2012 Panini Prizm - Holo Prizm Parallel

Year: 2012

Manufacturer: Panini

Set: Prizm

Card Number: 147

Card Type: Base Parallel

Parallel Set: Prizm

COMC Black Friday Haul #45

This card is pretty lackluster, even though it's the Panini equivalent of a refractor.  Oh it's shiny alright, there's just not much to love about this card or this set.  2012 was the first year of Prizm and besides Robin looking like he's playing baseball for a North Korean prison team there's not a whole lot to love about the card.  I will say back in 2012 Panini hadn't quite gotten the parallel bug yet.  There were only 6 base parallels to chase, two of those were retail exclusives to Wal-mart and Target and believe it or not are kind of hard to find.  This card is just the base Prizm parallel or refractor if you will.  It's shiny and doesn't scan well, but at least with the color parallel versions the color adds a little something to what is a very bland card.  

Another Episode of - Haven't I Seen That Before?

Funny story... I posted the 2017 Series 1 Yount checklist and was just casually scrolling down my blog feed when I notice something and it made me do a double take.  I'll be honest had I not just done a post about Robin's 2005 Upper Deck Past Time Pennants card this would have totally escaped me.  I had to laugh.  Not only does Topps recycle the same image over and over again within it's own products, yes I know they use licensed images, but now we get to see Topps use images that other card companies have used.  I'm not mad it just makes me shake my head a little.  I mean Robin played baseball for 20 years!  I'm sure he had tens of thousands of potential images that could be used.  That's probably why I was a big cheerleader for his Stadium Club card last year.  It was unique to the set being the only card not to feature a player doing something basebally, and it was an image I hadn't seen used before.  

Here's a nice side by side.