SOLD! To the man in the Mickey Mouse hat!

"Michael Eisner: Topps shareholders just accepted your takeover offer of $9.75/share. What are you going to do next?"

"I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!!!!!"

Reax from around The Hobby:

The Cardboard Junkie

Sports Collector's Daily

The Brill Report

UD just won't take "no" for an answer.

Looks like Upper Deck really, really, wants to acquire Topps. One month after being turned down, UD has, again, offered to buy out Topps for $425 million. (Props to Beckett for breaking this.) That's about $40 million more than what Michael Eisner and his partners at Tornante offered in March.

Stay tuned folks, this is getting interesting.

The End of an Era.

It's official. The Shorin dynasty is about to come to an end. Topps has agreed to be purchased by a group headed by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Asking price: $385 million.

Sports Collector's Daily is all over it, as are Beckett and ESPN.