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Just released 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. 2012 Topps Gypsy Queen is a 350-card set released to on April 15, 2012. Hobby was released on Wednesday, April 18th. Each 24-pack Hobby box is expected to yield two autographs and two "relics" and a ten-card "mini-box" containing parallels. 2012 Topps Museum Collection, a 100-card set, was released on April, 4, 2012. Museum Collection is the new name for the product previously known as Marquee. Each four-pack Hobby box is expected to yield one on-card Autograph, one Autographed Relic card, one Jumbo Relic card, and one Quad Relic card. The 2012 Topps Sticker Collection is a 309-sticker set that was released Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Changes from 2011 include: additions/subtractions in the current player checklist, the addition of team mascots and the lack of foil on the team logos and legends. Loose packets, which MSRP at $0.99, contain eight stickers. The 32-page album, which contains six stickers, MSRPs at $1.99. 2012 Topps Heritage, a 500-card set, was released to on Monday, March 12 2012. In its 12th year, 2012 Heritage is based on the "dual-photo" design of the 1963 Topps set. Each 24-pack Hobby should yield one autograph or Relic card, one over-sized box topper, eight short-printed base cards, and nine inserts. 2012 Topps Opening Day, is a 220 card, retail-exclusive, set released March 7th. As in previous years, the set recycles the design of the Topps flagship, with each pack yielding at least one insert. 2012 Topps Tribute was released exclusively to Hobby outlets on March 7th. Each pack contains one autograph or "Relic" card, and new for this year, each autograph/relic will come encased.	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