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2012 Panini Prestige to Kick off NFL Trading Cards

Posted on June 3, 2012 by in Sports Cards

 

The top rookies of the 2012 NFL season will make there NFL trading card official uniform debut June 20th when 2012 Panini Prestige gets released. The set looks fantastic and has a checklist that everyone will drool over. Im excited and cant wait for our two 12 box case breaks that we have coming up.

The first NFL  set that will feature RGIII, Andrew Luck, and Trent Richardson in there NFL Uniforms. Tons of on card autos here. Last years prestige fell at the mercy of the NFL lock out. This years with enough planning it seems to be on track for being a winner.

Key Features

  • -4 different sub sets of rookie driven on card signatures
    -Non Rookie Premiere signers including Morris Claiborne, Matt Kalil, Dre Kirkpatrick, Melvin Ingram, Mark Barron, David Wilson, Lamar Miller and more
    -Each 24 pack box will feature 4 hits. At least 2 autographs. 24 rookie cards

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2012 Topps Archives Super Groovy!

Posted on May 15, 2012 by in Sports Cards

Want to own a Kobra Kai autograph? Now you can. Topps has amped up 2012 Archives with some late additions. Wax on wax off! Billy Zapka and Martin Kove both from the karate kid have signed dope looking cards! Makes me wanna bust out my Ninja Turtles Lunch pail and yellow sony walkman. The Karate autos will be lucky box loaders. They also announced ten one of one book cards. These will feature 6 autos per book.

They also have picked up on the Har-vish (creative!) hype and inserted Harper and Darvish. They used the 84 Topps design for Harper and 86 Design for Darvish. Sweet looking cards. I'm a fan of the 86 look as i have a few Barry Bonds rookies from that year. The Checklist on this product looks great!

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2012 Tribute Highlights and Thoughts

Posted on March 13, 2012 by in Sports Cards, Uncategorized

The highly anticipated and allocated 2012 Topps Tribute has been released last friday. Last years success has left collectors yearning for this years high end set. Topps made a few changes but kept the concept of tribute basically the same. Encased hits! Topps saves money for you! No more do you have to run to your lcs and pick up the correct size ultra pro for your Tribute. The encased hits also have a seal on top. This may or may not add extra value to the cards down the line. A negative for those who like to finger jersey and or bat pieces. Im a fan of the encased hit. They added it in last minute. Im not sure if topps was afraid that the set was going to flop so they felt they needed to add more value or just wanted to be creative and different. Maybe product design opened alot of 2010 Plates and Patches Football? New to the product is the absence of jersey autos. Im not sure what direction they were going with this one. Each box promotes 3 mem pieces and 3 autos. Doing away with the mem autos made it easier for QC? Not sure but i was a fan of the jersey autos last year. Most cards are all on card autos so its pry easier to have them sign with out a jersey piece on the card. Topps did do an excellent job of keep redemptions to a minimum. The redemptions that are pulled in this set are guys that topps HAVE to have in this product. Hank Aaron, Eric hosmer, Matt Kemp, Yu Darvish, Ken Griffey JR, and a few more.

 

 

 

 

Early posts on forums had us worried about this product. I dont know if id say its better than last year but its close. The on card autos are awesome feature and the correlation of guys are great! Yes there are a few schlub autos but not every box can have a Aaron, or Mantle. We did 6 boxes on sunday and it was pretty solid. We had autos from: Hank Aaron, Eric Hosmer, Carl Yaz, Ernie Banks, Gary Carter, Ryan Howard, Ryan Braun, Starlin Castro, and more we had Mem Pieces from Mickey Mantle, Dave Winfield, Chipper Jones, Adrian Gonzales, and more. All in all very solid 6 boxes and i reccomend this product as a buy. The prices may shoot up to the 400 dollar a box range like last year

Cam Newton seeing double! Five Star thoughts

Posted on February 27, 2012 by in Uncategorized

Well Cam newton made and appearance on sunday twice! Its crazy that two pieces of cardboard are worth more than 1000$. I had cars that were'nt worth that much. We did 6 more boxes of Contenders 2011 football and this stuff continues to deliver. Prices are going up at LCS and ebay for a good reason. Best bang for your buck in 2011. Still no word on short prints.

Cam #2 of the day came in a 5 star 4 box break we did. Im not tottally on the Five Star bandwagon. Last year i loved it. Seemed like there were alot more multi colored jerseys. This year the focus was on dual autos and single colored booklet autos. For a 500$ product i had hoped for some more glitz. People are losing their ass on this stuff. I know we shouldnt be in the hobby for the profit but cmon most boxes/cases are get 20% return on average for there investment. We shouldnt see Todman, Powell, Ridley, and other non impact rookie premeire guys on a top shelf product like this. I know they probably had them sign before the season but maybe we can invent a grab bag product for topps/panini that come end of the season when we determine which guys suck and or are on the practice squad we can make a product that has the reject autos (so they can recop some money) and chase cards. So i guess what im saying is pull these guys out of this product! Leave some room in the autograph budget for players who dont perform or make the team. Just a thought. They did take a step in the right direction by adding autographed jerseys, balls, helmets. The product was too predictable with the layout. National treasures has different designs of there cards so you dont know what to expect. Look for our National treasures 2011 breaks being put up in the next few days.