Thread 57936462

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>>57934539
>Jesus man does it feel like they are putting the waifu pandering into mega drive or what?
More like everything that they think prints loads of money and are easy to shill. See >>57935160.
Another Rayquaza set, just like what we had in Gen 8, and Gen 7, and Gen 6.
Another Charizard set, just like what we had earlier in Gen 9, and Gen 8, and Gen 7, and Gen 6.
Another set with Lillie, just like what we had three sets ago during the overt waifu pandering era.
How much you want to bet the next set after Emerald Storm features Mega Garchomp with Cynthia or both Mega Mewtwo with Giovanni? Let's not forget a Mega Fates set next year to churn out more shiny slop or yet another Pikachu or Eevee set.
I fear the final year of this TCG generation is going to be like Gen 7's or worse.

deluxe boosters are soulless

>>57936475
This is exactly why I take some respite in having had Partners, Destiny and BW packs

Not enough Team Rocket in the Team Rocket set

>>57936491
why though

10 days later and my Japanese ebay cards still haven't shipped. this has truly been a lesson learned. never fucking again

>>57936516
I just got a card from Japan today, it took about 3 weeks. Be a bit more patient, they don't usually provide tracking anyway so it's probably already shipped.

>>57936537

how the heck did you know they were sent? did they just appear in the mail?

>>57936582
Yup, they just show up. It's okay though because they usually send you an extra card or 2, sometimes a little kawaii note

>>57936575
>still no Gold and Silver Team Up card
I'm glad I never got into collecting trainers.

best method to cracking open a slab?

>>57936617
God I have so many of these from ripping DR and still don't have the full art. I should just fucking buy it single.

>>57936630
No you're so close if you buy the single now then all of the money you spent on packs up to this point is wasted.

holy fuck

>>57936643
>genuinely rare and very close to irreplaceable item
>some streamer or youtuber will probably buy it and open (destroy) it

>>57936640
>buy another bundle hoping to pull Misty's Psyduck
>pull Team Rocket's Mewtwo instead
Every fucking time

>>57936646
but the content

>>57936575
It's a shame that the Misty & Lorelei is one of those full arts that were never released outside of Japan

>>57936701
Still waiting on a full art reprint set.

>>57936707
I'm surprised they haven't done another Premium Trainers collection despite going all out with FA trainers on SM and onwards.

>>57936701
Did Misty and Lorelei team up in the manga or something or is it just some gooning card artist's vaguely disguised fetish?

>>57936780
They're trainers specialized in the same type, TCG-wise.

this should have been a real card

I think the Articuno in DR is just a common. Pretty sad state of things.

>>57936516
The wait will be worth it. I'd wait 3 months before even considering buying engl*sh

>>57936646
id gladly open a box of skyridge for some absolute kino cards for my binder
and maybe buy an e reader while i'm at it because i never really got to own one

>>57937002
>spoiler
If you ever go that far, do it.
Honestly, you're better off with emulation for anything from the e-Card series. I don't think spending $150 on the cards to play Pika Pop on actual hardware is worth it.

What do with MewTwo DR card? It's really cool but I'm pretty bad at taking care of cards.

some sort of money laundering right?

>>57937044
There are a ridiculous amount of people trying to make mounds of money on a children's cardboard card game and it will never stop. Baseball cards and such have been a thing for way longer than Pokemon.

These Team Rocket sleeves are pretty cool looking but I don't know how protective they sre

>>57937067
Generally the etb sleeves are okay for protection, but deteriorate pretty quickly when used for actual play. They start wearing down quickly when you're shuffling them a lot.

>>57937071
Good to know

They really should have just stopped at gen 3, no one gives a fuck about all these literal who shitmons. I pulled a Reshiram and no one gives a fuck.

>>57937051
Yeah, just look at the prices of cards in the "reserved list" of MTG.

Where's the new Acerola card :(

I still can't find JT in stores.

So, it's the new gen 5 set being scalped or are we finally safe

>>57937172
Yet to see. They're definitely planning on scalping it. But it all depends on whether the normalfags care enough to start buying once they start selling.

>>57937172
Even if they skip unova they're still going to scalp the next set. I don't know what caused this scalping boom but i'm so tired...

>>57937206
Combination of multiple factors
>Surging Sparks and Prismatic Evolutions hype
>TCG Pocket becoming popular
>Influencers and investorfags
>Scalpers being opportunistic parasites
All of these factors more or less created the perfect shit storm.

