Thread 58094137

Sleeping Hollow Edition

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>>58075384

FAQ:
https://pastebin.com/MypNBzca

>>58093785
KNEEL

I want that

Birbs

>>58094185
buy it then, its like $10

Lads tonight we organize.

Its been a while, I don't even remember where I left off with these photos.

>>58094570
Already messed up, but this looks better.
>Cosmos Holo 151 Poster Collection Bulbasaur
>HD or "Smooth" Cosmos Holo 151 Poster Collection Bulbasaur
>Regular Bulbasaur
>Reverse holo
>Reverse cosmos holo (costco tins promo)
>151 stamp reverse holo (best buy promo)
>IR
>Stellar Crown IR alternative art
>Regular ivy
>Reverse ivy
>IR ivy
>Venusaur regular ex
>Stellar Crown alternative art
>Blank spot for stellar crown stamp venusaur not yet released.
>UR venusaur
>SIR venusaur
Its a hell of a first page to my 151 collection.

>151 Poster Collection promos both pixel & smooth variants
>Regular print 151 and paldean fates reprint
>Reverse holos 151 & PF reprint
>Cosmos holo 151 & PF reprint (both were box promos)
>Cosmos reverse costco tin promo
>Eb games & gamestop stamps
>Shiny charmander PF reprint alternative art
>IR
>Regular, reverse, and cosmos charmelon.

>>58094701
>4x4 topholder
that's a big binder

Still missing stellar crown alternative art squirtle ir :(
I even opened a booster box for it.

>see couple checking the PokeCenter at the store
>walk by and ask if it's empty"
>they say yes
>I say "fucking scalpers these days"
>guy looked at me like "haha, yeah, not me trust me"

>>58094163
That era holo cards looks so fake with the lack of texture and how the holo foil actually looks, can't stand it

:O

:0

From the first pack of the first box. I also got the umbreon in the first box of gems2. All my luck is in chinese

Empty space is for stellar crown stamp blasty that isnt released yet.

Birbs
I like birbs

>>58094952
You made room for the Chinese exclusive 151 art rares, right?

>>58094969
English only.

>>58094993
OK so not a real master set

>>58095000
Never said it was a master set, lots of cards in it outside of 151.
Its a bit of a mish mash hodgepodge of reprints from 151.
But all english.

>>58095052
based for being your own thought out collection instead of typical shit
cringe for dog shit taste in not only which Pokemon, but in terms of the art itself

>>58095079
Well they may be dog shit pokemon with dog shit art, but theyre my dog shit, and I love them. Now apologize to oddish.

>>58095156
>oddish

>>58094570
>>58094655
>>58094701
>>58094949
>>58094952
>>58095156
Kino
nocardz wouldn't understand

>>58095278
>still posting the way better umbreon

Does anyone have any recs for D ring binders?
I'm realizing for my fave mons collection constantly having to rearrange/get more zip binders is gonna get annoying as they release new cards, I saw vaultx does binder pages so that just feels like the smarter thing to do.

>>58094922
Why is paradox rift so cheap

up 2k in the past 8 days.
>>58066147

oh baby, i am cookin.

Hey fellas, it's me. Coming at you with another post

>>58094922
>>58094924
so how long to wait till buying these? 2 years?

New Kanto set when??

>Bought 10 White and 10 black ETBs
I'm gonna riiiiiip!

Lmao

>>58095936
So (You)'re the faggot who means I couldn't buy one
Go fuck yourself

I want to buy some chink proxies of those overpriced gem pack cards, can I find on AliExpress the same quality that fooled that retard with the 1510 mew, or do I need to look for some specific sites such as chink etsy?

>>58095957
This is bullshit i bet it wasn't to do with customer demand & had more to do with managers selling entire cases (usually of 1000x) to scalpers

>>58096005
it's not his fault, or ours, that you're poor

Dead thread dead hobby (in 2 weeks) dead franchise (in 2 months)

Pulled from an OF ETB this morning.
I was hoping for Cleffa, but I’m happy with Pidgeotto and the guaranteed Charmander, which is the main reason I bought it.

>>58096611
>Pidgeotto
Pidgeot* lol
>>58095936
buying multiple ETBs is extremely inefficient in terms of cost per pack

>>58096615
They were still cheaper than the other options. I did get some of those 6 pack boxes too but those only come out at the end of the month

Tfw you'll never finish a 151 master set

Honestly, adding reprints from other sets helps break up what would otherwise be a boring page of boring cards. Instead of a quick page flip, it creates a stop and see whats going on here moment.

What brand of binders do you guys use? I want to upgrade so I'd like to get something that's good quality.

>>58097225
This shit is embarrassing

>>58097218
Toploader binders that specify non-pvc acid free.
Good for vending or collecting.

