilized how they release PPV cards. They’re now doing three full base and signature sets per PPV. The lowest two tiers of base cards are available for coin purchase, while the signature cards and the highest tier (lowest cc, usually 500cc) are in diamond packs only. Not only that but the 500cc base seem to sell out within the first hour of release, as do the highest tier of signatures which has lately been 250cc.

Both PPV sets this month had decent base sets and mediocre signature sets. For TLC Topps mistakenly put in packs the triple Shield Autograph cards which were supposed to be awards, thus giving those that pulled them a nice bonus, but screwing up the awards, which ended up being single sigs instead of triples. The sig set itself ended up being singles of Miz, Cesaro and Sheamus plus two duals of Asuka/Emma and Enzo/Kalisto. These were all repeat sigs, and as it turns out, were Emma’s last cards since she has recently been released from WWE.

Hell in a Cell (or HIAC since you can’t say Hell in the App) had a 3 card sig set in three tiers, the subjects being Daniel Bryan, Randy Orton and Becky Lynch. The award was a single Charlotte Flair sig. Nothing to really write home about here this set similar to the actual show, was just ‘meh’.



Heritage made it’s 2017 return with a first wave of base cards, “30 years of Summerslam” inserts and signatures. Once again base on the physical set, this one surprised as there was only one variation of the base set (as opposed to five variants last yet). The sig set was robust but again featured repeats and nothing new. A couple of dual sigs rounded out the offering. Sigs were once again behind the paywall only. A true “workmanlike effort as it did well initially but didn’t set the game aflame. There will be an award for the Summerslam inserts after Wave 2 is released in November.

The second wave of Women’s Division and Undisputed Signatures hit during the last week of the month, like a boxer getting hit by an uppercut in the late rounds. Seemed like more insult after injuries to weary collectors. The release was once again made up of a base set of 20 in four colors, 20 matches and moments in four colors, 11 rivalries in one variant, 10 single signatures limited to 1500cc and 2 triple signatures limited to 250cc. Awards will be given for completing wave 2 sets and overall wave 1 and 2 sets. Remember my article about a month ago when I said that Topps had the opportunity to add some great first time sigs into the game? Yeah, we got exactly one of those that I mentioned, TJ Perkins. The rest were all repeats. No wonder they can be found for about $2 apiece. The triple sigs are going for between $30 and $40.