Price point for any 23/24 product is inflated let’s start there. I completely agree that this definitely should be south of $100 per box. Having said that, some of the foily inserts this year are really good looking. Not talking about any of the paper meeting plastic stuff but the thrill rides and rookie journeys.
Really don’t understand the hate for Synergy. It’s literally my favorite set from hockey. Cards look so good and it feels nice to see serial numbers even if they are so plentiful. Adds to the excitement.
The numbering for the true rookies keeps changing because of the year 2017-18 rookies were numbered to 18 and with this year its numbered to 24 for 2023-24
Fair points. For what it’s worth, I don’t think it’s contrarian to believe cards should (attempt to) break paradigms. Had you shown me, in the 1980s, Skittles cards made of translucent hard plastic, I would have fallen off my chair. Including a chase deceased Howe auto #/15. Unpopular cards serve to push the hobby. Note too that Starquest are some of the most cherished historical cards, from Collectors Choice. They were an entry for many GenX. The very fact that boxes tank in price allow casual collectors to equally enter the hobby, and not by copycatting influencers, or being told what to “value.” The periphery is a place to geek out for all the right reasons (whether it be cards, art, food, music, etc.) Ergo love or hate, niche products are niche for a reason, and are best understood as playful peculiarities. Notably because they will never have mass appeal or monetary value. But I do understand your take, and how mainstream expectations are framed. Just like your pointed hot take is an appreciated independent-minded one, Synergy is simply an independent product.
Got to give it to you for showing people the new products so they can decide beforehand if they want to go get hosed. I appreciate that of your videos. Prices are ridiculous. I am old enough to remember when the flagship release came out at a consistent $90 year after year. Didn't matter about the rookie crop in it. Now today's prices based on the #1 pick?? They're frickin everyones bone!!
i’ll buy a few boxes of this in a few years when it’s $50 a box on Dave and Adams. I’ll spend my money on other products that I like more than this one. I’m going to be patient and wait for a set that actually has all the rookies in it even if it takes a few months.
Is there any chance you could make a video on rating each product for 2023-24 and or prior years and describing which ones are worth buying and which ones to avoid?
Do you ever recommend scratching off for the bounty codes? For example, we pulled a Wayne Gretzky (base) plus some other decent players with no intentions to ever sell them..I think. Thank you. Great video
Damn those 98 starquest retros are cool. Also wierd for me because I've been pushing myself to finish my actual 98 starquest sets finally. Lol only 26 years in the making
Not an issue with the complaint. Very accurate. This product at $80 that you find some previous years at is not even close to worth it. So for twice as much lol. Those were the two most lackluster boxes I’ve ever seen.
Synergy is one of my favorite products of the year. I honestly don't get the hate, the cards are neat. People go crazy about YG acetates, and you get a similar tech card in every pack with Synergy. Not everything should be about how much you're going to sell it for.
Synergy being the way it's configured and the way the cards are won't win everyone over, it's subjective. The release day price won't win anyone over though.
I was gonna pick up a couple boxes today...Till I watched & listened to you take a dump 💩 all over it. Thank you Zeeree lol. You saved me some 300 bucks.
Zeeree spitting straight up facts. Who is complaining about him stating his opinions about certain products? The whole point of UA-cam card collectors is they suffer buying the ridiculously overpriced junk so we don't have to.
Hey it could be worse, you could be opening 2 boxes of 2012-13 Score! lol (I happen to watch some of your older Mystery Box openings from your Best Pals at Walmart and MJ Holdings) I srsly cried laughing. Best pack rips ever.
I enjoyed.openokg last years Synergy, i will buy a box or two amd aee what happens, awesome.product review amd agree $150 way too much mayne $80 it would sell bettter
a future watch card is the same card as a basic upper deck card, so cost to make is always around the same ball park, so they will drop out whatever they can cause release is where the moneys at. then stock market will carry the rest of stock. 180 is a lot of money especially if it costs 30 bucks to make a box. 20 bucks to pay staff % 40 bucks to pay off players and staff% the rest all profit for the devil.
they have serial numbers on them that allow you to enter them into the upper deck website they setup. The first 10 people to complete the checklist of bounties get a special gold paralleled base set and something else. The next 15 people get the gold set.
The fact that you don't like this product makes me love it even more. This product reminds me of metal universe, which I have always loved opening. UD Choice 98-99 was also a wonderful product so seeing the StarQuest is wonderful! It reminds me of opening cards in the 90s when there was actually good players
Why buy an overpriced product that you can’t stand, only to whine and cry all throughout the break?? You are both my favourite card breaker and the dude I find most annoying.
Often, I judge by your breaks to decide if I want to purchase a product. So I appreciate you opening hobby boxes on release day.
Love the honest comments. It's not whining by any means.
This product is far too busy for me. Scattershot inserts that have no rhyme or reason to them.
