2011 Panini Rookies & Stars Box Break

Packs Per Box:  24
Cards Per Pack:  8
Total Cards Expected:  192

Total Cards Received: 196
Total Common Cards: 160
Total Rookie Cards: (24) (B. Batch, K. Pilares, T. Sash, G. Carimi, R. Quinn, R. Housler, C. Liuget, M. Wilkerson, N. Enderle, G. Jones, T. Taylor, D. Watkins, N. Fairley, B. Harris, K. Sheppard, C. Allen, N Irving, A. Allen, A. Bradford, J. Mouton, J. Sheard, A. Williams, C. Brown, R. Johnson)
Total Insert Cards: (12)
     Rookie Revolution Jersey #/299: (1) Greg Little
     Rookie Revolution: (1) Jamie Harper
     Rookie Revolution Gold #/500: (1) Von Miller
     Studio Rookies Black #/100: (1) Mark Ingram
     Studio Rookies: (1) Delone Carter
     Longevity Gold #/49: (1) Curtis Brown
     Longevity Holofoil #/99: (1) Marvin Austin
     Longevity #/249: (2) Patrick Peterson, Ben Roethlisberger
     SP Rookie Autograph #/299: (1) J.J. Watt
     SP Rookies Signatures Emerald #/10: (1) Lance Kendricks (Redemption)
     Freshman Orientation Materials Prime: (1) DeMarco Murray #/50

Our Thoughts:

     First thing is that the base set cards are all orientated vertically.  I like that and wish that they would continue that theme throughout the insert cards except for autographs.  The card design is decent.  I don't like the way that the background fades out.  Either have the background go to a certain point on the card and stop or put the player on a team colored background and have it uniform.  The way it is now, it just seems cheap.  The Name of the product on the left hand side of the card is redundant.  You already have the card set logo on the upper right corner, so instead of the set name, put their position or some other info about the player.  The logo is OK in the upper left corner.  The back of the card is a good thing.  I am not a fan of one season and total stats, but they wrote a blurb about the player's 2010 season.  That makes it seem like they actually did some research on the players they included in the set.  The design from the front is incorporated on the back as well.  Overall, the design is well thought out.

    There isn't lots of inserts included in each box.  This product is basically for collecting you favorite players and hoping that you get a large hit in the limited amount of inserts you get.  That is fine, but the price for the box is a little high for that type of product.  I purchased the box at $80 and feel like what I received for the money isn't enough.  When I say that, I'm not talking the specific pulls that I got, but what would normally be in a box.  Let's say that you pulled a Jordan Todman SP Signature Rookie, the Greg Little Rookie Revolution Jersey, Freshman Orientation Jersey of Blaine Gabbert and a SP Rookie Signatures card of Ricky Stanzi.  That is 2 Autos and 2 Jersey cards.  Do you think that if you pulled those four cards, that you would feel like you got your money's worth?  I don't and that is a typical pull from a box.  Blaine Gabbert would have been that high money pull when this first came out, but with the value of time being present, you can see that the typical pull isn't worth the money I spent.

Last, but not least is parallels.  If you do inserts, please stop doing parallels of the inserts.  Call them something else and allow collectors to stop having to figure out which parallels they pulled.

Box Value:  2.5 out of 5.