After looking at this garbage, I have one thought. Its a simple thought, so bare with me.
WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF BULLSHIT IS THIS GARBAGE?
Whew, that about sums it up. Aside from ANOTHER god awful name for a product, this one looks just as bad from a design perspective as all their other shit has looked this year. Its unimaginative, it uses those goofy ass posed pictures, and has more sticker replacement with what looks to be sheet metal from the scrap yard. One person on Twitter mused it looked like dumpster bound iPad backs, which I can no longer unsee.
The bottom line is this. Panini sucks at making sets (see Unparalleled, Gala, and Phoenix), and can only succeed when they blatantly rip off their competitors (origins). I dont understand why they continue to churn out this type of donkey turd, knowing its just going to be another notch on the bedpost when it ends up in the bargain bin. Its no wonder why sales have been slumping, and shops have been complaining about how they cant move a single Panini product, let alone a new piece of crap every week.
If Panini want to continue driving their product line into the ground, that’s on them. The issue is that there is no other pro licensed product out there to save us from this burning building. When Panini succeeds in scaring off half the people who are left after Topps was cut from the NFL, maybe then we can finally go back to a state where I dont have to sit around wishing it was 2015 anymore. Its pretty clear that all those red numbers next to Panini football products arent there because things are selling like hot cakes, and its only going to get worse if they think we are stupid enough to buy their scraps off the trash heap from previous years.
Man, I am getting more and more pessimistic by the day over the future of this industry.
Please pay money for this crap? What a waste.
There are just far too many products being released – so many that it has turned me away from the hobby. I have not purchased a single hobby box this year. I was a regular buyer and collector only last year. All of these sets are exactly the same thing, and feature the exact same players. In football, every set has the same group of rookies, the same autos and relics. No collector can keep up with the sheer number of sets, so they just stop buying, and it’s all the same stuff anyway. It’s boring and the secondary market sucks, too. The exclusive for Panini put the final nail in the coffin for the hobby.