Product Overview
2024 Topps Chrome Star Wars has elements that are both expected and new. It’s Chrome so the focus on parallels is back. But the lineup of inserts has lots of fresh concepts and levels of rarity. Autographs are also a focal point on the checklist with one landing in every hobby box.
The configuration is also different. Last year, there were four cards per pack. For 2024, they’ve more than doubled to 10. However, the trade off is in the number of packs, dropping from 24 down to 10. The end result is a handful more cards but fewer inserts.
The base set has 150 cards and is focused entirely on characters covering both movies and TV shows. One small but potentially big addition are new Debut Medallions for characters appearing on their first trading cards. The connection here is to Rookie Cards, which have been a driving force in sports cards for decades but hasn’t been as big a focal point on the entertainment side of the hobby.
Parallels are numerous with Refractors not only taking on colors but further defined by Star Wars lore. They include:
The checklist has a couple of other variations as well.
Aurebush Short Prints, which have 99 copies a piece, change the font on the front to Galactic Basic Standard. Further parallels for these are available as Gold Refractors (/50), Rebel Orange Refractors (/25), Mustafar Lava Refractors (/10), Dathomir Red Refractors (/5) and Superfractors (1/1).
Hoth Ice Blue Frozenfractors offer a Star Wars spin on a parallel that has been in baseball for a couple of years. Not only do these have give cards a cold makeover but they come numbered to 0 and the numbers themselves are negative (-5, -4, -3, etc.). It might not make logical sense, but each card has six copies including 0/0.
Autographs, the product’s main hits, use a design that’s similar to the base set. This includes the parallel lineup:
