Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2018 Black Friday Promotion (Gallery)
It’s been called the most successful hobby shop promotion of all time by longtime industry experts. It’s made hobby shops across North America bona fide post-Thanksgiving retail destinations. It’s delivered some of the most unique and sought after trading cards in recent years. And next week it’s making its triumphant return. News flash: Panini America’s 2018 Black Friday promotion is coming. For…
Jumping in the Sheets with Panini America’s Upcoming 2018 Obsidian Football (Gallery)
We first pulled the curtain back on a new creation dubbed "Obsidian Football" back in September, initially quoting the product's sales solicitation material that characterized the innovative new release as “an eruption of sharp, edgy and contemporary designs” utilizing something Panini America Product Developers and Production folks called "Electric Etch." But it's hard to ascertain how all of that translates…
Instant Impact: Appreciating the Impressive Exploits of the 2018 NFL Rookie Class
Through the first half of the 2018 NFL season, the rookie class has been flying high, something not seen in generations. Just like the 1983 group, arguably the greatest draft class ever, this year’s bunch has taken the league by storm, proving that skill can overcome inexperience. “I would say the hype coming in with this class was high, and…
Silver Sensations: Rookie Prizms Making a Major Splash in 2018 Prizm Football
Taking a cue from their basketball brethren, Panini America NFL Product Developers made a slight adjustment to the company's popular Panini Football franchise for 2018. After the feeding frenzy that ensued when 2017-18 Prizm Basketball made the base Silver Prizms just a little more difficult to pull, it made sense to attempt something similar in football "to try to capture…
Panini America Delivers Detailed First Look at 2018 Contenders Football (Preview)
In late December, Panini America's iconic Contenders Football product arrives for the 2018 season equipped with all of the bells and whistles diehard collectors have come to expect from one of the most popular releases in modern collecting history. But even a product as tenured as Contenders can still benefit from a few tweaks now and then -- especially when…
Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2018 Donruss Optic Football (Preview)
It's the fusion that keeps on delivering: Panini America's venerable Donruss Football brand and the still-stunning special effects provided by Optichrome technology. Put them together and you get Donruss Optic Football, a relatively new addition to the Panini America brand family that has wasted no time in becoming one of the company's most popular products. And in mid-December, the stacked…
Panini America Offers Detailed First Look at 2018 Playbook Football (Preview Gallery)
As a guy who gets paid to love all of Panini America's products equally, I probably shouldn't admit that there's one product I love above all others. But I'm going to admit it anyway. Playbook Football. There. I said it. Playbook Football is my favorite Panini America product. So you can imagine my dismay when the product took last season…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2018 Prizm Football (100+ Must-See Pics)
The release of Panini America's Prizm Football brings with it an every-year phenomenon; a pursuit-filled frenzy during which team and player collectors alike make a mad dash to complete the rainbow array of Prizm parallels permeating each new Prizm Football release. We say all of that to say this: 2018 Prizm Football arrives in hobby shops across North America on Wednesday…
Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2018 Playoff Football (Preview Gallery)
Bolstered by sneak-peek cameo appearances from two headline-generating family members (2018 Contenders Football and 2018 Donruss Optic Football), Panini America's November-releasing 2018 Playoff Football product is set to appeal to a wide-ranging, far-reaching collector base with a varied and diverse content mix featuring star veterans, hot rookies and all-time greats. In addition to the aforementioned and rare Contenders Rookie Ticket Preview…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2018 Phoenix Football (100+ Sweet Pics)
Panini America's colorful 2018 Phoenix Football arrives in hobby shops and on group-break sites across North America tomorrow packed with a potent content mix featuring, on average, two autographs and one memorabilia card in each hobby box (five cards per pack, 12 packs per box, eight boxes per inner case, two inner cases per master case). One pack per box…