This Week's Releases: Star Wars Masterwork Lands, Signature Class Football and Platinum Anniversary Baseball

It's a properly stacked week on the release calendar, and there's something here for just about everyone. We've got the flagship high-end Star Wars product landing midweek, wrestling fans finally getting their shot at one of the hobby's fastest-rising sets, a couple of baseball products that'll dominate the breaking tables, a fresh UFC chrome refresh, and Ligue 1 making its debut in Select. Here's everything dropping and what we're keeping an eye on.

Wednesday

2025 Topps Star Wars Masterwork

The big one for the entertainment crowd. Masterwork is the flagship high-end Star Wars trading card product — the definitive premium release for the franchise — and this year marks its 10th anniversary. It's built on a 100-card base set covering key characters from across the films and the Disney+ series. This is a hits-driven product, with each master box delivering two autographs guaranteed across its four mini boxes.

Those autographs are the headline. The on-card signature checklist runs to nearly 100 Hollywood actors from right across the Star Wars universe, with returning heavyweights like Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Ewan McGregor and Samuel L. Jackson joined by some exciting first-time signers including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lucy Liu and Alison Brie. Beyond the singles, there are Duo, Triple and Quad autographs to chase, plus rare wood and metal-framed parallels.

The other Masterwork trademark is the sketch cards — hand-drawn original artwork from a roster of more than 200 artists, and long among the most sought-after pulls anywhere in the Topps Star Wars landscape. Each one is genuinely one-of-a-kind. And the chase everyone's talking about this year is the BB-8 metal cards: following the tradition started by C-3PO and R2-D2, the droid insert gets the premium metal-stock treatment with low numbering, including ultra-rare coloured metal parallels hand-numbered to 5. There's a more common paper version in the mix too, but it's those metal BB-8s that stand out as one of the most visually distinct and desirable pulls in the whole product. Round it out with the Return of the Jedi film cel 1/1 relics and themed inserts like Fall of the Chosen One and Short Circuit, and you've got a properly loaded high-end break.

Thursday

2026 Topps Cosmic Chrome WWE

Cosmic Chrome is still a relatively new name in the hobby, but it's wasted no time becoming a genuine collector favourite. The concept started in baseball back in 2022, moved into basketball and football, and now it's wrestling's turn to get that out-of-this-world treatment. The base set runs to 200 cards with the signature space-themed design — illustrated stars, planets and shapes scattered across the background — and there's a deep slate of inserts to go at including Galaxy Greats, Galactic Showdown, Light Years, Cosmic Dust, Hyper Nova and Geocentric.

The big draw, though, is Planetary Pursuit. It's become one of the most recognisable ideas under the Cosmic Chrome umbrella, and it's brilliantly suited to a master-set chase: each featured wrestler has 10 different versions to track down, starting with the easy-to-pull Sun and working outward through Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and finally a properly scarce Pluto. The further from the sun you go, the harder they get — so some collectors will happily stop at the attainable versions while others chase a full solar system for their favourite superstar. On top of all that, there are four autograph sets featuring on-card signatures from some of the biggest names in WWE, plus a colourful run of numbered Refractor parallels. If you're a wrestling fan who's been watching Cosmic Chrome from the sidelines, this is your moment to jump in.

Friday

A bumper Friday with four products landing, so let's work through them.

2025 Topps Signature Class Football

This one's for the autograph hunters. Now backed by the full NFL licence after its earlier unlicensed run, Signature Class is built around a 250-card base set — 150 of those rookies, in both paper and chrome, with a full rainbow of parallels. Boxes deliver multiple autographs on average, and the signing checklist is genuinely loaded: rookies like Travis Hunter, Shedeur Sanders, Ashton Jeanty and Jaxson Dart sit alongside stars like Josh Allen and Joe Burrow and all-time greats including Tom Brady, Randy Moss and Roger Staubach. The autograph formats run deep too, from Chrome and Crystal Clear right up to rare Dual and Triple Autographs.

But it's not all about the signatures — the inserts are where this product really shows off. The short-printed FLUIDITY returns as a slick acetate insert, and the new floral-themed ROSES has the player front and centre with roses in their team colours and a lovely fading-colour background. Both are the cards collectors will be chasing hardest once boxes hit the tables. Dig deeper and you'll find tougher super short prints like Leviathans, Monarchs of the Game and Odyssey, plus a fun new airline-themed concept in First Class, styled like a plane ticket to mark a player's league debut.

2025 Topps Chrome Platinum Anniversary Baseball

A lovely nod to hobby history here. After skipping a year, Chrome Platinum returns to mark the 70th platinum anniversary of the classic 1955 Topps design, reimagined on premium chrome stock. The base set is a hefty 500 cards spanning current stars, rising rookies and retired greats, and the rainbow chase is one of the most extensive going — a stack of patterned and coloured Refractors including new Vibrations parallels and the /10 Black. Every hobby box carries one hard-signed, on-card autograph using that iconic horizontal 1955 layout, with a checklist that runs from Roki Sasaki and Dylan Crews to Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge and Ken Griffey Jr.

My Favourite concept is the Cards That Never Were — a creative, collector-first set imagining 1955 cards for stars who, because of the era's exclusive Topps and Bowman signing battles, never actually appeared in that original set. It's exactly the kind of thoughtful idea that taps into the nostalgia this hobby runs on. Alongside it you'll find more '55-themed inserts: a 1955 World Series tribute to the Dodgers' seven-game win over the Yankees, the returning Double Headers, Rails And Sails, and the case-hit City Variations that flip the background to a player's home city.

2026 Topps Chrome Sapphire UFC

Sapphire takes the 200-card flagship Topps Chrome UFC set and gives it that signature crystal-style, jewel-toned finish — the full base set washed in blue, with serial-numbered parallels like Gold Sapphire (/50) adding the colour. The approach is refreshingly clean: none of the flagship inserts carry over, so instead of generic filler you get just two Sapphire exclusives to chase, both back for another year in Sapphire Selections (the short print) and the case-hit Infinite Sapphire.

It's not short on signatures either. The autograph line-up runs through Marks of Champions, Octagon Legends, Chrome Lineage, Future Stars and a neat 1986 Topps Autographs concept that borrows the design from the 40-year-old baseball set, with names like Tom Aspinall and Zhang Weili in the mix. For collectors who love the Sapphire look — and plenty do — this is a focused, no-nonsense product that lets those parallels do the talking.

2025-26 Panini Select Ligue 1 Soccer

Rounding out the week, Panini brings French football into the Select fold for the very first time. It's built on Select's trademark tiered structure — a 250-card base set split across three increasingly scarce levels, from the common Terrace Level up through Mezzanine and Field Level, each with its own design and the same parallel rainbow running across all 250 cards. H2 boxes deliver a combined two autographs or memorabilia cards apiece, plus a busy run of inserts and parallels to keep the break lively.

The chase list is a treat for the soccer crowd. League legends feature heavily — none bigger than George Weah — and the insert line-up mixes proven Select staples like Equalisers, Select Future, Unstoppable and Snapshots with four super-rare, case-level concepts in Stained Glass, Artistic Impressions, Visionary and Team Badges. A welcome addition to the Select family and an easy one to keep an eye on.

That's your lot for the week. From the high-end Star Wars Masterwork break midweek to four products landing on Friday alone, there's plenty to keep the breaks busy — whether you're chasing metal BB-8s, Signature Class autos, Sapphire parallels, or finally getting stuck into Cosmic Chrome WWE. As always, we'll be ripping plenty of it live — so come and join us.