Nov 2, 2026 · 11 min · 9 segments
Patrick Stewart died this week, and at 4 PM ET on Oct 29 the Star Trek Collector Booster Display sold 288 boxes in an hour on TCGPlayer, wiping out three days of markdowns. Star Trek took 45.9% of a…
At 4pm Eastern on October 29th, buying broke across every Star Trek product on TCGPlayer at the same time.
By the end of the day, it was 567 boxes, about $287,000 across 397 separate sales.
And none of them was bigger than 10 boxes.
So you're not looking at one whale clearing a shelf.
You're looking at a few hundred people making the same decision on the same afternoon.
For the three days before that, sellers had been marking the Star Trek Collector booster display down.
The median asking price went from about $546 to about $503, while the shelf grew to 653 boxes.
The October 29th rush cleared the whole cheap layer.
The next day, the cheapest Star Trek Collector booster display on TCG Player was $573, and the gaming company, which had 167 boxes sitting at 484, moved every one of them to $585.
So the news undid the markdown.
Asking prices ended above where they started the week, but still under the roughly 605 the box was averaged two weeks ago.
So this isn't a new high, and the week's average sale actually came down about 7% at $526, because the cheap boxers are the ones that sold.
My guess, it's some mix of collectors buying into the one product that carries his signed Picard card, and stores pulling their cheapest listings the moment they saw the floor move.
Sales data can't tell you which.
Either way, if you're waiting for a $480 Star Trek collector booster display, that box is gone.
At 4pm Eastern on October 29th, buying broke across every Star Trek product on TCGPlayer at the same time.
By the end of the day, it was 567 boxes, about $287,000 across 397 separate sales.
And none of them was bigger than 10 boxes.
So you're not looking at one whale clearing a shelf.
You're looking at a few hundred people making the same decision on the same afternoon.
For the three days before that, sellers had been marking the Star Trek Collector booster display down.
The median asking price went from about $546 to about $503, while the shelf grew to 653 boxes.
The October 29th rush cleared the whole cheap layer.
The next day, the cheapest Star Trek Collector booster display on TCG Player was $573, and the gaming company, which had 167 boxes sitting at 484, moved every one of them to $585.
So the news undid the markdown.
Asking prices ended above where they started the week, but still under the roughly 605 the box was averaged two weeks ago.
So this isn't a new high, and the week's average sale actually came down about 7% at $526, because the cheap boxers are the ones that sold.
My guess, it's some mix of collectors buying into the one product that carries his signed Picard card, and stores pulling their cheapest listings the moment they saw the floor move.
Sales data can't tell you which.
Either way, if you're waiting for a $480 Star Trek collector booster display, that box is gone.
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