2023-24 Panini Donruss Optic Basketball Hobby Box

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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.

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 their own base parallels: Choice Red and Green, Choice Red /88, Choice Blue /24, Choice Black Gold /8, and Choice Dragon, plus a one-of-one.

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 have exclusive Rated Rookies Signatures parallels: Fast Break, Fast Break Pink /25 and Fast Break Black /1. Inserts also appear in a Holo Fast Break parallel.

FOTL (First Off The Line)

Panini's early-release program, First Off The Line. A limited run goes straight to collectors before the product reaches shops, and each box adds exclusive parallels or extra hits over the standard hobby box. The program started with 2016-17 Immaculate Basketball. Since 2020 many FOTL drops have been priced by Dutch auction, where the asking price opens high and steps down until the boxes sell out. On this productFOTL hobby boxes average 1 autograph and 20 inserts or parallels, and include an FOTL-exclusive Purple Stars parallel numbered to 17.

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		$1,250
Hobby Box choice		$525
Hobby Box fast break		$800
Hobby Box fotl		$1,500
Hobby Box hobby		$950
Mega Box		$115
Mega Box (hyper pink prizms)		$115
Blaster Box		$60
Hobby Box Case (24)		$11,390, $475 per box
Mega Box Case (20)		$2,300, $115 per box
Blaster Box Case (20)		$1,200, $60 per box

These are the best prices we could find for this product across the 5 retailers we follow for 2023-24 Panini Donruss Optic, checked daily. Prices move constantly and stock sells out; always confirm on the retailer’s own page before buying.