Teaser Gallery: Panini America Cracks Two Boxes of 2015-16 Prizm Basketball Jumbo
The basketball collecting world is awash in color right about now thanks to yesterday's release of 2015-16 Prizm Basketball. As is always the case with the popular, parallel-powered Prizm franchise, this year's edition is flush with striking Prizm parallels, a slew of on-card rookie autographs, a star-studded veteran autograph checklist, new designs and more. We brought you a three-box Teaser…
Teaser: Panini America Rips Early Boxes of 2014-15 Prizm Basketball, Hobby Jumbo
Hardcore hardcourt hobbyists are in for a basketball treat of Prizm proportions today with Panini America's release of 2014-15 Prizm Basketball. The new edition arrives in hobby shops across North America infused with vibrantly new colored Prizm parallels and two distinct configurations. The base hobby version of 2014-15 Prizm Basketball offers 20 five-card packs and the promise of one SKU-exclusive…
Panini America’s Pink Prizms Pay Tribute to the NFL’s “A Crucial Catch” Campaign
The NFL and its players will be taking a decidedly pink tint to the field in Week 5 with the kickoff of the league’s annual “A Crucial Catch” breast cancer campaign, an October partnership with the American Cancer Society focused on the importance of annual breast cancer screenings for women. So when the Minnesota Vikings face the Green Bay Packers later…
2013-14 Pinnacle Basketball Stars in Special Contest Edition of Panini Unwrapped
Earlier this week, while everyone around them continued preparations for the NHL Stadium Series, Super Bowl XLVIII, and packing out and shipping 2013 Black Football and 2013-14 Elite Basketball, Panini America's Tracy Hackler and Keith Hower sat down to break one massively enjoyable Hobby Jumbo box of 2013-14 Pinnacle Basketball. If you haven't yet had the opportunity to break a…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013-14 Pinnacle Hobby Jumbo Basketball
Massive, 30-card jumbo packs. Artist Proof parallels. Dufex-inspired Nufex. Z-Team inserts. Acetate autographs. Museum Collection. Die-cutting. Clearly, there's a tremendous amount of feel-good throwback injected into 2013-14 Pinnacle Basketball that is sure to strike a variety of chords with nostalgia-minded collectors all over the country. But there's an awful lot of new-and-improved, too. Like the season's hottest rookies and the…
Panini America to Unveil Hobby Jumbos for 2013 Prizm Football (Must-See Gallery)
"Bigger and better." It's a phrase that gets thrown around quite a bit in this hyper-competitive sports-card industry of ours. Every product strives to be bigger and better than the one that came before it. To be sure, the folks inside Panini America headquarters tasked with developing 2013 Prizm Football are convinced that the 2013 edition will be better than…
Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2013-14 NBA Hoops Hobby Jumbo
Panini America's iconic NBA Hoops Basketball brand is getting bigger. Much, much bigger. Taking a page from similar successful transformations in both football (2013 Score) and hockey (2013-14 Score), the company's traditional NBA season-starter is going the jumbo route for its 2013-14 hobby version. And like a player who dedicates himself to a rigorous off-season weightlifting program, the bulky benefits…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks One Jumbo Box of 2013-14 Score Hockey
Yes, we know that the official release date for the highly anticipated 2013-14 Score Hockey Hobby Jumbo product doesn't arrive until next Wednesday. But you can't really present us with a box 10 days early and expect us not to open it. After all, Panini America fans and readers of The Knight's Lance crave nothing more than the earliest possible sneak…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013-14 Score Hockey Hobby Jumbos
Last week we brought you the glorious first glimpses of 2013-14 Score Hockey with a loaded Quality Control Gallery taken from the product's retail configuration. As promised, today we're back with your first look at the results from 2013-14 Score Hockey's Hobby Jumbo packout process. While the different configurations share many of the same attributes, there are some niceties that…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Cracks First Box of 2013 Score Football Hobby Jumbos
I just plowed through a sizable chunk of late-afternoon clock mining one massive box of Panini America's hot-off-the-presses 2013 Score Football Hobby Jumbos -- and I'm a better man and hobby marketing manager for the experience. When my 10th and final pack was opened and its contents revealed, I came up with four simple words to summarize my own thoughts on…