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The Skuttlebutt Podcast
by JIMMYJ4M and QUIGONJINNANDTONIC
Veteran traders Dan and Jim discuss the comings and goings in Topps' Marvel Collect app.
Episodes
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Episode 53: We've Got a Burning Question For Ya
"WhAt CaPe PeRsOn WoUlD yOu PuT iN tHiS sCeNaRiO?!" and other riveting questions have been asked of us every week for the past two months or so. Not that 90% of the people actually read them. They just comment "hi" or "." and get their 10k coins and move on. Most of the questions are lukewarm...
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Episode 52: What If... People Used The Timeline?
This time last year, and the month or two leading up to it, we were eagerly anticipating 2020 Base Series 2. We watched all of the other apps get their Series 2, and we were wondering when Marvel would get theirs. We talked about it for a few episodes in a row, until it finally arrived. Fast...
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Episode 51: Ticket to Ride
Well, it's been over a month, and a lot of things have come and gone in the app, but was any of it memorable? Another crafting set, a bunch of collections with epics that most of us have forgotten already, and the usual weekly sets. The Black Widow Premiere Collection was pretty great, but then...
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Episode 50: The Rusty Summer Continues
For those who hit the big 45 Common to Rust fusion early, you'll know what the title is talking about. For those who didn't, well then the title is talking about that sweet, sweet, orange-tinted 1st print set! You know, the ones that cost $18 at odds and look like garbage and 2 weeks in are still...
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Episode 49: The Early Bird Gets The Worm
In this episode we talk about the beginnings of the Marvel and Disney apps, as both of us were around for those, and how no matter what it is, if you drop like a hundred bucks within the first month of a new Topps app, you will most certainly make your money back down the line. It would take a...
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Episode 48: Mix It Up A Little Bit
Week in, week out, the same schedule every week. Same weekly sets on Monday and Tuesday, same concepts used over and over. Concepts that were great the first time they were used, but by series 7 or 8 have lost their appeal. But we keep opening the packs, to keep our collection complete. On this...
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Episode 47: Base Variants: A Rusty Start
Back when 2021 base came out, a ton of base variants appeared under the 2021 Base set in the Sets & Collections list as Coming Soon. Something about Magma and Ice and a bunch of others. We haven't really thought about it much since, until this week when the Rust crafting base variant came out. We...
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Episode 46: I Know You're Ignoring My Trade
Big update this week: online status on you and other traders. Now you can tell if another trader is currently active in the app, or has been in the last hour. That is, unless they choose to hide themselves, which I assume most will. But besides that fact, now you can sit there and watch your...
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Episode 45: It's all a Gamble
The anniversary season has come to an end. The speed hoard contest is over, the stream is done, the giveaways have all been given away. Topps gave us at least something for the anniversary this year. Nothing earth-shattering, or even Wintercon level, but at least they acknowledged the anniversary...
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Episode 44: 2nd Anniversary Wrap-Up and Giveaways
Our 2nd TMC Anniversary Celebration ended this weekend with a mixture of giveaways and us discussing what's currently going on in the app, along with discussing the history of the cards that were being given away. It was a fantastic event and we're happy for those who were able to join us for...
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TMC 2nd Anniversary Celebration: Interview with Kevin-John
Our TMC 2nd Anniversary Celebration continued this past weekend on Twitch with an interview with Kevin-John, Disney Master Artist and now a very frequent Topps Digital Artist! We were first introduced to Kevin-John's work in Topps Marvel Collect at the end of February during the Topps WinterCon...
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TMC 2nd Anniversary Celebration: Interview with Andy
Our TMC 2nd Anniversary Celebration kicked off this past weekend on Twitch with an interview with Andy, formerly Product Manager of Topps Marvel Collect. During this interview we discuss a large variety of topics, including how Comic Book Day / Topps Now came to be, the reasons why we don't see...
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Episode 43: Fear not the NFT
So today is Topps' big day. After a year of playing around with Garbage Pail Kids and Godzilla, Major League Baseball finally agreed to release their physical set as NFTs. We doubt Topps' GPK track record convinced them. We think it was more of them seeing the NBA rolling in money with Top Shot...
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Episode 42: It's Your Fault, Not Ours!
Since our last episode, we had a few very interesting releases: some good, some bad. Let's start with the Topps Now release, which we all still call Comic Book Day, and how at first it looked like they changed the mechanics to make Gold covers pay only. Guess what? It was planned! What, you…
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Episode 41: An Overabundance of Collections
Do you like collections? You bet you do! Every 3 days, a collection. Epics? Pssh, you don't always need epics. What do you mean the packs cost the same as the ones with epics in them? Look at this Impact Collection! It has everything you want, right? We even threw another wave of Splash! into it...
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Episode 40: Everybody Hates John
We're officially a week through our Anniversary Season event! We've had great giveaways, great challenges, and donations across the community to use for giveaways. So far, the community-driven celebration has been a success and there's much more to come! App-wise, we're getting some fun easy…
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Episode 39: Community-Driven Celebration
This week on Wednesday marks the beginning of what we at the Skuttlebutt Podcast are calling "The Anniversary Season" in Topps Marvel Collect. Last year Topps disappointed us by having absolutely no anniversary-driven content within the app, and nothing more than a tweet to say "we're 1 year old...