Thank you for always being honest and not doing that whole hobby positivity thing
Price point for any 23/24 product is inflated let’s start there. I completely agree that this definitely should be south of $100 per box. Having said that, some of the foily inserts this year are really good looking. Not talking about any of the paper meeting plastic stuff but the thrill rides and rookie journeys.
I personally love the Starquest design because it’s very nostalgic for me lol.
Not for $180 though..
Poitras collector here reporting from my chair in the corner 👋
We salute your dedication.
Really don’t understand the hate for Synergy. It’s literally my favorite set from hockey. Cards look so good and it feels nice to see serial numbers even if they are so plentiful. Adds to the excitement.
The numbering for the true rookies keeps changing because of the year 2017-18 rookies were numbered to 18 and with this year its numbered to 24 for 2023-24
Thank you for opening up the new products when they come out. You let us see and know how good(or in this case bad-again)they are.
I appreciate when you complain about products, I’m tired of breaker channels not voicing their opinions because Upper Deck is holding them hostage
Pretty sure the one card is backwards on purpose. The bounty scratch off code can rub off onto the second card if it is the other way around.
Fair points. For what it’s worth, I don’t think it’s contrarian to believe cards should (attempt to) break paradigms. Had you shown me, in the 1980s, Skittles cards made of translucent hard plastic, I would have fallen off my chair. Including a chase deceased Howe auto #/15. Unpopular cards serve to push the hobby. Note too that Starquest are some of the most cherished historical cards, from Collectors Choice. They were an entry for many GenX. The very fact that boxes tank in price allow casual collectors to equally enter the hobby, and not by copycatting influencers, or being told what to “value.” The periphery is a place to geek out for all the right reasons (whether it be cards, art, food, music, etc.) Ergo love or hate, niche products are niche for a reason, and are best understood as playful peculiarities. Notably because they will never have mass appeal or monetary value. But I do understand your take, and how mainstream expectations are framed. Just like your pointed hot take is an appreciated independent-minded one, Synergy is simply an independent product.
That's a rough product
Got to give it to you for showing people the new products so they can decide beforehand if they want to go get hosed. I appreciate that of your videos. Prices are ridiculous. I am old enough to remember when the flagship release came out at a consistent $90 year after year. Didn't matter about the rookie crop in it. Now today's prices based on the #1 pick?? They're frickin everyones bone!!
I do REALLY like the starquest insert as someone who opened alot of UD Choice as a kid. Pretty cool to see.
This product is a 60 dollar box in the USA in other year which means for the price point it’s a Bedard or bust!!!!!
i’ll buy a few boxes of this in a few years when it’s $50 a box on Dave and Adams. I’ll spend my money on other products that I like more than this one. I’m going to be patient and wait for a set that actually has all the rookies in it even if it takes a few months.
This should be more of an entry level product, maybe one tier above OPC, but honestly OPC might be better 😅
Opc is a million times better
Is there any chance you could make a video on rating each product for 2023-24 and or prior years and describing which ones are worth buying and which ones to avoid?
Do you ever recommend scratching off for the bounty codes? For example, we pulled a Wayne Gretzky (base) plus some other decent players with no intentions to ever sell them..I think. Thank you. Great video
It cracks me up when you say 599 is too high of numbering, but other cards to 999 are limited and "rare".
Synergy feels like a weird mashup of random stuff that didn't have a place in other sets
Damn those 98 starquest retros are cool. Also wierd for me because I've been pushing myself to finish my actual 98 starquest sets finally. Lol only 26 years in the making
All I saw was, "hold me back" and my first thought was "shartonmybacks" 😂😂
Young Guns are numbered to 125,000 per player. Synergy is great in comparison
Not an issue with the complaint. Very accurate. This product at $80 that you find some previous years at is not even close to worth it. So for twice as much lol. Those were the two most lackluster boxes I’ve ever seen.
Synergy is one of my favorite products of the year. I honestly don't get the hate, the cards are neat. People go crazy about YG acetates, and you get a similar tech card in every pack with Synergy. Not everything should be about how much you're going to sell it for.
Appreciate the real talk. Thanks for the preview!
Finally! The product has been out for 14 hours already !! 😅
Pathetic that half the UD products for 2023-24 won't have Poitras, Benson, Mintyukov, Korchinski, etc.
Thanks for the break... by my gosh this product is a flaming po-op bag...
What are the bounty codes?
Synergy being the way it's configured and the way the cards are won't win everyone over, it's subjective.
The release day price won't win anyone over though.
I was gonna pick up a couple boxes today...Till I watched & listened to you take a dump 💩 all over it. Thank you Zeeree lol. You saved me some 300 bucks.
