So today is Topps' big day.  After a year of playing around with Garbage Pail Kids and Godzilla, Major League Baseball finally agreed to release their physical set as NFTs.  We doubt Topps' GPK track record convinced them.  We think it was more of them seeing the NBA rolling in money with Top Shot that did the trick.  Regardless of how they got there, today the first MLB NFTs come out on the Wax Blockchain.  And based on how the Promo Pack releases have been going, it's going to be a disaster.  So we'll see how that goes!

But the big fear on everyone's mind is that Topps will completely shift focus away from the established apps to primarily sell NFTs once they get the rights to do so.  And we're here to say: don't worry.  The apps allow for almost daily releases and gamification that has made Topps a lot of money over the last half a decade, and a significant amount last year during the pandemic, and we doubt they are slowing down.  And this is crazy to say, but it is true: the app servers handle heavy traffic better than Topps' NFT servers.  Some blame Topps, some blame the blockchain.  But none of their releases on the blockchain have gone smoothly, and it will take years for them to perfect them at this point.

Anyway, we also go over some of the releases from the past few days including the Wandavision collection which would have fared much better as individual releases.  And we also talk about the second to last Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode from last week at the end.

The big anniversary stream is coming up this Saturday, and if you have any questions for Andy (former Topps Product Manager for Marvel Collect) or Kevin-John (Disney Master Artist) please email us or contact us in some way!

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