Available widely in the UK and other parts of Europe, the bulk of the checklist simply reprints the earlier hobby releases. I’ll be making a point of grabbing these cards as and when I see them, just to recreate some of that thrill-inducing 70’s buzz. In terms of the expected hits, 2021 Topps Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 2 guarantees one autograph or sketch card per Hobby box.

THE MANDALORIAN trading cards (TOPPS) - Figurine Forever THE MANDALORIAN trading cards (TOPPS) - Figurine Forever

This is one of the more important things when diving into a new trading card product for me personally. Besides the base versions, there are Red (/99), Bronze (/50), Silver (/25), Gold (/10), Printing Plate (1/1) and Black (1/1) parallels. These include Aliens and Creatures (10 cards), Comic Covers (six cards), Concept Art (18 cards) and Tools of the Bounty Hunter (10 cards). The base set takes collectors on a trading card summary of the first eight episodes spread out over 100 cards. All in all there are 231 cards in the set, covering the first 2 seasons of the show and while that’s a hefty amount of cards to be hunting down, there’s always the thrill of the chase, something lacking in these easy-to-find internet days that harkens right back to the earliest days of Star Wars collecting when most collecting targets were myth, hearsay or stumbled upon by luck.To give a flavour of what we had in-hand, we’ve posted images of the sets sent to us alongside the Topps promothional images.

2021 Topps UK Star Wars: The Mandalorian Seasons 1 and 2

The starter pack holds the binder, the covers and 20 cards and guarantees 2 premium parallel cards, so for collectors kicking off their set this is the one to go for before delving into further purchases, which would first aim you towards the Multipacks which hold 38 cards per pack plus those 2 parallels. Well, now we can find them on these cards, giving the right recognition to those who made them on the back of the cards. Coming from the 2015 Star Wars Masterworks line – which included special autograph cards from the stars of the various films as well as television shows like Rebels one per box – this hand-signed item is especially collectible due to Carrie Fisher’s untimely passing in 2016.Character parallels include Yellow, Green (/299), Blue (/99), Purple (/50), Orange (/25), Turquoise (/10), Red (/5) and Gold (1/1). They also have ultra-rare autograph cards inside lucky packs, if you manage to open a pack and pull an autograph, that will also send the profit through the roof.