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The box: 2016 Panini Classics football cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby) 

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 64
Base set completion: 
56 of 300 (19 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable players found on base cards – Roger Staubach, Emmitt Smith, Lawrence Taylor, Mike Singletary, Eric Dickerson, Thurman Thomas, Terry Bradshaw, Jim Kelly, Brett Favre, Len Dawson, Barry Sanders, Julio Jones, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Josh Norman, Drew Brees, Cam Newton.

Rookie Cards (8) – Connor Cook, Pharoh Cooper, Jonathan Williams, Glenn Gronkowski, Leonard Floyd, Kolby Listenbee, Brandon Doughty, Brandon Allen.

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What: 2016 Panini Immaculate Collection baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 17
Box basics:  Five autographs or memorabilia cards per six-card box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Immaculate's baseball presence returns with on-card rookie autographs this time around as well as Rookie Patch Autographs that are also signed on-card. Also back, of course, will be the creative and beefy memorabilia cards collectors expect from the brand.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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The wait for Panini Flawless soccer cards is nearly over and one more sign of that is the fact that the checklist has arrived.

We won't waste your time with details about what comes in a box. Keep reading to get the checklist.

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What: 2015-16 Panini Immaculate Collection basketball cards
Arrives: Aug. 24
Box basics:  Five autographs or memorabilia cards per six-card box (five boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Immaculate returns for another season with many of the features collectors have come to expect and some new takes on game-used memorabilia cards we've seen in the line before.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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We've not yet seen the first images of cards from Panini America's four forthcoming NASCAR products, but the retail details for three of those products promise to rev the engines of racing fans who have waited a long time for new cardboard.

For starters, there will be a hit in every single blaster box.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big breaks, The National and Preacher.

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The NBA Finals had already begun when Panini America recently revealed its new real-time trading card platform called Panini Instant, but that's not stopping the showdown between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers from getting a bit more cardboard.

That will start sometime soon as we await Game 5 of the series tonight.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Allen & Ginter Rip Cards, big pulls, NFL photos, The NSCC & more.

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Before "The Great One," there was "Mr. Hockey."

Gordie Howe, who led the Detroit Red Wings to four Stanley Cups and won six MVP awards before retiring as the NHL's most-prolific scorer, died on Friday. He was 88.

"A lot of times when you meet your idols and people you respect and look up to, sometimes it's not as great as you had anticipated or you built it up too much," Wayne Gretzky told ESPN. "I was so lucky when I met Gordie. I was 10. It was so much nicer and bigger and better than I had ever imagined it. To this day when people come up to me that talk about having done a book report or speech about me, I always talk about the time that my fondest memory in public school was writing a book report on Gordie Howe."

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What: 2016 Panini Origins football cards
Arrives: Aug. 24
Box basics: One autograph, one rookie patch auto and one memorabilia card per seven-card box (16 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: A new addition to the Panini football lineup, Origins focuses on on-card rookie autos and patches from the recent NFL Players Rookie Premiere.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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What: 2016-17 Donruss soccer cards
Arrives: Aug. 17
Box basics: One autograph or Canvas/Mosaic parallel per 24-pack box (20 boxes per case).

What's buzz-worthy: Panini's Donruss soccer line returns for a second go with 24 inserts and 24 parallels per box and a look to the past as well with the first officially licensed certified autos for Diego Maradona.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls, building a rainbow of parallel sets and finding NBA Finals stars.

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With the MLB Draft set for Thursday night, we'll soon have a new crop of prospects attached to their professional teams and new players that collectors can now focus upon.

Thanks to various high school all-star sets and USA Baseball releases from Panini America, many of the players who'll be tabbed for future greatness already have cardboard.

That includes potential No. 1 overall pick A.J. Puk, a 6-foot-7 left-handed pitcher for the Florida Gators who was previously drafted in the 35th round by the Detroit Tigers out of high school back in 2013.

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This year's edition of Panini Prestige arrived with a new look and a new format -- and a crop of dramatically short-printed Rookie Cards still to be revealed -- but there's no doubt that one thing is the same.

The action and intensity of football.

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There are short-printed Rookie Cards in 2016 Panini Prestige football packs, which begin arriving today in hobby shops and Panini America is planning a slow reveal of who's rarer than the rest of the guys.

The company announced the first two SPs Wednesday and they are Oakland Raiders pick Connor Cook and Dallas Cowboys pick Jaylon Smith.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2003 Playoff Piece of the Game baseball cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: Wherever you can find it this reasonably priced ($49).

Packs per box: 6 (plus one bonus topper pack)
Cards per pack: 1
Cards in this box: 7
Base set completion: 
4 of 179 (2 percent)
Duplicates: 0

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big case finds, even bigger blasters, NSCC preparation and the newest UFC matchup.

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If you hadn't noticed, there are a number of cases with dramatically discounted prices this weekend over on the mothership and they were dramatic enough that Buzz had to sit down and ponder the possibilities in many of them.

So much so here are five that caught this collector's eye.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big breaks from the NBA, NFL and Star Wars ranks plus Brock Lesnar's UFC return.

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Panini America is getting into the real-time trading card wave with a new program revealed on Friday that will launch with the Copa America Centenario soccer tournament this weekend.

Panini Instant will give collectors 24 hours to order cards reflecting key 0r memorable moments in the sports world.

There will be standard cards, which will be serial-numbered to the ordered amount, as well as parallels numbered to 25, five and even a 1/1 copy. The first Instant card(s) will be available tomorrow at iCollectPanini.com between noon and 1 p.m. CST.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls, retro breaks, baseball hauls and The National.

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We're less than two weeks away from the arrival of 2016 Panini Flawess and its game-changing high-end potential being unleashed upon the hobby.

But that doesn't mean we can't yet get a sneak peek of what's coming.

Panini America is busy readying those silver briefcases with baseball cards for the first time, and they'll include 10 cards per box (or 20 total if you go the sealed case case route).

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Father's Day is roughly two weeks away and Panini America's plans for its annual hobby shop promotion are coming together with a multi-sport release that celebrates nearly all ends of the sports world all on one place.

The Father's Day promo pack.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big wrestling pulls, more 1990s NBA box breaks, favorite Panini NBA releases and ... what if the Golden State Warriors lose?

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Collecting MiLB gamers, big box breaks, X-Men: Apocalypse and WWE.

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