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Episode 38: Flagging the Base
Happy New Year! 2021 base is here! What's that you say? It's March? Oh, well, close enough, right? While many will complain about reused art, the design really isn't too bad and there is some nice artwork regardless! For some reason the new Motion flag is on every new base card but no matter how...
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Episode 37: The Hodgepodge
The title of this episode represents the assortment of topics we discuss and having no real connection between all of them (besides the app of course!). Vintage came out with no limit to kill another classic set, Timeless Series 2 came out exactly as Series 1 did, and Comic Book Day releases were...
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Episode 36: Snuffing Out That Glimmer of Hope
While Marvel's presence on the Digicast was less than ideal, their content in the app during Wintercon was pretty good. Not only did we get original art from Kevin-John, a Disney Master Artist, with a 500CC limited variant, but we also got a Laufman Original Art Venomized set with fairly involved...
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Episode 35: The Bare Minimum
Nothing is going on in the app. We even had nearly 48 hours where nothing new was released at all. Still, Dan and Jim find things to talk about and speculate over as Wintercon is a week away. We want new base to make its premiere at Wintercon, but at the same time do we really want a base set to…
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Episode 34: Theoretically...
There's not a lot to say about the releases this week, but Dan and Jim do find a fair amount to talk about! This includes how other events happening in other apps may affect the Topps Marvel Collect App. We also discuss the lack of variety in the drop mechanics within the app and how mixing it up...
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Episode 33: The King in Black Saves the App
It's hard to believe that something actually new and groundbreaking has happened recently in the app, but it has. Not only the first signature cards in the app, but animated motion signatures! The King in Black Collection arrived last week and has been a massive hit, even without awards for the...
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Episode 32: Wanda Wanda Wanda!
Is it weird that we're actually surprised to see Topps release properly timed content for the release of WandaVision on Disney Plus? We're so used to missed opportunities that it was a welcome change to see a ton of content drop leading up to the Friday release of the first two episodes! I mean,...
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Episode 31: The Holidays are Forbidden
Hey everyone, welcome back to the Skuttlebutt Podcast! How was your holiday season? What's that? Of course I mean outside of the Topps Marvel Collect app! There was not a single Christmas or holiday-inspired card found in the app. I guess we did get a Boxing Day card though... and a New Year's…
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Episode 30: Not Hitting the Limit
Well, Topps is listening. They gave us a limited set, and paid only! And they have a 750CC cap! And they share a pull pool with unlimited Super Rare cards! Wait, this isn't what we were expecting, was it? Don't get us wrong, we are excited to see ANY limited cards in any capacity, as it is a sign...
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Episode 29: The Future is Looking Blurry
This is an emergency alert: your eyes are fine. The cards are actually blurry. This was intentional. You'd better collect them so they don't look so blurry anymore! It's been a weird week for Topps Marvel Collect! While the updated Wish List and Trade List is a welcome improvement, there's not…
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Episode 28: Common Card Genocide
We hope you don't like your common cards because you're going to need to fuse the hell out of them to... get some gold base... and some Black Widow commons... yeah we guess you can just keep your common cards. After releasing gold base fusions which only allowed you to use 2020 common cards and...
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Episode 27: Go FOOM Yourself
Get ready for an action-packed, extra long special episode full of all sorts of discussion about the latest drops, such as the Marvel Halftone set that was quickly overshadowed by the Alex Ross Timeless collection! Dan and Jim also discuss how avatars are not utilized to their full potential in...
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Episode 26: The One Where The Cards Get Promoted
Now they've done it! Topps has added an Epic tier to the app and upgraded over 230 cards into this new tier. Were they all good choices? What else should be upgraded? Should we expect upgrades between lower tiers for older, more valuable sets, such as Uncommon to Rare or Rare to Super Rare? Will...
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Episode 25: Award Windows of Opportunity
If we told you that an award count can be higher than the lowest insert count in a set, you'd call us crazy right? Yet this week we found ourselves staring at an award count of 43 when the highest count on one of the set's inserts was 37! On this week's episode of the Skuttlebutt Podcast, we...
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Episode 24: A Few Mediocre Returns
A lot has happened in the last two weeks, good and bad. Let's start with the bad: the return of Inked in Series 2 and Wield the Shield in Series 2 (of a million). And Jim and Dan are here to talk about them. They also discuss the new "Topps Digicast Challenge" that just doesn't seem to line up…
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Episode 23: A Monumental Idea
For those who don't know, monument numbers in Star Wars Card Trader were announced this past week, and it reminded Dan and Jim that base in this app really is worthless, and it could be so much more valuable had the idea of Monuments come to Marvel Collect. For those who don't know, monuments are...
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Episode 22: Where There's Fire, There's Lightning
We must have all made too many comments about the odd choice of characters when Inception Fire came out (looking at you Rhonda), because Topps decided to play it safe with Inception Series 2 (Lightning Edition) giving us 3 Storm cards and 4 Thor cards in a 10 card (9 + Award) set. Still, they are...
