Drafted: Panini America Peeks Checklist for 2019 Select Football XRCs, Mystery Autos
Now that the headline-generating, splendidly different 2020 NFL Draft is in the rearview, most football collectors are turning their attention to the many collectible properties in Panini America’s rookie-laden products ahead. But a “select” few collectors are going back in time a few months to a product from last year — 2019 Select Football — to see how their 2019 Select Football XRC Redemptions and XRC Mystery Autograph Redemptions turned…
The Short Report: Panini America Reveals SPs and SSPs in 2019 Contenders Football (Part 2)
Panini America’s ballyhooed 2019 Contenders Football arrived in hobby shops across North America earlier this month to a ready-and-waiting collector base that has spent the better part of January in a wrapper-ripping, Rookie Ticket-revealing frenzy. That’s certain to continue in the weeks ahead as the many Contenders completists work on building their sets, with one eye always on the set’s various variations and short…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2019-20 Revolution Basketball (90+ Pics)
You say you want a Revolution? Well, one is on the way. In fact, it'll be here Friday. That's when Panini America's popular and paralleled Revolution Basketball arrives for the new season boasting myriad ways -- at least on the surface -- to collect your favorite NBA stars and rookies. It's a flashy, chase-worthy recipe (featuring rare-but-hard-signed autographs) that has…
Clearly . . . Scarce: Panini America Provides Details on Unannounced Clear Mosaic Tickets in 2019 Contenders Football
In the days since Panini America released 2019 Contenders Football last Friday, market speculation on the unannounced-but-on-the-checklist 2019 Contenders Football Clear Mosaic Tickets has been that they're pretty tough to come by. Exactly how tough, however, has been something of a mystery. Less than 10? Less than five? Less than two? Well, in a word, "yes." As it turns out,…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2019 Donruss Optic Football
When the venerable, flagship Donruss Football received a fanciful, forceful Optichrome facelift and a late-season release window in 2016, it unofficially signaled the arrival of a new must-have staple for many collectors. Indeed, a new product was born -- and the resulting Donruss Optic Football delivered a Prizm-powered extension of the early season standard Donruss Football release with a fresh…
Panini America Unveils Checklists for 2019 Black Friday Promotion Sets
Here we are, just a few days from the biggest shopping day of the year and signs of Black Friday are all around us — on television commercials, website banner ads, radio spots, print ads and seemingly everywhere else that might attract a set of eyeballs, a set of ears or a flurry of mouse-button clicks. But nowhere are the signs of…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2019 Impeccable Football
The weather is about to turn colder in the coming weeks (if it hasn't already where you are), but there's a hobby heatwave set to arrive on Friday that's sure to fan the flames of football-collecting pursuits nationwide. Panini America's 2019 Impeccable Football arrives on Friday -- and it's bringing some of the young NFL season's nicest cards to date.…
In a Home Run Derby for the Ages, Guerrero Jr., Alonso the Biggest Hitters
In a Home Run Derby for the ages last night, young sluggers Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Pete Alonso put on one of the greatest displays of pure power in the event's storied history. In the end, records were broken, money was raised for great causes and the two young stars provided the game of baseball with a Herculean buzz that's…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2019 Score Football (90+ Must-See Pics)
Panini America's 30th Anniversary edition of 2019 Score Football arrives in hobby shops across North America on Wednesday boasting jumbo packs (40 cards) and, perhaps more importantly, jumbo potential. The first NFL Rookie Cards of the 2019 season will drive intense interest in the product, but the milestone edition also includes original BuyBacks of landmark Score cards from the past…
The Short Report: Panini America Reveals SPs and SSPs in 2018 Contenders Optic Football (Part 2)
Now that Panini America’s popular 2018 Contenders Optic Football has enjoyed the luxury of a few weeks on the secondary market, company Product Development officials last week started sharing details surrounding the set’s autograph Short Prints and Super Short Prints. You can check out last week's Part One right here. Today, we're concluding the festivities with Part Two. Autograph SPs are limited…