Panini America Addresses Current Retail Marketplace Situation
It's certainly no secret that the unprecedented explosion of the sports collectibles industry has dramatically impacted seemingly every conceivable part of the business, including manufacturing, distribution, fulfillment, protective supplies, grading services and, perhaps most strikingly, the mass retail marketplace. Simply, current market conditions have created never-before-seen scenes that include release-day lines wrapped around stores, wild, seemingly uncontrollable crowding in trading…
Panini America Offers Extensive Sneak Peek at 2018-19 Donruss Optic Basketball Retail
While we're still a few weeks away from the hobby release of Panini America's highly anticipated 2018-19 Donruss Optic Basketball, it's worth noting that "1st Off The Line" boxes of the product open for presell tomorrow at 10 a.m. CST exclusively on iCollectPanini.com. Of course, retail versions of the product will arrive just a week or so after the January 30 hobby…
Panini America Explores Retail Exclusives in 2018-19 Prizm Basketball (Detailed Gallery)
Depending on where you live in this great country of ours, the retail-exclusive versions of Panini America's popular 2018-19 Prizm Basketball have either already landed on store shelves or will any day now. To help prepare retail-minded collectors for the rainbow array of exclusive Prizm parallels found only in retail SKUs, we're providing a comprehensive gallery of the possibilities. But…
Panini America Offers a Retail Roadmap for 2018-19 NBA Hoops Basketball (Gallery)
Panini America's season-opening 2018-19 NBA Hoops Basketball released to the hobby almost two weeks ago and has been met with a warm embrace from basketball collectors who were anxiously awaiting the chance to collect for the new season. In the coming days, a retail edition rife with exclusive content will finally arrive on mass-retail store shelves. We brought you a…
Panini America Explores Retail Exclusives in 2018 Prizm Football (Detailed Gallery)
Panini America's popular 2018 Prizm Football release arrived in hobby shops across North America six days ago, which means the equally compelling retail version should be making its way to mass-retail shelves in the next week to 10 days. To properly prepare you for the many retail-exclusive components of this year's release, we've got a complete breakdown of the exclusive…
Gallery: Panini America Eyes the Retail-Only 2018 Panini Football (60 Must-See Images)
The first thing many collectors are likely to notice about the completely redesigned and retail-only Panini Football franchise are the new-look base and Rookie Cards that boast one of the cleanest designs you'll see all season. The second thing most folks will notice are that those aforementioned RCs feature the rookies in their NFL uniforms. Oh, and there's a massive…
Panini America Explores Retail Exclusives in 2016-17 Excalibur Basketball (Gallery)
Now that the hobby edition of Panini America's 2016-17 Excalibur Basketball has been in shops for the better part of a week, the retail version can't be far behind. In honor of that fact, we wanted to help retail-minded collectors properly prepare for the product's arrival by previewing the many retail-exclusive elements in the release, from SKU-specific Camo Crusades to…
Panini America Going Green for Retail-Only Inclusions in 2017 Donruss Elite Football
The retail-exclusive SKUs of 2017 Donruss Elite Football should be hitting store shelves any day now (if they haven't already) and when they do, they promise to have collectors seeing green. As you'll see in the revealing gallery that follows, the emerald appeal of 2017 Donruss Elite Football's striking base design is undeniable. But it's more than the base parallels…
Retail Revolution: Panini America Examines Retail Exclusives in 2017 Revolution Soccer
The retail version of Panini America's 2017 Revolution Soccer should start hitting store shelves in the coming days and when it does, astute collectors will find a few retail-only perks randomly woven throughout the product, including the retail-only Vortex insert and the retail-exclusive Sunburst parallel. As you'll see in the gallery below, the hobby version of 2017 Revolution Soccer didn't…
Prestigious: Panini America Examines Retail Parallels in 2016-17 Prestige Basketball
It's been more than a month now since the hobby release of Panini America's 2016-17 Prestige Basketball, which means the many retail configurations just started arriving on store shelves in the last two weeks. And astute collectors have discovered a captivating array of retail-exclusive parallels -- with cool surface names such as Horizon, Rain and Crystal -- providing worthwhile chase…