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TOPIC: The Panini Situation
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posted 25-03-2010 14:14

 
According to web sources the World Cup album is going to be published on April 10th. So far so good. What concerns me is that all I can find on the Panini page is advertisement for their World Cup trading cards, not for the stickers. Who can help me find my relief?

Thanks in advance.
 
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posted 25-03-2010 14:15

 
I thought this was going to be about toasted sandwiches.
 
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posted 25-03-2010 14:16

 
This piece on the home page doesn't inspire hope.
 
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posted 25-03-2010 14:32

 
This is a shock. I won't give up hope yet seeing that there are several traders offering stickers (not trading cards) and the album online. But hope is slim.
 
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posted 25-03-2010 15:29

 
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UPDATE. Panini have been in touch to reassure us that a regular World Cup 2010 sticker album will be out in the UK very soon.
 
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posted 25-03-2010 15:52

 
This at least confirms that Panini has the license for stickers.

They do seem to have seriously bungled the information flow here, though.
 
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posted 25-03-2010 22:32

 
This looks reasonably genuine:



I've now seen rumoured release dates from March 15th (didn't happen) to April 10th.
 
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posted 29-03-2010 02:36

 
The best thing about sticker albums is seeing who are the players who didn't make it and who were the obvious ones who got left out. I bet Theo Walcott wasn't in the England set last WC ?

I remember Ian Storey-Moore (just 'cos there was early talk of Man Utd signing him) and Henry Newton being in the WC70 album and us 12 yr olds knew they weren't going. And much to our dismay Alf picked Osgood (not in the book) ahead of Peter Thompson (in the book) when he already had Astle, Clarke and Hurst at centre forwards. Although I guess Clarke may have counted as an inside forward. I look forward to starting the set with my daughter :-)..

And there are WC2010 Trading cards (my preference) available also - lots of links - here's one.

www.soccercards.com/acatalog/Soccer_Trading_Cards.html
 
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posted 31-03-2010 02:04

 
My WC90 collection had John Anderson in the Irish squad, despite the fact that Anderson hadn't played a competitive game since the WC86 qualifiers. He had been an unused squad member at Euro88 so I assume Panini were just operating off that list, but it was strange nonetheless as up to that point in the four years of Charlton's reign, Anderson had won just one cap - in a friendly against Tunisia in September 1988.

If I recall correctly, Toto Schillaci wasn't in the Panini's Italian squad for WC90.
 
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posted 31-03-2010 03:47

 
I'm pretty sure that is right about Toto, and that his sticker was made available to Italian collectors as an extra insert with the sports papers.
 
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posted 31-03-2010 18:05

 
So are we going to have a OTF competition to see who can complete the album first? We can all use Sons/Daughters/Nephews/Nieces as spurious excuses for doing such a thing as grown men.
 
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posted 31-03-2010 20:02

 
Woulnd't be fair, I assume. I work as a teacher and can confiscate what I want.
 
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posted 01-04-2010 16:21

 
George: Hofmeister bear wrote:
So are we going to have a OTF competition to see who can complete the album first? We can all use Sons/Daughters/Nephews/Nieces as spurious excuses for doing such a thing as grown men.

Stickers or trading cards ? UK set or ROW/US set - the US set is bigger than the sets in the UK ?

You can alreay buy complete UK trading card sets on ebay for less than 20 quid.
 
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posted 08-04-2010 23:56

 
So when's this sticker album out then? Was going to go down the trading cards route until I found that they aren't doing all of the teams. Rubbish.
 
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posted 09-04-2010 00:46

 
After a bit of googling it appears it came out in the UK yesterday. Will be heading to WHSmith tomorrow.
 
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posted 10-04-2010 14:45

 
Jon wrote:
After a bit of googling it appears it came out in the UK yesterday. Will be heading to WHSmith tomorrow.

Bah - it's easy enough for you teachers who have a supply of kids to rip-off when it comes to swapsies.

Yes lad, that Leo Messi foil is worth about the same as this Leighton Baines standard sticker.
 
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posted 12-04-2010 14:01

 
I have my album, I'm assuming that the regular sticker collectors will be letting us know of their swaps list soon - Ursus, RayDeChaussee, mnb098mnb, cubillas ... I'm looking at you guys.
 
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posted 12-04-2010 14:23

 
Jorge, I'm afraid that we are out of the game this year. It's too difficult to get supply in the US.
 
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posted 12-04-2010 14:34

 
... we can always send you a box or two!
 
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posted 12-04-2010 15:38

 
When did Panini reduce the number of stickers per pack to five? You always got six when I collected them as a lad.
 
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