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The box: Mega Mystery Power Box baseball repack (MJ Holding)
Where to buy: Retail outlets ($29.99) -- click here for MLB boxes
Packs per box: Varies but should be "one hanger or envelope, two fat packs, one factory sealed pack and three bonus items" with every other box including something more as you can see above.
Cards per pack: Varies by brand
Notables on base cards – See the gallery below for all packs and every card that was in this box.
What's Buzz-worthy: Well, this one is a bit of an enigma ... and I say that as a fan of affordable retail repacks as, well, I grew up on them without a meaty hobby shop nearby back in the day. But this one? Well, It was a big bummer from the second I touched it. First, these boxes are huge -- roughly 13-by-9-by-4.5 -- so they are going to be taking up more shelf space than pretty much anything else out there in the retail card aisle. They're literally the biggest box there is on the shelf -- bigger than the megas that can pop up so maybe they should have branded this a Mega Mega or something but I digress. Somebody spotted these for me on a hunt, so I said "get one" and the weight of the box when it arrived was an instant sign I wasn't going to be wowed here unless there was some kind of signed card somehow in play. Initially, "the thrill of victory" popped into my head on this. Then, I actually feared it might be empty. I cut the wrap and popped the lid and that's when "the agony of defeat" hit. Its contents in their entirety are below -- the 2016 Topps Cubs World Series set was the "hanger," the 2016 Topps Bunt fat pack was one of those packs and a standard Heritage retail pack was, too, somehow also being classified as that even though it's not. (Topps made cello packs for that one ... I ripped many.) My standard pack appears to be a 2007 Topps blaster or budget retail pack (a smaller size) while the three other items were a 2007 Topps Walmart-only retail box-topper pack and a pair of 2019 sticker packs. All of this was all somewhat held in place with a sheet of packing paper, though some videos I have seen breaking these don't have that ... so stuff might be bouncing around being damaged in some boxes here if they last on the shelves for some time. The Cubs set is what it is -- a bare-bones, no-chase retail set (pack) -- while the rest was rough save for a Walmart-only 2018 Topps Heritage High Number 1969 Topps Decals card of Shohei Ohtani. Those dropped one in eight packs and he's a good find. Could the packs have actually delivered better? Yep. That Heritage High Number pack has a lot of key guys in that one and big stuff could be play even in one pack -- Rookie Cards, autographs, rare parallels and so on with luck. But the rest was pretty rough stuff with autos coming in the thousands of packs here or not at all. Power Cubes and other repacks regularly appearing inside this repack would make it a more comfortable break -- after all, they're not a guarantee of anything, either -- but at least there's some substance to them. The photo you can see above, that's the entire stack of cards in this one ... and they can all fit in the Cubs hanger box pack here with plenty of room to spare -- this package had just 67 cards inside. Other breaks of this I saw on YouTube (after I opened mine) seemed similarly lean. So, why a B? I think there is potential here ... and I have ripped rougher repacks but at cheaper prices than this one. Market-wise the Heritage pack alone is perhaps a highlight here price-wise if unopened -- so on that front this didn't deliver too badly -- but I think the rest of what was found around it could have been stronger ... or at least a bit meatier. I'm sure some out there are -- and this is the kind of item where it might get me to try one more time ... maybe. Maybe.
Product Grade: B (seems to have potential for a decent price ... but not sure how rare "better" stuff might be)
Box Grade: C (only saved by the Ohtani)
Fun Grade: C- (quite rough but I can't go lower with the basic packs met and the Heritage pack)
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