Severely damaged copies now selling for twice what I paid for a NM copy.

Latefags get fucked.

>>57937267
One of the few card where I prefer English over Japanese.

>>57936646
>(destroy)
By doing exactly what you're meant to do with it? Sealed collectors truly are fucked in the head

>>57937396
Don't think anon actually cares about the cards, just wants an excuse to bitch about youtubers and streamers. Mental illness

>>57937081
Cared enough to buy packs lmao

bros im in love.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1A33Sa962o

I havent bought cards since surging sparks, and wont be buying any unless scalpers leave.
I'd rather leave the hobby then get ripped off by a scalper.

>>57937396
>>57937398
No I own zero sealed Pokemon product but I can appreciate something for its rarity.

Okay and maybe a little of the bitching about streamers and youtubers mental illness thing.

>>57937474
>she doesn't buy singles
lel

>>57937537
singles are inflated too sis

>>57937044
>some sort of money laundering right?
Yes. I unironcially know people that are laundering money through Pokémon cards lmao. They're using it to avoid paying taxes and sell them to their own businesses, or people they know, to clean the money

>>57937396
The best way to enjoy cards is to keep them sealed in boosters, sealed in boxes, in storage in your basement/attic, and look at the value go up on Collectr.

>>57936643
>they will never know what it is like to get this from a £2.50 booster pack

You can buy 3 of each card and it will still be cheaper than the booster pack from the set they came from.

>>57937396
No, it's actually the other way around. You are retard and doing a disservice to the hobby by opening a scarce, rare product like that just "because". If you want the cards there's plenty of supply out there just buy them. If you're opening a rare booster like that just because you want le heckin chungus experience of ripping it you're just a consooomerist retard.

>>57937602
I already transcended this state, I collect sealed in TPC factories without even buying them

>>57937642
Based transcendant collector. The only step up from there is conceptualising cards during the design stage as a part of your sealed collection

i cry at night knowing i will never own lillie 397...

>>57937772
Just take out a loan

>>57937634
>you're just a consooomerist retard.
But not for buying sealed boxes apparently. Like I said, sealed trannies are fucked in the head.

>>57937772
Get the T-Chinese version or continue crying, the choice is yours.

>>57937789
Riptrannies are worse. They don't understand that this hobby is one where you make money with collectables

>>57937803
I do find it quite laughable that gambling addicts have the audacity to take any kind of moral high road.

>>57937775
i cant get a loan, i dont sin
>>57937794
but its just not the real thing, we both know this... i had the chance to buy it but life fucked me over 5 years ago...

>>57937789
There's a difference between 20+ year old sealed product from a time when invoosting was hardly a thing and is scarce vs retards hoarding modern sealed garbage thinking their destined rivals booster box is ever going to x1000. Sealed vintage should be preserved for historical purposes not opened by some Timmy on stream.

>>57937821
>Sealed vintage should be preserved for historical purposes not opened by some Timmy on stream.
Buy it then. You can keep it "preserved" for humanities benefit lol lmao

>>57937772
Same Anon, but life moves on. I'm grateful that I was able to pick up Friends in Alola and Dream League promo Clefairy when it was cheap at least.

>>57937803
Investorniggers are the worst of all thoughbeit.

>>57937815
>but its just not the real thing
It is though, otherwise I wouldn't have told you about it, you retarded nigger.

>>57936643
I feel like you could buy every card in the set for that price.

Investorkikes get the oven

>>57937894
Like people have already said, at this point it's old enough that the unsealed box is a collectors item separate to any possible contents and the actual valuable part

>>57937894
Yeah last year a master set sold for 25k, I could see it being ~$40k tops with today's prices.

https://www.completecollector.co.uk/complete-collector/elite-pokemon-100-review

>>57937931
this "hobby" is completely hijacked now, theres no reason to keep buying shit when in like 20 years everything will go back to normal. everything will be a couple bucks at most.

>>57937937
Look just because that happened with comics, sports cards, Star Wars toys, etc, doesn't mean it will happen to us.

shitmastic etb live on pokemon center dweebs

>>57937989
thanks king, i love you.

>jumped from position 250k to 50k only waiting 5 mins
is it finally my turn bros?

