2022 Donruss Optic Baseball Forum

6 months on I can find no actual Red Wave parallels in the wild. No completed sales, no mentioned hits. There is one member with 2 listed in their collection but haven’t heard back when I reached out for verification. Anyone ever seen any of these? It’s possible yet it could be something Panini throws out there as a promo (National, etc) like they’ve done in the past with Pink parallels of Select as an example but that would make them listed in a separate release. Just wondering if we might be getting to the point of considering they may not have been released. 

Adding the “Carolina Blue & White” parallel to this as well. I don’t believe those or the Red Wave parallels were produced for 2022. Member mentioned above never responded and as often as people get these Panini parallels wrong I confidently doubt those are accurate. Thoughts on removal of these two? 

I looked over at COMC and they don't list either the Red Wave or Carolina Blue & White in their parallel list.  I did go over to the Panini website and looked up the checklist from the source and it does list both parallels on the master checklist.  I doubt Panini would respond to an inquiry about their production, but maybe it's worth a shot.  You could be right these parallels could have been saved for promo packs, or completely never produced (I mean this set has 35 base parallels!!)

I’ll reach out (you’re right they probably won’t respond) and wait a couple weeks to see if anything pops up from promos at the National otherwise submit IRs if nothing turns up 

Wrong card ♠️😂 nvm

Well thanks for the reminder at least. IR submitted :)

This may be common knowledge, but I thought I'd throw it out there in case it isn't. In the past the Red Wave parallels were in the Target exclusive mega boxes and the Carolina Blue & White parallels were in the Walmart exclusive mega boxes. Panini never ended up releasing any mega boxes for optic baseball in 2022, so I think the information for those parallels came from pre-release checklists before the mega boxes didn't end up happening.

That makes sense and explains the same scenario for the blue/white. I knew they had been exclusive but didn’t know megas hadn’t been produced. Think retail was still nothing but empty shelves around here at that point so never thought anything of it