The Panini Unwrapped Double Feature: 2011 Certified Football & 2011-12 Certified Hockey
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITuAnv-opQI&w=585&h=327] As if you needed another reason why 2011 Certified Football and 2011-12 Certified Hockey releasing on the same day this week is a good thing, we present this little nugget: The first-ever Panini Unwrapped episode featuring two products. That's right, in this history-making piece of videography (which benefited immeasurably from the deft touch of Tom "The Ripper" Key), watch as…
Base-Card Conundrum: For 2011-12 Certified Hockey, Derek Stepan Has Just Totally Silver
High-volume case breakers of the new 2011-12 Certified Hockey product no doubt already know: There is but one version of the Derek Stepan base card in the set -- and it's the Totally Silver parallel version that was supposed to be found only in hot boxes. Chalk it up to a production error. So where as the other 149 cards…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2011-12 Certified Hockey (46 New Images)
Things are certifaibly nuts around Panini America headquarters to start the week. Such is the case when both 2011 Certified Football and 2011-12 Certified Hockey are going out the door on the same day. (There's also our exciting announcement from earlier today that we'll be doing 2011 Totally Certified Football in late January.) We brought you the Quality Control Gallery for Certified Football…
Panini Peek: 2011 Totally Certified Football
As football collectors around the country anxiously await the arrival of 2011 Certified Football to the market, officials inside Panini America headquarters already are hard at work preparing for the January release of its technology enhanced counterpart, 2011 Totally Certified Football. That's right, the pioneering brand that introduced the basketball world to Panini America's revolutionary Panini HRX video trading cards and a stunning new…
Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2011 Certified Football (36 Must-See Images)
2011 Certified Football -- the perennial collector favorite that starts shipping Monday -- has received a steady dose of quality control triple-coverage this week as Panini America NFL brand managers Ben Ecklar, Carlos Torrez and Aik Tongtharadol have spent the last two days ensuring that everything is falling as it should. But judging from the hits I've seen (profiled below in all of their gallery glory), not even…
Material Bliss: A Sneak Peek at the Must-See Memorabilia in 2011 Certified Football
Yesterday we showed you some of the sweet multi-piece memorabilia and autographed Freshman Fabric cards set to dazzle the mid-November release of 2011 Certified Football. Today, we present a telling ensemble of the set's sartorially splendid memorabilia cards. No autographs this time, just some of the most drool-inducing prime memorabilia cards of the season honoring the hottest rookies, the biggest current…
Insert Inspection: 2011-12 Limited Hockey Brothers in Arms & Retired Numbers
The Panini America team returns from the corporate homeland of Modena, Italy, on Monday. And when we arrive back in the office on Tuesday, you can bet we'll have tons of images and updates from our quality time spent in Modena, Venice and Milan. So just to buy us just a little more time until then (while also providing a…
Drool Gallery: The Early On-Card Autograph Arrivals for 2011-12 Certified Hockey
It seems like just yesterday that we were closing the book on Panini America's historic first season in the NHL with the release of 2010-11 Dominion Hockey. But in another sure sign that the hockey trading card season never truly ends, know this: In the span of the next month or so, we'll have released our first two products of the 2011-12…
Panini Peek: 2011-12 Limited Hockey
Pardon the mixed metaphor here, but it's safe to say that 2011-12 Limited Hockey will pack quite a wallop batting cleanup in the 2011-12 Panini America hockey lineup. To be sure, the higher-end offering will deliver some unique new twists (including pieces of game-used hockey pucks and nets) when it releases December 14. Each box will deliver three autograph or memorabilia…
Panini Peek Gallery: 2011 Limited Football
When 2011 Limited Football releases to the collecting public in late November, it will do so sporting a bevy of new bells and whistles designed to strengthen one of the hobby's most important higher-end releases. Foremost among the product's improvements are a Material Phenoms Rookie Card subset that truly lives up to its name, Panini America's most extensive and star-studded lineup of Draft Day-worn hats and jerseys…