>>57938021
sadly, no

>>57937937
>in like 20 years everything will go back to normal
>not two weeks like /tcc/ promised
WTF

>>57937989
I hate that the only product they are going to keep printing is the ETB. Only retards buy ETBs.

>>57938030
Boostie bundle gang rise up

>>57937989
Fug, the queue has been up for more than a few minutes. I'll probably get nothing now.

>SOLD OUT
WTFFFF IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MY TURN FOR ONCE IN MY FUCKING MISERABLE LIFE COME FUCKING OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNN

i got in and nothing

>>57937989
>you're in line :)
>woah hey there we need to double check you're a person buddy :(
>you're in line :)
I'm fucked aren't I?

>>57938036
AND I REFRESHED TWICE JUST TO MAKE SURE THE SITE WASNT BUGGING AND THEY FUCKING BLOCKED ME IM FUCKING DONE WITH THIS BULLSHIT FUCKING HOBBY

>hundreds of thousands of people in queue
>two per person
Yeah go fuck yourself

>>57938036
>Thinking something good would ever happen to you
lol lmao even

>>57938048
You never refresh on the Pokemon Center websites dude, that shit is common knowledge at this point.

>>57938048
1) It says on the waiting page in big letters "DO NOT REFRESH"
2) It's already out of stock

>>57938050
Yeah, this is just retarded when DR and BBWF were limit 1. What are they thinking.

>>57938061
it says do not refresh when you are in queue, i was on the site but i was seeing people in discord still have orders go through, when I refreshed the 1st time I saw the add to cart button pop up but then disappear, then i refreshed again and blocked. FUCKING BULLSHIT HOLY FUCK

>>57938067
Well now you know for next time to not refresh period.

So glad I got my fill with Terastal Festival ex already so I don't have to worry about Shitmatic Evolution lmao

>>57938087
post your moonbreon

>>57938094
I can't its uhhhh... away for grading... yeah, thats it. Speaking of grading, how good is PSA grading????? I found the process very smooth and their customer service was impeccable. The cards look incredible in the hard cases and I personally LOVE the protection they offer.

>>57938094
I pulled the Vaporeon ex SAR, then bought Epson ex and Sylveon ex as singles.

Got 6 ETBs kek

They turned off the same buyer protection from the previous drops

>>57938219
Gradually I began to hate them.

>>57938115
shill

If TAG had a "pristine" level above a 10 I think it would be a lot better. It feels like they just give regular 10s out for free

>>57938261
How can I NOT shill PSA grading? Their service returns a 87% value increase on average to our loyal customers. Many of whom are well positioned to capitalize on the current strong market!

I decided to just buy the etb promo

>>57938282
yes I love the Professional Sports Authenticator too.

>>57938269
>It feels like they just give regular 10s out for free
TAG grading is objective and scientific. They use AI to make the grading so they aren't giving out the 10s for free, it's that they are imperically 10s. That's why TAG is the supreme grading company.

>sunbreon below $1k
SHITmatic evolutions is DEAD

>>57938323
buy low

>Journey Together doesn't even have a single SIR supporter card
>Even Shrouded Fable has at least one
lol

>>57938352
No one except hyper autists cares about supporter cards

>>57938352
Well 4 of the EX pokemon feature a trainer so that filled that spot.

>>57938358
>No one except hyper autists cares about supporter cards
So the Japanese basically.

waifu collectors are the STRONGEST

for me, it's Beckett's since they have the classiest slab header design.

>>57938323
>sunbreon

Human Latias card when?

>>57937044
None of these are sold prices, anon. I can list anything for any amount of money.

>>57938381
at what

>>57938741
you realize ARS is an overt ponzi scheme right? they co-own a card shop named VCJ and they seem to give that shop 10s consistently, but if you submit your own cards they only give out 9s. doesnt help either that on japans 2chan they acknowledge that the yakuza had a hand in creating ARS.

>>57939010
Based covert ponzi scheme appreciator

>>57937976
>>57937937
Pokémon is guaranteed profit as long as you keep sealed. Even in 50 years time, there will be more fans and more nostalgia.

>>57939030
If by profits you mean everything is reset back to zero after ww3 and the assets you have to trade are pieces of cardboard for rations then sure theres profit

>>57939042
Nothing will happen. There will be no WW3. Besides, alternative currency will be valuable in the apocalypse, whose not to say that sealed PKMN won't become a new gold standard?

