Lets be real here. Should we be shocked that Panini is making like a recently dumped girlfriend and using their spoon to get every last drop out of that empty ice cream container that was its previous product cache? Classics is back, and not because its a good idea, or because people demanded it, its because Panini needs to make more products than they can handle.
Classics was slightly relevant prior, as it used to be the first set released with pro-uniforms for the rookie premiere attendees. Not so much anymore. Now its just stickers and junk.
2010 Classics Dez Bryant RC Auto BGS 9.5
2009 Classics Clay Matthews RC Auto PSA 10
2001 Classics Joe Montana Auto
2010 Classics Tony Romo Sunday's Best Auto Patch
I really dont need to say much, because this junk is structured like a product that should be retail only, but because of the new NFL exclusive, we get the absolute mind-blowing joy of seeing it in football.
Funny enough, the design of the card might have been simple and nice, but Panini had to turd it up with after-effects that are beyond annoying. Take away the dot pattern and slight blur on the background, and dont tile the team name, and its a retro look. A retro look that closely resembles 1983 Topps, but a look none-the-less.
The one concerning thing is that Panini is only inserting 1 autograph per box, which shows that they are trying to draw focus away from that type of content. Its possible their deals wont be set up to handle enough content to flood 31 products, which might not be horrible. That is until your one autograph is a fourth round linebacker from Blue Mountain State.
Either way, this product is going to be in the bargain bin by the time August rolls around, so dont even bother.
Here are the pictures:
I don’t see a problem with just one auto. For a lower MSRP it works. But Panini won’t add bonuses, like UD MVP does, by giving some good SP inserts sets – not just one set, some interactive/predictor cards, some different parallels (not just SP parallels, because it needs to unique moreso than being rare. Panini hasn’t figured out parallels #’d to 100, 65, 50, 25, 10, 10, 5 in the same product isn’t a good thing), because the auto content is going to be horrendous, and unless these go the way of Prizm Draft in terms of how quickly the price tanks, they will sit in Panini’s warehouse for months. Can’t wait to see just how few of their products sell out this year. They just don’t make sets outside of Contenders, NT, Immaculate, and maybe Prizm that have brand identities that people want to collect. ‘Prizm you say?’ Remember I said brand identities, not good products.
Glad my team sucks so I don’t have to feel left out of collecting this season. I will miss Chrome, I always bought some no matter what. Love the hell out of some refractors!
Another sticker dump by Panini. No thanks, will save my money!!