>>58097237
I don't believe those pictures, why wouldn't they just eat the food or save it for alter

>>58095957
>>58097225
>>58097237
These cards are mostly lame.
I guess it sucks if youre a pikachu, riolu or raltz collector.
But also, its japanese so who really cares.
Burgerchu is kinda neat though.

>>58097252
Thank you for the suggestion!

>>58096184
https://x.com/pokejungle/status/1953816293674529188
big it true

>>58097349
they’re so immediately willing to blame foreigners, completely dismissing the fact that Japanese otaku are the original (and perennial) parasites of society

>>58096184
>>58097354
also

here i thought it was stupid japs printing low quantities on purpose because they think they can game the system, even after Van Gogh Pikachu

>>58097356
>>58097349
https://x.com/PokeTCGiveaways/status/1954165774903324870
Some dude buys FORTY happy meals. What the fuck is wrong with people?

>>58097368
Scalpers will see the prices of 40 happy meals, and immediately think they can sell the cards for double or triple that.
Dont engage with the hobby.
If you want to save the hobby, you gotta walk away from it.
Collectors are seen as prey and suckers and an entire economic swarm has latched onto collectors.
Its like a virus, its over run almost every poketuber, they all cover values in some form or another or get you to click links to purchasing websites or their own shops.
Theres way too much money in the hobby, and of collectors want this hobby to return to normal they have to collectively let it die for like three years. Which is a long time, but it has to happen.

>>58097356
>police called, wanted a refund since the Happy meal didn't have the card

>>58097354
cry more white piggu

Seeing so much wasted food makes me livid. You really have to be an asshole to dump food like that, even if the food is arguably not the best in terms of nutrition. This shitty behaviour for a fucking pokemon card.

based japs mcdonalds promo with scalper issues and pikachu burger card pilled

isn't this like a bad reputation for the company in japan?

>>58097418
This will blow over in less than a week

>>58097409
Its not really food, its more like something you can ingest, like you would with food, but its not actual food.
I would liken it more to wasted alcohol or cigarettes desu.

Dont forget to chew your burger, Burgerchu.

how many of you already ordered the pikachu burger card for 30 bucks off ebay?

We're in the initial take off phases of burgerchu its gonna hit $100 by the end of the week.
Its gonna be like vangough

I'm not buying your stupid burger card

>>58097440
>Americans think mcdonalds is food

>>58097456
Yes anon you're very intelligent. You can shut up now.

>>58097456
you should go to /ck/ some day, there are people there who unironically discuss mcdonalds food and think it tastes good

Burgerchu will hit $200+ by next week.
screenshot this.

For me, it's mcRalts. The best mcdonalds promo

Oh fuck is it a mass buy off or buy out burgerchu is vanishing as I refresh the listings.

>>58097269
They dropped the ball by not having the other pokemon have some kind of food item. Like why couldn't Riolu have a McFlurry?

>>58097496
only the rat matters

>>58097499
His name is pikachu and he's my friend

Stop buying the burgerchu you retards youre causing a market bullrun

I JUST BOUGHT TWENTY PIKACHU

>>58097515
I don't know what that means dude

>>58097432
Its already up to $37 its mooning

>B/W set
Fun game, boring generation of new Pokemon

Fuck it im buying 10

I just bought one for $21. Seems fair considering I don't have to go to Japan to get one.

Burgerchu is selling by the thousands.

I bought one. Burgerchu won.

>>58097532
>Japan
>didn't think to raise the prices for american scalpers
those poor shortsighted souls

Is this the first time im gonna be in on something before it moons?

>>58097422
Wow, you’re so right. Do you also post on Reddit? I’d give you gold if I could.

>>58097541
Yeah these people are dumb. Minus the cost of the meal, ebay taking a cut, materials for shipping and labor, the profit is extremely minimal imo. I guess it's great if you're selling thousands but it all seems tedious imo.

>>58097495
The supply got cut off.

whats the average prize to buy special illustration rare cards? Like when do I know it's a good deal and when it's a scam? Waifufags don't reply to me, I know you have no standards

>>58097568
the prize is the friends you made along the way

>>58097568
Tell me who's your waifu and I'll give you a helpful answer

>>58097580
Hop

>>58097568
It's entirely dependent on the card.

>see lady restocking PokeCenter machine
>absolutely surrounded by scalpers waiting for her to finish
>she looks like she wants to blow her brains out
I thought this was a card game for kids

>>58097568
$10-$15

>>58097597
It hasn’t been for kids in over a decade. Kids like the video games. Cards are for old people.

>like Umbreon
>still don't have an Umbreon
>remember that I also didn't get any Weavile until I could trade for it
>and I had to trade for 1 Darkrai too
...my account is anti-Dark

>>58097597
Where are those machines located? I've never seen one

>>58097611
There's just one in my grocery store. Literally everyone taps the screen on their way out to see if there's anything in stock. It's a Safeway store.

