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Friday July 30, 2010 1:45 PM EST: Panini National Convention Update. National Sports Collector's Convention Wrapper Redemption For those of you making the trip to Baltimore for The National- August 4-8-make sure to stop by the Panini booth for what is sure to be the hottest promotion at this year's National. If you bring five (5) unopened packs of any 2010 Panini NFL or 2009-10 Panini NBA hobby product (or a box of Retail) to the booth, you will receive a two- card limited-edition National pack. The exclusive set will consist of 50 Donruss Elite cards sequentially numbered to 499. There will also be green parallels (# to 50), blue parallels (# to 25) and black parallels with certified autographs (# to 25 or less). As an added bonus, instant win cards will be redeemable during the show for a signed 8" x 10" Prestige rookie card from an NFL rookie. The set will include the top rookies and stars from the company's line of fully licensed NFL, NBA, NHL and CLC products: NFL: Peyton Manning, Tim Tebow, Adrian Peterson, Brett Favre, Colt McCoy, Dez Bryant, Drew Brees, Joe Flacco, Sam Bradford, Tom Brady and more. NBA: Kobe Bryant, LeBron James & Chris Bosh (in their Miami Heat uniforms), Dwyane Wade, 76ers Rookie Evan Turner, Kevin Durant, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Rajon Rondo, Dwight Howard, Tyreke Evans, Brandon Jennings and more. NHL: Ryan Miller, Henrik Sedin, Alex Ovechkin and rookies PK Subban and Nazem Kadri. Donruss Elite Extra Edition: Bryan Holaday, Cito Culver, Cole Leonida and Chris Sale.

Friday July 30, 2010 11:33 PM EST: To help commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the anime series Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. is proud to bring you one of the most exciting products of the year, Legendary Collection. The Yu‐Gi‐Oh! TRADING CARD GAME Legendary Collection contains 6 Booster Packs and 6 Ultra Rare Cards. The cards include special variant cards of some of the most famous monsters from the original TV series. Also included are three of the most popular, most requested, and most sought‐after monsters ever created: The original Egyptian God Cards! Previously available only as limited release, hard‐to‐find promotional items, this is your first – and possibly last – chance to get all three of the Egyptian God cards for yourself! View the presentation here

Friday July 30, 2010 9:35 AM EST: ICV2 has posted the top selling entertainment releases for Q2 2010, and we share this with you to show you what is happening in the market as a whole. By no means is this indicative of any given store, but just a guide that may help you channel your energies. To view the list click here

Friday July 23, 2010 12:55 PM EST: Press Pass announces their promotions for this year’s National Convention in Baltimore.

Please pass this information onto your retailers who will be at the show, so they can take advantage of the planned activities.

Open one NASCAR hobby box (all 2010 products are eligible) and get:

A free autograph or dual memorabilia card (blind wrapped)

1 key to crack the safe.  Crack the safe prizes are 1 per day.  Come back and try your key in the safe at 7:00 PM Wednesday, 3:00 PM Thursday-Saturday, and 1:00PM on Sunday to see if you have won!  Prize list includes:

Wednesday: Michael Waltrip Race-Used Gloves and Autographed Driver-Worn Hat

Thursday: Dale Earnhardt Jr complete set of eight race-used spark plugs

Friday: Dale Earnhardt Sr 2001 Optima Race-Used Lugnut Card (Driver Version)

Saturday: Greg Biffle Firesuit

Sunday: Juan Pablo Montoya autographed visor

1 ticket to pack wars.  Pack wars occur daily!  Press Pass will provide 3 packs to battle with and great prizes, including an exclusive National one of one card each session! Pack War Schedule

Wednesday: 6:00PM

Thursday – Friday: 1:00PM, 4:00PM

Saturday: 12:00PM, 2:00PM, 4:00PM  

Additionally, we will again produce a National–Exclusive 6-card set for the “VIP Club”.  Five of the six cards will be clear cello wrapped and inserted into the VIP Club gift bags. The VIPs will redeem a coupon at our booth for the 6th card (Danica Patrick). 

Thursday July 22, 2010 10:14 AM EST: 2010 Topps Heritage Stephen Strasburg coming to August National Sports Collectors Convention in Baltimore. Collectors who purchase 10 packs of cards at the Topps booth will receive 1 of just 999 of the event exclusive Strasburg. Collectors opening 10 packs of 2010 Topps or 2010 Bowman baseball cards at the Topps booth will receive Stephen Strasburg’s 2010 Topps Heritage card (# NCC1)! Topps Attax, Topps Opening Day, and the .99 cent Topps Cello Packs do not qualify for the free Strasburg. The card will be numbered to 999 and will be available at designated times from Wednesday, August 4th to Sunday August 8th.  The card will be limited to one copy per person per day. Click here to see the card

Monday July 19, 2010 11:42 AM EST: 2009-10 Panini NBA Season Update will contain the first LeBron and Chris Bosh Miami Heat cards as well as the first Amar’e Stoudemire Knicks cards and first Carlos Boozer Chicago Bulls cards. Each of these four will be SPs and each of the four update cards should fall one per case, so a case buyer is going to get one of each SP. They are numbered as part of the regular set. Also, those four updated cards are in addition to four non-SP cards of those four players - LeBron will also have a non-SP Cavs card, Bosh will have a non-SP Raptors, Stoudemire will have a non-SP Suns card and Boozer will have a non-SP Jazz card. And please note: The SPs carry a different card number than the non-SP card of those players, so a complete set will include two different LeBron cards (card # 82 with Cavs and #168 with Heat), two different Bosh cards (card #42 with Raptors and #167 with Heat), two different Stoudemire cards (card #140 with Suns and #35 with Knicks) and two different Boozer cards (card #79 with Bulls and card #125 with Jazz)

Tuesday July 6, 2010 9:40 AM EST: 2010 SPX NCAA Football. This release will feature all of the great aspects that collectors have come to love and expect from SPX Football over the years. We are currently soliciting this release and please note that this is subject to allocation, view the pdf presentation here

Tuesday July 6, 2010 9:40 AM EST: Topps announces the player redeemable for the 2010 Topps Finest Baseball Rookie Redemption # 6 is Washington Nationals Pitcher Stephen Strasburg. (image attached) Throughout the 2010 Major League Baseball season, Topps will announce the subjects for the 10-card Rookie Redemption set. Each Master Box of Topps Finest includes one Rookie Redemption. In addition, collectors can also find redemptions for Blue Refractors (#’d to 199) and Gold Refractors (#’d to 50) versions. Stay tuned for Rookie Redemption # 7 view card

Upcoming Events

The 31st National Sports Collectors Convention

August 4th to 8th 2010 at the Baltimore Convention Center

Sports Images New Jersey Event

Saturday August 21, 2010 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Hilton Woodbridge Conference Room # 203

120 South Wood Avenue, Iselin, NJ 08830

for more details click here