iCollectPanini.com to Deliver Excitement of NFL Experience, NHL All-Star Game Online
Can't make it to Ottawa, Canada, or Indianapolis this weekend for the 2012 NHL All-Star Game or the kickoff of the Super Bowl XLVI NFL Experience, respectively? Don't fret, iCollectPanini.com has you covered. Beginning today, visitors to the official online store of Panini America will find several specials designed to deliver all the excitement of our unique show experience to…
Panini America Reveals Grand Show Plans for the Super Bowl XLVI NFL Experience
Beginning Friday inside the Indiana Convention Center, the spectacle known as the 2oth NFL Experience will kickoff nine straight days of participatory games, displays, entertainment attractions, kids' football clinics, free autograph sessions and the largest football memorabilia show ever in conjunction with Super Bowl XLVI. As in past seasons, those last two events -- the free autographs and the memorabilia show…
The Panini America QC Gallery: 2011 Plates & Patches Football (39 Must-See Images)
A week from now, Super Bowl XLVI combatants from the New England Patriots and New York Giants will have long since landed in Indianapolis, gone through the rigors of Super Bowl Media Day and will be well on their way to finalizing preparations for the big game itself. Meanwhile, passionate collectors of those two teams -- and every other team…
Rare Hits Highlight Panini America’s 2012 NHL All-Star Wrapper Redemption Set
Yesterday, right here on The Knight's Lance, we began pulling the curtain back on our exhaustive plans for this week's 2012 NHL All-Star Fan Fair wrapper-redemption program in conjunction with the 2012 NHL All-Star Game in Ottawa. But as you're about to discover, that was just the tip of the iceberg. For in addition to the attractive design and impressive…
Panini America, Cloutsnchara.com Team Up for Special 2012 NHL All-Star Group Break
Panini America is teaming up with Kitchener, Ontario-based Cloutsnchara.com, one of the preeminent group-break destinations on the web, for a literal Limited engagement in conjunction with this weekend's 2012 NHL All-Star Game in Ottawa. Live on location Friday night, the two hockey hobby powerhouses will join forces for a special group break featuring two cases of the new 2011-12 Limited…
Panini America Peeks Wrapper-Redemption Plans for the 2012 NHL All-Star Game
Later this week in frigid Ottawa, Panini America will begin heating things up during the 2012 NHL All-Star Fan Fair with another of its show-stealing wrapper-redemption programs. The company has engineered a fully loaded show-exclusive set for NHL All-Star fans and collectors, complete with rare autograph and memorabilia versions and special All-Star patch cards sure to keep wrappers ripping from…
Bears Star Matt Forte Shines During Special Panini America Event at Learning Express
Chicago-based freelance writer Dan Campana was on location Sunday to cover the special special Panini America appearance by Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte at the Learning Express Toys store in Glyn Ellen, Ill. By Dan Campana Charlie Peterson had plenty of reasons to smile Sunday. (more…)
Panini America Previews the 2012 AstroTurf NFLPA Collegiate Bowl “Player-Only” Set
This afternoon inside the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles, 100 of college football's top draft-eligible juniors and seniors will take the field for the premiere AstroTurf NFLPA Collegiate Bowl. But it's likely that the real highlight for most players -- including University of Miami quarterback Jacory Harris and LSU quarterback Jarrett Lee -- will arrive before the game even kicks…
Panini Peek Preview & Gallery: 2011 Playoff Contenders Baseball (9 Must-See Images)
As baseball prospectors across the country continue enjoying the plentifully inked fruit of Panini America's first MLBPA-licensed product (2011 Donruss Elite Extra Edition Baseball), company officials are hard at work readying the highly anticipated second release, 2011 Playoff Contenders Baseball. Due out February 22, the newest incarnation of the longstanding hobby favorite will deliver -- like EEE -- six autographs…
Golden Glimpse: Your First Look at 2010-11 Totally Certified Basketball’s Gold HRX 1/1s
It occurred to us here at The Knight's Lance recently that in our haste to bring you all of the exciting developments surrounding the upcoming Panini America NBA releases, we may have forgotten to share with you the gilded greatness of the pioneering HRX Gold 1/1 autographed video trading cards from the 2010-11 Totally Certified Basketball. Well, this morning we aim…