The NFL season is just about ready to kickoff with a rematch of the 2009 NFC Championship game between the Saints and the Vikings. It seems like a perfect opportunity to discuss the latest NFL releases from McFarlane Toys. They have a slew of figures hitting stores including Legends 6, NFL SportsPicks 22 & 23 and NFL Playmakers series 1.

Today I’ll cover the Legends series and if you listen to Card Corner Club Radio, you could win one of these awesome figures!

The Legends series includes some explosive players such as Tony Dorsett, Marcus Allen, Dick Butkus, John Riggins, Steve Young, Randall Cunningham, Jerome Bettis, Warren Moon & Phil Simms. Their cost varies from store to store, but you can expect to pay between $12 and $15 in your local big box store for all the figures and definitely a little more on the eBay auction block for the chase variants.

2010 Leaf MMA will ship the first week of October.. This is the greatest MMA checklist of all time and we are working on a very exciting enhancement to this item as we speak. This item is sold out.

2010 Benchwarmer Signature Series … This exciting item ships Late October. This product marks the intorduction of "Hair" cards plus the biggest autograph checklist in Benchwarmer History. We still have a small amount of this product available.

2010 Leaf Cut Signature Encore Edition …. This cut signature edition will be solicited in the next week or so. Again, with its limited print run, we expect this allocated item to be successful much like its cut signature predecessors. This item will ship in November.

RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 27, 2010

PACK-OUT CONFIGURATION: 7 Cards, 1 Pack, 15 Boxes

Hobby SRP: $100.00

BOX BREAK:
Three Autographs or Memorabilia Cards(One Autograph Guaranteed. On average, every other box will deliver 2 Autos, 1 Memorabilia Card)

One Legend or Parallel #’d to 199 or less

Three Cards from the following:
Common, Insert or Parallel #’d to 199 or less

MASTER CASE HIT:
One of the following will be in each case

An Autograph Memorabilia Rookie #’d to 10 or less (Material Phenom Gold and Platinum Spotlight)

An Autograph Prime Memorabilia #’d to 10 or less (Freshman Jumbo Prime Signatures & Jersey Numbered Prime Signatures, Jumbo Prime Signature and Jumbo Jersey Numbered Prime Signatures, Decade Dominance Prime Signatures, Glass Cleaners Prime Signature, Retired Numbers Prime Signatures)

A Limited Trios Signature #’d to 49 or less

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS:
On-Card Autographs for Glass Cleaners, Decade Dominance and Retired Numbers including such players as Elgin Baylor, Oscar Robertson, Scottie Pippen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, George Gervin, Calvin Murphy and Kobe Bryant

HOBBY RELEASE DATE: November 17, 2010

PACK-OUT CONFIGURATION: 5 CARDS per pack, 24 PACKS per box, 12 BOXES per case

HOBBY PACK SRP:  $4.00

BOX BREAK:
2 Memorabilia or Autograph cards
1 Press Proof parallel
6 Rated Rookies
3 Boys of Winter
2 Ultimate Draft
1 Les Gardiens
1 Tough Times
1 Fans of the Game

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS:

50 Rated Rookies
Including the top players to make their NHL debuts in 2010-11. Look for Nazem Kadri, P.K. Subban, Zach Hamill and many more.

Tough Times inserts recall the most fearsome enforcers of the 1980s. Look for the parallels featuring on-card autographs with average of one per case.

Look for a Die-Cut Gems parallel (#’d to 25 )
Anticipate 2 per case on average.

Also find a Die-Cut Gems autograph
(#’d to 10) with average of 1 per case.

One of the most popular inserts of the 90s, Les Gardiens, returns with an exciting new twist Look for one per box on average.

ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS:

I was very excited to review this set. I own a beautiful Piedmont card from the original set and I was hoping to get a few memorable cards out of this new release that’s an homage to the original set. But the more I examined the cards the more issues I found which dialed down a lot of the glee I thought that I would have.

If I added up a list of my likes and dislikes I think the dislikes would have the edge. There are some “QC” issues but in this day and age should a set have so many?

This set has a lot of cards with bad centering. I love the Babe Ruth Piedmont that I pulled but the centering is off and that put a damper on the card. Two other photos in this set are horrific.