Product Preview - 2010 Panini Platinum

Panini sent me the images a couple of days ago of 09/10 Panini Platinum.  Due to the playoffs, I was a bit behind in putting it up.  I figured that a slew of other people would've beat me to the punch by now, but everyone else must be as busy with the post-season as I have been.  In any event, here's the preview of Platinum.

It's interesting seeing the first-year company releasing cards.  And by the look of this product, it's looking like Panini Flagship version 2.0.  And that's not a bad thing.  The flagship got a lot of things right - and it looks like this release is merely trying to capitalize on that.

The first thing that jumped out at me on the Box Break information is that there is no jersey cards included.  And that's ok - you'd be getting two autos instead.

It doesn't say anything about sticker autos or on-card autos - so that will still have to wait to be seen.

And here's where I started to like what this offering could provide.  My favorite insert of the Panini Flagship was the Franchise inserts.  If you add autos to that - well that's just a bonus.

It looks like the more popular inserts of before are brought back with auto parallels and the base cards now have different variations.

Now, this preview shows all on-card autos.  If that ends up being the case, this will definetely be a successful release.  If not, it will be a release made for people who really enjoyed the first release.

Either way, kudos for Panini for having a release that will take us into the off-season.