>Pay me 300 dollars for a new booster box
>This modern card that is hypershilled with a 10k pop is going to the moon, pay now or miss out forever
>old stuff sucks, new stuff is so much better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qbV0ZKAS1o
Vintagebros?

>>58097611
depending on your regional area
you could be looking for either a Jewel, or a Safeway, or Albertsons, or any associated store from Albertsons
https://support.pokemoncenter.com/hc/en-us/sections/13360842288916-Pok%C3%A9mon-Automated-Retail-Vending-Machines

>>58097611
They put them next to the CoinStar and lottery machines. Which should tell you something about this hobby

I wish 151 had an IR for every pokemon like BBWF. It would definitely make each page feel less stagnant

>>58097715
151 does have some fun cards. This could've been a great full art though

>>58097269
>or raltz collector
I am and all of its evolutions but I don't give a single shit about stamp variants. I don't like stamped cards in general, only exception I'll make are for gen III's "reverse holos" because I like holographic cards more than I hate stamped ones.

>>58097728
KOMIYAAAAAAAAAA

scalpers won, -30€. at least the card is fun

>>58097666
>modern cards will surpass some vintage in price
including the shining pokemon cards from the neo sets
yep, retarded collectors are a dime a dozen these days.

Wonder what exclusive cards only sold at the park will be. Obviously Kano…

>>58097668
>not a single machine in my entire state
I guess I should be thankful that I don’t need to waste time driving to various stores during lunch

>>58097769
The number of PSA 10’s is correlated with supply, not demand.

>>58097771
i said this years ago that Pokemon should make a real life park where visitors can go and play pokemon go with gyms and paid employees that battle people for rare pokemon.

>>58097568
SIRs range from 20$ to 2000$

>>58097806
How much is the Poppy SIR?

Of course Mr. Mime had to ruin my aquarium page. Sadly not enough variants to fill the page and the dex order had him next.
Adding the baby shinies really makes it feel like an english version of chinese 151.

>>58097815
bulk in toploaders seems overkill

>>58097810
uhhhh ehhhh *cough*

>>58097777
1/2
1000 interpretations could be made about this graph, it actually is very insightful. where the peak sets of the time are. where sets like team up, cosmic eclipse, and other tag team sets are more graded than other sets released during this time. as well as shining legends for S&M
Looking at the XY era flashfire is already going for 15k a booster box and it fits the criteria, its the most graded of that era and is the chase booster box of that time, clearly.
it also appears that BW and D&P are clearly the scarcest of cards in pristine condition in the bigger picture and could ultimately be the most undervalued cards of the set, but i guess thats more dependent on if collectors really held sealed boosters from this window of time, but i doubt it with how little was graded during this era in the first place.
you can also see that HGSS Triumphant and Platinum Supreme Victors being strong sets that people wanted to grade
as far as the gen 1-3 having already a strong grade population, there may not be much opprotunity there for investing in booster boxes.
but all this analysis is given that the supply is less than the demand out there. you could infer that people are not demanind them now.....but what happens when the now changes and they are in demand like flashfire which was probably a 3k booster box 5 years ago now going for 15k?
there is so much data hidden in plain sight on this graph that a investor could make wise decisions on what to dump 10k into, but you still want to hypershill modern that is graded to the moon. where 17 sets have a population of 50k or more in a PSA 10 quality.

>>58097822
2/2
that creates too much noise. too much distraction. it starts losing the focus on what to go after since there is simply so much good shit, and not enough time or money for the average person to go after. which will ultimately devalue it and people will reconsider and refocus on whats ACTUALLY rare and whats ACTUALLY hard to obtain.
they are already doing it now, its just you only have small money and cant play the bigger game of dropping 10k a booster box. but go off fart sniffer and keep dreaming. because i know this shits not going to last. and instead of seeing potiental of vintage you are just going to sit there and bag hold not rare shit hoping 10 years from now people remember you little cards that are literallly everywhere and easy to obtain.

I just bought 1000 burgerchus, going to grade them all and hold until they inevitably surpass van gogh pikachu, see you on the moon losers!

>>58097826
Based

>>58097819
Yeah i should just leave them out of toploaders so it turns the collection binder into an uneven floppy mess.
Listen buddy, the worse card in my collections get the same treatment as the best cards. I love them all. Even if every single one was valueless. My appreciation for them isnt based on a dollar value. Its nice one exists but this is purely for fun and completionist ocd.

i would NOT go after evolutions, because how high the population is already, i would not go after hidden fates, evolving skies, silver tempest, or 151. because they are too fucking graded, graded determins the value of booster boxes, there is a symbiotic relationship when it comes to that. people want to lie and say booster boxes are king, there not, people want the chase card in the booster box. thats the endgame. so why, why waste your time propping up something that is doomed to fail, when you still can get better chances on S&M era sets with team up? is it because you cant throw down on a 3k boosterbox because its "risky" when you know the pop reports are lower than your good as gold evolving skies which is graded to the moon and going for the same price?
like i said you can pull 1000 different interpretations from this data and you pull the one where you really think its a smart idea and ignore the rest.
LIKE A TRUE NEWFAG COLLECTOR.