>>57939042
Based WW3 knower and total sociatel collapse pilled

>>57939042
I'm going to start scalping food rations

Do I sell the DR Mewtwo I pulled now? I kind of like it.

>>57939109
Sell now, buy again in 6 months time, or hold and invest to sell in 15+ years

>>57936466
the game is Elden slop nightrain you turbo faggot.

>>57939208
>elden ring warriors

>>57939208
i didn't realise elden ring had little anime avatars

Prove you are a real Pokemon fan and not a tourist. I'll start, I don't have a single Charizard card in my collection.

>>57939248
I have 4 ho-oh figurines, and only one is from tcg products

>>57939248
I have gym badges from the very first world championships in 2000

>>57939248
I have Pokemon SP JP volumes.

>>57939248
I'm currently playing through Pokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR!

>>57939248
I'm a tourist

I bought this card for like $20 thinking I was getting an uber steal and that it was the super old gold star card

>>57939443
Yeah its the shitty "cope I missed the boat" print with a stamp.

Guys please don't get mad, but I really think this cards cool man.

>>57937634
>Whining about consumerism
>While engaging in a pure consumerist hobby
>Caring that its a scarce and rare product
>even though, by nature, all sealed products become scarce and rare over time because sealed products are meant to be opened until there is nothing left.

Legitimate mental illness.

>>57939536
>>Caring that its a scarce and rare product
that's collecting, it's the entire hobby

>>57936512
that's the same shit magic does to get people to buy boosters at a premium.

>>57937468
she's a whore single mother.

>>57937814
fomotatrds too.

>>57938323
>buy pack ofterastal fest last year
>pull that SAR
>put it in my binder thinking nothing of it
>retarded foid offers me $1,500 for it
>sell it
>never think about it until I saw the english one dropping.

>>57939240
>>57939208
vtroon shit.

>>57939248
the neo files 2 charizard > the CD promo charizard > base set charizard.

>>57939208
>>57939530
Based

>>57939466
how? it was also very difficult to find back then as well. very few were ever pulled.

I used to really like this card but now her dopey eyes and mustard hair bother me.

>>57937468
Funny how you retards are falling for her lazy grift just because she's a woman. Literally the moistcritikal of poketubers.

>>57939938
she sucks and her content is drama slop.

>>57939938
I hadn't opened the link yet, but if you say that's a female with a vagina I'll immediately subscribe and donate her money to open packs.

>>57939946
I prefer females with penises desu.

>>57939945
She literally just has the safest "opinions" and simp faggots eat it up.

>>57939938
>>57939945
>>57939958
you don't need a youtuber to tell you there's a lot of shit people in this hobby unless you're a dumb halfwit redditor.

>>57939935
You became a faggot ?

>>57939981
Mina is good but her cards are mid.

I have obtained Oshawott and Tepig full art from opening packs, I hope Snivy goes down in price so I can buy it

>>57939988
Oh you became a pedo

>>57939993
When you play Pokemon, it's only a matter of time

>>57937222
COVID also fucked the way people consoom. when people got locked in their houses, hobbyist market exploded because people want something to kill their boredom. of course scalpers took advantage of it because they're aware of the disposable income from these people. also Logan Paul hopping in the TCG craze also put the game into the mainstream's eyes.

>>57937267
I missed my chance buying it in my native language 8 months ago. It almost tripled in price. When will the market crash?

>>57940282
>When will the market crash?
TWO WEEKS probably

>>57940282
Feels like we're in a bit of a downward trend, last two sets aren't nearly as hot as Prismatic, Surging Sparks, or 151, Bolt and Flare have a decent chance of being even cooler.
I'm still seeing a shit ton of posts about people coming back into the hobby, and it seems like every store or trying to get product on their shelves including Office Depot and ace Hardware, which makes it difficult for normal stores to get the allocations they want, so unfortunately I honestly don't know if we'll ever go back to easily available MSRP any tome soon, pet alone the 20%-30% under MSRP we so often enjoyed.

>>57940377
upcoming sets will have a Mega Fug. also there's the inevtiable Charizard and Mewtwo X and Y, and we'll be back to status quo again.

>>57940409
The bad part about that is 'a rising tide lifts all boats' so to speak, as we've seen the past year were its become impossible to even get the shelf warming sets.
Now I do think part of that is because they stopped printing them to focus on the new hotness, but its also because if you can't get product A you settle for product B to get your fix.

