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2021 PANINI PRIZM DRAFT PICKS RELEASE!

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2021 Panini Prizm Draft Picks Football Base / Inserts While 2021 Panini Prizm Draft Picks Football is a collegiate release, all the subjects have already finished their NCAA playing careers. The base set contains 100 former greats and 60 of the best prospects ahead of the NFL Draft. Other choices include the Crusade and All-Americans subsets, which feature incoming rookies. Also geared to the elite prospects is the super short print Color Blast insert. These average 1:10 cases. Appearing to be very similar to the Downtown insert, the all-new On Campus set offers another themed insert choice. 2021 Panini Prizm Draft Picks Football Autographs Falling one per Hobby...

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Panini America Delivers a Detailed First Look at 2021 Score Football

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Panini America officials recently sent out preliminary Product Information Solicitations for several exciting new products coming soon to a hobby shop or online retailer near you. Today, we’re sharing that same information with you here on The Knight’s Lance, this time featuring the ageless, season-starting sensation that is Score Football. In the extensive product preview that follows, we’ll showcase a bevy of preliminary images from the upcoming 2021 Score Football as well as the product’s Hobby document. Estimated Release Date: May 12th, 2021Product Configuration: 40 cards per pack, 10 packs per box, 12 boxes per case.BOX BREAK: Four autographs, 90 Rookie Cards, 10 parallels, 36 inserts, one Tom...

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Panini America Addresses Current Retail Marketplace Situation

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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 card sections and, not long thereafter, barren shelves. Collectively, those situations have led to, among other things, policy changes by some stores, rampant speculation, and misinformation and hard feelings among many collectors. Today, Panini America officials aim to set the record straight...

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Flawless Finale: Panini America Offers a Packout Preview of 2020 Flawless Football

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For any number of reasons (but certainly a global pandemic and a frozen February week in Texas), the 2020 collecting season has been quite unlike any that have come before. So it only makes sense that Panini America’s final product of the 2020 NFL season — the high-end heat-generator that is 2020 Flawless Football — is finally releasing . . . tomorrow. But for a product equipped with as many stone-cold stunners as Flawless is every year, it doesn’t really matter when it drops — just so long as it does. And tomorrow, it does. As you’ll see in the Quality Control Gallery that follows, 2020 Flawless Football will be...

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