The Corner Penthouse

Last year, I wrote about The Fairfield Company's wrestling mystery boxes. I haven't seen those $4.99 Eraseez/Teenymates/Cards boxes in any Target since then, but just recently I found a new Fairfield mystery box. This new one is for The Walking Dead, and is priced at $14.99 - three times as much as the wrestling box - and contains 4 dog tag packs, 2 Tokenz packs, 4 trading card packs, and 1 Chibis pack. Let's break one of these boxes open and see what's inside...


The only thing visible through the box window are the Topps Season 7 card packs, so let's start with those. I had previously bought a few of these in $19.99 blaster boxes, which contained 10 packs plus one separately-sealed relic card. Aside from the relic, there was nothing special in those packs, so they all ended up on eBay. You'll notice in the photo at the top of this post that the Fairfield box tells you to "look for randomly inserted autograph & memorabilia cards". You should look elsewhere because I can guarantee that you won't find any of that here. The four packs contained in this mystery box were all pulled from those same Target-exclusive blaster boxes. As such, they were all junk I already passed on. Even worse, with just four packs there were 3 duplicates! Anyway, here's what was in these four packs:

BASE SET
01. About What Happened
02. Brave
13. Copycat
15. It's A Trap
15. It's A Trap (duplicate)
20. Lucille
25. Back To His Cell
29. Hilltop Heroes
29. Hilltop Heroes (duplicate)
42. Today and Only Today
42. Today and Only Today (duplicate)
50. Reunited
58. New Best Friends
60. Up Up Up
64. Dr. Smartypants

RUST PARALLEL
07. Learning Opportunity
53. Most of the Truth
59. Gabriel Makes a Deal
63. Merciful Lies

RIVALRIES
R-1. Rick Grimes & Negan
R-4. Negan & Spencer

IN-MEMORIAM (TARGET EXCLUSIVE)
M-7. Isabelle

CHARACTER CARDS
C-4 Glenn

WALKERS
W-7. Walker


There's one Chibis pack (Series 1), so let's look at that next. Manufactured by Bulls-i-Toy (a division of Excell Marketing, same parent company as Fairfield, the makers of these repack boxes), the Chibis are tiny little stylized figures, and the pack is guaranteed to contain one character, one walker, and one translucent walker figure. I got Hershel (with amputated leg), Guy Walker #5, and Translucent Girl Walker #6. I already own the two sealed Chibi tins - Daryl and Rick - each with eight variant figures, so I had no interest in these three randoms.


Next up are the four packs of Season 5 Dog Tags, also by Bulls-i-Toy. Each pack contains one tag, one walker sticker, one key ring, one d-ring/carabiner, and one checklist. The stickers are really nothing special (I have no interest in "generic" walkers), though one was lenticular. I guess that's "special". The lenticular is sticker #1, the rest are #6, #17, and #20.


The dog tags are the key item here, and I got a nice bunch: #2 Daryl (Foil variant), #6 Carol, #35 Walker 11, and Season 6 Teaser subset #4 Rick (Foil variant). I'm definitely keeping the three humans. The walker tag and the stickers will go up on eBay.


Finally, there are two Tokenz packs by - you guessed it - Bulls-i-Toy. Each pack contains 4 of those Poker Chip-like "tokenz"; three regular and one "Virtual Reality". The two packs gave me the following:

#7 - Merle Dixon
#8 - Michonne
#27 - The Governor's Heads
#29 - Walker 1
#32 - Walker 4 (undead Merle)
#40 - Walker 12
#VR4 - Riot Gear Walker (Virtual Reality Walker)
#VR6 - Well Walker (Virtual Reality Walker)

Yeah, other than the Topps cards, everything in this box was produced by Fairfield/Excell. I think it's safe to say that it's all stuff that they couldn't sell over the past few years. You'll notice in the photo at the top of this post that the Fairfield outer box proclaims, "Over 40 Combined Items Inside!" Yeah, if you count every individual item, and every single trading card, there are over 40 items in the box, but that's a rather misleading claim. If you go by the number of "packs" inside, your count will only reach 11.

At $14.99, this mystery box is far more expensive than the wrestling box last year, and I don't really think it's worth it. The card packs are a joke, as they came from blaster boxes that are guaranteed to contain nothing special. Trust me, I bought enough of those boxes (both Walking Dead and WWE) to know that even the separately-sealed relic card inside isn't worth the $20 those boxes cost. You can usually find those relic cards for $6 each on eBay. The rest of the stuff in the box is nice, but other than the human dog tags, I put all of the stuff for sale on eBay in various lots. The Tokenz are being listed with an empty display box containing a Hershel chip. Suffice it to say, unless there was some sort of significant price drop, I won't be buying another one of these Walking Dead mystery boxes.