Group Break Results - 1994 Fleer Flair & 2020 Panini Prizm

After taking a week off from hosting breaks, we were back at it again last night with a box of 1994 Fleer Flair Series 2 and two Mega Boxes of 2020 Panini Prizm. If you missed the live stream, here is a quick recap from the boxes.

Since the Prizm break completely sold out we'll start here. Each Mega Box contained 8 packs each with 4 cards plus one bonus 12 card pack full of 3 different parallels. Each box also promised an auto.

We pulled a pretty good selection of base cards as you can see above. Personally I like the base design of Prizm much more this year than last.

There are several insert sets this year including Fireworks, Illumination, Machines, Star Gazing, Top of the Class and Warming in the Pen. These look pretty good, but the Prizm parallels look even better!

Bo Bichette's base RC was pulled, as was this Illumination insert of the Astros' Yordan Alvarez.

Prizm parallel of Gleyber Torres Lumber Inc. and a blue Prizm of Lindor #/199. Both are so beautiful in hand and these images do NOT do them justice.

Also pulled 3 of the silver Prizms: Bryan Abreu (Astros), Dan Vogelbach (Mariners) and CJ Abrams (Padres).

Our two autographs are names I'm not familiar with, but both are RCs so perhaps they'll make a name for themselves soon?

The last pack we opened from each Prizm box was the 12 card bonus pack. These contained 3 different Prizm parallel sets that were exclusive to Mega Boxes.

Teal Wave Prizm

Carolina Blue Prizm

Cosmic Haze Prizm

I asked the question last night in the video which company had the nicest "shiny" cards...Topps with their Refractors or Panini with their Prizms. Several people commented Prizms and I have to agree. While the Cosmic Haze aren't my favorite flavor or Prizm parallels, all of them are super nice in hand.

Next we turned the clock back to 1994. Why 1994 Flair? Well easy, I never opened much of it back in the day. I selected Series 2 for two other reasons as well. 1) Hot Glove inserts and 2) Alex Rodriguez RC. I know the card doesn't carry the same weight that it used to, or that it's not even his best RC, I still thought it would be a fun rip. Unfortunately the sheer amount of work I had to do to rip all that packaging did suck a little of the fun out of the break.

We didn't find the Alex Rodriguez RC until a little more than halfway through the box! I was glad to see it however and I'm sure that Ben who grabbed the Mariners in this break was happy to see it too!

The beautiful Hot Glove insert went to the Minnesota Twins with this nice Kirby Puckett. This is such an awesome early 90's insert set...if they weren't so expensive I've chase them all down.

While Series 1 featured Outfield Power, Series 2 featured Infield Power. Bagwell, Williams, Clark and Piazza...not bad.

The last insert set was Wave of the Future 2. Most of these players sadly didn't pan out. Fleer would use this set for young/prospect players for many years after 1994 and thankfully the design got a little better in subsequent years.

All in all it was another fun break. I really enjoying hosting these. During the week prior to this break I had a little "membership drive" of sorts to get more people in the Facebook group. It seemed to work as we added several new people. Some of these new members asked for football, while others mentioned they were new to baseball or new to breaks in general. Since my recent order won't be here until early next week, I think the next break will be a super cheap baseball break (all teams will most likely be $1 to $2 each with a focus on base cards) and the following week we'll try some football. Keep an eye out for more info. Until then, thanks again to everyone that participated.

Affordable Group Break - 2020 Panini Prizm (x2 Mega Boxes)

** 07/15/20 - PRICES DROPPED ON REMAINING TEAMS **

This break will feature two Mega Boxes of 2020 Panini Prizm. For more info on this set, be sure to visit the Trading Card Database or BaseballCardPedia for checklists. Most of you know by now that there are tons of parallel sets, including Team Wave, Cosmic Haze and Carolina Blue Prizms exclusive to Mega Boxes. Each box should yield one auto as well.

Price is listed beside each team. All cards ship. Any cards with multiple players featured will be randomed off between those participants. The price does not include shipping. Stacking applies so if you bought into a previous break or want me to hold your cards until you see what's next, I'll send you a PayPal invoice for shipping whenever you're ready. We'll break this box Live on my YouTube channel on Friday, July 17th at 10 PM Eastern. I'll update all of my social media outlets (FB group, Twitter @flywheels) as the teams are claim.

