Panini America Offers Detailed First Look at 2018 Honors Football (Preview Gallery)

[doniceage]

By incorporating the most desirable aspects of last year's release and mixing in a few new collector-friendly tweaks, Panini America is preparing 2018 Honors Football to be a blockbuster featuring original and BGS-graded BuyBacks of classic Panini America cards, more on-card autographs than last year, and updated base and autograph versions of top rookies from 2018 Score Football and 2018 Classics Football on premium Optichrome technology.

https://blog.paniniamerica.net/2019/...eview-gallery/

[bakemeister52]

Looks like I will need to get some of these cards. Thanks Don for giving us a peek at a nice product coming out soon!

[jplcom]

By incorporating the most desirable aspects of the last Honors release in 2016 and mixing in a few new collector-friendly tweaks

"incorporating the most desirable aspects" aka liberal use of copy/paste features. Also why does Panini keep bringing brands back at irregular intervals? Was there no Honor in 2017?

Panini America is preparing 2018 Honors Football to be a blockbuster

Uhoh, did no one tell them that Netflix killed Blockbuster?

featuring original and BGS-graded BuyBacks of classic Panini America cards

Panini is copying Leaf's unlicensed bread and butter now, not a great sign for a company that has epic and fabled innovation.

more on-card autographs than last year

I would HOPE there would be more on-card autographs than last year. Last year of course being 2017 and no set release for Honors. Get your releases straight Hackler!

and updated base and autograph versions of top rookies from 2018 Score Football and 2018 Classics Football on premium Optichrome technology.

ITS FINALLY HAPPENING!! Optichrome the whole product line to double profits!

Set to arrive in hobby shops across North America in late April, each hobby box of 2018 Honors Football

Holy S**t!!! Late April 2019 is considered a 2018 release?! The draft is scheduled to be April 25th. The new NFL year begins on March 13th. The year 2019 began January 1st! How will any rookie be considered a rookie card in this set??? Not very honorable of Panini to use hindsight as justification for a 2018 product.

(four cards per box, 10 boxes per case) will deliver, on average, two autographs and two base cards. Every card in the product is numbered to 99 or less with the exception of some of the BuyBack cards.

Here we go again, calling a pack a box and a box a case. I can't wait until Panini starts releasing 1 card per case, 12 cases per master case, and 2 master cases per epic case, and 4 epic cases per fabled case.

Additional highlights of 2018 Honors Football include . . .

Wait, there's more highlights?! I'm so enamored with this honorable retread of a product that optichromes existing designs, reuses 2 year old designs, and packs in cards from previous years. Is there ANYTHING original about this product???

Updated autograph versions of some of the most iconic cards of all time, including 1989 Score Football Barry Sanders, 1990 Score Football Emmitt Smith, 2000 Score Preview Football Tom Brady, 2001 Score Select Football Drew Brees and more.

Panini can't create anything original, they can only appropriate our nostalgia for other, better loved released products made by different companies. What makes old Score products more honorable anyways?

• BGS-graded BuyBacks of legends such as Walter Payton, Johnny Unitas, Bart Starr, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Reggie White, Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, Dan Marino, John Elway, Drew Brees and Bill Belichick and more.

  
  
  Mmmmm yes, buybacks of better Topps products. No wonder Beckett is a year plus out on non-guaranteed BGS orders, Panini has been busy buying crap off of eBay to stick into graded cases. I can't wait to pull a BGS 9.0 of 1991 Pro Set Belichick
  
  
  

  The 32-card Honors Base set (one player per NFL team)

  
  
  Thanks for clarifying that a 32-card set would be one per NFL team. Most people would think a set with 32 cards based on a league with 32 teams would naturally think it would be one per team. But I'll allow this since this 2018 product is coming out in Q2 of 2019 and they might have decided to drop the Cardinals and Raiders from making an appearance
  
  
  

  includes base versions numbered to 99 as well as Gold (numbered to 75), Blue (numbered to 25), Orange (numbered to 10), Red(numbered to five) and Black 1/1 parallels. There are also Honors Base Signatures sharing the same parallel configuration.

  
  
  What no Green parallel? Green is usually the one that's /5 in your sets! It's not honorable to have no consistency in your product line.
  
  
  

  Classics Update Rookies and Score Update Rookies subsets honoring the top 30 rookies of 2018 on Optichrome stock and featuring an array of parallels numbered to 99 or less.

  
  
  It's rather telling that the first time this whole post that "honor" is used as verb to describe this product. However it truly is an honor to be optichromed.
  
  
  

  Base Score Update Rookies Signatures (numbered to 99 or less) are accompanied by Gold Zone (numbered to 50 or less), Artist’s Proof (numbered to 35), Red Zone (numbered to 20), First Down (numbered to 10), End Zone (numbered to six) and Gem Masters 1/1 parallel versions.

  
  
  I remember Gold Zone, Artist's Proof, and Red Zone parallels. Are these more examples of "incorporating the most desirable aspects" of other companies products that did them better? If Panini renamed this product to 2018 Retreads it would be the honorable thing to do.
  
  
  

  Base Classics Update Rookies Significant Signatures numbered to 99 or less and featuring Green, Gold, Red, Orange, Blue and Black parallel versions.

  
  
  Well there's that green parallel! No consistency within their own product stack. Sad!
  
  
  

  Gem Masters parallel versions of the base sets printed on Optichrome stock.

  
  
  OPTICHROME!
  
  
  

  The landmark Recollection Collection includes some of the best cards ever made of the best players, all hard-signed and hand-numbered.

  
  

Indeed! Recall the collections of the best cards that Panini DIDNT make!


This product is one of the saddest releases Panini has ever made. Releasing a "2018" release in LATE April filled with reused designs from 2016 and packed in with a bunch of random cards from different manufacturers and different years. I hope everyone is looking forward to 2018 Panini Retreads which honors Panini's bottom line. It's gonna be #fabled.

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[McCallum12]

I was kinda excited when i read that there would be 1989 Score Sanders and 1990 Score supplemental Emmitt auto's, but if the picture they have of the 89 Sanders is what they're using, it's somekind of reprint and a sticker auto. Disappointing.