Review: Rookie and Stars Football 2012

Fed Ex arrived with a surprise...Rookie and Stars football 2012!! From the outside to the inside this product was a great bust. Early on the hits were disappointing but the last pack in the box brought us excitement!

First off, I would like to say thanks to the WONDERFUL people at Panini America for providing us with this box to review. Here are many places you can find Panini America: official site, blog, Twitter, and Facebook.

And as always...we will do some giveaways from this product!

Here is my review:

Box Design: Love the design!! Best one so far this year. A ton of great players, the box top pulls up and Peyton Manning and Trent Richardson are die cut. This is the kinda of box I use for decoration and card storage. Just check out what I mean and search Tips on Collecting on a Budget on our blog.

Pack Design: Love shiny wrappers loaded with stars. Great design and color scheme.

Base Card: Update teams for players, a clean design with action photos. Silver foil outlines player names. I like what I see from this product.

Rookie Cards: Players in team uni's, and still the nice base design as we spoke about above.

Inserts: As you can see there is a great lineup of them. The True Blue feature blue color instead of the silver on the players names and say True Blue. Longevity is silver cardboard. Gotta love diecuts and especially well done ones. And the Greatest Hits, a set dedicated to the defensive stars of the NFL love how Panini does the black and white then top it off with color. They have done that with a lot of their inserts and its working! There is a gold version thats numbered of the greatest hits.

Memorabilia: The design is spectacular and really enjoyed the larger swatch used for the Crusade Rookie jersey and Revolution Materials has a great layout.

Autographs: You are guaranteed two autos per box...the first pull of our box was of Devon Still which is just the great base design with the added auto. However, our big pull from the last pack in the box of Russell Wilson Crusade auto is outstanding. Its a thick card, Its got an eye catching design..and is one of the best looking auto cards I have seen in awhile.

Overall: Great base design. Nice looking memorabilia and the Crusades autos are a big chase and are numbered to 199. Nice amount of base rookies, inserts and with the 4 hits this is a can't miss product. We have seen some big hits from this product including the one we got.

Ratings:  Bloggers Note: Our ratings are based specifically on the blaster, box or packs we opened and do not express what the overall product could bring. Ratings based on a 1-5. 1 Being the lowest and 5 being the highest.
                Packaging: 5
                Base Design: 5
                Insert Design: 4
                Memorablila/Autographs: 4
                Blaster, Hobby Box, or Pack Value: 4