>>58097597
>I thought this was a card game for kids
Kids literally cannot afford to buy without a parent funding them. And if you think parents deserve cards than anybody else just because they have a kid then lmao

people with real money that can throw down 10k on real boosterboxes that are worth investing. keep playing with your modernshit timmy.

Based Adult Collectors Taking Cards Away From Kids

Alright i'm closing in on the fossil mons soon, should I put dome fossil infront of kabuto and helix infront of omanyte? Or just put them with the rest of the items after mew?

>>58097932
I'd put them with the items because they'd look out of place and break up the numbering you have going.

The Chad Poke Plumber
>Stacking Vintage booster boxes
>Fire Red VS Leaf Green, Platinum Arceus, Power Keepers, Holon Phantoms
VS
The Virgin Nostalgia Nomics
>Shills modern shit 24/7
>SWSH, Rebel Clash, Vivid Voltage, Silver Tempest, Evolving Skies, Fusion Strike, Battle Styles.
>Totally a 1000IQ investor, not the timmy, you are the timmy, thats BROKE
once again he is not the timmy, you are the timmy, look at his "plays" he is making.
its ok if you are new to collecting. just know i think you are retarded for paying 300 a booster.

>>58098045
based. I hate sealed fags but the top guy actually has cool stuff, not just wotc or modernshit.

>>58098045
You can just tell from facial structure and the eyes one was a jock and the other was dweb.

wish there was a shiny one

>the vintage schizo has awakened again
Expect at least one week of disconnected messages quoting no one while having meltdowns about imaginary investors in the thread

>>58097782
What a soul-sucking experience that'll be as a park employee.
Instead of bringing fun to children they'll be forced to serve balding middle-aged men only there to pick up the promo card at the end of the day.

>>58098130
ooo big talk from a modern timmy.

>>58098130
I don't get it

>>58097824
>derails his one train of thought into seething and insults based on literally nothing but a single-line post
holy projection batman

>>58098148
damn it must suck getting owned this fucking hard. too bad you dont have 2 braincells to rub together to make a good analysis on whats really going on in the pokemon market is as a whole.

>>58097769
>>58097822
>>58097824
>>58097854
>>58097881
>>58098045
>>58098142
You have actual schizophrenia. Seek help.

>BUT BUT BUT MY TCGPLAYER KEEPS SAYING INFINATE PROFITS.......
you know they are a seller, right?

>>58098156
you are not a doctor. you are uneducated, and its clear to me. im touching grass you are in denial yourself.

Sorry for the dumb question but do most or all cards have pokeball / masterball stamp versions?

>>58098264
Not even close, that’s a recent thing.

>>58098289
Hmm, okay, thank you for the answer. I'm new to collecting and have been playing Pocket for a little bit so I was curious about the physical cards. I saw that recently Druddigon got a really cool looking card so it made me want to buy that and other Druddigon cards. He doesn't seem to have many cards so I thought it wouldn't be too hard to get them all. I'm probably not looking hard enough but I can't seem to find if the normal version of picrel has a pokeball or masterball stamp version.

>>58098312
Art/illustration rare cards like your pic aren't going to have any other variations, as they in of themselves are a special variation of a regular card.

>>58098312
Full art cards don’t really have variants because they ARE one of the variants. Look at number 71 of that same set and you’ll see what I mean. It’s the same stats, same everything, just different art. Druddigon number 71 is the base card, and it has reverse holo, pokeball, and masterball variants, and then there’s a secret full art version (your pic) on top of that.

XY cards have so much fucking soul

>>58098345
>>58098351
So THIS card would have different variations then. Thank you, I think I understand. I had been looking up cards on bulbapedia but it doesn't seem to have these variations. Would you happen to know a better site that does?

>>58098366
Pokellector lets you look at individual sets. The set view doesn’t show which cards have variants, but clicking a card will allow you to see all variants of it. If it doesn’t have any, then there won’t be an “alternate version of this card” section. It does not include the full art as a variant by the way, since those cards have a separate number from the base card. It also lets you keep track of what you have collected so far. I don’t personally use it, but it seems like it might be what you want.

>>58098289
There's some old pokeball cards.

