THE INSERTS ARE SOOOO BAD!! | 2023-24 Optic NBA Retail Blaster Review

A few years ago Optic NBA retail slapped with a ton of great looking inserts. So what happened? Why did these great and highly collectible insert designs get reduced to highly forgettable throwaway inserts? Let's talk about the downfall of Panini's graphic design team and why Optic NBA retail blasters and megas are simply not as fun as Select NBA.
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[@blackngold7120]

My ass hurt after 20 blasters, 2 sparkle scrubs, 2 base wembys, 1 checkerboard rc scrub and a no namer autographed card

[@calicardrips301]

Optic retail is garbage. I’ve 10plus blasters and nothing. I feel you bro.

[@InvisibleKnight7]

Maybe it’s cuz I grew up in the 90’s where multiple companies were competing to put out the best product, but I miss the Metals, Flairs, SkyBox, Finest & Upper Deck. Inserts & subsets were incredible then.

[@TheRbruin10]

Honestly, it's more worth collecting 90s/pre 2010 basketball cards over the modern day crap. More value in the longterm over the new stuff.

[@freeaudiobooks7469]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂​@@TheRbruin10

[@Devisalive1]

i've opened like 20, gotten 6 auto, several base wembys and a couple silver/purple inserts, a gold scoot express lane /10, and an SGA checkerboard. Its treated me well

[@beckhitcards9792]

His opinion means nothing. Just another guy ripping except with a camera in his face.

[@Devisalive1]

@@beckhitcards9792 well i wouldnt say nothing, i got great luck, he didn't. people's opinions are based off of their experiences.

[@Chan_JLC]

Then why does he have more than 50,000 subscribers? ​@@beckhitcards9792

[@clintonwai6692]

​@@beckhitcards9792ok

[@chadcory9690]

His opion shows me what I need to no optic retail is dog crap

[@HobbyNewsPlus]

That "Splash" design was hilarious.

[@randyscovill5671]

Ripped two optic mega's didn't get squat. Opened two blasters nothing from the first one. The second blaster 3 wemby's and one of the packs was two wemby's back to back. So hit or miss it's wild

[@AfternoonGrind]

My blaster blew away a mega. I love Optic, I wish it wasn't so overprinted.

[@VicsSportsCards]

Love your videos man. You gotta be the funniest card ripper on KZbin.

[@pamn1220]

First wave stock i grabbed 3 hit red glitter ant black rc & checkerboard Jordan hawkins rc sold the glitter, sending checker off to PSA and holding that one for while

[@wfletcher6666]

The mega was a fun open, and I like the copper here, but I don't know why they didn't put the Slammy's here ala Downtown in FB. Big whiff by Panini. I do like the Splash. Thanks for the vid.

[@j_toledo419]

So to be clear, products suck unless we all pull nothing but 🔥 out of each and every box??

[@rugdoctor7816]

Ripped nearly a case of optic blasters. Purple, holo and checkerboard Wemby! Plus a Phazes Curry. I’ve had better luck with Optic than Select.

[@craytown_usa]

Good point on inserts not needing the insert-name on the card.

[@rumplefuorskin5980]

My blaster battle results (Walmart) Select: 1/49 Andre Jackson Jr green/white/purple and Optic: 26/149 Brandon Miller green 2 off from jersey match + Scottie Pippen Jr base auto (miller and the auto were in the same pack)

[@aeff15]

Part of it is that optic football retail color for the most part is all rated rookie (with the exception of the stars parallel I believe) where as for basketball it’s the entire checklist - rookies and vets making it much more difficult to hit color of a top rookie

[@aeff15]

Plus no downtowns of course

[@bburn6157]

Definitely an accurate representation of a typical experience with optic. I've opened probably 15 blasters and 10 megas. I've got two base wemby, all the wemby Inserts in purple or silver (except the phazes SSP obviously), gafford checkerboard and two glitters...Lonnie Walker and Sasha Vezenkov rc. Top rookies are tough to hit in base parallel fo sho! Select was real good to me but I bought a shit ton of it.

[@historyrevisited1803]

2024 Splash Parallel: "Look how they massacred my boy!!"

[@ezequielcadena9349]

Do you have any Chet RC Fluorescent parallels to /10 from Mosaic in your PC ?

[@RunGoodLife]

No and I want to add one.

[@JGstone-ej3pp]

Keeping it real with RGL!

[@johncarls1]

So funny how people can have different feelings on design. I love the new Splash and can't stand the Express Lane myself! Keep up the awesome work! :)

[@stumpyvision4749]

Select has crazy odds for numbered cards due to the 4 tiers of cards all numbered. Thats alot of numbered cards and you are only getting rcs or stars..😊

[@parkerharrison6481]

Unusual take, I actually love the insert designs especially winner stays and my house.

[@kempersportscards8341]

Watching on my way down to cards HQ, gonna check it out and hopefully sell some cards!!!