I'm gonna show this video to my wife so she learns how to properly complain about things I do for 10 minutes straight
Lmfaoooo
almost got a box today glad I hesitated will defs wait for it to go on sale
went a little ham hoping for an auto Soroki. 5 cases and none. then the team random it gets pulled. so im done with synergy lol
Zeeree spitting straight up facts. Who is complaining about him stating his opinions about certain products? The whole point of UA-cam card collectors is they suffer buying the ridiculously overpriced junk so we don't have to.
Thank you
I’m not a Trilogy or Synergy guy. If I’m gonna buy singles of rookie sticker autos I’ll still to GU or SP retail.
yea think ill stick with my opc platinum and allure, honestly.
I pre ordered 2 boxes months back due to bedard retardation…cancelled the pre order a week after…glad I did
Hey it could be worse, you could be opening 2 boxes of 2012-13 Score! lol (I happen to watch some of your older Mystery Box openings from your Best Pals at Walmart and MJ Holdings) I srsly cried laughing. Best pack rips ever.
Solid Kaprizov
Mat savoie is my teachers son same with Carter for the oilers
Panini raises you their Illusions set to UD's Synergy.
I enjoyed.openokg last years Synergy, i will buy a box or two amd aee what happens, awesome.product review amd agree $150 way too much mayne $80 it would sell bettter
a future watch card is the same card as a basic upper deck card, so cost to make is always around the same ball park, so they will drop out whatever they can cause release is where the moneys at. then stock market will carry the rest of stock. 180 is a lot of money especially if it costs 30 bucks to make a box. 20 bucks to pay staff % 40 bucks to pay off players and staff% the rest all profit for the devil.
lol mark messier is doing pretty good this season!
Wtf I bought two boxes and literally didn’t get an auto or tech card or lower numbers card…
180 for a box of synergy?!! i don't care if you're guaranteed a bedard, that is absolutely broken
Whine all you want. People who complain can find tons of boring openers to watch instead
Spoiler blocker
4:45 Starquest cards from 1998-99 were crap, at least do the 97-98, if redoing something from the 90's take the original design.
The 1998-99 ones are far more popular than the 1997-98 cards.
Keep breaking stuff so I know what to buy and what not to buy 😂
One starquest green box hit. I remember pulling green starquests from UD Choice many many moons ago from like every other pack atleast. What a ripoff.
My step son got a box and almost every card in the box had a slight bend to them. Kinda crapoy design I thought
I watched. I don’t like either. I’m subscribed. Thanks for taking one for the team.
Let’s go
ZEEREE!!
This product is nice
I do like the look of the base cards in this but like all the products nowadays what 3rd grader is coming up with these insert themes
Yikes
ill waut till its on clearance
What's a bounty? I've heard of people pulling them don't understand what it means
they have serial numbers on them that allow you to enter them into the upper deck website they setup. The first 10 people to complete the checklist of bounties get a special gold paralleled base set and something else. The next 15 people get the gold set.
Scratch back and go to upperdeck
Earllllly
My LCS is $149 CDN
Nice
Wow....junk. Saw breakers having to discount multiple times to sell any teams.
I've said it a million times at this point but Synergy is screaming to be a retail product. It makes 0 sense in the hobby format.
Agreed. Collectors don't care about the overly convoluted checklist, and people who rely on retail products appreciate variety. It's a win-win.
The fact that you don't like this product makes me love it even more. This product reminds me of metal universe, which I have always loved opening. UD Choice 98-99 was also a wonderful product so seeing the StarQuest is wonderful! It reminds me of opening cards in the 90s when there was actually good players
Your uncle definitely not included in that list
I always get suckered in when the product going on clearance and am always disappointed. I am with you, scrap it. Bring back Masterpieces or Contours
This stuff is just hot garbage.
With glitter thrown at it.
Yeah I agree. I watched gp sports cards first case break and he didn't get anything good. Not even a Bedard. No thanks.
Terrible product
kirill is being abducted by aliens
I like the set but I know I’m an outlier lol.
looks like hot garbage
Possibly my least favorite product UD releases. I've never gotten a decent hit out if it.
Ww
Yuck!! Another bad product.
Case of opc
You`d think since your collecting cards for so long you`d understand wht there as so many parralells.
total poop
Synergy is gross.
Hostile
This is almost the same price as trilogy…buy trilogy
frick my bum its 23-24 synergy
Synergy has NEVER been worth the money. Real shame products like Fleer Showcase got the boot for shameless money grabs like this.
Man quality control on this set is terrible. So many of my cards has hella dinged corners. So shit
180 for Synergy?!?!?! GTFOH
only passing checking on clickbait stuff
Whole lotta trash thanks for sharing before I bought any
Ninth
Open my packages please!!!!
This seems worse than last year
This set is such hot garbage. There should be a lot 2 autos per box.
Why buy an overpriced product that you can’t stand, only to whine and cry all throughout the break?? You are both my favourite card breaker and the dude I find most annoying.
Watch the recap of the vid
TERRIBLE product, yikes!