Saturday 10 August 2024

One Week Late

 

You'd think Summerslam weekend would be the perfect time to post a WWE blaster. You'd also be forgetting that I'm a complete idiot and rarely plan things. But better late than holding off until next year's Wrestlemania.

Pack 1:

The bronze parallels, in this case the Rodriguez, fall one-per-pack. That's an easy way to get to an average of nine parallels per blaster. Getting the same person more than once in a pack isn't a rare occurrence in Chronicles, but I assume it is a little rarer in the WWE release. It is also interesting to see Rollins and Lynch appear back-to-back.

Pack 2:
It's a little harder to see here, but Kofi Kingston is the bronze parallel. That's a lot of base designs here. Golden Age makes its debut in Chronicles, and given how the new baseball releases does include a lot of retired players mixing in with the prospects, I'm surprised it wasn't done there. Like with Classics, that entire portion of the list contains retired legends.

Pack 3:
There's the first cover boy to make an appearance with Bron Breaker. Given that there are women as part of the subset, they can't really call it some variation on Kings, so the Eddy Guerrero card is a Ring Rulers. Faarooq is the first non-bronze parallel, being the Silver Wave version. 

Pack 4:
There's the only numbered parallel in the box. It is also the last non-Bronze one, meaning I only landed 8 as opposed to the promised 9. 'On Average' rears its head.

Pack 5:
There's the second cover boy, with the bronze parallel of Rey to start it off. I still have a challenge not spelling his ring name as Rey Misterio Jr, since I was familiarized with that watching lucha broadcasts from Mexico before he started working regularly in the US. Ditto for Eddy as opposed to Eddie Guerrero. 

Pack 6:
I'd prefer to see a different photo used for the second one, but Illusions really adapts the best to the bronze parallels with background making it very obvious. I may not have got a card of the Rock here, but I did get a card of his daughter in Ava. She's really, really green at this point, but so was The Blue Chipper, Rocky Maivia when he debuted.

There you have it!

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