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Episode 21: Support Your Local Farmer (w. Special Guest Tedsallis)
Hey everyone, this week we have a special guest from the digital collectible world named Gregg Keefer, who goes by Tedsallis in Star Wars and Manthing in Marvel Collect. Gregg hosts the Hoardcast podcast which can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/hoardcast and on Twitch at...
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Episode 20: Goodbye Limits Hello Odds
Limited Card Count Releases Are Dead. With the arrival of an uncapped Vintage Series 3 release, the age of the rush of adrenaline as you rapidly try to buy a new set that has a Card Count cap is officially over. The era of very hard odds has arrived. Along with this fusion fad, to try to make it...
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Episode 19: Everybody's Not Working For The Weekend
And another Sunday passes without anything new or special. What used to be a day to look forward to for a new Alex Ross Art card, Fan's Choice, Editor's Choice, Gallery, or even the latest Corner Box set, has now been skipped twice. Dan and Jim talk about why they think this is happening in this...
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Episode 18: The Omnibus is Comin' and Everybody's Jumpin'
FOUR HUNDRED CARD SET! Well, 100 in 4 variants. For over a year. 13 Awards. It just keeps sounding better and better! Joking aside, Omnibus has arrived with 100 new pieces of character art that we haven't seen used in the app yet. And most of them are pretty good! Join Dan and Jim as they discuss...
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Episode 17: We Hope You Like Logos
Logos! Get your logos hot off the press, again! And again! Dan and Jim spend this episode covering the last week and a half including 2 incredible OA Weekly releases, a great new Cosmic Collection, and an... okay Trinity release. We also discuss some new character we hadn't seen cards for in the...
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Episode 16: Topps' Red-Headed Stepchild
Digicon has come and gone, along with Marvel's whopping 30 minutes out of the entire 4 days of the event. And what did we learn during it? Not much. But hey, we got a watch party and another animated X-Men set! That Jim completely forgot he collected only 2 days after it came out! Joking aside,...
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Episode 15: And I've Got a Golden Ticket
What a week! DigiCon passes! Inception FIRE! After months of the same old collection mechanics, same old farmers pulling sets on multiple accounts and selling them for less than half the diamond cost in the app, Topps pulled a "Hold my beer" and dunked on the trading community with a set that…
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Episode 14: Drop the Base Part 2
Well, it's been 16 days since the last episode and boy has a lot happened. From the Animated Spider-Man Watch Party, to the 2020 Series 2 Base drop, it has been a wild couple of weeks. Join us this week as we discuss the many different things that have been dropped recently in the app, as well as…
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Episode 13: 50 Venomized Sets
He's done it. Dan has reached 50 complete Venomized sets in his insert hoard. A huge congrats to him on this long-time, expensive goal! We discuss his journey in this episode. We also discuss the Animated Spider-Man series releases including the watch party, as well as the return of *some*…
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Episode 12: The Base Chase
This week Dan and Jim discuss the releases from the last week, specifically the San Diego Comic Con releases that were available to everyone because no Con happened (Thanks COVID!). We also discuss the Comic Panel 4 day base chase and the potential of a new base set halfway through the year. They...
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Episode 11: Artist Spotlight: Michael Borkowski
Hey all, welcome to another episode of the Skuttlebutt podcast. Our guest this week is the man behind the newest and hottest set in the app, Michael Borkowski! We were fortunate enough to be able to sit down with him right on the heels of the release of his Spider-Verse Original Art Super Rare…
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Episode 10: It Might Just Be a Fantastic Week
In this week's episode, Jim and Dan talk about the hints here and there of the Fantastic Four appearing in the app. They also discuss the end of the Inked set, as the overall award finally dropped. That combined with the Black Cat Tilt award dropping led to a week of valuable cards which aren't...
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Episode 9: A New Tradition
It's a time to celebrate the Independence of the United States of America! And what better way to do that than 3000 diamonds for $2! This week, "Diamond" Dan and Jim go over the new tradition of Topps unintentionally giving away diamonds at prices never before seen in the app on the 4th of July!…
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Episode 8: It's a Botter's Market
This week Jim and Dan discuss how Coronavirus may have affected Topps themselves, for bad or maybe, for good? Also discussed is the fact that now that the long-term weekly sets are coming to a close, almost everything that veteran traders want will most likely be bought from the secondary market....
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Episode 7: Artist Spotlight: Daniel Murray
On this 7th episode of our podcast we have a special guest with us: Daniel Murray. Hopefully most of you will recognize that name, as Dan has created many Original Art cards in the Topps Marvel Collect app, including last week's Rocket in the Weekly Original Art set. We talk about how Dan got...
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Episode 6: Too Many Choices Not Enough Interest
In this episode, Dan and Jim discuss the Morbius Showcase compared to some of the other Showcase sets we've had throughout the last year. We also discuss how having these long sales times for each set lead to so many sets being available in the store at once that really stop selling after the…
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