Too many Johnny-Come-Latelys in the hobby. Their ignorance is fueling the scalper market.
Prismatics hype makes sense but from Surging Sparks onward, all the sets have been mid and simply scalpers hyping up mid product and all the newbies taking the bait. Too many people cant think for themselves and rely on manipulative sources to help determine their opinion. Such as youtubers with online stores. Of people want the hobby to return to some level of normal the best thing they can do is walk away. Otherwise theyll just keep paying 4x msrp, and remember it was barely even worth it below msrp. Its overly mass produced childrens cardboard.

still waiting on my vaporeon to come

>>57936574
Modern MTG cards in a nutshell lol

>>57940721
I used to enjoy mtg, gave it up completely once these crossover slop sets started

>>57940721
MTG is not known for generating FOMO, so they're doing these crossovers for that exact purpose.

>>57940721
>entire middle row is just screencaps from the show (primarily memes)
The only cool thing is her the rock bottom bus stop.

>>57940721
I'd buy a set of the lands for like 10 bucks.
Also Counterspell should be cOuNtErSpElL missed opportunity desu

>>57939991
Those are art rates, dumb ass. Full arts are those shitty 3D slop ones that no one likes or wants

>>57941039
Those are full arts. Full art is a fan term anyway. Default exs aren't full arts.

>>57940721
That middle row is an edit, right? Surely they're not that lazy, right?

>>57939248
I dont have a slingle slab and I bought a fake waifu card because putting down $175 on a waifu is fucking stupid

>>57941049
>Those are full arts.
Wrong.
>Full art is a fan term anyway.
And art/illustration rares are an official term.
>Default exs aren't full arts.
I'm not talking about the default ones.

>>57941059
>and I bought a fake waifu
So you don't love your waifu? SAD

>>57941052
It's real :)

>>57941068
I have her on other cards

>>57941067
>Wrong.
The art is takes up the full card. It's a full art.
>I'm not talking about the default ones.
Those are the only 3ds in rotation. Just because it's 3d doesn't make it a full art.

>>57941079
Why do you faggots always insist that your headcanon is correct instead of just shutting up and learning? You can call them full arts all you want, but people will think you are talking about totally different cards because EVERYONE ELSE refers to full arts as something else.

>>57941079
fuck off you obnoxious tourist

>>57939905
Because it's not the original. Same reason that no Charizard will ever be the same as the OG base set version, despite numerous reprints

>>57940721
And the MTG x Popular Franchise cards are all just reskins. None of them have original rules.

>>57941519
No, there's both.

>>57941519
Sadly that is no longer true. They promised to do the reverse- make in-universe versions of the Popular Franchise cards- but then promptly went back on that. Vivi Orniter will be teaming up with Negan and Spider-Man to beat Hatsune Miku for the forseeable future.

>>57941561
>>57941546
Well, I didn't think MTG could get any worse but thanks for letting me know it got Impossibly worse.

>>57941566
It can always get worse, anon. Especially with Hasbro at the helm.

I really need to organize my shit. I have two binders, one for just OG 151 Pokemon and another for rares from other sets

>>57936516
Poojeetbay - not even once.

>>57939248
Trying too hard to fit in, tourist.

>>57941633
Sorry, I just thought all the cool kids hated Charizard...

>>57941692
Charizard has been voted the most popular Pokemon many, many times. Only contrarians hate Charizard.

>>57941707
I have Charizard fatigue, same for Pikachu.

Why is this guys art so popular? They look lazy as fuck.
>>57941633
cope gen1 sissy.

>>57941519
>>57941561
>>57941566
>tfw Post Malone ruined 2 TCGs

>>57941837
One of the OGs who returned recently. It's hit or miss in my opinion.

>>57941692
>Charizard, ignite the gas chamber

>>57941869
What was the other one

Do these 3 really not have a holofoil version? Fucking waste of a card.

>>57941955
they have special Radiant collection reverse treatments

>>57941957
reverse holofoils are gay as shit.

>>57941869
>>57941932
based

>>57940721
The lands are cool but the le epic meme image macro cards are hot topic tier garbage

week and a half and no shipping update or tracking number for my cards from Japan. time to cancel/chargeback. fuck this shit. i'd rather pay $10 more for each card and get them in a fucking reasonable time. holy fucking shit never again

>>57942227
Patience is a virtue anon. Stop being a child

>>57942227
I dunno if you're the same anon from before but you really gotta wait when you order from Japan

This Glaceon VSTAR is so fucking bland. The V from Evolving Skies is 10x better.

