Hot Off the Presses: Panini America Readies Commemorative Super Bowl XLVIII Sets
In the wee hours of Monday morning, not long after the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks punched their respective tickets to Super Bowl XLVIII, a new game began for Panini America officials. This one featured just as good a game plan, just as much teamwork and just as much timely execution as the AFC and NFC Conference Championship Games from…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Opens First Box of 2012-13 Select Basketball
Teasing Tuesday continues here on The Knight's Lance as we follow our 2012 Playbook Football Teaser Gallery from earlier this morning with another first-box peek, this time showcasing one randomly early box of the highly anticipated 2012-13 Select Basketball product. If 2012-13 Prizm Basketball ignited the fire for Panini America's wildly popular Prizm technology, the preliminary buzz on Select has continued…
iCollectPanini.com Delivers Extraordinary Super Bowl XLVII Online Promotion
While teams, fans and media are busy descending upon New Orleans for what's sure to be an epic game, officials at Panini America have cleverly designed what can only be described as the Super Bowl of trading card promotions. For a limited time only and while supplies last, customers who purchase one box of NFL product (hobby or retail) at…
Go Card-by-Card with Panini America's 2012 USA Baseball National Teams Box Set
It's flown largely under the radar in recent weeks, overshadowed by the likes of Panini America's 2012 Black Friday promotion, the upcoming 2012-13 Prizm Basketball release and the live-today 2012-13 Totally Certified Basketball. All the while, Panini America officials have been diligently putting the finishing touches on another standout product that goes live today: The 2012 USA Baseball National Teams…
And the Nominees Are . . . Voting Begins for the Week 16 Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week
Want to know who gets more excited than Panini America and NFL collectors about NFL Rookie performances each week during the season? Pepsi with its NFL Rookie of the Week initiative. So it comes as no surprise after months of behind-the-scenes work that Panini America and Pepsi would come together to help promote Pepsi Rookie of the Week voting and Panini America NFL Rookie trading cards. The payoff for collectors…
Panini Peek Preview Gallery: 2011 Donruss Rated Rookies Football Boxed Set
Panini America made a splash with budget-minded football collectors last season with the celebrated launch of the 2010 Donruss Rated Rookies Football Box Set. Last year's debut boasted a highly collectible recipe steeped in splendid, value-delivered simplicity. The good news: It's returning in 2011 boasting the same bang-in-a-box brilliance but with 100 new NFL rookies and one rookie autograph in every box. (more…)
Championship Gallery: Panini America’s Commemorative Dallas Mavericks Box Set
Just when euphoric Dallas Mavericks fans thought the never-ending nirvana following the team's historic first NBA title was finally winding down, Panini America presents 36 more reasons to celebrate with this revealing sneak peek at every card in the upcoming championship box set. As you'll see in the images that follow, this splendid tribute to Dallas' gritty triumph over LeBron James, Dwyane Wade…
Panini America Honors the NBA Champion Dallas Mavericks with Special Boxed Set
Much like the hometown Dallas Mavericks just days ago, Panini America has done the unthinkable: The company has managed to cram all the excitement, drama, pageantry and history of the Mavericks' stirring NBA Finals victory over the Miami Heat into one extremely collectible little box. And if the Mavs taught NBA fans and collectors anything during the 2010-11 NBA Playoffs, it's what's on…
Panini Peek: 2010-11 All-Goalies
I originally wrote this last Friday while introducing the Leather Larceny insert slated for the upcoming 2010-11 Playoff Contenders Hockey release. But based on recent developments, it bears repeating now: "The magical, mysterious masked mystique of hockey’s goalie easily makes the position one of the most collected in all of sports. Indeed, there’s an undeniable allure to the NHL’s top netminders that always has translated so beautifully…
Panini Peek Preview Gallery: 2010-11 Score Rookies & Traded Hockey Boxed Set
Few can argue the fact that 2010-11 Score Hockey was, pound-for-pound, one of the most value-driven products released during Panini America's history-making first season in the NHL. The product delivered a fitting tribute to the brand's proud history as a means of celebrating the landmark 20th anniversary of the fabled 1990-91 Score Hockey release. As it turns out, that party's not over just…