>>58098441
I meant more in the sense of 90% of a set having a reverse holo, pokeball, and masterball version. As far as I know, only Prismatic Evolutions and BBWF do this.

i should be charging people for market advice at this point going over numbers and possabilities like this. but i am a schizo. this is why i will never get the credit i deserve and why i deeply hate you

>>58098264
If you search the card on bulbapedia, in the release information section it could contain additional information about other variations released if stamps or random foils exist.

>>58098455
It might, but for the card in question it only says there’s a regular and full art version. No mention of ball variants.

>>58098451
Japanese 151 also does it.

>>58098455
Was going to say this, but I pulled up the page for that druddigon and there's no indication that it has a stamped version there.

>>58098451
The masterball version exists just to torture whales. The cost of pulling 86 different masterball holos would be fucking nuts

>>58098452
>and why i deeply hate you
Then leave, you won't be missed, frognigger.

>>58098436
Thank you very much! This looks like it will be useful!
>>58098455
Like the other anons mentioned the release info section didn't make a mention of alternate versions, which is what led me here to ask.

>>58098476
A note to a newfriend: just buy whatever individual cards you want, don’t waste your money trying to pull anything. The math is awful, and the cost is worse unless you buy directly from the Pokémon Center website or one of the first market vendors (if you can magically get anything before the scalpers show up).

I couldnt resist the urge to put the fossils infront of the fossilmons.
The gold cards in 151 suck.
I wish they were dome, helix and old amber with illustration rare style art.
And like crown zenith use gold color scheme into the art. Could easily have the fossils buried along side gold nuggets for example.
Any way, despite being small window art, the art on the fossil cards is actually pretty good. Atleast i like it, alot.

>>58098492
Thank you for the concern! I'm very fond of Unova so when I learned they were making cards just for that specific region, I did consider buying some cards to open, but it looks like it's near impossible to get by normal means. I'll do what you said and just buy what I need. I'll focus on Druddigon first and work my way into some other mons I love, and hope they aren't too pricey or hard to find!

There are so many people selling this stupid rat on ebay. I can't wait for the value to tank in like a week.

>>58098553
YOU
MISSED
OUT

>>58098553
You underestimate the power of Gamestops private equity buyouts.

>>58098572
#stoptheshort

>>58098572
>>58098577
>Lets save the corporation that would rip us off by buying our games and systems by offering 20% trade in value.
Save it
>Begins buying up all your favorite collectibles and turning them into mystery products.
Grim

I'm slowly closing in on finishing this binder. Man, the time this takes is ridiculous.
Im gonna be sooo fucking chapped if they add some random variant in 2025's trick or trade packs.
I left room for stellar crown stamped blasty and venu and the holiday calender eevee & pikachu. So im atleast covered for those additions.

>>58098601
I'm just memeing I don't give a fuck
I bet there's still a fucking general on /biz/ for that shit

>>58098553
Considering McDonalds has stopped selling the card entirely and the current stock is all that exists it does not seem likely at all to "tank"

>>58098658
The "stock" could literally just be bought out at any moment by a discord.
You know people are msging the sellers to find out how many copies they have.

>>58098473
>modern bag holders.......did......did......did we lose?

Happy to see that the frenzy over this years Pikachu worlds promo is bleeding over into previous years. I bought whole bunch of last years Pikachu worlds promos when they were like $2-3 because I thought they were crazy cheap. Think I got up to 60ish copies.

We need a /tcgi/ thread for quarantining investors and the schizo.

>>58098774
>ONLY POST NARRATIVES I AGREE WITH.
you poor child. you turn off the internet then.

I've opened 40+ BBWF packs and no SIR

>>58099038
Congrats, you’re still inside the bell curve.

>>58099064
explain further

>>58099038
You're still 40+ away from statistically being likely to pull one.

>>58099075
no

>>58098658
The only appropriate response to retarded scalper hoards is to overprint it into oblivion

>>58099093
This wasn’t a response to scalpers, it was McDonald’s response to their restaurants being trashed overnight, turned into dumpsters filled with unwashed autists and cold burgers.

>>58099091
:(

>>58099104
same shit

>>58099093
>tfw Pokemon is a business and not a charity designed to give out free shit to faggots like you

>>58099180
It’s not. McDonald’s doesn’t give a shit about the secondary market for Pokémon cards.

>>58098130
Kek it do be like that

>>58098774
He made threads in /biz/ but got biggly triggered by the modern posting. His solution?
>COLLECT LE VINTAGE LE CHARIZARD
LOL

These will all be reprinted in English when McDonalds does the exact same promotion in Australia, so who cares?
I have the full set 25/25 from 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, they all worth less than a hundred bucks not even worth it.

This shit has nothing on the 2003 promos they did where one booster is like $300

>>58098774
That's why we made /tcc/ to begin with. This IS the quarantine thread, and it keeps those tards out of /tcg/.