>>57941342
midwit opinion, especially since 99% of you niggers had no idea it even existed until it got a reprint.

>>57941519
you're in for a surprise there.
>>57941561
it's a way to dodge reprinting the reserve list so collector kikes can keep their invoostments.
>>57941869
post represents the faggot millenial so well, just like the Paul brothers. he was only ever a fan when it was acceptable.

>used to sell SM210 for like $15
>it's over $100 now

*vine boom*

>>57941955
>>57941957
>>57941965
it's not even a reverse holo, they have a glossy layer with a glitter pattern.

>>57941707
>Charizard has been voted the most popular Pokemon many, many times. Only contrarians hate Charizard.
normgroids like charizard because they were too dumb to play the game and realize the base set charizard was terrible.

>>57942434
>fomo retards hyping up mediocre stuff to feel better about losing with modern slop
ftfy

>>57942383
>>57942393

I am that faggot. Bought $45 worth of some cheap SARs to cope tonight. I just want my Hydreigon damn it

>>57942409
I like and own both of these and the ES ones.

>>57942419
Is that supposed to disprove his statement?

>>57942409
it wouldn't be that bad if the card doesn't have those ugly borders.

>>57941957
>7
>>57942437
wse were actually robbed when it comes to Radiant Collection. the Japanese Pokekyun version is much more glittery than the English's bland reflective sheen one.

>>57942457
nta but it does because most people who think that way are the same ones who think the base set charizard was the only good one and ignore both the e-reader and nintendo era cards.

>>57942485
the only ones I like are the starters and gardevoir.

>>57942457
yes, actually. if you never knew it existed, which most people who never played and opened POP packs didn't, then it's a midwit opinion.

>>57942457
>>57942497
>>57942486
Anyone could have gotten a base or or base set 2 'zard, so the original one appeals to that nostalgia, which reprints don't have. Nobody was opening tournament packs back when the umbreon and espeon were released because nobody ITT, much less thess board was playing or collecting back then. with that in mind, it doesn't have that same nostalgia. I wouldn't call it a midwit opinion, but it's definitely pretentious as fuck and comes off as something NFT cucks on twitter like to say to fit in, like the anon sperging out about the term "tourist" a couple of weeks ago.

>>57942508
You don't have to be a tranny to be a man with tits.

>>57941944
There are official cards of him in MTG and Pokémon TCG, the latter wasn't released for the public, but there is an official one.

>>57942553
Imagine being that investor
>I'm going to get these LOTR magic boxes
>Minuscule chance at The One Ring
>These will surely increase in valu-
"Hey guys just bought the chase card for 2mil, get wrecked nerds."
>Nobody wants the LOTR boxes anymore

thanks malone

>>57942568
XQC bought a bunch of boxes to open on stream to try to pull because he's a gambling addict. He bought the wrong pack, since it was only in collector packs and not draft or play packs.

Magic has a lot of weird celebs like that faggot cassius marsh and moistcritikal as well as numales and femoids.

>>57942580
Why do you choose to obsess over ecelebs? No one here cares. Pathetic parasocial zoomers need to be culled.

>>57942698
I don't like them, which is part of why I don't like magic. if you need those faggots as brand ambassadors then your game is slop.

>>57942698
t. neckbeard baldfat millenial

>>57942580
Who the fuck is xqc

>>57942778
I think he play game like little nightmares and makes silly faces / over the top reactions

>>57942778
Bossmanjack but for redditors who can’t handle real men who commit felonies

>>57942829
that and gambling addiction.

>>57942872
you aren't a man unless you commit hate crimes against minorities and homosexuals.

>>57942899
BMJ just beats his father, steals cars, and fails his probation drug tests

>>57943093
based

>>57941932
What were they thinking when they greenlight that ugly giant yellow Pikachu silhouette on anniversary cards?

>>57942409
Vstar leafeon mogs Vskies tho

>>57943302
agreed, VSTAR would easily be a $100 card if CZ wasn't printed into the ground.

>buy Crown Zenith's Shiny Zamazenta collection
>there are 10 packs instead of 11
Can this happen or did the seller dupe me?

>>57944209
Is this normal?

>>57944262
KWAB

>>57944280
That means?

