2024-25 Panini Donruss Optic Basketball Hobby Box

Wax Pricing

What are these options?

Hobby Box

The full-size box sold through card shops rather than big-box stores. It has the most packs and the best odds, and most modern hobby boxes guarantee at least one autograph or memorabilia card. Pack and card counts vary by product line. Older listings sometimes call this a wax box.

Mega Box

A mid-size retail box, bigger than a blaster and smaller than a hobby box. Mega-exclusive parallels are the main draw, and some megas guarantee a hit.

Blaster Box

The small retail box sold at stores like Walmart and Target, usually the cheapest full box on the shelf. Autographs are not guaranteed, but many blasters carry exclusive parallels you cannot pull from a hobby box.

Hanger Box

The cheapest retail format, a slim box made to hang on a store peg. It gives the most cards per dollar and suits set builders more than hit chasers.

choice

Panini sells Choice as its own box tier, built around a single pack holding base cards, parallels and a guaranteed hit. The Choice-only parallels are the draw, and they carry the word in their names. Look for Choice Red, Blue, Black Gold and the one of one Choice Nebula, so the card itself tells you which box it came from. Autograph counts vary by product line. On this productChoice boxes carry exclusive parallels with small circles in the background, including Dragon Choice, Red Choice /88, White Choice /48, Choice Blue /24 and Choice Black Gold /8, plus Choice-only autographs.

fast break

A Panini configuration with a look of its own, known for Disco-pattern parallels and rookie variations found only in Fast Break. Usually one guaranteed autograph. On this productFast Break boxes hold a dozen parallels found only here, such as Holo, Purple /99, Red /75, Pink /25, Gold /10 and Black 1/1, plus the exclusive Fast Break Signatures autograph series.

Cases

The factory-sealed carton a product ships in, holding a set number of boxes. A full case is the whole carton; an inner case is a smaller sealed block from inside it. Case buyers get untouched pack sequencing and a lower price per box. Some rare cards are seeded about once per case, which is what collectors mean by a case hit.

Canada and United States best prices by format

Format	In USAUSD		In CanadaCAD
Hobby Box		$500Trace 'n Chase
Hobby Box basketball choice box				$330
Hobby Box choice		$275
Hobby Box fast break		$300
Hobby Box hobby		$590
Hobby Box hobby international		$375
Mega Box		$55
Blaster Box		$40
Hanger Box		$23
Hobby Box Case choice (20)		$5,450, $272 per box
Mega Box Case (20)		$1,075, $54 per box
Blaster Box Case (20)		$790, $39 per box

These are the best prices we could find for this product across the 8 retailers we follow for 2024-25 Panini Donruss Optic, checked daily. Prices move constantly and stock sells out; always confirm on the retailer’s own page before buying.