hits delivering that breaking hobby ear you want to know those hot drops from the car shop we've got you covered Newman hello everybody Welcome to 198 of hobby quick hits and I know the last time we did hobby quick hits I did sort of a a combination 3 show review of the last three card shows that I did and I don't necessarily like to do those all the time or for every show uh most shows similar uh and I've never done backto back kind of show review episodes like I'm going to do today So today we're going to talk about it's a brand new show that I did but the promoter I've worked with for over 20 years he's the promoter the big Syracuse Fairground show I do but he started to he's starting uh with this past show to do an every other month quality in h Hotel show and so I signed up I said man I'm going to at least do it the first year see how they go and went in there kind expecting greatness or or Excellence right off the Jump but I was shocked and surprised with the first show out the gates and again I wasn't going to do this show but that show really they have no choice but sort of to review the show and there's sort of a a method to my manness here and my point w what one one of my points to this show is to regardless of the size of the show don't sleep on these smaller shows as a dealer and as a consumer and I think everyone was happy at the show I'm going to talk about today on the dealer side for sure and on The Collector side uh as well so uh that's what the the show is going to be about we're going to take a uh quick break and then we'll be back with our new release uh schedule some news and then the review of the quality in show okay now a quick word from our great sponsor followed by the new product release schedule then we'll go around the hobby verse to tell you all the latest hobby happenings and news then we'll tackle today's topic of discussion hi this is Pat Hughes Cubs Announcer coming to you from the sports card shop in beautiful New Buffalo Michigan the goer family has built an incredible place here for collectors to buy sell and trade cards and memorabilia be sure to stop by and let them show you around the sportscard shop.com connecting Sports athletes The Hobby and collectors around the world hi this is Alan pinket and I'm here to tell you the goer family has done it again they've just opened up the sport card shop in downtown valarezo Indiana and it is awesome if you're a collector you need to check this place out tell them Allen sent you and get a free gift on your first visit all right let's get right to the product release schedule lots on the docket starting with February 12 which is a big release day in itself these are all February 12th product releases to start 2024 Panini prism WNBA basketball 2024 Panini 3 two baseball 2025 top one uh blasters fat packs hangers Hobby and jumbo monster boxes and baseball 2025 is hitting the shelves and the market also on the 12 2024 sl25 Upper Deck lore hockey upper deck Halo Legacy Collection let's move to the 13th Topps Chrome Topps Chrome McDonald's All-American basketball rugler and mega on the 14th we have top series one baseball super boxes Mega boxes and the tins uh also on the 14th 2024 Leaf history book pop culture edition chapter 1 2024 tops garbage pale kids Chrome 2024 tops UFC finest regulars blasters and megas last product for the 14th Yu-Gi-Oh blue eyes white Destiny structure de deck all right going to the 19th 2024 25 Panini prism basketball 2024 Topps Chrome football hobby Breakers Delight blasters and Megas 2024 tops Star Wars hyperspace 2024 sl25 Upper Deck opii 2024 Upper Deck Skybox metal Universe Champions going now to the 2st like I said uh got to catch my breath here lots a product 2024 Leaf Heroes and Prospects football Hobby and jumbos 2023 24 Panini football Pokemon azour Legends 10 Pokemon scarlet and violet Prismatic blisters uh still on the 21st 2024 wildcard Dynomite football uh pieces of the past n-year Edition series 1 and that's the next two weeks in product releases some some big releases including the ever anticipated tops Flagship 2025 so there you go Choose Your Weapon happy ripping Let's Go Round The Hobby verse and catch up on out all right let's go around the hobby here uh talk about some news uh probably Flagship coming out this week 2025 uh everyone kind of circles this on the counter and also kind of signifies the the return of the baseball season and pitchers and catchers reporting uh to spring training so uh that part's exciting if you are a baseball fan speaking of tops SL Fanatics they are introducing in the new diamond icons release high-end product a new liquid silver processing uh featuring silver embossing it'll be three 3D like in the first time they've ever done it I've seen pictures uh online obviously that I don't think that tells the complete story to seeing him in person but looking forward to maybe uh you know getting some of those and seeing what they look like uh obviously in person 1961 Big Year in baseball speaking of uh while we're on the topic of of baseball and quite a bit of products from uh that uh I shouldn't say products memorabilia from 1961 including a jersey of Roger meis from that Epic Season which he broke the Home Run Record but a bunch of Manel stuff will be in the Heritage winter auction which runs through uh February 26 the Maris Jersey expected to potentially reach seven figures and that will be the key uh highlight of of that auction but again some manle stuff some other Maris stuff 1961 uh Yankee season uh and uh you know Super Bowl uh at the time of this recording uh it has the no result yet the game hasn't been played but uh you know the Chiefs are going for a repeat and I think Patrick Mahomes is trying to cement his legacy right there with Tom Brady you know he'll be a few rings short but uh still young and still has a lot of football to play and uh I've often said that he's the he's the guy uh that will come probably the closest to Brady uh and so this