>>57944209
>>57944262
Open it and find out sealedcuck

>>57944322
Ah yes so I can't get a refund. Genius idea.
There's nothing to find out, there's one pack less.

>>57944329
>outing yourself as this new
LoL welcome to the hobby

>>57944341
What is the argument?

>>57944262
Packs could have shifted maybe?

>>57944394
That's what I thought but I don't see it in the back.

Checking out videos of card shows to see what I can expect to find

>gen 1 starters
>mewtwo
>rayquaza
>eeveelutions
>pikachu
>bird trio
>gengar
>the odd magikarp or groudon
>literally nothing else

What the fuck is this? I checked out multiple vendors and it's all the same shit every single time at multiple different shows. Nobody is buying or looking for anything except the proto-popular trash

>>57944459
Sorry, bought all the female supporter cards.

Have you guys tried contacting your nearby card stores and they responded with "we tried ordering some product but we didn't get jack shit from the distributors"? Stores that I know that used to sell a lot of Pokemon cards barely have anything at all.

>>57944616
They aren't printing plus the distributors are heavily speculating.

>>57944616
Distributors are playing fuck-fuck games AND more places than ever are trying to sell Pokemon cards, somebody found Pokemon cards at like a fucking Office Max or something, people reporting finding cards at Ace Hardware, this should be a golden age for LGS but they can't get any fucking product.
Stores that have diligently sold MTG cards for 20+ years can't even get 10% of what they ordered for Final Fantasy.
It's fucking retarded.

They literally just decided to turn off the PokeCenter at my grocery store. I think they're sick of the scalpers and are just going to get rid of it.

>buy lenticular space fissure deoxys off someone 3 years ago for abour $50
>thought $50 was too much but it was lenticular which i thought was pretty cool
>good condition minus the yellowing that seems to plague all these cards
>said card goes for around $200+ now
>beat up mangled copies going for around a hundred
im glad i caved in and bought it when i did

>>57944616
That's literally every card store. It's partially because EVERYBODY wants more cards so supply gets stretched a little thinner, but also because distributors are enormous pieces of shit. They're marking up everything after release, and they're cutting initial allocations so that they can charge more for it the next week (they're not allowed to mark up product on the actual release day)

I exclusively collect kanto Pokemon, exclusively modern, exclusively alt art and sirs

>>57945084
You're in luck, you can collect all of 151 for like a few hundred bucks.

I don't understand why they haven't done a gen 2 set and did B&W instead.

>>57945097
Doing gen2 would communicate the idea that they're planning on doing every gen, which is a pretty substantial commitment. More importantly, they're probably prepping fans for a B&W remake in the next year or two.

>>57945177
I want another G/S/C remake though

Should I get them graded?

>>57945188
Why? It would 100000% guaranteed be worse than HGSS.

Will we ever see a new kids cartoon/anime that makes it big and spawns merchandise + cards?

>>57945533
Not unless mass media somehow reverts to having that level of influence again

>>57945089
The problem is all the other secret EX/GX/V alt arts, trainer gallery and promos from XY onwards

>>57945481
Is that Chu-chu Nezumi from CHINPOKANTOOOOOO??

>>57945524
Idk how they could fuck up worse than the Diamond/Pearl remakes but you never know I guess

>>57945533
They could've done it with Splatoon.

>>57945097
Gen 5 remake inbound, probably to generate hype.

>>57945597
that's what they said after ORAS

ex gf stole my cards, says she didnt do it. i have cameras hidden everywhere like diddy. i have proof. what do?

>>57946012
Tell her you have her on video and if she doesn't return them you're going to the police. You really need someone telling you this?

>>57946022
this but asap before she flogs it to some crim on fb or ebay

>>57946012
KWAB

>>57945533
There's too much competition and too little attention for something to catch on and sustain itself for decades. We live in a FOMO/FOTM economy. There are modern anime that have massive audiences and get more views and bigger box office numbers than 90s anime ever did but they won't have a lasting impact 20+ years from now. JJK grossed like $250 million. But modern anime is purely FOMO and literally noone is going to care about them in 2045 or buying merch for it like Pokemon. People just move onto the Next Big Thing.

>>57946050
Exactly. Don't waste time.

>>57946104
In my opinion Kimetsu has some staying power.

>>57946152
In Japan, possibly. But even in that case their populaton pyramid is so fucked I doubt it's going to be a top 10 revenue generating IP in the 2050s like Gundam or Dragon Ball is.

