Black Star Promo different languages checklist

Hi guys,
I was wondering whether anyone has a list of all the WotC Black Star Promos - meaning which of the cards were released in which languages. I know that all of them were released in English (obviously), most of them also in German, French, Italien and Spanisch, but there are also some that were released in Dutch and Portuguese. Since I’d like to (attempt to) put together a master set (withouth the super expensive misprints, though), I’d like to know for which card to look.
Thanks in advance!

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Unfortunately, WotC promos are one of the hardest cards to find in certain languages. For gen 1 or 2 single Pokémon collectors, the WotC promos in all languages are usually one of the final cards they need for their collection goals. And I speak from experience, since after roughly seven years of collecting Pikachu in all languages and variations, I’m currently missing just 10 out of 1433 officially released Pikachu cards released prior to February 27th, 2021 (25th Pokémon Day), four of which are foreign WotC promos: German Flug-Pikachu and Surf-Pikachu and Spanish Pikachu Volador and Pikachu Surfista. I’ve only seen these four cards twice each in the seven years I’ve been collecting, which are currently in Tom’s collection and omahanime’s collection.

Anyway, I can give you a list of all Pikachu WotC promos to get you started with your list. If I remember, I might try to find out which languages all the other WotC promos were printed in. (I’ll ignore Japanese cards in the list below.)

  • #1 Ivy Pikachu:
  • English
  • English 1st edition
  • English Glossy ‘grey stamp’ (Japanese release)
  • German
  • Portuguese Pikachu World Collection 2000 tail stamp
  • #4 WB Pikachu:
  • English
  • (English Inverted WB stamp error)
  • (English No WB stamp error)
  • Dutch
  • Dutch Pikachu World Collection 2000 tail stamp
  • German
  • French
  • French Glossy (Japanese release)
  • Italian
  • Spanish
  • #24 Birthday Pikachu:
  • English
  • English non-holo Pikachu World Collection 2000 tail stamp
  • German [rare]
  • French
  • Italian
  • #25 Flying Pikachu:
  • English
  • German (Fliegendes Pikachu)
  • German (Fliegendes Pikachu) Pikachu World Collection 2000 tail stamp
  • German (Flug-Pikachu) [rare]
  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish [rare]
  • #26 SNAP Pikachu:
  • English
  • German
  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish
  • Spanish Pikachu World Collection 2000 tail stamp
  • #27 Bumblebee Pikachu:
  • English
  • Italian
  • Italian Pikachu World Collection 2000 tail stamp
  • #28 Surfing Pikachu:
  • English
  • German [rare]
  • French (1999-2000 print)
  • French (1999-2000 print) Pikachu World Collection 2000 tail stamp
  • French (1995-2001 print)
  • Italian
  • Spanish [rare]

Greetz,
Quuador

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