>>58099504
japanese cards are the original
japanese cards are higher quality
japanese cards look better

only flippers and turbo spergs care about english cards above all

>>58099551
I can get some cheap grub + cards to open and collect. I understand maccas tastes like shit & they don't want to eat the food, but why pay $50 AUD ( 10 happy meals worth ) on the Pikachu alone? Seems retarded. Also moonrunes so i know other Aussies will never want it

>>58099558
>why pay $50 AUD ( 10 happy meals worth ) on the Pikachu alone
What are you talking about?
Maybe you don't know where to buy cards or maybe these online stores don't ship to AUS, but you're getting the McD promo for $10-$15 a pack
Keep in mind, these McD booster packs are 2 cards, the Pikachu and some random card, 2 promo stamped cards for that price?
Good deal

Also
>I understand maccas tastes like shit
McDonalds objectively tastes good, the recipe was studied and developed in a lab by scientists/bioengineers and crafted intentionally, it was created for the purpose of tasting good everywhere
There's a reason your country has McD and our country doesn't have vegemite or fairy bread, good food travels and clearly it gets patronized and clearly Pokemon keeps partnering
If you're on a diet, have a weak stomach, defective genes related to palate and sensory issues then that's one thing, but you're not about to sit here and say food thought up by people smarter than you is shit

Finally bought this card. Why the fuck haven't they done all the generations yet? I want a Freinds In Hoenn card.

>>58099861
It's shit. Sorry you have bad taste in food & cards LOL

>>58099875
Yeah I would like that too. Not a huge fan of NPC cards but these Friends cards are great.

>>58099939
it won't fit

>>58099942
Don't worry I have a very small dick

>>58099407
He really is desperate to offload his stinky vintage slop that no one wants isn't he?

>>58099551
I'm kinda about to swallow the jap pill as well. Is it good to also buy chinese/korean cards? Do they have the same quality?

>>58100028
>Is it good to also buy chinese/korean cards? Do they have the same quality?
Chinese yes, Korean no.

>>58099875
>He bought the poorfag Chinese version

>>58100028
wait til chinese cards crash
korean cards suck
stick to japanese

>>58100015
y would u want old stamps when u could get new stamps!

>>58100028
Buy old traditional chinese singles and newer simplified chinese catch-up sets. Avoid s-chinese gem packs because they are the newest pump and thus overinflated. Ignore korean unless you need really cheap copies, they are not printed in japan like chinese are.

>>58097815
>baby shinies
Why do people call them that? They're not even baby pokemon.

>>58100242
Baby is usually used to designate the regular version of a card instead of an ex

>>58099537
retard

>>58100255
just say base then

Druddigon anon from earlier with another question:

https://www.pokellector.com/English-Black-White-Promos-Expansion/Druddigon-Card-80

It seems like this card has two different releases according to the page. But are the two releases technically different cards? I also looked on TCG Player and it seems there's a normal promo version and a "cosmos holo" but the pictures on the TCGP site look near identical, but that may be because the pics aren't great quality. If they are two different cards, I'd like to get them both if possible.

>>58100472
There are two different versions.

>>58100505
Ah, I see now. Thank you for clarifying. It was difficult to see the differences on TCG Player. I greatly appreciate the help!

>>58100242
Because they look chibi or infantile in comparison to their normal art.

>>58099551
I dont know how many times I've seen it on this board alone. People cant read Japanese and often say Lizardon is Charizard or some shit. Its embarrassing, like of youre gonna collect it atleast learn the Japanese names. It just comes across as the most fake shit ever. Like a larp or something. They sit there boasting and pumping and hyping japanese just to default to english terminology and names. Its like bro, its obvious you dont like japanese, youre just coping otherwise youd have more dedication to understanding the foreign product but they dont, they never do. They act like birds with shiny objects repeating english they overheard.
Most people could shuffle simplified chinese, japanese, and korean into a deck and they wouldnt even be able to easily tell the difference. But theyll also talk about how big of fans they are.
Stop being fake as fuck, stop being pretentious, you collect japanese and chinese because its more affordable. Thats it.

Wasn't expecting the mail to arrive on a Sunday in the USA. Cool of the Jap seller to use a shipping company that operates today, because we only get mail mon-sat.
Time to rip!

>>58100856
Good lucky my nigga

>>58100743
>engl*shschizo so mad about people collecting things he doesn't approve that he needs to write a wall of text to defend his 4kids dubbed version of the japanese franchise
Lœl

>>58094137 (OP)
wtf were they even thinking?

>>58101018
Japs get a little nuts around psychedelics.

