June is getting off to a quick start with Panini and Topps offering new releases that have become annual staples. Panini Prizm Collegiate Draft Picks Football gives incoming NFL rookies their first-ever optichrome Prizm cards. Topps drops its second flagship baseball product of the year with Series 2 that will introduce a new class of rookie cards to chase, as well as an annual chromium UEFA soccer staple that will include the rookie card shield for the first time ever. Get the details on all of these releases in the latest installment of The Rip.
2021 Panini Prizm Draft Picks Collegiate Football Hobby Box
2021 Panini Prizm Draft Picks Collegiate Football offers the first Prizm set of this year’s football card collecting season. The base set checklist includes 100 current and former NFL stars, and 60 rookies from the 2021 NFL Draft all donning their college uniforms. The set offers the typical rainbow of color variation parallels found in Prizm sets, along with popular inserts such as Color Blast, and On Campus cards. Autographs will also be available for top college prospects Trevor Lawrence, DeVonta Smith, Jaylen Waddle, Mac Jones, and more.
The 2021 Panini Prizm Draft Picks Collegiate Football Hobby Box contains eight cards per pack, and five packs per box. Each box will add five autographs, five Silver Prizm parallels, and ten additional Prizm parallels to your collection on average.
2021 Panini Prizm Draft Picks Collegiate Football Hobby Boxes will release on June 11th at online and local trading card hobby shops. The set will also offer a Hobby Hybrid H2 box, as well as lower price point retail products that you will be able to find wherever Panini trading card products are sold.
2021 Topps Series 2 Baseball Hobby & Jumbo
2021 Topps Baseball Series 2 marks the second flagship baseball card set of the 2021 collecting season. The set keeps the same card design as Series 1 with the base cards once again featuring a Topps 70th Anniversary stamp. Series 2 also includes several autograph and relic subsets, as well as several inserts, such as cards that feature the 1986 Topps Baseball design.
The 2021 Topps Baseball Series 2 set comes in two different hobby formats, and will also have retail blasters and hanger boxes. The regular hobby box contains 14 cards per pack and 24 packs per box. On average, you will find one autograph or relic card, as well as one bonus silver pack. Silver packs are loaded with chrome cards that utilize the 1986 Topps Baseball card design and offer exclusive color variation parallels and autographs. Topps Baseball Series 2 will also be made available in the Jumbo format. The 2021 Topps Baseball Series 2 HTA Jumbo box holds 46 cards per pack, and 10 packs per box. The Jumbo box also delivers more hits in the form of one autograph, two relics, and two bonus silver packs.
2021 Topps Baseball Series 2 will release on June 9th at online and local trading card hobby shops.
2020-21 Topps Chrome UEFA Champions League Soccer
2020-21 Topps Chrome UEFA Champions League Soccer highlights Europe’s greatest soccer club competition and debuts some new features. One of the more subtle changes is the expanded color variation Refractor parallel options in this year’s set. A much larger addition is that the rookie card RC stamp has been added to cards of young players, like Jude Bellingham, who have made their UEFA debut.
The 2020-21 Topps Chrome UEFA Champions League Soccer Hobby Box comes in the familiar format of four cards per pack, and eighteen packs per box. If you open it up, the box promises one Chrome Autograph, six Base Refractor parallel color variations, two Speckle Refractor parallels, and five inserts, on average.
The 2020-21 Topps Chrome UEFA Champions League Soccer Hobby Box will release on June 11th at online and local trading card hobby shops.