[@justanothercollector43]

Your trying to sell to resellers lol bro your a 🤡 that’s worst than a pawn shop you’ll get cents on the dollar why don’t u do the work yourself 😂 I swear y’all lose money just to meet KZbinrs

[@XYouVandal]

The glitters are great. I got a blue to 15 glitter of Keyonte Johnson. Sold for $10

[@JTSCARDSTORE]

This is hilarious, I literally just opened on today.... I was like....

[@wadestclair249]

Names on the inserts have been on cards basically since the inception of inserts. 🤔

[@user-jj5om3os8w]

I agree, the base card design is the best thing going for this product.

[@We-R1collectibles.ON_EBAY]

I hit a Phazes Luka. A pink Wemby rr out of a mega. Silver scoot and Amen. A few #'d role players that's about it. Gotta know when to stop. Probably better off buying singles

[@jasonp5647]

I have had a bit of luck with optic and select so I'm kinda in the middle

[@Prtxsports]

Wish I would have seen this before I bought a bunch of these. 😢

[@oldhead2769]

Idk i just opened 6 of these todays..i got a wemby a bufkin auto to 25 a couple of those coppers which i liked the look of. Select is tired man..way to many versions of that and keep seeing the same cards over and over.

[@danielcoy4938]

Optic Retail ? Good Luck finding any boxes around where I live

[@clauspage]

Damn. Rough!

[@mikecorbett8180]

Pulled a /75 Rated Rookie from Dallas not lively

[@cremefraiche4018]

The jazz ssp are fire!!

[@tinaoruna1689]

Hi rgl let’s go

[@krod7]

It’s terrible. Collation is awful and the designs are lackluster. Like you said, the Splash looks bad too and it used to be one of the cooler inserts Panini had

[@clintonwray627]

Not the best year for inserts. They need to take the insert design guy outside and old yeller him. Thank you for the video!!

[@beckhitcards9792]

All your own opinion. I had great luck with optic and loved the product! You must have had bad luck. Maybe next year?

[@CanadianRetailRips]

I really like optic, but you couldn't be more correct about the splash inserts. Biggest downgrade

[@user-wk4vz7ij4l]

I actually like the hot rookie inserts lol 😅

[@pwnzalot9723]

I like the my house design this year compared to the past 3 years, 2020-21 was the best design by far! All the other inserts are kinda bleh….. I’ve pulled jack crap orthodontic so far, my wife on the other hand has pulled a purple my house wemby, silver my house wemby, Ant Man green /149 express lane, and a couple other good ones, I’m just gonna let her open everything from now on 🤣😂🤣😂

[@bodhipierce-cogburn6273]

It’s not ausur it’s ausar like star without the t

[@ericflynn6541]

These things SUCK! I opened two Megas today and got 3 dollars worth of cards

[@PackAPunchCards]

I am in the 1%….. I have hit 3 PHASES and a holo Wemby.

[@robertav3]

rip it baby !

[@justinsidlzHITaBANGER]

The 5 megas I picked up were far worse than these blasters! Disgusting

[@TheChineseGodFather]

REALLY?! I must've had a goated 1 mega box lol

[@yukoncorneliusthelegendhim9751]

i wish the finals were at least competitive.. mavs got absolutely smoked, wasn't even close.

[@tonyheimer4521]

Megas were great hit labron and ja phazes a antman slammy and Luka auto redemption

[@joegalloway9011]

Both optic football and basketball was terrible for me this year.

[@matineesportscards]

Just ripped 10 boxes on my channel and sweet mercy it was ugly. Done with ‘em.

[@chadcory9690]

Wow id be majorly ticked that' was really bad looks like all my blaster openings

[@TheChineseGodFather]

1 Mega is 100% better than this lol

[@fleamarketmixtape3793]

Paper donruss had better inserts consistently. Out of optic I would say contenders even over optic. Mosiac always had better inserts then both contenders an donrus optic so... I feel u though thus yrs optic inserts are ass an it is more disappointing when the base design is so fang good this year.

[@robbanks3673]

Idk I like them and pulled lots of good cards u probably just mad u didn't get wembys lol

[@chrisbrucculeri8988]

Optic basketball or pretty much anything basketball is a waste of money to rip . Optic football is definitely better and even Topps series 2 to chase wemby and stroud autos and parallels are more worth it . Atleast you get some other hits

[@jjsin4862]

That was hard to watch. /Comfort buddy.

[@daveczeck344]

Select>>>>optic Not even close

[@josesvo8461]

RGL kinda salty the Celtics won lol

[@chucklee2507]

Card game is over

[@REspo-qs5us]

Same bro 👎

[@JJPlus4]

So sad. Not a fan of the Optic.

[@Bigherc187]

The inserts seem bubbly and cheap

[@JGstone-ej3pp]

I did worse than you

[@SS-wr7ik]

tatum has zero aura…what a garbage finals

[@zachatkins91]

Yikes

[@timeservedphil]

Terrible

[@joshw9558]

Optic looks like a cheap! Stop buying panini

[@spotteddogmemphis]

Hahahaha, another Celtics hater. We can’t help it that we are the best NBA team of all time. Your team moved to OKC, hahaha.

[@Epiknameisme]

F the Celtics!!!