2014 Panini Immaculate Baseball - releasing 9/24

just saw this, had no idea Panini was making a high-end bb product

Configuration: 8 boxes case.1 packs per box. 6 cards per pack.


BOX BREAK
- 5 Autographs or Memorabilia Cards
- 1 Base or Parallel Card


PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
- Every card #'d/99 or less!
- Look for auto/patch cards of Gregory Polanco, Oscar Taveras, Xander Bogaerts, Nick Castellanos and Billy Hamilton!
- 5 autograph or memorabilia cards per box and over 9,500 prime memorabilia hits!
- Find unique Masahiro Tanaka memorabilia cards including Jumbo/Prime/Buttons and Laundry Tags
- Look for Jumbo Prime swatches including Nameplates, Batting Gloves, Fielding Gloves, Shoes, Hats, Team Logos and Sweatbands!


PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

BASE CARDS
Base (100 cards) numbered to 99

PARALLELS
- Blue (100 cards) numbered to 10
- Holo Gold (100 cards) numbered to 5
- Platinum (100 cards) numbered 1 of 1

AUTOGRAPHS/MEMORABILIA:

Immaculate Rookie Autographs Material (27 cards) Numbered to 49 or less
- Immaculate Rookie Autographs Material Prime (27 cards) Numbered to 99 or less

Immaculate Rookie Material (1 card) Numbered to 99
- Immaculate Rookie Material Prime (1 card) Numbered to 25

Immaculate Autograph Material (47 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Immaculate Autograph Material Prime (47 cards) Numbered to 20 or less

Accolades Material (25 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Accolades Material (25 cards) Numbered to 25 or less

Premium Material (41 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Premium Material Prime (41 cards) Numbered to 10 or less

Diamond Fabric (15 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Diamond Fabric Prime (15 cards) Numbered to 10 or less

Clubhouse Material (30 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Clubhouse Material Prime (30 cards) Numbered to 10 or less

Immaculate Swatches (95 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Immaculate Swatches Prime (95 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Immaculate Swatches Premium (95 cards) Numbered to 20 or less

Immaculate Singles (40 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Immaculate Singles Prime (40 cards) Numbered to 99 or less

Immaculate Duals (40 cards) Numbered to 49 or less
- Immaculate Duals Prime (40 cards) Numbered to 49 or less

Immaculate Trios (10 cards) Numbered to 49 or less
- Immaculate Trios Prime (10 cards) Numbered to 10 or less

Immaculate Trios Players (10 cards) Numbered to 79 or less
- Immaculate Trios Players Prime (10 cards) Numbered to 10 or less

Immaculate Quads (5 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Immaculate Quads Prime (5 cards) Numbered to 5 or less

Immaculate Quads Players (5 cards) Numbered to 49 or less
- Immaculate Quads Players Prime (5 cards) Numbered to 5 or less

Immaculate Hitters (25 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Immaculate Hitters Prime (25 cards) Numbered to 25 or less

Immaculate Pitchers (25 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Immaculate Pitchers Prime (25 cards) Numbered to 25 or less

The Greatest Materials (30 cards) Numbered to 49 or less
- The Greatest Materials Prime (30 cards) Numbered to 49 or less

Immaculate Heroes Materials (30 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Immaculate Heroes Materials Prime (30 cards) Numbered to 25 or less

Immaculate Ink Gold (60 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Immaculate Ink Blue (60 cards) Numbered to 10 or less
- Immaculate Ink Holo Gold (60 cards) Numbered to 5 or less
- Immaculate Ink Platinum (60 cards) Numbered 1 of 1

All-Star Autographs Gold (15 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- All-Star Autographs Blue (15 cards) Numbered to 10 or less
- All-Star Autographs Holo Gold (15 cards) Numbered to 10 or less
- All-Star Autographs Platinum (15 cards) Numbered 1 of 1

Rookie Inscriptions Gold (25 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Rookie Inscriptions Blue (25 cards) Numbered to 10 or less
- Rookie Inscriptions Holo Gold (25 cards) Numbered to 5 or less
- Rookie Inscriptions Platinum (25 cards) Numbered 1 of 1

Clubhouse Signatures (60 cards) Numbered to 99 or less

The Greatest Signatures (15 cards) Numbered to 99 or less

Immaculate Heroes Autographs (25 cards) Numbered to 75 or less

Nameplate Nobility (40 cards) Numbered to 9 or less

Immaculate Jumbo (40 cards) Numbered to 10 or less

Bat Knobs (5 cards) Numbered 1 of 1

Bat Nameplates (5 cards) Numbered 1 of 1

Immaculate Autographs (100 cards) Numbered to 99 or less
- Immaculate Blue Autographs (100 cards) Numbered to 10 or less
- Immaculate Holo Gold Autographs (100 cards) Numbered to 5 or less
- Immaculate Platinum Autographs (100 cards) Numbered 1 of 1

Immaculate Cleats (4 cards) Numbered to 15 or less
- Immaculate Jumbo Cleats (6 cards) Numbered to 4 or less

Brewer Andy said:

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Gorgeous looking cards, especially the gold signatures on the black background.