will be one step to a new hobby movie comes out this week hobby hustle it is about 155 minutes I was privy privileged to screen the movie it is uh excellent and that director of that movie uh Michael dot will be my guest on sports card Nation the next two Fridays here part one and part two to chop up the movie chop up the hobby chop up some of these subjects covered uh in the f film and Michael did a good job and and you'll hear me if you listen to the interview I we talked about this really covering all the aspects of the hobby The Good The Bad uh and the Ugly wasn't just fluff about all the great things and the hobby is great I'm not saying it isn't um but he really covered all the angles in in the whole hobby uh as a whole and I think you know it's not the first hobby movie but I think it's done the best job thus far of really you know showing all sides uh to the Hobby so uh Michael do the director will be on uh this week uh and uh next uh next week as well uh the talk about that film to talk about the Hobby and now our Feature Presentation all right I don't do these show review episodes for every show I do I don't think every is worthy of an audio podcast review but the show I'm going to talk about today definitely uh qualifies uh for to me for this episode so uh was held at the quali in North uh Hotel uh in East Syracuse uh February 2nd new show uh there done by a longtime promoter uh Lyn Lake who's an alumnus of this podcast uh been on the show he's you know you hear me talk about my home show with the fairgrounds he's the promoter of that big large show uh on the fairgrounds property but this he's expanding his show showcase uh with these quality and Nord shows and I think there's you know every other month so there'll be six this year this was the first one the first foray and you know kind of went in not knowing what to expect it was going to be kind of a smaller venue a smaller setting that can be good and bad and here's why you know good cuz you're competing in a sense against less dealers you know for what that's worth the bad could be is the sometimes the perception of a small show is it worth going with less dealers right so you got that little bit tug-of-war so I really went in there you know not knowing what to expect it's February it's cold and this particular day it was bone chilling cold 5 uh to be exact so I I get there I park in kind of the circle and I start to bring in stuff and I see Lyn and I realize like he's having tables on in the inside of the banquet room and in the foyer in in the hallway uh as well and kind of didn't I thought it would all be in one room not a you know little n I'm not going to lie a little nervous at first where people just go into the main room and then like skip us out kind of you know out in front but we were very visible we were right there where the the line comes in so I was wasn't super worried but that thought always crosses your mind so a little funny aside here uh as well uh you know so I'm I'm about set up I'm set up with my friend Chad who I usually set up with and I realized I left my sling body uh sling crossover bag filled with my kind of starting cash you know locked in my car so I tell my friend Chad hey you know show hasn't started yet so I'm going to run out to my car and and grab that and come back so I take my keys I'm going out to to my car I'm hitting the fob to unlock it and I'm getting nothing my lights aren't blinking the door's not unlocking and so I'm like what the heck's going on now again it's a brutally cold day so I'm like is the key fob battery dead is something wrong with my car so I open it manually and then I put the I don't have a push to start I got to put key in the ignition and start it and it didn't turn over then I'm like oh my God God this can't be happening the show's about to start I can't you know what am I going to do so I I call my wife tell her what's going on she and my son come out while I'm at the show Triple A comes out they do their thing get it running and you know my wife stays there and lets the car run for 30 minutes to do uh after that she turned it off uh my son you know came in the show gave keys and uh you know they uh they both uh went home so you know now I'm now it's it's showtime and I tell you what 600 people attended this thing it was packed it was I could not even it's funny cuz we were in the for we had couches behind the tables so I could have sat or laid on the couch but it was so busy this day I there was no laying on couches even if I want wanted to it was it was nonstop best show I've done in probably three or four years if not more I my my cases got turned over a couple times I sold I was filling holes as fast as I could to the point I couldn't fill them all so I'm definitely going to have to buy kind of restock some some things and maybe you know some stuff here in my studio uh uh office here that kind of re restock that way as well I don't bring everything uh to the show um bought some cards um big sellers were were saquin Barkley for obvious reason uh Josh Allen uh was a another big seller but I sold vintage I sold modern I sold graded I sold raw I did some $5 fun packs I sold about 25 of those it was just one of those shows they don't happen all the time like that but where you just sell a lot of stuff right everything again raw vintage graded uh modern I made these front packs I redid my dollar box and loaded that up with some better stuff sold quite a bit at out of that I reload that I'm going to have to reload really across the and people were in good spirits and I was worried you know being it's 5° out like maybe people say you know what I'm too cold I'm staying in I'm not even keeping my pajamas on watching you know it's Sunday you've heard my the Saturday usually better at Sunday if at the same place each other um but it was again it was I was you know stunned at how well the show was and as you know I'm not going to say uh what I took in financially do that sorry if CH but I'll just say it was it was easy you know four figures and and and then like I said I haven't done a had like that kind of in a long time I've had great I've had good shows very good I put it into great uh classification SGC table uh was busy um I think one of the things too I I didn't I don't I don't think I talked about this on any of the podcast I was using a lot of plastic cases I my friend Nick Dio who's also a dealer uh he makes out of flooring he'll make uh kind of open box cases and he made me uh an open box case 24 by 36 2x3 2x3 foot I did a funny post on social media where I'm carrying it it's heavy when it's loaded which I keep it loaded uh I put some handles on it so that that that open box made its debut uh at this show and that was a a huge hit too and in in this box I have you know Vintage Modern graded cards small wax tops boxes t206 product you know the Blake James and that that sort of stuff those are in there living set single uh all sports I I you know soccer cards Lana this box I could put it all out in the open and people threw it rather than have to open drawers and different things it's more welcoming and I could the difference was palpable people were looking through it people were buying from it it was just probably the best decision I made and as beautiful as those plastic boxes I were um there's something more inviting about the design of this 24x dirty wood box uh was a big hit I mean everything I'm I'm trying to even think I sold some stuff that I haven't sold in the LA from from the last 10 shows and so just a a great day um a lot of new SGC bulk subers so I had my regulars which is always great and appreciate folks and had a lot of new folks and there was there was times I me I I know this a small show this sound weird it felt almost National like a na cuz my like my whole front my whole t and a half were like people were in front of it in every spot and then there was like a a second row of people waiting like to kind of come up to replace them as moved on to the next table and like I said I had no time to sit down I'm glad you know thankfully you know this venue is only 5 miles from my house thankfully it was close so my wife and son could come out and kind of handle what happened with my car and get that going and uh it just was a great show the day the day went quick it was it was so busy it was like I looked at my watch and was like we only got an hour left you know I'm I'm superstitious so I never count money during the show um but you know you do this long enough you get a sense for how well or not well you're and I knew you know without counting I knew this was incred incredibly so uh between just trying to keep up with the cases filling spots and at one point it just was too busy there was just open spots it is you know it is what it was and uh uh you know people obviously saw some some old friends that I hadn't seen in a while that came to the show including a friend of mine Chuck who I used to play softball with I hadn't seen him I seen him on Facebook but I haven't seen him in person in years and just U just a really great day and you know again uh again I didn't count funds till I got home uh but went out to dinner after the show with uh my friends Chad Nick already had on this episode but you know shows over I'm packing up and I'm like God man I hope my car starts right like I know when Triple A and my wife and son left after let it run 30 minutes was fine but you know it's still 5 de out there it's going like is something wrong is it the alternator so man I'm like please start uh I don't want to be stuck here you know longer you know I had dinner plans again with my friend Chad and Nick and thankfully it started it was fine uh you know moved it loaded the car up and then uh headed to a local restaurant Pub and enjoyed a nice meal all three of us had great shows myself uh Chad who sets up right next to me and Nick who was actually in the in the banquet room itself we all did uh tremendous so we had we had some laughs and dinner and uh you know it was time to call it a day and uh you know 600 people through the door in a small venue uh that says a lot lot you know the hobby is is doing very well yes some people have left got new people coming in every day there's there's going to be so I'm optimistic um you know I'm having I'm having fun uh right whatever you do right you try to have as much fun as possible enjoyed it U you know I I really I I I definitely wasn't expecting this kind of show first time out too I don't know I I don't know I don't have a good explanation for maybe the cold actually helped us said hey I'm going to the warm show and you know a week before the Super Bowl and U sold a lot of lot of football like I said saquan was a big hit Lamar Jackson Josh Allen a lot of playoff guys jayen Daniels uh Jaden um but again I sold a lot of stuff it wasn't just one or two items I don't know if it was the new setup maybe it was kind of refreshing the people cuz I'm sort of a creature habit my setup will kind of looks similar from one show now it sort of different with so maybe a little bit of that but everyone did well you know I don't know I don't know maybe just with the new I don't know if the election has anything to do with it maybe I'm going a little bit in that but I don't know it was just a great day and you know it it bods well for the hobby that's you know it's nice to make money and you know if you're a dealer and you set up sure that's F right you shouldn't feel guilty for that right because we're putting money back in the hobby i' I've got a py a bunch of stuff right of how much so that's a that's a good cycle right um so I just it just had a good vibe good feeling at the conclusion show um when you have a so hopefully you know wherever you are uh the hobby is thriving along the same lines all right thank you for listening to another episode of hobby quick hits want to give out our 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