搶先看:NFL 2012 Prizm Football

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“A familiar, but dramatically improved, technology.”

That’s how the Panini America sales material boldly introduced the framework for both 2012-13 Prizm Basketball and the upcoming 2012 Prizm Football. After all, chromium-inspired, light-reflective trading cards have been around for many years. They’ve just never been done quite like this. The company first delivered its stunning take on the technology last month in 2012-13 Prizm Basketball. The shock waves are still reverberating throughout the collecting universe today.


True to its mantra, that first taste of Prizm — with its brilliant parallels, deep, dimensional etching, complimentary design principles and an utter refusal to warp — indeed offered a “familiar, but dramatically improved, technology” that resonated with collectors who’d waited long enough for the genre’s what’s-next jolt. Prizm Basketball got the ball rolling. When Prizm Football releases in early February, the revolution will continue.

To be sure, the printing technology incorporated in Panini America’s Prizm brands is not the same-old, same-old. It’s richer, deeper and designed to impress. One waltz through the gallery that follows and you’ll see exactly what I mean.

Yesterday afternoon, I had the distinct pleasure of spending some quality time with the first uncut sheets of 2012 Prizm Football — one 100-up base autograph form, one 100-up Prizm parallel form and one 100-up Gold Prizm form. To kick off this special Knight’s Lance weekend preview of 2012 Prizm Football, we’ll explore those first two today. Tomorrow, we’ll bring you up close and personal with some of those Gold Prizms.

In the coming weeks, we’ll bring you extended looks at the product’s other captivating parallels — the resplendent Reds, the glorious Greens, the brilliant Blacks.

So buckle up and get ready for a joy ride. We can’t wait to hear your thoughts.

                                                                       

zw15

I am in for this one!!!

KOBE721015

忍住阿 兄弟

Ysponder

I don’t need down comforters to keep me warm this winter. I don’t need Granny’s quilts or my father-in-law’s electric blankets, either. All I really need are a few emerald sheets — uncut, of course — from the upcoming 2012 Prizm Football. That’s what I immersed myself in yesterday afternoon that ultimately heated up most of the Panini America Production department.

Cue the trumpets: Green Prizms aren’t just for basketball anymore. Green’s good for the gridiron, too. Indeed, those retail-exclusive Green Prizm parallels that have ignited a secondary-market feeding frenzy in 2012-13 Prizm Basketball are coming to 2012 Prizm Football — and once again, they’ll be available only in retail.


Yesterday afternoon, I slipped between the (uncut) sheets with a few 100-up Green Prizm forms, one showcasing the Rookie Card parallels, another highlighting veteran superstars. You can check out the exquisite emerald nature of what I saw in the following gallery.

And if you’ve missed any of the previous posts previewing 2012 Prizm Football, you can check them out here and again right here.

                                                  

Ysponder

Panini America Enters Red Zone with a New Parallel in 2012 Prizm Football (Gallery)



The Red Prizms are coming! The Red Prizms are coming!

With all due respect to Paul Revere, there’s a new parallel arriving in 2012 Prizm Football next month that deserves to be trumpeted by any means possible — whether your mounted on horseback, using a megaphone, Tweeting, blogging, Facebooking, Skyping or simply having meaningful discussions in your hobby shop. It’s the hobby-only Red Prizm Die-Cut that will fall roughly one per box when 2012 Prizm Football releases in early February.


So far in our continuing preview of this highly anticipated new product, we’ve shown you uncut sheets of the base Prizms, Gold Prizms and the Green Prizms. But no one has seen the resplendent Red Prizms . . . until right now. While the following gallery of images taken from one uncut sheet doesn’t detail the die-cutting that will take place on these beauties, it does shed captivating light on the deep, dimensional etching on these cards and the way the cards seem to cast a brilliant glow.

But don’t simply take my word for it. Take a look for yourself now (and after you’re done, let us know which of the Prizms you’ve seen so far are your favorite). Of course, you may want to reserve your final judgment until after you’ve seen the nasty Finite Black Prizm 1/1s, which we’ll showcase right here on The Knight’s Lance in the coming days.

Until then, these images should have you seeing red . . . and that’s a good thing.

                                                                      

Ysponder

You can call this “Black Sunday.” Today is the day. After weeks of captivating glimpses at the many splendid parallels within Panini America’s upcoming 2012 Prizm Football, we’re finally pulling the curtain back on the rarest Prizm cards in existence: The illustrious Finite Black Prizm 1/1s.

It’s the one chase set collectors have been clamoring for since they first laid eyes on the unparalleled Prizm technology in 2012-13 Prizm Basketball. Finite Black is a jaw-dropping addition to the Prizm franchise that packs infinite potential. It features both base Finite Prizms and autographed versions and it is, in a word, fantastic.

This weekend, we took advantage of our time between the (uncut) sheets of Prizm to bring you this exclusive peek at what will soon become some of the most coveted and valuable football cards of the entire 2012 collecting season.

Enjoy the NFL Divisional Playoff games today and the unbridled frenzy surrounding the Panini America #PaniniWildCard Twitter promotion. But before you do, feast your eyes on these . . .

                                                        

conan

好漂亮的卡