Prelude to Flawless?

what's the MSRP of this? About $350 a 6-card pack?

First off, I think the cards look really nice. But the problem is that all of these wonderful 1980's "stars" who they chalk this product full of, do NOT sell. Strawberry, and Canseco, Dale Murphy, Allan Trammel, Steve Garvey, Joe Girardi, Carlton fisk, Gooden, etc etc etc just don't get it done in a $300+ per box product. Baseball is where my passion is, is where my collection lays, but I just don't see the player selection in a product like this ever ever every making the product a true winner.

All In Cards said:

- Look for Jumbo Prime swatches including Nameplates, Batting Gloves, Fielding Gloves, Shoes, Hats, Team Logos and Sweatbands!

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I've been buying oddball GU items for a while, now, and I feel like it's an expanding area of collecting. It makes it hard on me, but it's strange that I only know of one other person here that buys these types of GU.

ballerskrip said:

First off, I think the cards look really nice. But the problem is that all of these wonderful 1980's "stars" who they chalk this product full of, do NOT sell. Strawberry, and Canseco, Dale Murphy, Allan Trammel, Steve Garvey, Joe Girardi, Carlton fisk, Gooden, etc etc etc just don't get it done in a $300+ per box product. Baseball is where my passion is, is where my collection lays, but I just don't see the player selection in a product like this ever ever every making the product a true winner.

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I hear you. Gotta see a checklist. And a lot is riding on their reputation for unique memorabilia cards (as alluded to by Adam). Certainly enough here to get me excited

Brewer Andy said:

I hear you. Gotta see a checklist. And a lot is riding on their reputation for unique memorabilia cards (as alluded to by Adam). Certainly enough here to get me excited

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I hear you, and I hope it is AWESOME. But the only awesome Panini baseball product in years was NT, and that will be tough to ever match again.

I doubt I will buy a box - absolutely hate air-brushed uniforms...

I will stick to Cal Ripken singles on this.

I like the HOF line in this product. The cards look clean and are nicely done. Only critique is that I don't like how the say "Induction Class of" and then you have to look at the little circles to see the year. I wish they would have just completed the statement with the year of induction. I thought it was an error when I first looked at them, but it's easier to see on some of them, especially the red. I'm sure they look great in person.

Overall critiques are the same as everyone elses regarding the lack of logos, but that's been beat to death and maybe someday the stranglehold that Topps has will be lifted. Other critique is the player selection... there are two versions of Bert Blyleven shown. Really? There is that strong of a following for Bert Blyleven that we need two versions of his face on the same card? I think they should have just massed produced one version of him if they HAD to include him for production cost purposes, but two different version gives the guy more collectibility credit than is deserved in this product! In all honesty, I'd say this about any player - just make one version of the guy and produce it to however many copies you need to fill the product. Falsification of "production run" by putting out 10 facial variations and #'ing each to 20 versus one card #'d to 200 is just a terrible detriment to the hobby in my opinion.

I believe the HOF cards you're referencing are from a different product than Immaculate just FYI, there's 2 different ones shown. Those are from some HOF Anniversary set also coming

Bill Menard said:

Falsification of "production run" by putting out 10 facial variations and #'ing each to 20 versus one card #'d to 200 is just a terrible detriment to the hobby in my opinion.

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I agree, but now Blyleven player collectors will have to chase 10 different cards instead of just picking up 1 & calling it a day. It might help box/case breakers doing it that way.

If Puckett made the checklist I will pick up singles of him.

rsmath said:

what's the MSRP of this? About $350 a 6-card pack?

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$200

Just got the checklist if anyone would like a copy

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All In Cards said:

Just got the checklist if anyone would like a copy

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Dawson on the checklist?

Hawk8 said:

Dawson on the checklist?

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a quick scan of the base set he is not there, the checklist is 81 pages, lol

All In Cards said:

a quick scan of the base set he is not there, the checklist is 81 pages, lol

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wow, 81 pages! I tried searching online for the checklist and couldn't find it

(One of) My problem with this is that they are $350, with no chance at guys that Topps has in their stable. Back in the day a bigwig at a major manufacturer told me that licensing fees were a major expense %wise in producing cards. So why are all these unlicensed cards priced like licensed cards? Panini & BG must say to themselves, "Heck, these folks are used to paying big bucks for products - let's just parley the licensing costs we're saving into pure profit!"

These products are clearly inferior, why aren't they cheaper?