2017 Topps Fire Baseball Cards

Great product but like other rushed to cash in on Aaron Judge to many redemptions. I am still waiting for two redemptions from Topps after almost a year. Maybe when Mike Trout retires i will see my cards?

I recieved my redemtion auto from hunter renfroe this past week and i noticed i have an on card auto and others online or sticker autos. Could anyone help explain why this might be?

Bought four packs today (fat) at one of my Targets. Got extremely lucky on last pack and pulled Phil Niekro Autograph Magenta /25. However there is a crease on the bottom so this will down grade any grading and worth a bit. But since it’s and old timer I love it. The only thing I do not like of these cards is the fact that due to them being shiny and very glossy, the corners nick and get damaged easily as I found this in another pack. I’d be very upset if I pulled say a Judge/Bellinger Auto and the corner was destroyed. Also the blue/gold Parallels are a bit much as well. Crop of autos are nice though.

This is a beautiful set with a lot of brilliant color variation and high levels of rarity. This was a well thought out set and contains an amazing rookie class. I am so impressed.

Overall, I’d say the fire set looks like it’s for kids. They look more like some kind of superhero card with the only indication that they are baseball cards is the picture of the player itself. Other than that, the cards have no indication of the game of baseball at all. Just a lot of flashy colors that you might see on some kind of superheroes or something like that. I think Topps is really reaching with the fire set. Just my opinion.

Bought a blaster box and a “hobby” box for my son, who loves anything Topps Fire (a real shame they don’t have the football license anymore). The blaster was mostly a bust, but the Anthony Rizzo /25 (!) and Michael Fulmer /325 in the hobby box more than made up for it. Great set for the kids. Glad Topps is making the effort to reach them since they’re really the future of the hobby.

Just picked up a 7pk. box and a 20pk box yesterday. Was deciding weather or not to open them….and I did. One autograph hit in the 7pk, and TWO autographs in the 20pk. box!
Jorge Alfaro /500
Steven Matz /200
Wade Davis /75
Not overly impressed, but Ill live. :)

I’m a fan of this Target-exclusive Topps Fire set. I did have to look around for a couple of weeks at like five different stores till I finally found some of the collectors boxes. The base set is certainly different than the other ones I collected this year. Although they are a bit cartoonish, I like the funky designs and that the checklist includes a good mix of rookies, stars, and legends. I would have appreciated much more variance in the collation. I was disappointed that I did not complete the 200 card base set with the 398 base in the four boxes I got. At least I have plenty of traders (including a fair number of triples and quadruples) lol. I like the inserts in terms of concepts, quantity, and wide variety of colors. Speaking of colors, the various foil parallels are really nice. Some of the designs may look very dated in 10 years but for now they’re cool. The hits I got ranged from decent (Ryon Healy RC GU #/110) to awesome (Andrew Benintendi RC auto #/50), and were much better than the hits (if any) you usually get in a retail release. I’d recommend 2017 Topps Fire and give it 3.85 out of 5 stars. (If you’re interested, there’s a more detailed review with images at https://vbsportscards.wordpress.com/2017/10/08/2017-topps-fire-baseball-hot/).

I was lucky enough to find a blaster in 1 of the 5 Targets near me.
IMO design is a bit too cartoon-ish for my taste. They’ve done a good job of mixing old and new stars
but find endlessly confusing SN parallel inserts quite annoying.
The value to these seems to be the relatively low auto insert ratios.
My 7 reg blaster packs contained (1) Moniker Gold Minted – Bill Lee, (1) Flame Thrower Gold Minted -Andrew Miller, (1) Golden Grab Gold Minted – Anthony Rizzo, (1) Orange parallel – Ted Williams # to 299, (2) Flame parallel – Didi Gregarious, Rob Zastryzny, & (1) Base Fire Auto Reynaldo Lopez # to 500.
FYI – Here are blaster box insert odds (*=SN)
BASE PARALLEL: Flame 1:4, Orange 1:10, Green* 1:14, Purple* 1:28, Magenta* 1:108,
AUTOGRAPHS: Base* 1:136, Green* 1:362, Purple* 1:544, Magenta* 1:1,082, Dual* 1:6,347, Triple* 1:47,600, Patch Base* 1:1,454, Patch Magenta* 1:3,662
RELIC: Base* 1:337, Green* 1:495, Purple* 1:741, Magenta* 1:1,488, Inferno* 1:30,080
GOLD MINTED: Walk It Off 1:14, Flame Thrower 1:14, Monikers 1:5, Golden Grabs 1:10, Fired Up 1:20

Thanks, Trey!

How do I differentiate the Flame parallel from the others? Does anyone have side-by-side pics?

I just got some in hand – the foil versions are very nice looking. Much better than I had thought by just looking at them online. I’m not a big fan :)

How is that this is a target exclusive and my local fred meyer(kroger chain grocery store) had 6 fat packs for sale, but the 3 targets near me had nothing??? This was 2 days ago.

Once again, retail only product and blowout cards is already selling them at a mark-up. I have been calling and visiting 8 target stores within a 75 mile radius of my house and they dont have any or they are all ready gone. I am convinced that the boxes are not even making it to the shelf. I think my local stocker is doing deals in the parking lot. This also happened with the bowman mega box. Everybody has piles of the stuff and you have none. Geez, i only wanted one or 2 boxes to open and build the set and i can’t get it. I cant believe these so called hoarder losers buy all this product up just to make a few dollars on ebay. I guess, I will just save my time and energy and pay the 90.00 dollars they are asking online. I mean really, with tax the boxes would cost me 74.19 out the door.

Very cool set. Well designed and holographic! Looking to complete the run of Gary Carters. If you pull a Blue Chip, Onyx, Magenta /25 or Inferno /1, please his me up on twitter @Erniedust

These are another Topps retail only scam. I like the idea, and I liked them as the insert set in Update a couple years back.
Problem this time is that these are cheap. I would compare this set to the physical BUNT sets of 2016 and 2017. Kinds slippery /shiny cards that are really thin and don’t do much.
All the parallels are kinda silly…and a few of the Monikers inserts are tough to read with the bright “gold” coloring.
Got mine on eBay for about 15% more than retail cost, but not really worth it.
And it’s unfortunate that you can’t find these retail only products in person, because people buy every one and then resell for double their prices on eBay. Those blasters are only worth the $20 if you ask me…

Looks like the chase inserts have parallels depending if you pull them from fat packs (blue) and value boxes (gold). This is beyond the base set parallels.

Managed to get a few packs of these online, they look amazing! So much better than some of the samples I’ve seen going around online. In person these look flawless, so happy Fire made it as a standalone for baseball.

The stuff looks really cool. I always liked the Topps Fire insert and I am happy they decided to make it a standalone set. I haven’t went to Target yet to find some, but hopefully I can find a couple of boxes.

My one question is: how does Ernie Banks have an auto in this set????? Ernie died in 2015….very fishy

This stuff looks pretty good. Some of the unnumbered parallels are tough to tell the difference between. One thing that I really like is the auto checklist. With a lot of products when I look at the auto checklist and say “How many of these would I be happy with pulling?” Usually it’s 1/4 or less. But with this product the auto checklist is pretty good and its just under 50% of the list I’d be happy with getting.

Just like with all of the retail exclusives this year for baseball – good luck finding any of it. lol!

Just bought my first 2 packs. Last 2 available at our Target store. Managed to get a Aaron Judge autograph redemption card. Like the looks of the cards.

What the heck? How come I didn’t hear about this release? This looks a LOT like something that was meant to be a digital card.

I think this may be something I’ll need to see in hand to truly appreciate it. With so many variations, it should be fun to line them all up together.