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2012 Topps Heritage High Numbers, a 100-card extension to Heritage, was made available for pre-order on October 17, 2012. Sets will begin shipping on November 6, 2012. This set is only available from ShopTopps.com, Topps' online store. Each set, which is limited to 1,000 sets, costs $99.95. Each set includes either a Red or Blue Ink autograph.

2012 Bowman Chrome, a 220-card set supplemented with a 110-card Prospects insert set, was scheduled to be released to the hobby on October 17th, 2012, however some hobby cases and boxes surfaced on Friday, October 12. Retail was spotted for sale as early as October 14th. As in past years, every 18-pack Hobby box will contain an autograph. New for 2012, every third Hobby box will contain a second autograph. Based on extrapolation, approximately 6,027 hobby cases were produced.

2012 Topps Update, a 330-card set, was released on Monday, October 1, 2012. As in recent years, Update will include 55 rookies, various All-Star Game and season highlight cards, and cards of some players who had changed teams during the 2012 season. Each 36-pack Hobby box is scheduled to include either an autograph or relic card, and each 10-pack Home Team Advantage-exclusive Jumbo box will yield one autograph, a Relic, and a manufactured "Relic" insert. Like recent Topps flagship releases, short-print variations and super short-prints are also seeded into packs.

2012 Triple Threads, released by Topps on September 18, 2012, is a 154-card base set with at least 54 autographed "Rookies & Future Phenoms" subset cards each serial-numbered to 99 copies or less. Each seven card pack will yield three base cards, two parallels, one Triple Relic, and Unity Relic. One relic in each pack will be autographed.

2012 Topps Heritage Minor League, a 225-card set of minor league players, was released on September 12, 2012. Each 24-pack Hobby box will yield two autographs and a relic card.

2012 Topps Chrome, a 220-card set, was released to retail outlets on August 18, 2012. It was officially released to the hobby on Tuesday, August 21, 2012. Each 24-pack Hobby box will yield two autographs.

2012 Finest, a 100-card set, was released August 8, 2012. Each "Master Box" will contain one Autographed Rookie Refractor, one Autographed Jumbo Relic Rookie Refractor, two Finest Moments inserts, one Faces of the Franchise and Game Changers inserts, and six various Refractor parallels. Two mini-boxes per Master Box. Six packs per mini-box (MSRP: $50), five cards per pack. Hobby only. One Master box in every four cases, will be a "Hot Box" that will yeild a base refractor parallel in place of every base card.

2012 Topps Mini, a mini-sized version of the the base Topps set, was released on August 1, 2012. Boxes were availble for sale at the Topps corporate booth at the 2012 NSCC for $50. The first 100 collectors to buy a box received a five-card promo set which includes: Yu Darvish, Bryce Harper, Matt Kemp, Stephen Strasburg and Roy Halladay. Boxes are are exclusively available for sale on the Topps web site.

Produced by Panini America, 2012 Triple Play is a 90-card set released August 1st, 2012 at the 2012 NSCC. Just like the Triple Play sets of the early-90s, the set is primarily geared towards children. The entire base set features computerized vector art. Please note, that this set is NOT licensed by MLB Properties and does not feature any MLB logos.

2012 Bowman Platinum, a 100-card set, was released on July 25, 2012. The 100-card base set will be supplemented by a 100-card Prospects set. Each 20-pack Hobby box is expected to yield two Autographed Prospects, one Autographed Relic, five Prospect and four Top Prospect inserts, a pair of Cutting Edge die-cut inserts, and seven base set parallels.

2012 Topps Allen & Ginter's, a 350-card set, was released to retail outlets Monday, July 9, 2012. It will be released to the hobby on July 11, 2012. Each hobby box will yield three autographs, relics, original Allen & Ginter cards or Rip cards. Every pack contains a mini parallel card and one in every six pack contain a Ginter code card.

2012 SP Signature Edition, originally scheduled for release on May 1st, was released on July 3, 2012. Each three-card pack will contain two autographs and a multi-player signed autograph. Upper Deck has yet to unveil either a checklist or images of the cards in this set. In fact, UD did not even unveil the existence of this product until a week before it's original release date. This product will be licensed by the MLB Players Association, but not MLB Properties.

2012 Topps Tier One, a hobby-only product, was released on June 21, 2012. Each pack promises at least one On The Rise autographs, a relic serial-numbered to 399 copies or less, and either a Crowd Pleaser autograph, mutil-player autograph, autographed relic or cut signature in each pack. Every 12-pack case will yield one Top Tier autograph.

2012 Topps Pro Debut is a 220-card Minor League set. It was released exclusively to The Hobby the week of June 11th, 2012 after a three week delay. Each 24-pack box is expected to yield two autographs and two "relics."

2012 Topps Series Two was released to mass-market retail outlets June 2, 2012 and to The Hobby on June 6, 2012. The base set will consist of 331 cards (#331-#661) and each Hobby box will yield either an autograph or a game-used Relic.

2012 Topps Archives, a 241-card set, was released Friday, May 17, 2012. Due to restrictions on the number of retired players that can appear in a specific product alongside current MLB players, 2012 Archives can not be structured like the Archives sets of the 1990s and 2000s -- i.e. a set full of reprints. Instead, the set will feature current stars in a variety of classic designs along with a subset based on the All-Time Fan Favorites set of the 2000s. Each 24-pack Hobby box is expected to yield two All-Time Fan Favorites autographs.

2012 Bowman Baseball was released to retail on May 4, 2012. The set features 220 cards and a 110 card Prospect insert set. Each Hobby box will yield one on-card autograph. Each pack will contain five base cards, one Gold parallel, two Prospects, two Chrome Prospects. For the first time since 2008, Bowman will not include and Team USA content.

2011-12 Panini Limited is a 30-card set released May 2, 2012. Each pack/box contained seven cards, two of which are autographs and a third either a game-used card or another autograph. Each 15-pack case will yield 43 autographs. Each base card us serial-numbered to 249 copies. Limited will feature Panini's first USA Baseball cards since acquiring the license and the first batting helmet game-used cards in any product in a decade.

2011-12 Playoff Prime Cuts was released by Panini on April 18, 2012. Each pack/box contains five cards, two of which are autographs and the other three game-used. Each pack contains one base cards, serial-numbered to 99 copies, or a game-used base card parallel numbered to 199 or less. Panini has marketed Prime Cuts as a year-2011 product. However since it was released in April, 2012, BCP does not consider it a "2011" product. Please note, that this set is NOT licensed by MLB Properties and does not feature any MLB logos.