2009-10 Fleer Ultra blaster break

 

After buying a single pack, and later a rack pack, of this year's Fleer Ultra, I have to admit that the set has grown on me. That said, I bought a blaster box at Target last week. Yes, we all know that blasters suck harder than 36-count "retail" boxes...but I had a 10% of coupon, and figured that, you know, maybe this blaster would be special.

Yeah right. (Well, it did happen to me once.)

I don't wanna scan all the cards I got. I'm not even going to scan the best card from each of the 12 packs, but rather just the best "type" of each card.

Here is what I got:

  

43 base cards. You can practically see the Gatorade dripping off of Sidney Crosby's face in this pic.

  

11 Gold Cards: All these do is take the place of a "real" card, which makes completing a set 20% harder. So, I might just mix and match gold and regular cards in my set build, just to piss off Upper Deck. By the way, another great horizontal shot--notice the puck in the upper right corner.

  

2 Ultra Rookies. I've heard of Yannick Weber. The other one I got was of some kid on the Tampa Bay Lightning named Brandon Segal.

  

1 Gold Ultra Rookie: I guess in a way, I "beat" the odds by getting THREE (and not TWO) Ultra Rookies. Though when I pulled this one from a pack, the first thing I muttered was "this better not count as one of the two rookies I get." Why do I hate parallels so much?

  

2 Scoring Kings: These look like a lame insert set that could be in ANY low-to-mid end Upper Deck set. Just slap a Victory or Collector's Choice or UD logo in the corner

  

1 Crowning Achievements: Why? Oh right--because they CAN. Anyone else tired of Martin Brodeur yet? No, I am not bitter that he set his all-time-wins record in a game against the Blackhawks. That actually makes his record cooler to me. 

Dare I say it, but I might actually try to buy a hobby box of these cards. I've got about 90 or so towards the 200-card base set, plus another 4 short-prints. The pictures in this set are pretty good, and there's room for up to 20 years of stats (more on that here).