They seem to be following the Japanese set really closely in terms of layout, so I would assume (or hope) they’ll use the galaxy foil. Starry would be cool, but I doubt they’ll do that since they didn’t make any other English Base Set-ish changes.
I wonder if Nintendo doesn’t have rights to the Wizards original layout, or if it was just less effort to keep the Japanese design.
uhm that’s the non-holo version right? which means we’re getting a holo version…right? right?
Oh, now I get the set symbol. At first I thought it was kind of odd that it looked like “XX”, considering this set is part of XY and everything. I was in the car an hour later and realized, duh, roman numerals, 20 years.
I like it, it’s a nice logo. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be subtle or if my brain just isn’t working today.
Is it just me or does it look a bit cheap? Also why change the weight from 200lbs to 199.5?? I don’t know why that matters but it does lol
This is the holo version. I’ve been looking at this scan on the Official Pokemon website and I quote “11/108 Rare Holo”. Link: www.pokemon.com/uk/pokemon-tcg/pokemon-cards/xy-series/xy12/11/
Actually, I don’t believe this to even be a scan. It’s probably straight from the digital art department or whatever - not sure on the holofoil process but I imagine it’s added in production. So all is not lost, yet!
that’s a relief! thanks for the info
Also, comparing these two images (which are both straight from the Pokemon website) we can see that neither have visible holo patterns. And the Black&White Charizard has a pretty noticeable holo pattern. All is not lost for the Galaxy foil!
if they can do it for cp6 they can certainly do it for evolutions.
Pulls (10 Boxes + 5 Blisters (1 Box Equivalent) )
x2 - Venusaur EX - 001/087
x1 - M-Venusaur EX - 002/087
x11 - Charizard - 011/087
x2 - Charizard EX - 012/087
x2 - M-Charizard EX - 013/087
x3 - Ninetales BREAK - 016/087
x5 - M-Blastoise EX - 022/087
x3 - Starmie BREAK - 030/087
x4 - Nidoking BREAK - 044/087
x1 - Mewtwo EX - 050/087
x2 - Machamp BREAK - 058/087
x5 - Pidgeot EX - 062/087
x1 - M-Pidgeot EX - 063/087
x4 - Dragonite EX - 070/087
x1 - Venusaur EX FA - 088/087
x1 - M-Venusaur EX FA - 089/087
x1 - Blastoise EX FA - 092/087
x1 - M-Blastoise EX FA - 093/087
x2 - Pikachu EX FA - 094/087
x1 - Mewtwo EX FA - 095/087
x2 - Dragonite EX FA - 098/087
x1 - Misty’s Determination FA - 099/087
x1 - Brock’s Guts FA - 100/087
x4 - Bilingual Exeggutor - 101/087
x1 - Imakuni?'s Doduo - 102/107
x4 - Here Comes Team Rocket - 103/087
With a pokeball between the X’s!
English Zard is pretty underwhelming IMO. Japanese wasn’t too different but this literally looks like a bad attempt at redesigning the old card art.
A heads up for anyone on the fence about buying japanese CP6 boxes, distributors are sold out.
oh god should I buy a bunch off ebay? will the distributors get more? what if they make an unlimited run? should I invest more money into this set!? time is running out! oh god!
I want to buy more but I cannot keep boxes sealed for the life of me. Don’t know how you sealed collectors do it.
Pre-ordered a case of Evolutions today. Probably live to regret it
I have the same impression as well. Hopefully the holo will help the card. Right now the Japanese version is in a different league of quality.
The Japanese will get a 10 9/10 while the English will get 9 10/10 haha fuck it.
Could we get a reminder on what this means? I think you mentioned it a couple pages back but I can’t seem to find it.
Ah yeah, in my observation, the flow of product availability is: Distributor > Business > Buyer.
Basically when distributors are out of stock, whatever stock exists with businesses is all that remains. CP sets typically sell out quicker than regular sets. However, I can’t remember another set selling out this quickly.
With that said, no confirmation if there will or won’t be an unlimited run.
According to eBay, one box sold for £110 today…
is it typical for them to have another print run of concept packs once they sell out? What should we expect?