In the West it'll be looked at the way we look at Rurouni Kenshin now or something.

>>57946104
>>57945533
You can't just compare all anime 1:1.

Some were literally made to sell merchandise first, and have a plot secondary. Pokemon falls into this category. Others are made as a piece of fiction and storytelling first. Some of them are made ONLY as a piece of narrative fiction because the creator wants to leave it as such.

Tempted to sell this card but I'm sure it will skyrocket in price when I do.

>>57946348
Sell it to me then. I'll give you a 5% discount when you want it back, I promise

>>57946395
I think I'm just having a mid life crisis. I finally got pic related and I don't love it as much as I thought I would.

>>57945481
Based

Saw someone trying to sell a Unified Minds 3-pack blister for roughly $200. And it looks like it was almost torn to shreds. The worst part is someone eventually bought it.

Damn i got some "151" Japanese complete sets but they always missing a Zapdos or Haunter because (Base/Jungle/Fossil) came with a common Haunter. & there are two holo Zapdos

Jipped. Even had to get an Electrode holo, they lied when they said it was a complete set. Pic related

>>57946607
They're also missing the trainers which are irritating to find "Just the trainers". I saw one listing for like $300

>>57946607
>still have those base diglett errors
>they're basically worthless unless you get them graded
Wow.

>>57944459
most collectorfags don't play and only like genwunner shit.

>>57946012
rape her.

New

>>57946716
>>57946716

>>57946602
>>57946595

>>57939331
>>57939330

>>57946607
>>57946638

kukuku, shaunberg, the cowardly kike, tried to hide from me again in an autosaging thread. Unfortunately for him, his humongous nose can be seen from miles away.
Don't worry, I'm here now to ruin his orgasms and to remind the world that shaunberg is a filthy kike who tries to pretend the holohoax was real. His complete inability to admit the holohoax was a judaic fabrication used to sieze land that never belonged to Khazar larpers like themselves outs him as either a fed or a bona fide yidsraeli. And since shaunstein could never hold on to a real job and never will, that marks him as an actual kike who was kicked out of Nasser Yorat University and not New York as he tries to imply, and was rejected from the University of Tel-Aviv and not UTM.

>>57946888
ONLY NIGGERS CALL ME SHAUNBERG

IF YOU CALL ME SHAUNBERG IT'S PROOF YOU ARE A JEALOUS BLACK COON UNEMPLOYED AND DISEASED

STAY MAD PAJEET

kukuku, shaunberg, the cowardly kike, is hoping against hope that anything will stop his nose from being exposed. Unfortunately for him, he'll never be able to hide how bad his English is, especially compared to his fluent yiddish.
Remember that shaunberg, the kike from tel-aviv, tried to pretend he had an """iphone""" at first, then a substandard (((prebuilt))) """desktop""", then a Samsung, and now some IBM (compatible) shitbox. Like all his kind, he'll never be able to get his story straight. After all, he tried lying about being from (((Stern))) despite his IQ and SAT score being far too low for anything above a shithole like CAS. The fable his fellow shartyniggers try to spread about him being an American, therefore, is an outright fabrication from some yidsraeli who can barely speak English. He even has to wait until this hour to use some shitbox without permission, after supposedly """buying""" (stealing) some useless machine to post from. One can't help but notice how it's always the kike shills and their hired shitskins who support him, or his filthy jew family that buys shitphones for him and lets him reset their routers, or his fellow jews who let him beg them for freebies.
He'll never be able to deny this because shaunberg, as a yid, has no spelling errors when typing in his native language, yiddish. Meanwhile, whenever he tries to type in English, so many typos abound. This alone is enough to out shaunstein as a filthy jew, who was kicked out of Nasser Yorat University and not New York as he tries to imply, and was rejected from the University of Tel-Aviv and not UTM. As a member of a (((tribe))) with a professional victim complex, shaunberg's only available instinct when punched by a single pajeet was to curl up and beg for mercy, then play the victim later, rather than fight back like a real man would.

>>57946911
STOP STALKING ME AND.PROJECTIMH YOSSI

GO BACK TO KIRYAS JOEL AND DIE OF CHOLERA KEET

>>57946185
Nah. Kenshin is just not entertaining. Even Tsuioku-hen, a masterpiece and one of my favourite anime, is not entertaining for the average person. Kimetsu is