To claim your team(s) please comment with your request and submit your payment at that time. If you haven't participated in one of my breaks, please email me your name & mailing address. Please send your payment as Friends & Family: http://paypal.me/flywheels86


Arizona Diamondbacks $3 - Wade F PAID
Atlanta Braves - Colbey PAID
Baltimore Orioles $3 - Ross L PAID
Boston Red Sox $5 - Hal S PAID
Chicago Cubs $5 - Ben M PAID
Chicago White Sox $5 - Ross L PAID
Cincinnati Reds $3 - Paul D PAID
Cleveland Indians $5 - Drew I PAID
Colorado Rockies $4 - Johnny R PAID
Detroit Tigers $4 - Paul D PAID
Houston Astros $5 - @cardpocalypseNC PAID
Kansas City Royals $4 - @jmswyo PAID

Los Angeles Angels $6 - Tom T PAID
Los Angeles Dodgers $8 - Alex M PAID

Miami Marlins $2 - Sean S PAID
Milwaukee Brewers $4 - Ross L PAID
Minnesota Twins $4 - Tim Bailey PAID
New York Mets $3 - Aaron H PAID
New York Yankees $6 - @Lost_Collector PAID
Oakland Athletics $3 - Paul D PAID
Philadelphia Phillies $3 - Aaron H PAID
Pittsburgh Pirates $3 - Wade F PAID
San Diego Padres $6 - Ross L PAID
San Francisco Giants $4 - Brandon B PAID
Seattle Mariners $6 - Ross L PAID
St. Louis Cardinals $4 - Kerry B PAID
Tampa Bay Rays $4 - @cardpocalypseNC PAID
Texas Rangers $4 - @napkindoon PAID
Toronto Blue Jays $6 - Joey N PAID

Washington Nationals $5 - @napkindoon PAID

   

Box Break - 2020 Panini Prizm

Earlier this week my family I made our way from SC up to KY to visit family stationed at Fort Knox. When we make this trek we usually stop midway to breakup the 8 hour trip. Traveling with young kids having to stop for bathroom breaks is a given. One of these stops once we crossed over from TN into KY was at a Walmart. Of course after I completed my initial business, I checked out the card aisle. Like most pictures I've screen across social media, the section was ravaged...minus a few boxes I spied on the left side of the 4 foot section...

...2020 Prizm!! They had one Mega Box left and a few blasters. I stood there for a moment and contemplated buying the Mega Box, but ultimately decided on one blaster (and one discounted WWE Raw blaster).

As we continued our drive to Fort Knox, I opened the blaster in the car and documented the highlights of each pack via Twitter. On the way back home we stopped back in Knoxville for the night so I had some down time in the hotel room as my wife and kids slept so I thought I'd share those same photos of the cards from the blaster for those who may not converse with the little blue birdie.

I don't usually buy much of the annual shiney cards, but good golly miss molly you can't find any new cards at local Target and Walmart stores these days. If you do, you better buy them up because you're more likely to catch a glimpse of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster than you are to find more cards! This blaster of 2020 Prizm was my first experience in person with the brand, only catching Nothing If Not Random's post from 07/04/20. I'd much rather buy a blaster of a product that is going to yield more than just 32 cards if I'm paying $20, but I have to give it to Panini as they have put out yet another nice product with the limitations they have to work with.

The packaging said that the Silver Prizms fell roughly two per blaster and I pulled one right off the bat in the first pack. Of course these don't photo well, but most of us know by now just how much the rainbow color pops on these in hand. I figured it would be easy to swap this Kris Bryant for something on my want lists too.

The last card in the 2nd pack was this Lumber Inc. insert of J.D. Martinez. Of course the Prizm parallels of these look even better, but I remember some of the inserts from previous years of Prizm and I have to say Panini has stepped up their game. This particular insert set doesn't knock my socks off, but it's nice and I'm sure I can find a Red Sox trading partner.

The 3rd pack yielded these two young guys. I'm not a prospector and never have been, so I really don't know much about Luis Robert other than a lot of collectors seem to be going crazy over his RCs so I guess this is a good pull. The next card in the pack was another of these Now on Deck, but the Prizm parallel of Jo Adell. Again, this is another name I'm not familiar with, but a quick Google search seems to have him ranked the 3rd highest prospect going into this shortened 2020 baseball season.

The next pack had this Javier Baez Brilliance insert hiding at the bottom of the stack. It's nice to see some color since the base cards are basically all silver and black. I can only imagine how much the Prizm version of these cards pop with that colored background. I hope once I get back from from this road trip I'll get to see first hand as I picked up two different Prizms of Charlie Blackmon from this insert set.

The next few packs didn't have anything that really stood out to me, but the last pack did yield this non-serially numbered Green Prizm. I'll say it again...the colored Prizm cards pop so much in hand and are just beautiful. I may have to track down a few of these different Prizms of some guys for my PCs.

Speaking of guys I collect, the last pack I opened was an 8 card bonus pack. These are exclusive to the blasters and contain 4 Purple Prizms and 4 White Wave Prizms. While the Purple parallels are equally as nice as the Green I pulled earlier, I was really happy to find this Freddie Freeman sitting in the stack.

I didn't photograph any of the other Purple or any of the White Wave Prizms as it was hard to get good photos while driving down the road, but I was impressed enough w/ this blaster that I picked up another on the way home! I may have even grabbed a few more things while I was at a Walmart, but I'll save those for later.

All in all I like what I have seen. I'm still on the fence when it comes to buying more for myself, but it was a fun rip on an otherwise boring car ride in the middle of nowhere!