SCF Official Review: 2011 Panini Crown Royale

[Enigma]

First and foremost, I'd like to thank our sponsors at Panini for providing us with this box.



4 packs per box
6 cards per pack
Current Retail Price (online): $93.99 - $104.99

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
- 4 Autographs/Material Cards (at least one autograph)
- 8 Crown Commons
- 4 Crown Rookie
- 1 Crown Parallel (Blue, Gold or Green seq. #ed to 100 or less)
- 7 Inserts (Majestic, Kings of the NFL, Royalty, Living Legends, Rookie Royalty, Crown Royale All-Pros & The Zone)
- All inserts feature larger swatches of material than the 2010 version!

- 100 Commons
- 100 Rookies
- 36 RPS Rookies (Seq. #ed to 299 or less)
- Look for this years New Inserts: Calling All Captains, Crown Jewels, Knights of the Gridiron, Net Fusion.
- On-Card Signature Player Die-Cut Rookie Cards featuring Cam Newton, A.J. Green, Julio Jones, Jake Locker, Blaine Gabbert, Christian Ponder, Jonathan Baldwin and Mark Ingram, seq. #ed to 299 or less.
- Calling All Captains featuring NFL Team Captains including autograph versions of Peyton Manning, Jason Witten, Calvin Johnson, Maurice Jones-Drew, Hines Ward, Adrian Peterson, Antonio Gates, Tom Brady and Mark Sanchez seq. #ed to 50 or less.
- Kings of the NFL autographs Aaron Rodgers, Reggie Wayne, Wes Welker, Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Tom Brady, Mark Sanchez, Arian Foster, Adrian Peterson, Matt Ryan and Peyton Manning seq. #ed to 50 or less.
- Player Jersey Die-Cut featuring autographs of Adrian Peterson, Ray Rice, Philip Rivers, Ben Roethlisberger and Steven Jackson Seq. #ed to 50 or less.

WHAT WE PULLED



Base: 6/100 (6%)
Rookies: 4/100 (4%)
Blue /100 (1): Miles Austin



All-Pros (1)
Crown Jewel Rookies (1)
Kings Of The NFL (1)
Living Legends (1)
Majestic (1)
Rookie Royalty (2)
Royalty (1)
The Zone (1)



Tyrod Taylor Rookie Autograph /499



Dwayne Harris Blue Autograph /50



Jacquizz Rodgers Blue Autograph /50



Kings Of The NFL Hines Ward Jersey /299



FINAL RATINGS

Base - 4/5
Design - 4/5
Fun - 4.5/5
Value - 3/5
Rebuy - 3.75/5

Total - 19.25/25 (77%)

Pros:
1 "hit" per pack
At least 2 inserts or parallels in each pack
Each pack yields excitement with anticipation

Cons:
Same stoic design as previous years
Sticker autographs from rookies
Low yield of numbered inserts/parallels
Price point too high for what you get

Once again, I'd like to thank our wonderful sponsors at Panini for giving us the opportunity to open and review this release. For more information on all their products, visit them today at www.paniniamerica.net.

[11chaos]

Whoa, that was a hurtful box of stuff. Still I like the design but it is eerily similiar to the previous years design.