>>58101062
And now this card has skyrocketed in price thanks to the ban speculation lol

>>58100380
NOBODY calls them base shinies you retarded cum breath

>>58101018
You don't understand, that's the beloved childhood starter from Kanto (nostalgia!), a part of the OG trio Charizard Bulbasaur and Blastoad. And on top of that it's drawn by the legendary Shinji Komiya, the same artist that drew the Magikarp and the illustrator Pikachu that Logan (the actor from Wolverine!) paid $5M!!! And on top of that Masuda added a 666 in the artwork as a callback to Sabrina's Gengar, so this card will be retired from market in about 2 weeks.

>>58101018
This stupid frog is over rated

I hope you have ordered at least 100 of the next big hit right here. Art rare...ghost pokemon...in a forest... behind Pikachu...rings a bell? That's right, the new chinese gengar-pika is $2000 and it's only a matter of time until this marshadow reaches the same price.
I warned you, last call for the train to the moon.

>>58099295
Eclipse is such a shit app.

>>58101256
>B/W
>big hit
No one cares about the gens past gen 3. Nice artwork though.

>>58100086
Yes I saved $1k for the same artwork. Whats your point.

>>58101351
>trainer collector

>>58101379
yes, cards with trainers in them mog every other card.

>>58101387
Cards with trainers who have actual Pokemon in them are cool. Trainers just standing around with no Pokemon is lame. Might as well just be collecting a waifu collection.

I haven't bought singles for 2 weeks, I have palpitations, I can't breathe and I killed my wife for asking me what's wrong

>gold cards are less expensive because it’s the same artwork but with an ugly filter
>change the artwork
>suddenly prices spike
So it was that easy?

>>58101387
>the inferior shelly

>>58101075
>thanks to the ban speculation
That's not it, its investor niggers forcing this to become Magikarp IR 2.0

>>58101298
>>B/W
bruh

>>58101716
It's just new rarity = novelty = easier to hype and pump for the mass of brainless sheep

Posting the hits from Mega Symphonia
>>58100856

>>58101790
Posting some more from Mega Symphonia
>>58100856

Posting the hits from Mega Brave
>>58100856

>>58101812
Posting some more from Mega Brave
>>58100856

>>58101812
Miring that 'saur

>>58101790
>>58101812
Really nice pulls

>>58101351
Thats just bandwagoner cope. True trainer collectors bought years ago before prices exploded. There is no "I saved X amount" when you are paying inflated prices for chink crap.

>See a guy who has a few of the cards I'm missing from Celebrations for cheap
>Scroll through his stuff for a bit
>Actually has some stuff I want, few EX era holos, couple of things from some other sets I'm finishing, and a few 151 cards for my sister
>Place order, pay
>Get a message a few minutes late
>"Oops sorry I'm missing these cards sorry I'll refund you"
>3 out of 4 of the Celebrations cards I wanted, which was the only reason I bought from him in the first place
I really should've just canceled the whole thing but fuck some of his other stuff was reasonable.

>>58101820
Cute Lillie. Do Japanese sets have reverse foils?

Everyone talks about moonbreon and shit but what the full-art cards lack is SOUL

>>58101790
>>58101812
Its such a relief that full art items are the equivalent of ace spec cards so they don't take up your one secret rare slot. Imagine if that's all you got for your big hit.

>>58100743
>Stop being fake as fuck, stop being pretentious, you collect japanese and chinese because its more affordable. Thats it.

Card names do not matter in the slightest
Every single letter and word on the card do no matter in the slightest to anyone with a brain
The only parts of the card that matter are the holo types/art/pokemon themselves

If Charizard is my favorite card since a kid, I don't care if the card says リザードン/Glurak/Dracaufeu/리자몽 or anything else, the visuals are all the matters, the text does not and if the art isn't good then I don't care about the card even if it's my favorite

I have no clue why you're autistically going on about "if X language cards are your favorite, why don't you use the names?" as if that's anything more than a nonsequitur to how the majority of people even collect cards or even talk about them

No one on this board is going to know who the fuck Bursyamo/バシャーモ is, so why look pretentious about names of all things? Doesn't matter

Japanese cards have a different card back, better quality control, better texturing, and better holos, and better overall quality

That simple

>>58094157
>>58094186
>>58094576
>>58094801
>>58094935
>>58096611
>>58101790
>>58101812
Based Cards Posters

>>58101018
Interest in Un*va is basically 0 so investorniggers had to pull something out of their ass to give this set any sort of value and avoid it being sharted fable 2.0

>>58101978
I couldn't give a fuck less. I will never sell my copy and you paid $1k on the same exact card lmao

Someone got scammed on their huge Burgerchu Promo purchase.

https://youtu.be/nadGWq-RRDw?si=9Iq5E4-Qjq4aJIRF

in the moment you think you are cool. but in hindsight you look like a retard. this is something that people realize a decade later after style and taste changes upon reflection of their life choices.
how retarded do you think you are being with your modernshit?

