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When the 2024 Topps Heritage cards went on sale, I bought three blaster boxes from our local Walmart, and one of them had a purple refractor card in each pack. Eight packs in the box, eight purple refractor cards. It was my understanding that the purple refractor cards weren't included in the blaster boxes. There also were four short-print cards, which isn't exceptionally odd, but I usually feel good if I can get three in a blaster box. I'm guessing this box got loaded from the wrong assembly line or whatever.

I've never had a box turn out quite like that. Would love to hear from anybody else who's bought a box or pack of some particular set and wound up getting something more that they weren't expecting. I figure there's more stories here, because Topps/Fanatics/whoever hasn't been great at quality control.

Purple Hot Boxes have been a thing for several years now. You picked a lucky one but this is the rare case where this was intentional and wasn’t a screw up! 

2010 Bowman Platinum one Hobby Box pulled two autographed printing plates. Unfortunately neither were named Trout.

Purple hot box sounds like something that you'd have to look it up on Urban Dictionary to know what it is, and then it would turn out to be something you can't discuss in a family setting!

BrewerAndy wrote:

Purple Hot Boxes have been a thing for several years now. You picked a lucky one but this is the rare case where this was intentional and wasn’t a screw up! 

Hot Boxes are a thing, like 1 per case with topps heritage. Got one myself in the 2018 high number release and pulled a purple Ohtani. Congrats on your find! 

Yep, like the others said..."Hot Box" and yes, and I do believe they are one per case. I purchased a blaster box along with my hobby box from Topps during the 2023 release, to obtain the free shipping for orders over $100 and the blaster turned out to be a hotbox.  It also had an auto from one of the 70's era players in it too. Recently I picked up a discounted Hobby Box of 2023 High Numbers from my LCS and to my surprise it was also a Hot Box.   

If anyone is curious to know what I pulled from the 2024 Topps Heritage "hot box," it was Giancarlo Stanton, Byron Buxton, Juan Soto, Carlos Correa, Henry Davis, Austin Riley, Jesus Luzardo and Sal Frelick. Not planning to trade any of them.

In the past, I tended to offer cards like that for trade, if there clearly wasn't a way to complete the set -- at least, not with plenty of expense and time involved. Now, I appreciate these cards more and like having them as an interesting little part of my collection.

That's awesome.  I pulled a hot hobby box in last year's heritage and I love the purple chrome.