>>58102741
Based

>>58102741
me second from the left

>>58102741
>>58102770
>>58102815
Nobody wants your moldy bags grandpa

>>58102847
why did you (YOU) my post? I'm not the vintage only schizo. I buy english and japanese both modern and vintage. I really don't hate any card or anyone elses favorite cards too. Just here to post about collecting.
>>58102815

Idk if this is the right place to post but I took a girl to Book Off two days ago and we just browsed their Pokemon cards together, is that not kind of romantic?
Anyone managed to get a girl to like them by showering them with cool Japanese Pokemon cards before?

Bought my first XY era pokemon full art (non trainer). Apparently it was damaged but I didn't mind paying $7 for it.

>>58102847
Seethe much?

>>58102741
Well you look like a retard right now so...

god its so fucking hilarious to come in here, denounce the modern market. denounce people's collections as good, and watch them LOSE IT.

Reminder that he has been sperging for months if not years, and yet he has never posted a single card from his "collection"

These threads have gotten so bad I unironically miss Ttarfag.

>>58103533
What makes you think he has a collection? By his own words he's just here to troll

>>58103609
We need to enforce the /fit/ rule of posting body if you want your opinion to have any weight. Larping as a tru collector? Post your collection, vintage modern slabbed binder doesn't matter. Just bought a box to scratch the itch? Post pulls. Language wars? Post photos where the superior nipponese texture is highlighted. Just in because you want to fuck children? Post your pokegirls trainer binder. Investrornigger only seeking money? Post your basement filled with boxes.
Post cards.

>>58103664
it doesn't matter, /vp/ can't help but fall for bait

>>58103664
Based

https://x.com/mcdonaldsjapan/status/1954860355668279573
McDonalds Japan is under fire for pulling another Felt Hat Pikachu debacle. lots of wasted food due to extreme scalping of the Happy Set!

>>58104229
To be honest it's only partly fault of McDonald's and TPC. Yes they could have enforced better the limits per person, but remember that the ones dealing with customers are just the average underpaid wagies who suddenly have the responsibility to wrestle subhuman chinks and browns killing each other at the counter. They also can't prevent people from leaving food on the street once the purchase is completed. Same thing as van Gogh museum employees.
If I'm a wagie who doesn't even collect pokemon, the very last of my thoughts is endangering myself because of retarded customers.
People need to be shot by the police.

>>58103664
Unironically would be based if that was an actual rule for this general

>>58104459
I have a feeling its gonna escalate to a point where someone does get shot or shanked because of muh pokemon cards, there was already an incident where someone threw hands. Even if that happens the Pokemon Company still won't do a thing to solve the scalper nigger problem I bet.

>>58104530
That why there are so many cons. I don't think a lot of collectors feel comfortable buying/selling cards unless it's at a TCG shop or a con.

what is the lore behind the october-november 2023 price drop??

>>58104663
competing card/products, i'd guess

>>58103664
holy BASED !

>>58105120
I have shiny silver and gold coins too you know

>>58105120
>a collection is valid only based on its resell value
Seems like the only investornigger in this whole general was you after all

>>58104229
This will never get solved. Pokémon, McDonald's, and the Japanese economy are profiting from these situations. Even if someone tried to take action, they could be legally or personally targeted for acting against the businesses. I think a lot of people complaining about this are doing so more because they couldn't get the cards, rather than because of the wasted food, which is also a significant part of the problem. It doesn't affect me, so I don't care, but it's entertaining to see the card collection hobby being exposed for how evil it is. Wasting food for money must be one of the evilest things someone could do in any culture.

>>58105120
huh so no cardz was always the one conflating collecting with investing. go figure.

>>58102694
fake and gay

>>58105335
absolute zoomer tier post. fr fr.

Hoping this question gets answered but does anyone know where I can find a high quality scan for EVERY Pokémon card ever released? I’m doing a little something special for the community. Would greatly appreciate it.

Oh yeah, I have to actually send in cards for grading after I pay for the service. I'm so sleepy bros.

>>58097269
that's just lazy, only pikachu gets a thematic concept but not the rest that's having something from the menu?

>>58097356
all that food wasted because white piggus wanted a pikachu card

>>58098045
>they're the same picture.jpg

>>58105432
not for psa at least, they only charge you after they have your grades ready and ask you if you want to pay any upcharges if an expensive card grades really well. cgc and bgs charge you upfront and take forever to process your stuff while having 1/1000000 of the customers psa does. this is why psa is KING.

>>58105405
There outright isn't a high quality scan of every card ever released, but pkmncards.com has most english cards, sans holo etc variations, and most of what remains you can find scattered across bulbapedia.

New

>>58105602
>>58105602

>>58105405
Unless you print japanese proxies with the correct texture and sell them on AliExpress I won't appreciate it